Congress Must Increase its Support for Ukraine, Not Cut and Run

Nope
Not feeling it.
This is Biden's war with our money.
I could be alone with this thought, but.... nope.
Not feeling good about this whole mess the democrats got us and our money into.

The current state of the U.S. fisc and U.S. provocations preceding February 2022:

Fisc: Considering the U.S.'s current debt, every U.S. dollar is a check drawn on an account that is overdrawn by 30 trillion dollars.

U.S. provocations: The list is long. The majors, among others, include:

2005 – The U.S. built and since 2005 has operated biowarfare laboratories in the Ukraine that handle many dangerous zoonotic diseases, including, among others, avian influenza, leptospirosis, Crimea Congo hemorrhagic fever, brucellosis, and SARS-CoV-2.

2014 – The U.S. (CIA) engineered the 2014 "Maidan Revolution" ousting the Ukrainian President, Victor Yanukovch, who was favorable to Mr. Putin and opposed to a closer relationship with the E.U, overthrowing the Ukrainian government, and installing via an election of highly doubtful integrity, Petro Poroshenko, who was more favorable to the U.S. and to a closer relationship with the E.U.

2019 – The Rand Corporation publishes its Brief titled "Overextending and Unbalancing Russia" that "assessed the impact of cost-imposing options," and recommended the very steps the U.S. has taken in the Ukraine to date.

2021 -- The U.S. DOD and DTRA have been funding studies conducted in the Ukraine and Georgia by GRDF Global of long-distance migratory birds that could be used for surreptitious delivery of deadly pathogens at great distances.

2022 – In February Biden announces that "eliminating" Putin is a U.S. objective. In April Biden and Blinken met with Zelensky in Kiev and instructed him to discontinue peace treaty negotiations with Putin. Congressman Lindsay Graham publicly demands Putin's "assassination."

Putin regards his military as entirely expendable, in order for him to achieve his goals of Russian takeover of Ukraine and to extend Russia borders and influence, to control all of Europe and to demilitarize NATO.
Actually, he has the economic means to do it and all he needs to do is maintain the pressure on the European population until they vote in leadership willing to concede to Putin's demands in order to restore their economies with Russian oil.
As long as climate change is the main priority of the European and American governments, it won't matter how many machines, bombs and weapons the US and European allies send to Ukraine, it will all be for naught if the European and American economies collapse, and the Russia/China/Iran axis remains intact.
Actually many other countries are also on Russia's side, the recent election of a socialist government in Brazil, plus support of Russia by S. Africa, India and the Middle Eastern states of Syria and also Afghanistan essentially guarantee Russian success.
There will likely be an endless supply of manpower from Russia, China, N. Korea, Afghanistan, Syria, S. Africa and Brazil, as well as places such as Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba, which also are supportive of Putin's initiative.
So this war has shown the vulnerability of Western Democracies to Climate Protestors, who will make sure that the Western Democracies don't enact war time economies, but rather see their economies implode into economic depression.

Mr. Coughlin needs to read "War is a Racket," penned by former Marine General Smedley Butler in 1935. Its premise still hold true today.

This Gatestone commentary is correct. If Ukraine falls, we'll see other E. European states fall like dominos and China will get a green light on Taiwan. The trick is to make other NATO countries to keep their commitments which they will do their best to avoid.

If you can't pay for your war maybe you shouldn't be in a war. I'm tired of paying for it.

I'm going to disagree with the premise here, which is the same exact premise that's involved us in every conflict since the Korean war - Dominoes; "if not us then who"; Shining Light; Example to Mankind, etc. Young men die, the arms industry enriches itself, Wall St. and its Congressional friends at the expense of the middle class, who are always left holding the bag - and the funerals.

Ukraine is well known to be corrupt. Perhaps the author can inform us readers exactly how the money is being spent. Republicans will be rightly asking after November.

I do not often disagree with Gatestone. However on this topic I have to disagree. This is a Slavic war, Ukraine is not a NATO aligned country. Zelensky is an American installed puppet. The Clinton cabal has been wanting a war with Russia for a very long time and now they have it. Keeping the war alive for the benefit of the Military Industrial Complex and the direct bribery recipients in Congress is in itself a heinous crime. Ukraine will be destroyed, the American oligarchs will move on to asset strip the next country. America reacted violently to the Cuban missile crisis, when Russia decided to protect their interests against the background of the Minsk agreement betrayal it became a crime.
The EU/American axis will decide how long this goes on and how much it costs. The responsible action to engage on will be to pick up a phone and get peace negotiations on track. When elephants fight, it's only the grass that suffers.

