“It’s just shocking. I’ve never seen anything like it,” the president said Monday.
President Joe Biden called the behavior of House Republicans “shocking” on Monday for “walking away from the threat of Russia” for not passing aid for Ukraine.
“The way they’re walking away from the threat of Russia, the way they’re walking away from NATO, the way they’re walking away from meeting our obligations. It’s just shocking. I’ve never seen anything like it,” Biden said in remarks to reporters on the White House lawn.
Biden’s frustrations with House Republicans have increased after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died Friday in prison.
The president urged House Republicans to pass aid for Ukraine on Friday, saying, “It’s about time they step up, don’t you think,” instead of going on an extended recess, which he called a “two-week vacation.”
Are we still pretending Ukraine has any chance of “winning” it’s conflict with Russia?
When we met our obligations they won the logistical war in Crimea and forced Putin to resort to terror bombing civilian targets in central Ukraine. Victory for Ukraine now means the destruction of the Russian state. Russia made it existential so of course the odds are long.
And you honestly believe the Ukraine has any modicum of a chance at destruction of the Russian state? Are you delusional?
The North Vietnamese had no chance of destroying America, but the Soviets funded the VC and North Vietnamese to tie down American resources and increase internal strife at home. From a purely NATSEC perspective there is no downsides to sending old equipment from storage to Ukraine. Clears out old stock and requires production of modern equipment to replace it. The Republicans would have been all over this 12 years ago.
It was fun while the mortar shells lasted but we’re completely out of shells and the remains we do have Biden wants to give to israel.
Russia has turned their economy into a war economy and produces like 5 million shells a year now. Meanwhile we can do 500.000.
Also we did a coup in Pakistan to make them sell their shells to Ukraine but now that’s also starting to fail.
A great video with top journalist Ryan Grim about the subject
I just saw a video about Pakistan and it didn’t seem to be clear the CIA is responsible for this: Why Pakistan Locked Up It’s Leader | Hasan Ali | TMR. But I’d be interested in any info to the contrary!
Does it matter? Its their right to fight, and in our duty/interest to help
I disagree with both of those (duty/interest) statements, so, yes, it matters.
So they’re not allowed to defend themselves against russia? Lol the fuck are you smoking…