“We have issued the last package that we had withdrawn and for which we had funding,” John Kirby said.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.
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.
Edit: the expectation is that any bill for aid to Ukraine that is put to vote will be easily passed by democrats and a group of republicans that are in favor.
How the hell did we go from McCarthyism to “hurting Russia is less important than hurting democrats” in this hellhole?
The rest of the world is also wondering.
I personally think that the 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.
It’s pretty easy for a foreign government to buy a small handful of US Congresspeople or Senators to do their bidding.
The president even apparently. Trump made bank last time around.
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.
It wasn’t even about political alignment, it was about trotting out a bogeyman to scare people into reactionary voting instead of informed voting.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Well there’s been about forty to fifty years between them. So… a lot?
Dark money and the southern strategy.
Once the cold war was over they needed a new enemy to vilify.