Senator Rand Paul has single handedly held up the bill that would provide $40 billion in aid for Ukraine. Politico. The bill flew through the house with only 57 Republicans voting against it, but Paul blocked the bill from being fast tracked. Paul wants a federal watchdog assigned to monitor where the money is going. Ukraine has already blew through $14 billion in aid and the money will run out next week if the bill does not pass. The bill will likely still pass, with or without Paul's amendment, but the passage will not happen this week. Paul called the bill "fiscal insanity" and questioned why we would be giving money to Ukraine when our own economy is tanking due to inflation caused by these huge spending bills.
My Comment:
It appears that Rand Paul is the only one in the Senate who isn't completely insane. I had little respect for our elected leaders before the Ukraine war broke out but now? I can't imagine that anything good will come from giving even more money to Ukraine, a country that is of zero strategic interest to America at all. Paul can do little but delay the inevitable but I am glad he is at least doing that.
As someone who doesn't support Ukraine it's also extremely frustrating to me. I don't support Russia either, for me the war is like the Iran-Iraq war back in the day where both sides are pretty bad. If it were up to me we wouldn't have offered a single thin dime of military support to either side in the conflict, let alone the $54 billion in support we are giving Ukraine.
And the timing for this couldn't be worse. At a time when people are losing their shirt to inflation, losing their future from the stock market crashing, being completely unable to afford housing to not even being able to feed their babies, this is what the government is focusing on? I'm not saying that the money we are going to spend on this has to be spent but if it did there are many more worthy causes here in the United States. It really puts things in perspective, our government is more concerned with killing Russians than helping Americans.
The worst thing is that the money will be wasted. Ukraine can't win the war, even with all of our help. The government knows this and has admitted that their goal is a stalemate, and if that means tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians die in the next few years that's just fine. In the end Russia will likely win just through attrition, eventually Ukraine will run out of fighting age men, while Russia will not.
Of course I doubt the main goal for this is to actually help Ukraine. It's to line the pockets of defense contractors and probably 10% to the "Big Guy" himself. We have depleted huge stockpiles of our weapons and all that is going to be made up with lucrative defense contracts worth billions of dollars.
These people are the only people that are going to benefit from this war. The Ukrainians will see their people killed and their country destroyed. Russia will see thousands of their soldiers killed. And the American people will have their economy crash even harder than it is already. But the politicians and defense companies? Laughing all the way to the bank...
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