Yes, this actually happened today. During her press briefing Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the White House doesn’t want to “define what success in Ukraine looks like,” but demands U.S. taxpayers to give them another $33 billion toward it.
A few moments later Psaki admits the money will be spent subsidizing not only Ukraine, but NATO allies who are suffering the results of inflation.
Psaki stated the Biden demand for more money “is not all for Ukraine, it’s also for some of our Eastern European partners and others to help support them during this time as well.” Wait, now we are paying to subsidize the economy of EU countries while our own economy is contracting?
Seriously, the scale of this hubris is blood boiling. First, they cannot tell us what success consists of, but give us money anyway. The first segment to watch happens at 18:15 of the video, WATCH (prompted):
TRANSCRIPT – Q Against the backdrop of the President’s announcement today and request for this $33 billion aid package, can you say: Is it the policy goal of the United States for Ukraine to defeat Russia?
MS. PSAKI: Well, look, it depends on how you — we’re not going to define that from here. That’s for the Ukra- —
Q How would you define it?
MS. PSAKI: Well, that’s for the Ukrainians to define.
What we are going to do from here is to continue to provide them with a range of security and military assistance, as is evidenced by the package that the President proposed and put forward to Capitol Hill today; to strengthen their ne- — their hand at the negotiating table; and ensure that they have the support and backing of the United States and the world.
Q Just to be clear — and I understand what you’re saying: It’s for the Ukrainians to define. But does the United States think that success has to include Russians leaving all of the new portions of Ukraine that they currently invaded?
MS. PSAKI: Again, we’re not going to define that from here, Kristen. There are a range of negotiations that may happen and may take place, and we’re just not going to get ahead of that. (read more)
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Q And then, is there any effort, I guess — you heard this a little bit from him today talking about how Ukrainians are giving up their lives, so the money — I guess, is there anything that the White House is doing to address the concern from some Americans that this is an awful lot of money going to a foreign country when we have domestic needs at home?
MS. PSAKI: Well, I would say that we’ve also seen an incredibly heart- — heartfelt outpouring of support from the American people for the efforts of the United States to lead in standing up to Russian aggression and to stand up in favor and support of the Ukrainians.
You know, to the President, this is about American leadership in the world. It’s also about standing up for democracy versus autocracy. It’s about standing up against one foreign country invading another foreign country. And, you know, it’s about American leadership in the world.
So, we will continue to articulate that and make that clear. And that is part of the reason why the President also detailed in specificity today what all of this would go to. I mean, some of it — a great deal of it is, of course, to military assistance to fight this war, but there is funding in there, as he noted this morning, for food security and ensuring that we are addressing any food shortages around the world. There is assistance that is going into humanitarian assistance and helping the outflow of refugees. And so, it was important to him personally to lay out the specifics in his remarks this morning.
At 42:15 of the video, Psaki is asked directly why should the U.S. taxpayer be stuck paying for the pensions of Ukraine politicians? Psaki responds by saying ‘that’s who we are.” WATCH (prompted)
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Q — to follow up on the issue of, you know, Americans being concerned about the amount of money being sent out to Ukraine: One of the things that the President outlined today in his speech was not just humanitarian assistance, but also allow pensions and social support to be paid to the Ukrainian people.
So, what would you say to the American public who says, “Okay, it’s one thing to help Ukrainian refugees with food and shelter, but why should we be paying for their pensions?”
MS. PSAKI: Well, look, I would say that we have provided a range of economic assistance, because we know that their economy has been devastated — not of their doing, because they were invaded by a foreign country.
Q But how is that —
MS. PSAKI: And they’re going — let me — let me finish. And they are going to need assistance in order to recover. We provide assistance — economic and humanitarian assistance — to a range of countries around the world because that’s part of American leadership. And so, I would say that’s the reasoning for this assistance being proposed in the package.
She is a smarmy piece of work.
Can’t watch her anymore, BP goes up to the upper stratosphere
As ginger kids go she is exceptionally repulsive.
Jacques Baud Jacques Baud is a former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries. He was involved in discussions with the highest Russian military and intelligence officials just after the fall of the USSR. Within NATO, he followed the 2014 Ukrainian crisis and later participated in programs to assist the Ukraine.–Taken from https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/
Part One: The Road To War https://www.thepostil.com/the-military-situation-in-the-ukraine/
Thank you for that; I’ll give it a read later this morning.
Whatever it takes; for the Obama/Biden cabal to destroy America, any way possible.
When does Kongress do ANYTHING about this travesty unfolding in Washington DC? Ever?
I wrote to my 2 senators and my rep yesterday, expressing my extreme disapproval for allowing OUR money to go to Ukraine military, etc.. I asked them to stand up against this.
Today I wrote to my rep again, after receiving an email fundraising letter.
Not a response so far from any of the three.
Two are Republicans, one is a Democrat.
