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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's embarrassing we haven't yet gotten a military/Ukraine funding bill through two months ago.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Free ways to help Ukraine:

Ditch the restriction to only attack on Ukrainian soil with western weapons. Iran and North Korea don't have similar provisions for the Russians.

Remove the export restrictions and give them existing weapons. The US are mothballling export restricted stuff all the time.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@woelkchen @BombOmOm
NATO is afraid of Russia will lose. What is the sense of NATO then?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The same as when the Soviet Union dissolved and Putin wasn't yet in power.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yet it is completely according to design. MAGA extremists are pro Putin and anti democracy as this is where the bulk of their funding comes from.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Fucking shame

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Monday sent Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying Kyiv’s war effort to defend itself from Russia’s invasion may grind to a halt without it.

In a letter to House and Senate leaders and also released publicly, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young warned the U.S. will run out of funding to send weapons and assistance to Ukraine by the end of the year, saying that would “kneecap” Ukraine on the battlefield.

Biden has sought a nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other needs, but it has faced a difficult reception on Capitol Hill, where there is growing skepticism about the magnitude of assistance for Ukraine and where even Republicans supportive of the funding are insisting on U.S.-Mexico border policy changes to halt the flow of migrants as a condition for the assistance.

The Biden administration has said it has slowed the pace of some military assistance to Kyiv in recent weeks to try to stretch supplies until Congress approves more funding.

The letter followed a classified Capitol Hill briefing on Nov. 29 for the top House and Senate leaders on the need for the assistance.

Defense and other national security officials briefed the “big four” congressional leaders as Congress is debating President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion funding package, which includes $61 billion for Ukraine but has become snared by Republican demands for U.S.-Mexico border security changes.


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