President Joe Biden pleaded with Republicans on Wednesday for a fresh infusion of military aid for Ukraine, warning that a victory for Russia over Ukraine would leave Moscow in position to attack NATO allies and could draw U.S. troops into a war.
Biden spoke as the United States planned to announce $175 million in additional Ukraine aid from its dwindling supply of money for Kyiv. He signaled a willingness to make significant changes to U.S. migration policy along the border with Mexico to try to draw Republican support.
“If Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there,” Biden said. Putin will attack a NATO ally, he predicted, and then “we’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops,” Biden said.
“We can’t let Putin win,” he said, prompting an angry reaction from Moscow.
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Biden spoke as the United States planned to announce $175 million in additional Ukraine aid from its dwindling supply of money for Kyiv.
Russia’s RIA news agency quoted the Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, as saying that Biden’s comments on a potential U.S.-Russia conflict were “provocative rhetoric unacceptable for a responsible nuclear power”.
However, Senate Republicans later on Wednesday blocked Democratic-backed legislation that would have provided billions of dollars in new security assistance for Ukraine and Israel, among other international concerns, saying they wanted to press their point about the importance of tighter border policy.
“We’re going to keep making the case that it would be a historic mistake for the United States to walk away from Ukraine at this moment and we believe that argument will ultimately penetrate and prevail,” he said.
This means that if Congress does not provide new funds to buy replacement equipment, the U.S., Ukraine and arms makers may have to take other steps to backfill stocks.
House and Senate Republicans are backing renewed construction of a border wall, former President Donald Trump’s signature goal, while deeming large numbers of migrants ineligible for asylum and reviving a controversial policy under which asylum seekers are told to remain in Mexico while their immigration case is heard.
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@MicroWave I agree with President Biden. To let Putin win is to let the Republicans win. That is one thing that absolutely must not be allowed to happen.
LOL “don’t let ur boss win!”
What a fucking disgraceful and monstrous bunch. This is a scourge that must be goddamn excised, each one of them.
Ah, yes, the prospect of another war with US troops going to a country most Americans couldn’t find without google maps is sure to go over well with people.
Why are you lying and spreading Russian propaganda?
Where was that sentiment when America was planting military bases all over the world to protect American interests?
Republicans have to take advantage of the chance to hold some innocent people hostage, so they can steal some more for their mega-wealthy backers
If he doesn’t win, they don’t get their bonus.
imagine what that 44 billion could have bought if spent in America on Americans, instead of in Ukraine for Ukrainians…
it couldn’t have killed any more Russians than it did, and more dead Russians is what America needs right now…
Pretty short sighted thinking. You think the global economy will improve if Putin gets his way? He’s not exactly a friend to America last I checked.
Can you be dumb in private, please?
We have enough money to do both. This spending comes from resources already appropriated for the defense department, and soft power is not something to undervalue.
Imagine if the us economy needs those arms race companies more as it needs the old equipment.
They’re not spending it outside the US…
You could give each American a grand sum of $133. Truly life changing stuff.
You can keep my $133, I’d rather have Ukraine be a functioning democracy instead of just another shit hole where the guy in charge just decides how long he wants to be in charge for.
About half the military gear and 100 000 dead Americans in WW3.
He’s pleading with traitors to not be traitors, I don’t see it happening
I still remember that time republicans spent 4th of July in Moscow.
I really hope that Ukraine doesn’t lose their support. If America has to choose between supporting Ukraine in defending themselves from a Russian invasion, and supporting Israel’s obvious goal of carrying out a genocide, it seems like a no brainer to me…
Just curious, where does the ‘genocide’ come from regarding Israel? The stuff I’ve read usually points a very different picture.
I’m not a war correspondent or anything, so my opinion is based exclusively on reading accounts of the conflict which I consider to be reputable. That said, when you compare the death toll on either side of the conflict – 17,000 dead Palestinians so far, as compared to the 1,200 Israelis killed during Hamas’ Oct 7 incursion – its easy to see why so many experts have concluded that Israel’s intentions go far beyond retaliation against Hamas alone.
And that’s without even mentioning Israels controversial approach to military targets, the lies they’ve been caught in throughout the conflict, and so on.
A critical analysis of past Israeli positions and current actions, basically. In brief, Israel refuses any solution that lets the people of Palestine stay, they can’t leave because they have nowhere to go, and Israel’s military policy is that it’s okay to kill them. The easiest path forward for Israel is genocide, and its current actions are congruent with that. (E.g. directing civilians to a place of refuge, and then bombing it.)
Remember, even Germany’s Third Reich didn’t set out to perpetrate a genocide, but circumstances drove them to it.
The bombing of innocent civilians in Gaza in order to destroy Hamas is the genocide being referred too. For Israel, it seems killing innocent civilians is a bonus. Israel’s allies, including the US, are starting to get irritated with the fact that Israel is basically completely disregard for civilian life in Gaza. Israel’s response is basically, we need to kill off Hamas because they want genocide of Israel (not certain of the specifics of Hamas’ goals, but I would definitely that they are generally terrorist group that has control of Gaza, and do want to see Israel fall) so killing civilians is collateral damage. The issue though is that Israel has helped prop up Hamas to keep as an enemy that they think they can control, and use the existence of that enemy as a reason to continue to push out Palestinians from their land. This continued harassment of Palestinians pushes them to join Hamas, and drives Hamas’ actions. This is also partly why Israelis are angry at Netanyahu(?) and his administration, he claimed the power is was scooping up domestically, and using it to exert control on Palestinian land, would keep Israel safe. Instead, they’ve had the biggest attack ever with many Israelis dead.
To those down voting this person, I really don’t think its called for here. There’s nothing to suggest they’re some troll trying to spread misinformation. The details of this conflict have been kept intentionally vague; coming to a different conclusion doesn’t necessarily imply bad intentions.
Try to remember the down vote isn’t a ‘fuck you’ button. Let’s not be like reddit.
What choice is there? An old idiot or a criminal dictator trump.
Biden is old, but I’ve never heard anyone who’s actually worked with him call him an idiot.
Folks don’t think for themselves much. “De teevee done called im Sleepy Joe”
Can also add old to the criminal dictator.
Ukrainians fighting and spending blood against Russians armed with US arms, sounds like a good plan to send more arms to them.
Where is the military industrial complex when you need them? Come on guys, we know you want the bomb money. Send your lobbyists to threaten Republicans with a lot of ads about how they’re un-Patriotic and anti-American for opposing new war funding.
Maybe they realize there will be more war and profits to make if Putin gets what he wants.
Imagine the bonuses if your country directly got involved in the war!