Why do we have a Congress?!
Mark Twin told us about congress
Biden is just the tool, to carry out CONgresses work, and really Congress is 4 people/positions (Majority and Minority leaders of both Houses); the rest are just proxies for those four.
And those four, working in concert, have FAR more power, than any POTUS.
Basic game theory; WHY would they compete, diluting their power, when they can aquire SO MUCH MORE power, by working together?
Next week we’ll pay for all of the student loan debt in Ukraine.
I hate to say this but West Point used to teach that for the military leaders, in their thinking/strategizing, taught one must define the victory, “the least that one is willing to accept”. Psaki can go suck an egg.
So we are paying child support and alimony to our “friends”?
Oh, hey, is she wearing a hair piece or wig? Where her part ends looks funky!
We don’t have academic standards anymore because they are racist and help people understand things like statistics.
Well, how else do you expect to get rid of the America middle-class? Geesh, they’re doing the best they can!
I’m sorry but the government has gone totally rogue.
It has come to enter the various government buildings in Washington and drag every f-ing one of them out by their ears into the street, arrest them publicly to shame them, throw them in the DC Gulag while releasing the current J6 violators to make space, and charge them all with treason and other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Let God sort is all out.
I have greater faith in smith and wesson sorting things out!
Starting at the county and working our way up.
Maybe the Ruskies will nuke Washington DC.
This fascist corrupt inept regime is telling us screw you! We will spend your money any way we see fit and there’s nothing you can do about it! FJB!!
They will just print more. FJB
I am about used up on these pieces of crap telling me “that is who we are”.
I never thought I would come to know what it feels like to live under communism. I got the first taste when Governor Jay Inslee made himself king. Now Brandon. There have always been issues with politicians not listening well or not representing us quite as we would like. But to be utterly and completely disregarded, used and abused– And if that were not enough – experiencing the feel of the boot grinding down on our neck with no relief in sight. If not for God, it would feel hopeless. The degree of evil is astonishing.
These people have gone completely off the rails.
Here’s a long thread w/ details on what the Dem House passed today without one R vote. Call your R senators and hold their feet to the fire re. this BS.
Roll Call:
YEA: 220> all Democrats
NAY : 205 > all Repubs.
A couple years ago according to DC, spending 4 billion for a wall to defend our own border from invasion was way too expensive.
Now according to DC, spending MULTIPLES MORE than that to defend one corrupt foreign country’s border from another corrupt foreign country’s invasion is not too expensive?
I think those in DC need to reread their job descriptions.
The Democrats are finished! There is no way they survive!
People are all over Walmart today. Their canned chicken went up 77% over a period of just 3 hours!
After that vote today, they’re losing all the Prog. voters. They ALL voted “YEA” !
Bunch of Warmongers.
“Their canned chicken went up 77%”
Chicken breasts, chicken broth, chicken livers and Chicken Little are all indications that the world will end soon.
“the scale of this hubris is blood boiling…” The blood of rational Americans must have been boiling for some time.
“Cold anger” tactics don’t seem to be working anymore. They aren’t effective against genuine raving lunatics like the present Biden admin. that support the non stop printing of trillions of U.S. dollars, encourage the illegal immigration of millions of unknown aliens, plan on spending multi billions of dollars to support EU countries and Ukraine and so on.
In a similar way to the corrupt COVID enrichment scheme, every one of the other destructive but well planned profitable scams devised by this pernicious admin. greatly benefit select groups of wealthy corrupt recipients but seriously impoverish so called “ordinary” hard working Americans and threaten the entire nation.
Just like Satan, these criminals know they have a limited time to do as much damage as possible.
I hate Tokyo Raggedy Ann.
Blood boiling doesn’t even come close to the white hot rage I am feeling these days.
#FJB
Ditto, ditto, ditto.
I can’t get gas or groceries without ‘livid’ tagging along. I express my anger outloud as I shop throughout stores.
This is outrageous, and no one listens to ‘We The People.’ I am appalled that there are any dem voters whatsoever who find anything acceptable in this administration.
Unfortunately, they print votes just like they print money. And it’s called disinformation if you dare talk about it.
Neither advocacy nor fighting is an accomplishment. Stop trying to do anything for a while, please! Do not confuse words and unfulfilled plans for success.
They going to print this 33 billion out again?
Why is this whenever Progressives say donate, they always mean “I shouldn’t be the only one to donate, so I’ll FORCE EVERYONE TO PAY!”
It’s just like the JAB, instead of letting people decide if they want basically a “seasonal (now quarterly and soon to be monthly) Flu shot”, they decide to remove everyone’s agency and ram it down your throat so THEY can feel better about it.
You are now un-American if you don’t provide monies your kids and grandkids repay to Ukraine.
And no talk of cease fire, de-escalation, negotiation?
We are supporting Ukraine more than we have our own.
