U.S. Warmongers in House Pass Bill Sending Another $50 Billion to Ukraine to Weaken Russia
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Just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited President Joe Biden in Washington and a top senator called on Russians to “take out” Vladimir Putin, the warmongers in Congress approved another $50 billion in mostly weapons of death for Kyiv.
The new aid was part of a $1.7 trillion dollar omnibus spending bill that cruised through the Senate in a 68-29 vote. The massive bill also includes $858 billion for the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
“Today, the Democratic Congress passed an historic government funding bill that meets the needs of the American people and defends Democracy – at home and around the world,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi tweeted. “Through tenacious negotiating, House Democrats secured consequential aid for Ukraine, reforms to the Electoral Count Act and key victories for families across the country. Now, we proudly send this vital legislation to POTUS.”
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One of her followers, posted, “Thank you oh supreme leader for spending my earnings so much more efficiently than I could have. I probably would have just blown it on something trivial like food for my family, fuel, or bills…”
AntiWar.com noted that the latest funding package brings the total US spending on the conflict to about $112 billion, “only taking into account emergency funds that have been authorized explicitly for the war.”
Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, called the bill a “monstrosity.”
“It is one of the most shameful acts I have ever seen in this body. The appropriations process has failed the American public, and there is no greater example of the nail in the coffin of the greatest failure of a one-party rule of the House, the Senate, and the presidency of this bill here,” he said.
TRENDPOST: As our 8 November cover noted: The War Machine Always Wins, no matter which political party is in power.
Bill La Plante, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, said months ago that he expected Congress—no matter what party was in control—would approve new weapons purchasing power at levels not seen since the Cold War.
“They are going to give us multiyear authority, and they’re going to give us funding to really put into the industrial base,” he told George Mason University at the time. “And I’m talking billions of dollars into the industrial base—to fund these production lines. That, I predict, is going to happen, and it’s happening now. And then people will have to say: ‘I guess they were serious about it.’ But we have not done that since the Cold War.”
Just last week, Lloyd Austin, the Secretary of Defense, unveiled the U.S.’s newest bomber that is designed to evade the world’s best air defense systems. The Associated Press reported that almost every aspect of the program is classified. The price tag is not known but could be around $753 million per plane. There are currently six in production and the Air Force wants 100.
“This isn’t just another airplane. It’s the embodiment of America’s determination to defend the republic that we all love,” Austin said.
Deborah Lee James, the Air Force secretary when the Raider contract was announced in 2015, told The AP that the “U.S. needs a new bomber for the 21st Century that would allow us to take on much more complicated threats, like the threats that we fear we would one day face from China, Russia.”
TREND FORECAST: We have long noted that any mention of peace negotiations has effectively been banned in the West and the war will escalate as the West continues to supply weapons to Ukraine. However, despite our forecast that Russia will not accept defeat and the severe damage they have inflicted on Ukraine’s infrastructure and its troops, Kyiv said it will not give up an inch of land to Russia… while Moscow said it will not give back the regions it annexed.
Those who talk about diplomatic relations with Russia continue to face criticism from allies.
Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state who faced outrage earlier this year when he mentioned that Ukraine may have to cede land to Russia to reach a peaceful settlement, was criticized again for writing a column for Reuters seeking peace.
Kissinger wrote in The Spectator: “The time is approaching to build on the strategic changes which have already been accomplished and to integrate them into a new structure towards achieving peace through negotiation.”
“A peace process should link Ukraine to NATO, however expressed. The alternative of neutrality is no longer meaningful,” he wrote.
Mykhailo Podolyak, a Zelensky aide, said, “Kissinger still has not understood anything … neither the nature of this war, nor its impact on the world order.”
GREAT reporting,, as always Gerald.
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