I would not rely on anything that RINO Kevin McCarthy says. As for the "blank check" that already seems to have been handed to Ukraine, at some point enough has to be enough. The present policies are not ending the war and Winter approacheth.
What I do question from Democrats is what quid pro quo deal is in the works that we won't know until it's already done? How much more will Joe Biden give away between military hardware and selling off our petroleum reserve before US is so weak that the only thing we can do to Red China if it invades Taiwan is to nuke?
If the influx of illegal aliens instantly registers and votes, turning another expected outcome into a suspicious Blue victory, expect more domestic turmoil. Culminating with citizens who not only do not trust the government in its policies, they do not trust its legitimacy. How much more will Americans tolerate?
This war has enveloped the world and did so much sooner than we've suddenly realized.
This is more than a regional dispute between David and Goliath. This has advanced to a proxy war. Let it be proven that a Western major power blew up Nord Stream? That's an act of war Russia shouldn't ignore.
Meanwhile. Biden and his puppet masters have no idea the pot they're stirring is about to boil over.
Will the mess be in Korea? Iran vs Israel? Taiwan and Red China? Or two of three? Whatever it is, I guarantee you the other participants won't have Wuhan mandates, pronouns, transexual surgeries, and Iranian nuke negotiations won't worry them either.
It's time Biden told Putin it's time to end the "small incursion".
Give Russia Crimea. Figure out a way that everybody can say we won. If not, then it's time to stock up the basement. Include a large snow shovel so you can dig out through the ashes. This Winter something's coming to town. But it ain't Santa.

In a total of 122 resolutions involving Israel, Ukraine voted against Israel in 95 of the resolutions and abstained in 27 of them. They are still Jew-haters and Zelensky is a self-hating Jew. This is a regional dispute and we should not have gotten involved in the first place. The spending is fueling inflation.

I was amazed to learn at an adult age (of course did not learn this in school) about FDR's bromance with Stalin, and how the USA turned its back on eastern europe after ww2 (the USA had the bomb, could have stopped the Soviets cold in their tracks). The USA could have won the Vietnam war, and could have totally defeated North Korea. But no, that would have made the world too stable. Instability is very profitable to the right people.

The Germans and French don't want Ukraine to become a normal country (lived for years in Germany myself). Europe is of a very zero-sum game mentality. I spent the summer in Kiev, and Ukrainian friends always found my suggestion that Germany was their enemy to be extreme.

Untold trillions spent on the wars in the Middle East. And that's the point. The money went to the right people, and the status quo was not ruffled. A truly free and prosperous Ukraine is something many in the USA and especially Europe do not want.

Supporting the Ukrainians is valid, but a "blank check?" Our spendthrift government is noted for "blank checks" without any accountability. Where has this lead us? A foolish, amoral increasingly destructive national debt of $32 trillion needs to be addressed. At least, let us begin to make noises about some accountability regarding where this taxpayer money is going and how this tragic and exploding debt can managed. Supporting Ukraine, yes, a blank check, no. Thank you Kevin McCarthy.

Totally disagree. There's been an internal war going on in Ukraine since 2014. The Minsk treaty was totally ignored. Unfortunately the US doesn't think it's possible for Putin to have any honorable intentions, when he can. For some reason US citizens don't think the US can be spreading misinformation and propaganda about the war. Like Nato and Ukraine triggering the war by holding military exercises in Ukraine and the Black Sea. Putin repeatedly asked for negotiations and the US and Zelenskyy repeatedly refused to talk. Hence the war. I usually support Gatestone's opinion, but not on this. I support neither Russia or Ukraine, and I don't support our intervention in anything but peace talks. It's time for the US to stop conducting proxy wars using smaller countries to achieve our agendas.

Why should American taxpayers pay for a war in Ukraine? That money should go to our own country, to protect OUR OWN BORDERS. Throwing money at Ukraine and its undemocratic ruler who has outlawed all opposition parties is not only absurd, it epitomizes how the people who presently run our government don't give a continental about American citizens.

