From today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:
Washington’s old guard can’t help itself: when it comes to throwing endless streams of our money down a foreign boondoggle they just never refuse. Even if they promise to do so. Speaker Kevin McCarthy is backing off his “no blank check” promise when it comes to Ukraine – even after $100 billion has already been authorized! Also today: House to move to make Iran sanctions permanent.
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
Kevin McCarthy reminds me of John F Kerry, the living JFK. Kerry flip flopped on the Iraq War, McCarthy is flip flopping on aid to Ukraine. The House of Misrepresentatives is moving to make sanctions against Iran as permanent as they are in some other countries. The present and future are bleak.
If Speaker McCarthy supports Ukraine then maybe he should start a Go Fund Me page to raise funds? Why should taxpayers who don’t support this war pay for it?
We should get to choose what percentage of our tax money goes to which major government agencies and programs. This could be done with an extra page on our tax returns, listing each major agency and program, and allowing us to fill out the percentages. I’d give 0% to the military.
Except for advancing his career, Kevin McCarthy doesn’t believe in anything that I can tell. Just another lying politician. To paraphrase the saying, if you don’t believe in anything, you’ll sell out on everything.
Something we agree on.
Politicians of both parties only care about themselves and keeping their jobs. They pray everyday at work to keep the American people stupid enough to vote for them.
It’s all relative. Most of them believe in something, but people like Trump, McCarthy, Pelosi, and Schumer don’t.
Liars lie in DC….
….. but only on days that end with a “y”.
No one should have believed that politician when he first shared those words.
Didn’t he just go to Israel to pledge his fealty?
You really lose all credibility when you refer to U.S. assistance to Ukraine as “this Ukraine adventure.” We are helping a small democratic nation valiantly defend itself from a despotic madman and war criminal, whose murderous invasion was totally unprovoked and unjustified. Our helping Ukraine is unlike any of the other many wars that Republicans and Democrats (but more often Republicans) have pursued for dubious reasons–but in the case of the two Bush family wars against Iraq–with the hope of gaining control of oil resources.
You lose all credibility when you ignore that this is a U.S.-provoked proxy war, and call Vladimir Putin a “despotic madman.” I’ve seen Oliver Stone’s hours long interview with Putin and heard large excerpts of a few of Putin’s speeches. Putin is far less of a “madman” than any U.S. president in the last 50 years with the exception of Jimmy Carter (who still caused major global problems by allowing that war-monger and supporter of U.S. global hegemony Zbigniew Brzezinski to arm & fund Muslim fanatics in Afghanistan who turned into the Taliban, then al Qaeda).
An American complaining about any other world leader and calling him a madman is really rich. The U.S. is responsible for the deaths of approximately 20 million people around the world since WWII, and has around 1,000 foreign military bases. No other country is even close to either of those things.
I agree with you that Russia was wrong to invade Ukraine, but I only hold that position because I’m anti-war. The U.S. is 100% responsible for provoking this war, and it’s been doing so ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
You lose all credibility when you ignore that this is a U.S.-provoked proxy war, and call Vladimir Putin a “despotic madman.” I’ve seen Oliver Stone’s hours long interview with Putin and heard large excerpts of a few of Putin’s speeches. Putin is far less of a “madman” than any U.S. president in the last 50 years with the exception of Jimmy Carter (who still caused major global problems by allowing that war-monger and supporter of U.S. global hegemony Zbigniew Brzezinski to arm & fund Muslim fanatics in Afghanistan who turned into the Taliban, then al Qaeda).
An American complaining about any other world leader and calling him a madman is really rich. The U.S. is responsible for the deaths of approximately 20 million people around the world since WWII, and has around 1,000 foreign military bases. No other country is even close to either of those things.
I agree with you that Russia was wrong to invade Ukraine, but I only hold that position because I’m anti-war. The U.S. is 100% responsible for provoking this war, and it’s been doing so ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Translation: “Just because they’ve lied to us every time before doesn’t mean they’re lying THIS time. THIS time is DIFFERENT, because I waaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnttttt it to be.”
Clue:
“We” are helping a tyrannical regime that has (among other things) introduced universal conscription, outlawed political opposition, and seized control of the press/media in its territorial scrap against another, very similar, regime. “We” are doing so in hopes of slowing down the decline of “our” empire, just like Putin is desperately trying to halt the decline of his.
To Thomas and Jeff–I’m probably as anti-war as anyone you will meet. I have protested every war the U.S. has been involved in since Vietnam. I was active in protesting U.S. intervention in Central America in he 1980s, went to Washington to protest Iraq War I, and helped maintain a 7-year-long vigil against Iraq War II. And I agree with and have expressed to others your same position on Zbigniew Brzezinski’s role in Afghanistan laying the groundwork for the Taliban and al Qaeda. I’m also on the board of Voices for Justice in Palestine and have actively supported Palestinian rights and freedom for many years. So, I have a long history of opposing U.S. mercenary military interventions. But Ukraine is different, and I believe we have to help them defend against a barbaric and unprovoked invasion of their country.
I wouldn’t dream of trying to stop you from helping the barbaric Ukrainian regime fight the barbaric Russian regime. While I’ve personally only donated to humanitarian relief projects because I’m more concerned with the innocent noncombatants than with the gangs’ fighters, if someone wants to send — or carry — a rifle to Ukraine, I’m fine with that.
I’m against the barbaric regime which claims to own me getting involved in other barbaric regimes’ spats.
I agree with your reply to us except for the last sentence. There was nothing “barbaric” about Russia’s invasion any more than any other invasion is. And to say that the invasion was not provoked is delusional. The U.S. started provoking Russia as soon as the Soviet Union disbanded, starting with the eastward expansion of NATO that the U.S. promised Russia it wouldn’t do.