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Cynical, but we knew this was coming. The Israel trip was a setup for the pitch that Biden delivered in his speech.
“American values are what make us a partner that other nations want to work with. To put all that at risk if we walk away from Ukraine, if we turn our backs on Israel. It’s just not worth it. That’s why tomorrow I’m going to send to Congress an urgent budget request to fund America’s national security needs, to support our critical partners, including Israel and Ukraine. It’s a smart investment that’s going to pay dividends for American security for generations.”
A source familiar with the supplemental request said it includes $60 billion for Ukraine and replenishing U.S. stockpiles, $14 billion for Israel, $10 billion for humanitarian efforts, $14 billion for the U.S. border with Mexico and $7 billion for the Indo-Pacific region. The White House has not yet released details.
Previous accounts had it at $10 billion for Israel. But the lion’s share is obviously going to the Ukraine war.
The mention of $10 billion for “humanitarian efforts” should also be raising red flags. What does that mean beyond the already $100 million promised for Gaza?
Biden had already foreshadowed that he would be using Israel to push for the Ukraine aid in his initial speech a week ago.
“My administration has consulted closely with Congress throughout this crisis. And when Congress returns, we’re going to ask them to take urgent action to fund the national security requirements of our critical partners.”
Partners. Plural.
The Pacific region indicates that some of the money will go to funding Taiwan’s defenses as well.
The border money won’t be used for security, but to more speedily process the illegal aliens invading the country for dispersion.
So it’s a mixed bag at best and Republicans are uncomfortable with the package deal.
Senator J.D. Vance co-wrote an op-ed accusing the administration of holding up Israel aid to get its Ukraine aid.
Having failed to force through more Ukraine funding by tying it to disaster relief for Americans, Senate leadership is now using the crisis in Israel as a “Plan B” to get the Biden administration’s funding request across the finish line — this time by as much as $100 billion.
But the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel are two distinct events that deserve two distinct responses…
Instead of holding up aid to Israel for additional Ukraine funding, Congress should give the situation in Israel the separate debate and vote that it deserves. Conservatives should also insist on securing our own borders and fully enforcing our immigration laws, considering that Hamas and other terrorist organizations have infiltrated our homeland through our open borders and continue to do so today.
J.D. Vance makes various arguments for why Ukraine and Israel are different. One that he doesn’t mention is that foreign aid to Israel has been used primarily to tether it to the U.S. defense industry as a means of control.
And that’s what we’re seeing now.
The annual foreign aid bill for Israel is basically a kind of spending credit in which Israel gets to buy U.S. weapons and systems, but in exchange for being dependent on us for resupply. That means the White House calls the shots on whether Israel goes to war and for how long. (This is a major function of our foreign arms sales and defense alliances.)
It’s like Hotel California. It looks like a good deal, but then when you need to rely on it, you realize it’s a leash.
The Biden administration wants a fight over the aid package because then it can accuse Republicans of betraying Israel and helping Hamas. Republicans will reply that Biden is the one sabotaging weapons supplies to Israel by tying it to $60 billion for Ukraine and things that may be more dubious like “humanitarian aid” potentially to terrorists.
Biden could have avoided it, but instead he’s going to use the Hamas attack for political leverage in a partisan fight. He’s going to delay Israel aid in order to undermine Republicans.
$60 billion? Damn. Alzheimer Joe’s handlers only gave a hundred million to Hamas.
I guess that Ukranian dick tastes better than Paleosimian to them.
Israel needs to ramp up production of Iron Domes, bring laser missile interception into the mix, and expand the use of loitering UAVs against missiles launches, etc. To depend on leftist governments in USA is disastrous.
Bringing laser missile interception into the mix now can actually accelerate its development by several years, so may be a blessing in disguise.
In other words, Israel can no longer count on America for support. Honestly, if you didn’t see this coming, then you don’t fully understand this administration. As a former sailor, and for the first time in my life, I felt uneasy about two US carrier groups entering the Med because I can’t trust who they came to defend…and that’s a damn ugly thing to have to say about one’s own country.