It’s not about Ukraine.
“And no talk of cease fire, de-escalation, negotiation?”
I like Reagan’s approach: We win; they lose.
Russia will have to suffer such a stinging defeat that Putin will never again advance against Europe.
By ‘we’, you mean Ukraine?
“Well, that’s for the Ukrainians to define.”
What is “is”?
We have been down this road before. There was no accountability then but there needs to be some now.
It’s blackmail money. FJB
No doubt about it!
Hey joe!
YOU broke it!
YOU pay for it!
With YOUR money!
I suspect that is what the countries of Europe are saying to Joe.
They didn’t support the maiden revolution/State dept sponsored Coup, in 2014.
And now, they aren’t giving much to Ukraine, and behind closed doors are demanding the U.S. pay THEM, for the refugee assistance costs they are incurring.
Despite the B.S. about “our allies” reality is this is a U.S. ‘operation’ ALL the way.
The Euro-weenies will not support any military action v Russia …ever.
Putin knows this.
It’s gonna be interesting if he invades a NATO state (but he won’t…under any circumstances).
How is Eastern shit hole Europe ever going to convince US boys to die for it?
No more US dead for ethnics….sorry George.
I’m missing something:
Whose war is this?
Did the Ukrainian people or even its managerial / political class want this war?
Did the average or even upper average Russian want this war?
Now that it’s on, some people who are neither of the above seem to like it very much.
It’s disheartening how she confuses the term “American Leadership” with “World Sugar daddy”.
D0 you think,” Just Maybe we the People” says, No, we are not going to give you our money !!!! We need to send that message to the” big guy”and to the ones who are pulling the strings.
So, according to raggedy anne, we are giving Ukraine $33 Billion, to “strengthen their hand” in negotiations, that ARE NOT taking place now, but MAY take place, at some indeterminate future? WTF!
Makes it clear, the “strategy” such as it is, is NOT to WIN, its to put Ukraine in a “better position” to negotiate a surrender.
And pretell, how many OTHER countries are there, where the U.S. taxpayer is funding this other countries pension obligations, and how much $ are we talking, here?
Only positive is it does seem like the WH press corp is STARTING to push psaki, just a little. Can’t push too hard, or they risk losing their WH pass,..
“Seriously, the scale of this hubris is blood boiling. First, they cannot tell us what success consists of, but give us money anyway.”
Republicans?
They are all worthless who do not step up and stop this.
This is their idea of being inclusive, they shut down a decades long war in Afghanistan just to start a new one that could last just as long in Ukraine, but this time it’s white vs white, equity, but at the same time keeps the military industrial complex sustained with more “work”
They just need more funds to “redirect” so they can continue to pay for the invasion.(it ain’t cheap!)
Like when they “redirected” money from HHS, the covid relief bill, the budgets for the DOD and the V. A, the infrastructure bill, DHS, TSA, and on and on,
they spend our money to fund the invasion no matter what we’re TOLD it will be spent on.
No one wants to vote for funding the invasion so they vote for “Noble and just” sounding things they can “redirect” later.
The 7 billion per month Zelensky, and his Prime Minister demanded, was to meet their payroll, and funding of their war. We read it right here. Meanwhile, the Ukraine and Azov battalions are using Ukrainian civilians as human shields, and an apartment building as their frontline. Maybe the Russian soldiers will rescue the civilians.
There is no US interest in the Russian conflict with Ukraine, and Putin and the Russian military are not the monsters being portrayed.
What IS being seen is a massive propaganda theater. Nothing coming from this administration is accurate and no one from it is being truthful about anything. The US has no business supplying either side with any military material, information, or support of any kind except humanitarian.
There is a long history of emotionally spiked punch served by politicians, and it always results in regret the morning after. It is time we all took inventory of what we react to and why, and realize our reflexes are being used against us. Again.
This. 100%!
For our rulers, the petrodollar reserve currency is Too Big To Fail.
We will be enslaved as necessary to see that it doesn’t fail.
We are ruled by a Uniparty. For those still desperately clinging to their precious little Rs, it is time you recognized this. They have abandoned the Constitution, and are stealing our liberty. We are abandoning our legacy.
Martin Armstrong on Ukraine:
Minister of Climate and Environment, Anna Moskwa clearly has zero comprehension of geopolitics. She has come out and said that the European Union should penalize countries that use roubles to pay for Russian gas. In response to Moscow’s decision to cut off supplies to Poland and Bulgaria over their refusal to do so. Moskwa has come out and said: “Poland holds necessary gas reserves and sources of supply which protect our security because for years we have been becoming effectively independent of Russia. Our storage facilities are full at 76%. Polish households will not run short of gas.” This is what she said during a press conference held on April 26th, 2022 at the Ministry of Climate and Environment.
