- The House passed a more than $60 billion bill that provides more military aid to Ukraine.
- It’s part of a larger foreign aid package that’s likely to pass the Senate and be signed into law.
- 112 Republicans voted it against — the most ever, and a majority of the GOP conference.
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Saturday’s vote marked the first time the House had approved billions of dollars in Ukraine aid since December 2022, when Democrats still controlled the chamber.
In the two years since Russia’s invasion, opposition to aiding Ukraine has grown from a fringe position to a majority view among House GOP lawmakers. Many argue the money should be spent domestically or that policy changes at the US-Mexico border should take precedence.
Here are the 112 House Republicans who voted against the bill.
Is this supposed to be some kind of public shaming? It’s not as if there weren’t any reasons not to issue a blank check to Ukraine.
A comprehensible way to view this war is: One corrupt shit-hole country, formerly part of the Soviet Unions has attacked another corrupt shit-hole country, formerly part of the Soviet Union.
I am German and I am happy with giving the Ukraine plenty of funds and other means in order for enabling them to stop Russia expending in my general direction. I don’t really see that much benefit for the US so. But thanks, every US dollar spent is about 1€ less we have to spend. Go for it.
Every dollar spent by the US on Ukraine helps undermine Russia’s global influence and protects NATO, which was the US’s goal for like 70 years now.
Absolutely. YOU give them YOUR money. The
spicepetro dollars must flow.Absolutely. YOU give them YOUR money. The
spicepetro dollars must flow.Making it very clear to the world you can’t just march into a neighboring sovereign country and take it over is very important for global security. That matters to all of us. We as a society should not accept that.
Absolutely. YOU give them YOUR money. The
spicepetro dollars must flow.It’s a very cheap and low effort way to reduce Russia’s ability to invade across Europe and stomp a bunch of NATO countries.
Sounds very much like your opnion is formed based on general ignorance on the subject, sprinkled with a good dosage of egotism
At the very least, they should help because they promised to. In 1994 Ukraine gave up its nukes (it had the 3rd largest arsenal). It did this with assurances that the US, UK and Russia would all respect its existing borders.
By not helping Ukraine resist Russia, the US is reneging on that promise (by letting Russia change the borders).
Absolutely. YOU give them YOUR money. The
spicepetro dollars must flow.What you pay in taxes isn’t YOUR money so get over it.
So few people understand this. It’s akin to the Jan 6 morons puking about the Capitol building being “our house”. Not it fucking isn’t, it’s the government’s building. Chanting “we the people” like morons only points out that you haven’t read or don’t understand the rest of the fucking preamble.
True. But even better: What you pay in taxes even is even less related to me.
I’m all for countries standing by their commitments, long term. The risks of not disarming Ukraine, particularly back then, is more than worth the cost now.
Appeasement is rarely a good idea, long term, no matter which warmonger it’s aimed at.
Shut up.
Why would I? Did I offend you? I am sorry you feel that way 🤣
You’re just an insufferable cad who should always keep your trap closed.
The US has the same benefits as Germany. It is bad for an aggressive adversarial state to invade their way through Europe.
The US gives them funding by selling them equipment the US was done with. The country gets to collect shitloads of data on using the weapons in a proxy war they don’t have to commit to.
It’s also a huge benefit to our economy and (eventually) military readiness. We’re giving mostly older but still useful weapons, and most of the money goes to US defense companies to replenish our supplies with the latest and greatest.
Yeah, we’ve been running way too much debt and need to get a handle on it but this is a good use of debt and the problem is much bigger than this one “minor” part