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Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson announced on Wednesday that he is sticking with his plan to send a series of foreign aid bills to the floor, including those for funding for Ukraine and Israel. Johnson said in a note to legislators that they'll vote on these on Saturday evening.

Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, has faced mounting pressure to act on President Joe Biden’s long-delayed request for billions of dollars in security assistance. It’s been more than two months since the Senate passed a $95-billion aid package, which includes $14 billion for Israel and $60 billion for Ukraine.

Despite opposition from conservatives over aiding Ukraine, Johnson said earlier this week that he would push to get the package to the House floor under a single debate rule, then hold separate votes on proposed aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, as well as several foreign-policy proposals, according to Republican lawmakers.

“After significant Member feedback and discussion, the House Rules Committee will be posting soon today the text of three bills that will fund America’s national security interests and allies in Israel, the Indo-Pacific, and Ukraine, including a loan structure for aid, and enhanced strategy and accountability,”Johnson wrote on Wednesday.

He added that these will be brought to the floor, alongside a fourth bill that includes the REPO Act, TikTok bill, sanctions and other measures “to confront Russia, China, and Iran.”

“By posting text of these bills as soon as they are completed, we will ensure time for a robust amendment process. We expect the vote on final passage on these bills to be on Saturday evening,” Johnson wrote.

He had recently indicated that he'd support sending more money to Kiev if it were a loan rather than a grant. This week, additional pressure was put on him after Iran’s retaliatory strike on Israel, which West Jerusalem claims to have stopped with help from the US.

Meanwhile, moderate New York Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis urged on Wednesday that the Speaker “go back to Biden & [NY Senator Chuck] Schumer and tell them he needs a border security measure to pass foreign aid.” Johnson said in the letter to his fellow members of Congress that he will bring forward an immigration bill that looks like the House’s HR 2.

During the GOP meeting this week, the speaker reportedly warned hardcore opponents of Ukraine aid that an alternative to his plan would be for Democrats to force a vote on the Senate bill through procedural maneuvers. Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky reportedly urged Johnson to resign.

The previous House speaker, California’s Kevin McCarthy, was ousted from the position by his fellow Republicans for alleged backroom dealing with Democrats on Ukraine.

Proponents of funneling more money to Kiev have been touting the aid to increasingly skeptical American voters, stating that most of the funds would be spent at home to bolster defense manufacturing.

https://www.rt.com/news/596121-us-congress-ukraine-israel-aid/

 

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John Miles

Politico Admits West Losing Proxy War Against Russia

 

The tabloid news outlet delivers a tour de force in war propaganda while admitting the outlook for the Western client state is bleak.
“Morale among troops is grim, ground down by relentless bombardment, a lack of advanced weapons, and losses on the battlefield,” laments a new piece in tabloid news outlet Politico that tugs on Washington lawmakers’ heartstrings in an attempt to finally dislodge a $60 billion support package from Congress.
Author Jamie Dettmer, a veteran of US state-run propaganda outlet Voice of America, confirms the sour mood within the Ukrainian military as reports suggest the country’s military frontlines may be days away from disintegrating.
“Even as President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukraine is trying to find a way not to retreat, military officers privately accept that more losses are inevitable this summer,” he writes. “The only question is how bad they will be.”
“The mood in the senior ranks of the military is even darker… Several senior officers talked to POLITICO only on the understanding they would not be named so they could talk freely. They painted a grim forecast of frontlines potentially collapsing this summer when Russia, with greater weight of numbers… launches its expected offensive,” the article read.

Dettmer engages in all the familiar tropes about a purportedly deranged US enemy bent on inflicting death and destruction apparently for his own amusement, the same picture painted of Hussein, Assad, Gaddafi, Maduro, Noriega, and countless others. The journalist composes scarcely a paragraph without a snarling reference to “Putin” as a stand-in for Russia as a whole.
“Vladimir Putin has arguably never been closer to his goal,” he writes. “Putin will claim victory at home, and, emboldened by exposing Western weaknesses, he may reinvigorate his wider imperial ambitions abroad… Putin literally wants to scratch [Ukraine] from the map.”
But the consequential Russian president’s first several years as leader were defined by repeated overtures of friendship and goodwill to the West. Putin continued to engage in good faith even as NATO troops marched closer and closer to Russia’s border, a clear violation of the United States’ previous assurances.

Even as European leaders cynically played for time with their apparent support for the Minsk agreements, Putin took the effort seriously. After war broke out he continued to attempt to negotiate a truce, with at least two efforts foiled by US intervention. When Western officials gloat about the Donbass conflict as a way to effectively wear down Russia, one can only consider their confident boasts for so long without concluding this was the plan all along.
“[Putin] would completely destroy everything. Everything,” the article quotes Zelensky as warning when asked what would happen if the US Congress doesn’t finally pass another aid package.
But Moscow’s efforts in Ukraine have been noted for their restraint. Russia deliberately eschewed US-style “shock and awe” tactics when the special military operation was launched. Within one month the Israeli military had already killed more civilians in Gaza than had fallen in nearly two years of fighting in the Donbass. Yet mainstream media has yet to vilify Western ally Netanyahu in the way it has Russia’s president.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240417/politico-admits-west-losing-proxy-war-against-russia-1117985562.html

 

 

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House Speaker Mike Johnson has introduced aid bills for Israel, Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific, with voting scheduled to take place on either Friday night or Saturday. Several House Republicans have indicated their intention to oust the speaker from his position.

Despite his repeated pledges to bring foreign aid bills to the House floor only when a solution to the border crisis is found, Speaker Johnson unveiled three separate funding packages, namely $26 billion for Israel, $61 billion for Ukraine, and $8 billion for Taiwan and allies in Indo-Pacific, at the time when the US southern frontier still remains wide open.

"Republican speaker Mike Johnson went into that secured room with a bunch of guys in gray suits from the deep state, and he came out of that room after the meeting as Uniparty speaker Mike Johnson and no longer a Republican," Michael Shannon, a political commentator and Newsmax columnist, told Sputnik.

Washington's Ukraine aid bill provides $60.84 billion in assistance, including $23.2 billion to replenish US weapons stocks, according to the House Committee.

The Ukraine aid bill instructs the US President to provide Kiev with ATACMS missiles, according to the text of the bill.

— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) April 17, 2024

"That's the only explanation for it that makes sense, because he's completely turned around, and now he's on the Washington agenda of the Uniparty and no longer listens to or tries to do what the base wants," the commentator continued. "That's what's happening here. Once they get into a position of leadership, they abandon the base," he maintained.

Shannon explained that Ukraine is obviously not on the GOP's base priority list right now, given that Republican voters are much more concerned about the influx of illegals into the US, inflation, and budget deficit spending.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20240418/the-zelensky-curse-how-aid-to-ukraine-may-deep-six-another-house-speaker-1117999389.html

 

 

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