Another Israel? Who is Helped Here?

 It's not good for America to have allies utterly dependent on us for their own survival.

Biden Signs Stopgap Spending Bill With $12.3 Billion in Aid to Ukraine

The House passed the bill and sent it to President Biden, who signed it just hours before a funding lapse would have forced a government shutdown.

Added:  ANOTHER $12.3 billion.  I wonder if the American media is even tallying these billion-dollar transfers in weaponry and humanitarian aid, and outright cash that is not being tracked sent into a corrupt country.  This should be -- and perhaps already is -- a midterm issue the American people should be discussing:

When will the blank-check billions to Ukraine end?  If the independent Ukrainian Army (*cough, cough*) hasn't "won" in seven (7) months fighting, and repelled the Russians back to the territories seized during President Obama's term in 2014, then what will winter fighting look like?

Why are we there?  When will a wiser mind step up on behalf of Ukrainian and European civilians and state that America's endgame is NOT to overthrow Putin at the cost of so many civilians, but to negotiate a peace that BOTH sides can live with?  Russia is not Palestine;  this will not end well for America or the world, and whoever is telling you otherwise is not truly interested in the health of the planet nor the people that populate it.

Why is Tom Friedman's voice more influential or important than the voice of every red-blooded American, citizen or just worker-resident?  Why does his preferences -- to overthrow Putin? -- have weight with American voters who elect Senators who fund American wars?  Just askin'.  (It me: flatlander in da free worl'.  Self deprecatory as fuck, but asking teh serious questions all the same, sir....)

Think political bunnies, think.  

The American people will not support this, or continue to look away as we waste yet another nation and burn up the planet in pursuit of wealth for our own...  Brains will win in the end.  And America is great on developing... connections, but brains?  Not so much of late.

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Speaking of, how's that Ilya Shapiro making out for himself of late?  Twins on the way, I hear, conceived during his short-lived employment fiasco at Georgetown.  That's not a mind fit to lead the world, let alone the nation, but in America? That's a 21st century career success story... may his sons one day right his wrongs.  We leave it at that then.