The points made in this article are all very valid. To think that we do not have any skin in this confrontation is to not understand what is going on in this world. We must give the Ukrainians more, not less support. This sends signals not just to Russia, but to China and Iran, as well. Our reputation, as a staunch ally, has been seriously degraded in the minds of the entire world, this as a result of the actions of both of our political parties. If we abandon Ukraine we destroy our image of being the "shinning city on the hill". We really destroy ourselves. Those who complain that prices are rising and things don't look as rosy as they would like will rue the day that we did not step up and at least try to be the America we like to think that we used to be.

At least the Democratic Party leadership has shut down its progressive side, this time. It is time for the Republicans to turn on their own leadership, in the form of Kevin McCarthy, and warn them that if they go upside down on this, perhaps that leadership should be changed. On this point, the Democratic leadership has it right and a portion of the Republican leadership is fundamentally wrong.

Zelensky wants a "blank check" and is "concerned" that he might not get one?
American taxpayers are the ones who should be concerned!

We do NOT need to be getting any further involved in what could easily turn into WWIII. It's just not worth it.

Someone is going to have to come up with a better explanation as to why Russia would blow up their own pipeline. So far, the explanations make no sense at all. However, it makes more sense to me that EU resolve is weakening as they are providing less and less support to Ukraine, and the price of gas and energy is escalating creating public pressure to negotiate with Russia. I smell a rat in the WEF alliance, who does not want the EU resolve to weaken on the hope of cheaper Russian oil and gas. Taking the pipeline out squashes that option for the people of the EU that don't like the idea of freezing to death under the WEF Green Agenda. Then blame it on Russia.

I was reminded that none of the trillions of dollars raised by the Biden, Pelosi, self enrichment democrats went to defense spending. Add to that Biden has exhausted or oil reserves and left billions of dollars of military equipment in the hands of enemies and I wonder where they are going to get the weapons? Putin already threatened Israel if they provide weapons so it is unlikely Biden could inspire other allied nation he has often treated with disdain to step up when he is the worse military Presidents since Carter and like Obama seems to believe in radical speak they can reduce every conflict to leftist talking points on the Vietnam War and learn absolutely nothing about the real world and the role a strong military plays in keeping the peace. We went from suppressing Islamist aggression and crimes against humanity and in less than two years have nuclear threats that must be taken seriously. The Democrats and globalism have learned nothing from socialism it is by its nature anti humanity and peace.

The Russian-Ukrainian war was totally avoidable if Zelensky had not been conned by the U.S. and other NATO nations to allow NATO on the Russian border despite strong and clear objections by every Russian Leader since the end of WWII. Russia had every reason to fear an aggressive NATO since the U.S- funded Rand Corp. think tank Report of 2019 advocated an aggressive effort by the U.S. to dismantle Russia. The Russian-Ukrainian war has resulted in the deaths of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian soldiers, more wounded for life, millions of Ukrainians fled their nation, uncontrolled world inflation, unaffordable food, fuel and housing prices, the poor of the world are dying in the thousands and the war and Big Oil industries are profiting in the trillions. As Armistice Day approaches, we should honor the dead by teaching young people that wars throughout history are invariably destructive to all living systems and the environment and are initiated for stupid, unpredictable, immoral and mindless leaders of nations and that humans are the the only animal on Earth who pursues such insane and self-destroying activities.

A dictator invades a sovereign country.The democratic nations provide the victim with weapons and financial aid but nothing more. Why? because the threat of nuclear war is thrust forward by the dictator. Such is the modern world that we have created.

In the old days when common sense rules and governments jealously guarded and protected their Nations, most people felt they had a protector most of the time. You now have crazies spouting lies so you would not know the difference between Moses or Jesus. You have a military being sissified, you are giving your vital oil reserves to your enemy, castrating children, etc etc etc so needless to go on,

For goodness sake, wake up and smell the coffee! What goes through the heads of some in Congress? To offer full support to Ukraine would send the right message to Putin and the Iranian leadership. To slow or end support would inevitably encourage the likes of Putin and his Iranian cronies, as well as offer encouragement to Erdogan and his Islamist regime. The new Axis of Evil in the world in which we live, nervously! Ukraine if supplied with air cover in the form of missiles able to take down incoming rockets etc will be in a position to better defend their cities and people. Highly accurate artillery and laser-guided armaments would be extremely effective against Russian advances. The Ukrainians need support, they'll do the fighting on the ground. They are having enormous success against the invading Russians, they need to keep up the momentum. It's a no-brainer!