And you are the first person in print that I’ve ever read that called the foreign aid bill correctly, Daniel. It’s much akin to miners getting paid in chits for use only at the company store, which gives the US military industrial complex a vested interest in any conflagration.
I think you may be right about the naval fleet in the Mediterranean. I’ve been thinking the same thing. I think they’re there as a threat to Israel, not for protection. If that’s the case, I sure feel bad for the sailors. Imagine being forced to threaten Israel in favor of the Paleosimians.
That makes three of us.
I think he’ll use them against Israel if Bibi and the war cabinet don’t do exactly what he says.
If that turns out to be the way this hashes out, I wonder how many of those pricey carrier based aircraft might just sorta happen to “take a wrong turn” and end up landing on one of Israel’s military airstrips. Sorta ike Wrong Way Corrigan back couple wars ago.
I agree. I said who is the fleet going to fire on? will they fire on Israel? I immediately saw them as a threat to Israel. iDK why everyone did t see that.
Because so many believe, or want to believe, the lies this stinking administration is putting out there.
They refuse to think for themselves.
Will we ever quite making Biden’s blackmail payments to Ukraine?
Zelensky swims naked in lake of US dollars.
And it makes you wonder how much gets “kicked back” to the corrupt Democrat party machine or their lackeys.
Well said, I read a couple of weeks ago while The Zelensky’s were in the US, his wife spent over a million on jewelry, while hubby was begging Joey for more money. The USA is being drained dry.
Meanwhile, The Biden crime family is hiding money everywhere they can.
It must be nice. Like Scrooge McDuck swimming in gold coins.
A disgusting display by the wanna be peacemaker “President” last night. MSM, instantly agog with Biden’s word salad speech, fell short of calling him worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize — Biden at his “Bidenesque” best! — he’s another Churchill ! they screeched. Yes, he was “Bidenesque”: incoherent, feeble, unpresidential, and he’s going to campaign on his preventing WWIII….after he set the table for it.
I don’t watch msm, they didn’t really compare that disgusting old pervert to Churchill, did they?
There’s no hope left.
not for the DSM, but we all KNOW that already, so no surprise. eh?
Ukraine must be holding some pretty dangerous information over Joe that exposes his involvement with Burisma etc that he feels obligated to keep shoveling our tax money over there. It’s entirely possible our President Magoo is being blackmailed.
What could it possibly be on Biden – Sex? – we have that already – many pictures and videos and daughter’s diary. Or bribery? – we have that too. Plain stupidity? – we have that.
It simply must be a recording or video of Obama and/or spouse .
Because we don’t have that.
Old man senile Biden can’t get it up. He hasn’t been able to in years.
if he is, HE is the one who set that up all on his own. No one “made him do it”. Maybe his sprog helped set it up, but from what I’ve seen so far, Dopey Joey is the one who set up Joonyer in his cushy lair. For a cut of the kickbacks, of course, Bidniss as yoo zhual.
Eastern Ukraine is largely ethnic Russian and does not want Ukrainians or Putin to rule over them. Eastern Ukraine should be an independent state protected by UN troops, while Ukraine should be independent and protected by the EU. The United States should insist that Germany and France help finance protection for both parts of Ukraine and allow ethnic Russians to have their own state in the East. These beleaguered people want trade with Russia, but do not want Putin invading and ruling over them. This is Europe’s problem, and they should not expect the United States to pay the bill. Western Ukraine wants EU membership. Eastern Ukraine should have free elections to decide if they prefer EU membership or being part iif Russia’s economic sphere. Russia needs Eastern Ukraine economically and strategically. Eastern Ukraine needs neutral armed protection to enable it to use its position to its advantage, while still benefiting Russia economically.
Send in the UN? Why not just shit on yourself? What a joke. That would be like sending in the Girl Scouts.
And FUCK the Ukraine.
protected by UN troops
ABSOLUTELY NOT The long standing track record of UN Troops doing this sort of thing worldwide is atrocious.
Eastern “Ukraine” have already had free and fairelections and decided, by an YOOOOGE pargi, to leave the Ukraine and rejoin Russia. THEIR decision.
NO! NO! NO money or support for Ukraine. NO more.! Give Russia what it wants and stop the conflict!