The absurdity of her statements is beyond belief. To think that refusing to buy Russian energy will bring Putin to his knees pleading for mercy is just absurd. She makes no criticism of Ukraine and its notorious corruption of the fact that it is being reported that Zelensky has stashed over $800 million in offshore accounts while demanding $7 billion per month in aid. Even the IMF cut off Ukraine because it is so corrupt. You cannot do business in Ukraine – period! There is NOTHING that Zelensky says which can be verified independently and he will say whatever to keep the money pouring in.
Ukrainian corruption has been a systemic problem that the IMF has been complaining about since 2016. I am warning people that the corruption in Ukraine is off the charts. Reliable sources have warned that you have to pay bribes and if you pay the wrong people, you and your family are still beaten because there is a wholesale level of corruption by many groups.
Ukraine has long been a place you do not do business for you really have to count your fingers just shaking hands. Even the Ukraine press warns that reforms are always blocked. Even Ukraine’s former governor Valeria Gontareva of its central bank has come out and told the International Monetary Fund must act decisively to protect the independence of Ukraine’s central bank against Zelensky.
Nevertheless, at the same time, Poland is constructing a wall to keep the Ukrainians out for what they are not telling people is the truth. Meanwhile, sources in Poland are reporting to me that the Ukrainian refugees are complaining they are not being given more money. Some claim they got more in Ukraine and are returning. As always, nothing appears to be as the headlines present it.
The statements of Anna Moskwa are in and of themselves just absurd. She has adopted the narrative of the Neocons who want war and the net result of her statements is supporting the division of the world economy pushing us ever closer to World War III which may begin in 2023. Poland’s reserves will NOT last forever.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2022/04/29/poland-pushing-the-world-toward-world-war-iii/#more-267503
The correct answer should have been “Because Biden and his son and many more politicians have been getting millions from Ukraine and we do not want the American people to find out how corrupt we all are.”
Great. ANOTHER undefined mission!
Let’s ask the Zelensky opposition what they think? Oh wait? You Can’t!
Isn’t there supposed to be a vote in Congress on sending the money? Talk about getting screwed without being taken to dinner first.
These payments to Ukraine are also voted upon and approved by a republican senate.
We’re forever putting hyper focus on Joe being the bad man while ignoring the fact that Republicans are always working in the back ground to tow the same line.
There is no benevolence or difference to government… No one is on your side.
She’s contemptible.
This area of the world has been a roiling mess since time began. Zelensky is running a scam at this point. Not another dime.
Biden’s Chief of Staff Alexandria Ocrazio-Cortex already told us how to handle this, and any other self-inflicted problem this Regime creates: “Just print more money!”
I hate Jobama Xiden and everyone associated with them. Yes, THEM. He is a meat puppet, nothing more. Our republic is dead. It really seems to be boiling down to one solution.
Russia could get away with some of that 33 billion. Let’s see 10% to the big guy and the family, 3.3 billion. Maybe half will get through to Ukraine and the other half getting obliterated by Russia. There will be more payoffs to well standing Ukrainians. That leaves 10 bilion. Of the 10 billion Russia will intercept half which leave you with 5 billion.
Ground Units
Not a lot that Ukrainian soldiers can use. Maybe they are planning a coup instead.
So, we provoke Putin to “invade Ukr” with the bio labs, continuously sending arms, all the while stalling Putin with ongoing negotiations. Zelenko (sic) said he was told Ukr would never become a member of NATO, but to continue talking about it to agitate Putin.
Joe limits US oil production leading to rapid inflation long before the Ukraine “war” begins. Now, rather than come to a sensible arrangement, JOE sanctions Russia and halts purchase of Russian oil and keeps the war going .
This results in Russia cutting off oil to EU nations again heightening inflation; so JOE burdens the US with having to bail out his ‘allies’ w/ another $33 bn. More U.S.inflation will ensue; and who benefits as the dollar falters? China.
And he depletes the Strategic Oil Reserves to replace the supplies that Europe no longer can get from Europe.
IMO we have been gaslighted – lies are truth; truth is lies – about the Russian special military operation against the western Ukrainians.
This “heartfelt outpouring of support” for the nazis that live in western Ukraine and and the hatred and malice toward the Russian nation is real.
We Americans do not have a clue. There are no mainstream media that will tell the real story.
We are supporting a country that most of us cannot find on a map. We are supporting a country filled with people who were on the side of the Nazis in WWII, that currently has as a hero Stepan Banderas, a Ukrainian Nazi – Statues, national holidays, parades.
I think many of us do not know this.
A lot of big guys are getting a lot of ten percents this morning!
I suspect the Ukraine issue is already dying in this country, after only 2 months. It’s hard for Americans to stay galvanized by European affairs, and there obviously hasn’t been any payoff to us from this Ukraine business. Besides, we have our own problems to worry about.
Biden can’t define “payoff”. Neither can anybody else, probably because there isn’t one.