Guest Post by Ron Paul
Last week, President Biden signed a massive $40 billion military aid bill for Ukraine. Who cares that inflation is killing the American economy and mothers can’t even get baby formula. For Washington, spending on war and empire always seems to trump America’s interests.
To put this giveaway to Ukraine in perspective: just since late February, the US has provided nearly $60 billion in “assistance” to Ukraine. That is almost half that country’s entire 2020 GDP! Washington has literally adopted Ukraine in our name and on our dime.
The Biden Administration claims that Ukraine is winning the war with Russia and that such an expenditure to protect Ukraine’s borders is critical to our national interests and worth risking a nuclear war over.
But protecting Ukraine’s democracy is no longer the stated goal of the Administration. Defense Secretary Austin outlined the Administration’s new intention not long ago when he said that the real goal is to weaken Russia.
Biden’s neocons are fighting a war with Russia, but once again Congress has no interest in voting on a war declaration or even in debating whether war with Russia 30 years after the end of the Cold War is a good idea.
There is a reason our Constitution grants war powers to the legislative branch. Forcing Members of the House and Senate to declare the US to be in a state of war also enables them – through the powers of the purse-string – to define the goals of the war and particularly what a victory looks like. That prevents the kind of mission-creep ahd shifting objectives that have characterized our endless wars in the 21st century – including this current proxy war with Russia.
Even the US mainstream media is beginning to notice. Last week the New York Times’ Editorial Board published an editorial originally titled, “What is America’s Strategy in Ukraine?” complaining that the Biden Administration has yet to answer any questions to the American people regarding its involvement in Ukraine.
While, as could be expected, the paper attacked the “isolationists” in the US Congress who opposed the $40 billion giveaway, the NY Times editorial board nevertheless registered what can only be seen as the first major sign of dissent among the usual media war cheerleaders.
They wrote:
…it is still not in America’s best interest to plunge into an all-out war with Russia, even if a negotiated peace may require Ukraine to make some hard decisions. And the US aims and strategy in this war have become harder to discern, as the parameters of the mission appear to have changed.
While warning that Americans’ interest in Ukraine will begin to wane without more clarity from Washington as to its goals, the paper went on to directly contradict the Biden Administration’s predictions of a Ukraine victory:
A decisive military victory for Ukraine over Russia, in which Ukraine regains all the territory Russia has seized since 2014, is not a realistic goal.
Congress – with very few exceptions – has opened a financial spigot to the government in Kiev without asking a single question about how and why the money is to be spent. When Senator Paul simply asked for someone to keep track of the $60 billion we shipped over there he was met with near-unanimous opposition.
An endless supply of US taxpayer money to Ukraine with zero stated goals and zero oversight. Isn’t it time to stand up and demand that both parties in Congress start asking some hard questions?
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Let’s, see, two money laundering leaders launder money through a third leader while all three countries suffer, not to hard to see what’s going on
Biden’s end game is a diaper change.
Biden’s plan is to have another ice cream cone, you’ll have to ask Obamba what his handlers exit plans are.
End game?
Perpetuation of a nice 10% cut for certain playas is the objective.
(Four billion USD is still $4,000,000,000.00)
Regardless the amount, it’s all Federal Reserve play money.
Biden’s plan is the Bolshevik’s plan of controlling everything under one Beast System banner . You’ll own nothing because you will be dead.
End game? Russians win, US enters hyper=inflationary spiral…American people do nothing, as usual…
Biden’s end game is the same today as it was yesterday. Ice cream followed by a nap. Later a diaper change, supper and bed time.
some interesting videos from the front lines…
Game set and match when the guy says in the 2nd video that they are protecting the Bidet crime organization
When was the last time murka had an end game?
Don’t worry — there’s an ‘end game’ being pushed — it’s the end of the Historic American Nation and of our National Sovereignty … as Nancy Lugosi says, ‘by any means necessary’ …
Those are already gone.
The end game is here. You have between 2 and 8 years to prepare.
6 months
Rogue government.
I am not sure who to ask but it’s not Biden.
Zelensky is playing Biden like a fiddle. Epitome example of our government in another Cluster Fook.
Sending BILLIONS there so he can put his fair share in his own pocket, as he has been doing for a long time.
“Never give a sucker an even break.”
Our weapons manufactures are very delighted with more government cash to replace the goodies sent over for Russia to destroy.
No. This is a children’s version of reality. Zelensky and Biden work for the same bosses, but neither one is playing or being played, they are merely players on the stage. Their petty corruption is a distraction from that.
What is the end game of the pineapple in the White House? Does anyone really need to ask. The answer is as simple as it is obvious. The end game is to protect the kickback machine and keep the green running. Of $60 billion that left the US, probably 3/4 of it never really left. That is, it left on paper and was immediately shifted into the bank accounts of Congress. Why else were palsi and cocaine mitch there other than to see to it that the cash kept flowing.
Remember to #EAT – Execute All Traitors.
It has to be more than just kickbacks… Chip
Biden is out to destroy the US. Ukraine is simply a black hole where he can dump hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers money in order to bankrupt the country at an ever accelerated rate.
Soon you will all be so broke, you will have to accept government subsidies just to get by. At that point, it is game over. If you do not do what they want, they will cut you off and you will either starve or freeze to death. You will own nothing, and you will be obedient to your masters.
WHAT ARE ALL THESE HEADLINES OF ‘BIDEN DOES SOMETHING’?
Biden doesn’t do anything. Our side sucks.
Biden’s end game is a pair of fresh Depends and a pudding pop.
As for Ukraine….the people behind the curtains pulling Pedo Joe’s
strings are getting even richer from this ‘war’.
“Isn’t it time to stand up and demand that both parties in Congress start asking some hard questions?”
Just how do you suppose we do that Ron? Vote harder? Write or call our congressional leaders? Been there done that, all of the above. I’m done. God’s will be done… Chip
Yes vote like hell on 8Nov2022 and if the commies steal it again, we’ll all know it and hopefully we’ll do something about it.
It is to ship US military hardware out of the CONUS and make US vulnerable to an attack. We can build about 1,000 shoulder launch missiles per year and had a stockpile of 4,000 but they are now gone. It will take two years to upgrade the factory’s output to 2,000 missile per year. About 100,000 personnel and a lot of tactical hardware has now been relocated to Europe; not to mention the shortage of jet and other fuels now. I watched a MSM show on the new Army Cadets; I was very distressed.