The United States’ Senate has passed yet another spending package for Ukraine, this one to the tune of $40 billion. The bill’s passage was initially halted by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul several.
The spending packaged passed with a vote of 86–11. All 11 opposed did not vote:
- Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri
- Sen. Mike Lee of Utah
- Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana
- Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho
- Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee
- Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee
- Sen. John Boozman of Arkansas
- Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas
- Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming
- Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky
- Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama
According to The Epoch Times, ‘Biden’s request included $20.4 billion in military assistance along with $8.5 billion in economic assistance. The package also included $3 billion in humanitarian assistance to address food shortages around the globe. Ultimately, the proposal would have cost American taxpayers about $33 billion.’
The cost of this fight is not cheap, but caving to aggression is going to be more costly if we allow it to happen.
We either back the Ukrainian people as they defend their country, or we stand by as the Russians continue their atrocities and aggression in Ukraine.
Biden said during a live address on April 28, when the original draft for the package was announced
Read more of the details here and here.
According to ZeroHedge, as soon as the bill reached President Biden’s desk for him to sign, he then announced that the government is seeking to send another $100 million on top of the number of packages they have already sent. The Hill reiterated that “moments after the Senate sent a $40 billion supplemental aid package to the president’s desk.”
…I am announcing another package of security assistance that will provide additional artillery, radars, and other equipment to Ukraine, which they are already using so effectively on the battlefield.
These weapons and equipment will go directly to the front lines of freedom in Ukraine, and reiterate our strong support for the brave people of Ukraine as they defend their country against Russia’s ongoing aggression.
Biden stated
Stoking More Fear
Later that day Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky noted that as the war approaches the end, it will certainly be the most bloodiest, and notes that it is not time for displaced refugees and civilians to return yet, according to a state-ran media outlet.
The final stage is the most difficult, the bloodiest, it really is. We can’t disengage ourselves and say, ‘that’s it, the war is over.’ I will tell you frankly that in Kyiv, since the end of the occupation of Kyiv Oblast, there is the feeling, that’s it, there is no war. Until the moment when the missiles don’t fly.
I can’t shout ‘come home’ today to all those who are abroad, because the war is not over. This is still the choice of each person.
The country, and especially the security infrastructure we will build up to the level of Israel and other leading countries. In countries where people realise that someone is living next door to them from whom there can be trouble at any time.
During his speech, he pointed out how Western media is behind the Ukraine so much, they are now writing articles where they insinuate that Ukraine will invade Russia:
Perhaps you have seen how two Forbes articles are compared, very interestingly: the headline of February 12 – will Russia invade Ukraine; and the headline of May 16 – will Ukraine’s army invade Russia.
That is, the world began to look differently at the situation in our region and the balance of power.
Zelensky added
You can read the full address here.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
If you go back to the reports when Russia made advances against the separatist states in Ukraine, I had discussed that this proxy war has given the central banks all over the world the greenlight to keep writing infinite blank checks. And this scheme will not stop, especially when the actor Zelensky keeps opening his fat mouth, whining about how NATO isn’t sending enough each week, increasingly more assertive each time.
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellers there is safety.
Proverbs 24:6
To translate Zelensky’s rhetoric, what he really means by the bloodiest part of it – he means the debts and deficits are going to get so astronomically huge, and this proxy war will probably expand further, especially now that Finland and Sweden are joining NATO.
Finland And Sweden Have Applied For NATO Membership. Russia Will Respond
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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