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Major news! CEO of pro-Trump, pro-MAGA propaganda outlet Newsmax, Christopher Ruddy, is urging Mike Johnson to put the Ukraine aid bill to the Floor for a vote.
“Biden is bad, but Putin and Iran are infinitely worse.”
https://www.newsmax.com/ruddy/ruddy-...03/id/1155754/
…we are now at a turning point with Ukraine. Russia is advancing and apparently rapidly.Biden administration incompetence and their slow-walking of aid in the past two years, has put Ukraine in a most dangerous spot.
Ukraine just lost over 45 square miles of territory to Russia in the last 12 months. Meanwhile, Russia is said to be preparing for a major offensive against Ukraine this spring.
At the same time Israel is facing war on multiple fronts. Israel, like Ukraine, desperately needs funding.
Both are critically important for U.S. security interests.
House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul said our earlier aid packages to Ukraine sent a strong signal to China not to invade Taiwan. But, he noted, failing to support Ukraine now, sends the opposite message.
Mike Johnson has been right to demand accountability from the Biden administration on their disastrous actions. Biden has yet to offer a strategic plan — and an exit strategy for Ukraine.
With Israel, the White House strategy is focused on limiting Israel's ability to defend itself, crazy as that sounds.
Biden may be bad, but Putin and the Iranian mullahs are off-the-charts worse.
In almost every speech he has made since Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine over two years ago, Putin has made clear his nation is at war with the U.S. and the West.
Putin sees Ukraine as just a stopping point. I put nothing past Putin and believe if he is not stopped, he will continue, perhaps even escalating to nuclear weapons.
Just this past week, Poland's foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, made a public plea to Johnson to pass funding, suggesting that if Ukraine falls, NATO itself could see an attack. Sikorski directed his comment "personally to Speaker Mike Johnson: please let democracy take its course. Please let's pass this to a vote."
I believe the best way to deal with Russia's danger is to show resolve: punch back hard.
I do not favor a larger war with Russia. I don't want to "defeat" Russia. I don't believe in forever wars. But I believe Ukrainians are dying for their freedom. It's a noble cause that, in reality, protects us and our freedom.
We should send them aid.…
Personally I see this attempt at trying to avoid the attempts to go around the speaker, because if they manage that and destroy his credibility as speaker his position will become tenuous and Trump will lose his main mouthpiece in trying to dictate what the Government can do. Better to allow it to pass than face a losing battle with his own GOP voting against him.