I, like many others, was absolutely floored and disgusted to see Democrats wavingUkraine flags on the House floor late yesterday. All to celebrate the passage of an atrocious bill handing Ukraine MORE money and MORE boots on the ground.
https://t.co/OD5llcrVSS pic.twitter.com/QwYQOfBcGM
— Rep. Jason Crow (@RepJasonCrow) April 20, 2024
No Jason, you should NOT be waving an Ukraine flag or a flag of ANY other country on the floor of the United State HOUSE. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert and the rest are correct. You were all very much out of line and went against the protocols of Congress.
Some House Democrats cheered, chanted, “Ukraine, Ukraine!” and waved small Ukrainian flags on the House floor following passage of the aid bill, causing the Chair to bang the gavel and remind them that “House decorum” precluded them from doing so.
House Speaker Mike Johnson took the podium at one point, banging the gavel and announcing, “The House will be in order! It is a violation of decorum to wave flags on the floor of the House. The chair said it, the speaker’s repeated it, please put the flags down.”
It was very obvious that the Democrats didn’t care. Never mind that something like this, if done by Republicans would be immediately branded as an insurrection, the Democrats get a pass. You see, it’s always ok when THEY do it.
House lawmakers in both parties joined forces Saturday to send a massive package of foreign aid to the Senate, ending a long and bitter stalemate over the fate of the legislation and all but ensuring the delivery of billions of dollars in new help to embattled allies across the globe.
The rare weekend votes were the culmination of months of fierce debate within the House GOP conference over how — or even if — Congress should step in with another round of military help for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan while providing humanitarian aid for civilian victims in Gaza and other war-torn regions around the globe.
And the celebration over an atrocious bill began as soon as the votes were in.
Yes, the Democrats were totally out of line.
And in another 2.5 months Ukraine will have made zero progress and be asking for more
— Purrplexed (@Purrplexion) April 20, 2024
But I will say, the Republicans absolutely bear responsibility for the funding to Ukraine in this bill. It’s atrocious on so many levels. Why? Because the devil is in the details of this new grift to Ukraine. Oilfield Rando on X ran a deep dive into the legislation, and it’s not pretty.
Title III of the Ukraine Aid bill:
$481 million for refugee and entrant assistance.
The Administration for Children and Families gives this money to the NGOs coordinating the border invasion. Incredible. Thanks, @SpeakerJohnson pic.twitter.com/7AUFrdZhhV
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 20, 2024
Just lovely isn’t it? Oh, but there’s more.
The Ukraine Aid bill includes:
-$300 million for Department of State “International Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement” programs.
-$100 million for ‘‘Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Programs’’
But remember. We’re just sending bullets! pic.twitter.com/cM5Pqwjqnz
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 20, 2024
As we all know, USAID isn’t exactly a stellar above-board operation either. Yes, Ukraine has been needing lots of bullets but this legislation contains a boatload of dollars and cents instead.
Section 505 of the Ukraine aid bill: We’re sending them long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems.
It’s fine. This is fine. I wonder what those will pull on the black market. pic.twitter.com/P5jh6kmkxd
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) April 20, 2024
That’s a very fine question! Not only that, Biden got multiple funding boosts with this atrocious legislation, including an increase from $100 million to $7.8 BILLION in equipment and supplies from our U.S. military to Ukraine. Which any rational mind would conclude leaves OUR soldiers short-handed.
Furthermore, outside of that, it’s shades of pre-Vietnam all over again. Why? Because MORE advisors are being sent to Ukraine.
“Throughout this conflict, the DOD has reviewed and adjusted our presence in-country, as security conditions have evolved. Currently, we are considering sending several additional advisers to augment the Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) at the Embassy,” Ryder said in a statement to POLITICO, noting that “personnel are subject to the same travel restrictions as all embassy employees.
Supposedly these new advisors (we don’t know how many) will be conducting oversight regarding the weapons flowing from the U.S. to Ukraine. The implication is that those weapons won’t magically disappear into the black market. Except we already know that weapons and ammo have consistently gone missing from the very start. But sure, let’s send more “advisors” over to make sure Ukraine plays nice in the sandbox with their gifts.
As our longtime readers know, I’ve had huge concerns and heartburn over the blank checks the Biden Administration keeps handing Ukraine. Why? Because the return on investment isn’t happening.
Last November, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ordered his forces to build trenches, fortifications and bunkers behind the more than 1,000-kilometer front line, but analysts say construction work moved slowly, leaving areas unprotected.
“If the defensive lines had been built in advance, the Ukrainians wouldn’t have retreated in such a way,” Ukrainian military expert Oleh Zhdanov said. “We should have been digging trenches through the fall and it would have stemmed Russian advances. Now everything is exposed, making it very dangerous.”
Quite frankly, Ukraine had the means and support to fully build those trenches and buttress up other lines of defense. Yet Zelensky didn’t push that through. Instead he spent much of last fall and into this spring whining about the lack of military support and money.
Democrats in Congress have ignored the realities of the Ukraine/Russia issue. They’ve refused, as has the State Department and DOD, to entertain pushing the two countries into negotiating a peace deal. Thus the fighting continues, Putin grandstands, Zelensky whines, and Democrats waive Ukraine flags on the House floor.
And for what? Well, this bit of horseshit from the Ukraine bill makes it all very very clear.
Remember how we were told that the new Ukraine aid would be given in the form of a “loan”?
Well, according to the just released bill, the president can forgive 50% of the loan after November of this year and the whole thing in 2026. [Emphasis Added]
You can damned well bet someone will have that loan forgiveness paperwork ready for Biden to sign JUST before Election Day in November.
Democrats waiving Ukraine flags on the House floor is a horrible move that shows they are happily putting America last while Ukraine happily rakes in the dough.
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