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U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine

https://lemmy.world/post/10618419

U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine - Lemmy.World

“We have issued the last package that we had withdrawn and for which we had funding,” John Kirby said. White House National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby said at a briefing Thursday that “the assistance we were providing has come to a halt.” The White House official also said it is very important that Congress continues to approve the allocation of money to Ukraine. He stressed that Kiev needs help more urgently during the winter period.

Jan 12, 2024 at 12:43pmWeb
Show threadFlying SquidJan 12, 2024
Putin is going to give all of his U.S. congressional pawns a big bonus this week.
Show threadaew360Jan 12, 2024
MTG and Boebert will be dining out at the finest roadside BBQ restaurant in their districts tonight
Show threadMisterDJan 12, 2024
maybe even see a movie, exchange dick pics

Show threadAlien Nathan EdwardJan 13, 2024
a nice handjob between courses
Show threadTheDeepStateJan 13, 2024
That does sound nice.
Show threadlurch (he/him)Jan 12, 2024
Ruble isn’t doing great tho đŸ€Ł
Show threadFlying SquidJan 12, 2024
That’s fine, he’ll just take the money out of one of his Swiss bank accounts.
Show threadAngryCommieKenderJan 13, 2024
I could have sworn that The Swiss froze all Russian accounts. Like I vaguely remember a major headline that The Swiss had broken a several hundred year “neutrality” streak.
Show threadgedaliyahJan 12, 2024
It’s sad to watch these world leaders who understand long strategy use the short American attention span to twist global politics to their own ends.
Show threadRubberDuckJan 13, 2024
Dressed with a little sauce of using allies and their regional Middle Eastern vassals to also open a conflict that divides the attention.
Show threadWizJan 13, 2024
I think it’s OK to put the blame where appropriate here. “U.S. Republican Congressional pawns.”
Show threadMight BeJan 12, 2024
The headline is a bit misleading, as you can see in the 2nd paragraph of the submission text, it’s the current round of assistance that has halted, and they’re pushing for Congress to continue their support of Ukraine.
Show threadRubberDuckJan 12, 2024

Unfortunately this has become a partisan issue where the speaker of the house mike Johnson just refuses to put any bill to the floor for this aid. He can gatekeep these bills as a form of blackmail to get other concessions.

But any concessions need to be totally one-sided else the maga extremists will call a vote to relieve the speaker of duty.

The maga extremists have found a way to do to the US what Orban has been doing to the EU.

Show threadEtterraJan 12, 2024
How the hell did we go from McCarthyism to “hurting Russia is less important than hurting democrats” in this hellhole?
Show threadZorqueJan 12, 2024
Well there's been about forty to fifty years between them. So... a lot?
Show threadghostdoggtvJan 12, 2024
Dark money and the southern strategy.
Show threadTelorandJan 12, 2024
Because McCarthyism wasn’t about being anti-Russia, it was about being anti-communist. And since Communism is generally (always?) politically left, it’s still and always has been about being reactionary conservative.
Show threadZorqueJan 12, 2024
It wasn't even about political alignment, it was about trotting out a bogeyman to scare people into reactionary voting instead of informed voting.
Show threadSaltySalamanderJan 13, 2024
Same as it ever was.
Show threadWizJan 13, 2024
Same as it ever was.
Show threadRubberDuckJan 12, 2024

The rest of the world is also wondering.

I personally think that the active destabilization efforts by troll factories have something to do with it. There is no direction that troll factories push in, it’s only “chaos” (active destabilization). And the loon squad of maga seems to have been like striking gold.

Show threadWizJan 13, 2024
It’s pretty easy for a government to buy a small handful of US Congresspeople or Senators to do their bidding.
Show threadRubberDuckJan 13, 2024
The president even apparently.
Show threadsomeguy3Jan 12, 2024
Once the cold war was over they needed a new enemy to vilify.
Show threadEndorkendJan 12, 2024

And it's not that it has halted.

It has concluded.

It being halted would mean that that which was meant to be allocated is stopped from being allocated before all of it was allocated.

Show threadEnsign_CrabJan 12, 2024
I’m sure Ukraine appreciates the difference.
Show threadEndorkendJan 12, 2024
If Zelensky and Ukrainians actions are indicator, yes, they appreciate the difference between bullshit and saying what's what.
Show threadblazeraJan 12, 2024
Have you missed them pleading for continued US support?
Show threadTranscendentalEmpireJan 12, 2024
Purposely so, that site was using sources and links to RT news.
Show threadFroynJan 12, 2024
It's clear that Ukraine is of "National Security Interests". So I vote we just take a lil bit of the budget allocated for military spending and use it where it would be best served.
Show threadhighenergyphysicsJan 12, 2024
I say we send volunteers from the US military directly, and all their equipment too. I’m sure we can find plenty of right wing dumbasses in the ranks to chew up. Solves three problems at once!
Show threadsplicerslicerJan 13, 2024
I say that if we’re volunteering other people’s lives we start with yours. You can’t simultaneously say that the Russian military threat is real and also that people in the military have disposable lives. That’s precisely how Republicans view the military.
Show threadpinkdrunkenelephantsJan 13, 2024
That is how all militaries work though.
Show threadAlien Nathan EdwardJan 13, 2024
it’s mostly a gear refresh for our military anyway. we send them stuff we have stockpiled, then we spend the allocated money on new shit for us.
Show threadWizJan 13, 2024
That’s exactly what the US was doing.
Show threadRubberDuckJan 13, 2024

It was separate aid budget, that purchased surplus from the military at the current book value.

