To put this giveaway to Ukraine in perspective: just since late
February, the US has provided nearly $60 billion in "assistance" to
Ukraine. That is almost half that country's entire 2020 GDP! Washington
has literally adopted Ukraine in our name and on our dime.
The Biden Administration claims that Ukraine is winning the war with
Russia and that such an expenditure to protect Ukraine's borders is
critical to our national interests and worth risking a nuclear war
over.
But protecting Ukraine's democracy is no longer the stated goal of the
Administration. Defense Secretary Austin outlined the Administration's
new intention not long ago when he said that the real goal is to weaken
Russia.
Biden’s neocons are fighting a war with Russia, but once again Congress
has no interest in voting on a war declaration or even in debating
whether war with Russia 30 years after the end of the Cold War is a good
idea.
There is a reason our Constitution grants war powers to the legislative
branch. Forcing Members of the House and Senate to declare the US to be
in a state of war also enables them - through the powers of the
purse-string - to define the goals of the war and particularly what a
victory looks like. That prevents the kind of mission-creep ahd shifting
objectives that have characterized our endless wars in the 21st century
- including this current proxy war with Russia.
Even the US mainstream media is beginning to notice. Last week the New
York Times’ Editorial Board published an editorial originally titled,
“What is America’s Strategy in Ukraine?” complaining that the Biden
Administration has yet to answer any questions to the American people
regarding its involvement in Ukraine.
While, as could be expected, the paper attacked the “isolationists” in
the US Congress who opposed the $40 billion giveaway, the NY Times
editorial board nevertheless registered what can only be seen as the
first major sign of dissent among the usual media war cheerleaders.
They wrote:
...it is still not in America’s best interest to plunge into
an all-out war with Russia, even if a negotiated peace may require
Ukraine to make some hard decisions. And the US aims and strategy in
this war have become harder to discern, as the parameters of the mission
appear to have changed.
While warning that Americans’ interest in Ukraine will begin to wane
without more clarity from Washington as to its goals, the paper went on
to directly contradict the Biden Administration’s predictions of a
Ukraine victory:
A decisive military victory for Ukraine over Russia, in
which Ukraine regains all the territory Russia has seized since 2014, is
not a realistic goal.
Congress - with very few exceptions - has opened a financial spigot to
the government in Kiev without asking a single question about how and
why the money is to be spent. When Senator Paul simply asked for someone
to keep track of the $60 billion we shipped over there he was met with
near-unanimous opposition.
An endless supply of US taxpayer money to Ukraine with zero stated goals
and zero oversight. Isn’t it time to stand up and demand that both
parties in Congress start asking some hard questions?
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