Posted on 09/21/2023 10:44:12 PM PDT by RandFan
As Congress struggles to work out a continuing resolution before a government shutdown at the end of the month, Senator Rand Paul has vowed that he will not allow more US spending on Ukraine to be a part of any such plan.
Paul’s comments come in the midst of a visit to Washington by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky who is reportedly seeking an additional $24 billion in U.S. aid to help his country’s war against an invading Russia.
The senator says America has done enough.
“Today I am putting leadership of the House, the Senate, and the President of the United States on notice. I will not consent to the expedited passage of any spending measure providing more American aid to Ukraine,” Paul wrote in an op-ed for The American Conservative on Wednesday.
“Simply put: We have no extra money to send to Ukraine,” he noted. “Our deficit this year will exceed $1.5 trillion.”
Portions of Paul’s op-ed were part of his floor statement in the Senate on Wednesday.
The US has already sent $76 billion to Ukraine to date since Russia invaded the country in February 2022.
The Kentucky Republican also called out Ukraine as a “corrupt regime” during an interview on Fox Business on Thursday.
In his op-ed, Paul brought up the optics of Ukraine’s president yet again coming to the US, hat in hand, for more of American tax dollars and asks by what metric is such aid ever supposed to end.
The senator wrote, “This week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is in Washington to lobby Congress to approve the Biden administration’s $24 billion supplemental aid request.”
“When will the aid requests end? When will the war end?” Paul asked. “Can someone explain what victory in Ukraine looks like? President Biden certainly can’t. His administration has failed to articulate a clear strategy or objective in this war, and Ukraine’s long-awaited counter-offensive has failed to make meaningful gains in the east.”
Reports have indicated that lawmakers and particularly many Republicans haven’t been as warm to Zelensky and his requests as the last time he visited the US.
“With no clear end in sight, it looks increasingly likely that Ukraine will be yet another endless quagmire funded by the American taxpayer,” Paul lamented.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said in an interview on Sunday that a Ukraine victory in which Russian forces were expelled was “very unlikely” anytime soon.
Good.
Ukaraine brought this on, up to them to straighten it out.
Of course, they have Bidet* by the bαlls, so................
piano balls is a shill — but for who?
Wrong—One phone call to Joe and Mr. Z will get all he wants—Now its F-35s Tomorrow nukes. Fort Knots is open for him to take as much as he likes.
How is it a blind spot to not want the US Treasury drained at all costs to support a cause or a war (whatever it is) thousands of miles away and has no bearing on most Americans lives?
doesnt he understand that the ukrainian missiles are powered
by burning US dollars
Someone put a good tag up there
“endless grift”
You do realize the chairman of the Joint Chiefs says this is unwinnable and could go on for years.
It’s a lost cause.
Yet you want to throw more and more money at it? When is it enough?
Cheers RP!
Just fly a few squads of B-52H to Moscow and be done with the job.
Civilian casualties are bound to happen the longer this drags on anyhow.
Very unfortunate reality of war, maybe tactical nukes could save some civvie lives on both sides.
I keep saying this since this whole scamdemic of covid/world war III began.
Getting isolationists to pay attention to world history is like trying to teach algebra to adolescent flatworms. *sigh*
Moscow’s elite want to reconstitute the old Stalinist Empire. It’s just their nature, like the scorpion in the fable.
If they succeed we’ll be right back where we were in 1950.
Do ANY of you know why NATO had to be formed in the first place?
doubtful Z is calling the shots.
You can’t seem to distinguish tending to our own affairs from “isolationism.” NATO accomplished its mission 32 years ago. It’s now a warmongering globalist bureaucracy. Why don’t you get as worked up over defending our own borders ?
Whole bunch of globalist oligarchs Zelensky takes his marching orders from. But he does get to play dictator at the moment, using the civil war as a pretense. He absolutely does not want to face the voters, not with 80% recently polled blaming him for the corruption.
And that political isolation has been apparent and growing over the recent years
It’s really sad, because The Ukraine has had 32 years to prove it could manage its own affairs and be a productive and successful nation. Instead, it ended up as the most notoriously corrupt state in Europe, electing one corrupt meatpuppet after another. Zelensky really sold the folks there a bill of goods, promising to end the corruption. He turned out to be the most corrupt and evil of all.
We are broke. We won’t have a country left if we don’t do something about our own borders.
Maybe Zelinsky should sell a villa or two. I heard some of hs staff are driving Rolls Royces. Meanwhile FJB wants us to drive golf carts.
Ironically, most of the “we have to be the global police” mentality usually are also open borders, ie, Bushes, Krystol, Hugh Hewitt, and other assorted globalist, sellout, schills.
Prove it.
Here we go with the 'ol "No CCCP 2.0!" trope-fantasy again.
Getting isolationists to pay attention to world history is like trying to teach algebra to adolescent flatworms. *sigh*
Why can't you Youcrayniacs make a point without folding a personal insult or two into it? Why the sickening condescension?
Not one more US taxpayers' penny for one of the most corrupt nations in Europe and for its faudulent, grifting, gay-dancing ""leader" and the kleptocrats he presides over in his hyper-corrupt government.
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