I think he suggested actual military budget already allocated.

Show threadBlack Skinned JewJan 12, 2024
Why keep founding a loss war?
Show threadlemmytellyousomethingJan 12, 2024
Ask Putin

Show threadBlack Skinned JewJan 12, 2024
At least Russia it’s spending they own resources
 not lending shit from others.
Show threadFluffyPotatoJan 13, 2024
The fascists will attack you? Are you saying Ukraine deserves to be invaded because they undermined Russia’s control over Ukraine?
Show threadnbafantestJan 13, 2024
What is it now? Almost day 700 of Putins 3 day invasion?
Show threadWizJan 13, 2024
Pootin can claim his “L” and slink back under a rock at any time. He’s going to lose - it’s just a matter of when.
Show threadLinkerbaanJan 12, 2024

The Kurds welcome Ukraine in joining the long list of groups abandoned and left in ruins by the US after being promised support to fight their enemy as long as needed.

Biden needs to focus on committing Genocide now. He has no time for Ukrainians beating an invasion. Surely Zeloonsky understands, he unconditionally supports israel’s genocide himself.

Show threadAtomJan 12, 2024
Except this is Biden’s Whitehouse continuing to tell Congress to approve aid and the GOP blocking that. This was the last package the US could provide without further congressional action. That’s not likely as long as GOP runs the house. Biden and the Democratic party have been pretty lock step in providing aid.
Show threadAlien Nathan EdwardJan 13, 2024
what does Biden’s whitehouse do to sidestep congress when giving money to Israel, then?
Show threadFuredadminsJan 13, 2024
It did not. It allowed Israel to make a purchase with money Israel has that Congress would have approved anyway a little faster.
Show threadLeadersAtWorkJan 13, 2024
I’m honestly amazed that we are still having to say this. I truly wonder how many people just assume Biden = bad due purely to the ongoing Ukraine funding and the situation in Israel and their complete inability to connect their two hemispheres long enough to form coherent thoughts and reasonable opinions.
Show threadLemminaryJan 13, 2024
I’m gonna start a bingo card about shit Lemmings say about US politics. This exaggerated and mostly inaccurate rhetoric is really grating.
Show threadLinkerbaanJan 13, 2024

Oh great it’s an enlightened centrist coming to tell everyone how Palestine supporters are all tankies and we should actually support Bidens stance on israel.

Trump supposedly couldn’t do any of the things that he did while he was in office. But he just went “presidential powers go brrr”.

Show threadLemminaryJan 13, 2024
I don’t need to be a centrist to say that. Lol
Show threadnbafantestJan 13, 2024
It really is wild how ignorant people are on here.
Show threadnbafantestJan 13, 2024

Biden has nothing to do with this, and if it were up to Biden, we would continue sending help to ukraine.

You are so far up your own ass

Show threadLinkerbaanJan 13, 2024

What a cop out. If Biden put the same effort into getting Ukraine weapons as he does for israel he could certainly find a way. He just doesn’t.

Just like how Biden can’t fix the student loans because “muh Republicans”. It’s Good cop Bad cop and you’re still falling for it.

Show threadnbafantestJan 13, 2024
Well that’s just a bunch of typed out ignorant bullshit
Show threadLinkerbaanJan 13, 2024
Great comeback. I love genocide too dude.
Show threadnbafantestJan 13, 2024
Hey, this is a great example of why civics should be a required class in school
Show threadCosmic ClericJan 13, 2024

What a cop out. If Biden put the same effort into getting Ukraine weapons as he does for israel he could certainly find a way. He just doesn’t.

You realize he’s President, and not King, right?

Show threadKeeponstalinJan 14, 2024
Why did Biden choose to bypass Congress for Israel instead of Ukraine?
Biden administration again bypasses Congress on an emergency weapons sale to Israel

For the second time this month, the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel. The State Department said Friday that Secretary of State Antony Blinken had told Congress that he had made a second emergency determination covering a $147.5 million sale for equipment that is needed to make the 155 mm shells that Israel has already purchased function. The emergency determination means the purchase will bypass the congressional review requirement for foreign military sales. Such determinations are rare, but not unprecedented, when administrations see an urgent need for weapons to be delivered without waiting for lawmakers’ approval.

AP News
Show threadCosmic ClericJan 14, 2024

Why did Biden choose to bypass Congress for Israel instead of Ukraine?

Probably because one is at a current stalemate, while the other one is currently fighting battles in real time so they need immediate assistance that they can’t wait on Congress for.

From the article


Such determinations are rare, but not unprecedented, when administrations see an urgent need for weapons to be delivered without waiting for lawmakers’ approval.

Show threadnbafantestJan 14, 2024

This comment a good example of why its important to learn and understand how our government functions.

The President is not a dictator and our government has separation of powers specifically to prevent abuses by one person.

Your understanding of government would also allow Donald Trump to do anything he wanted as well, which would clearly be a terrible outcome.