According to those in political circles who are instructed by the intelligence community, funding for Ukraine is the highest national priority. As an outcome we see all the DC politicians and beltway pundits pushing the same story, funding for Ukraine is the highest priority.
The key politicians within the dynamic exist inside information silos, essentially control mechanisms, where the intelligence community (IC) constructs reality by briefing the politicians about what is going on in the world. The IC tells the politicians what is happening, defines the importance and instructs the politicians on the priorities. The IC is never challenged because ultimately the IC has “seven ways to Sunday” to target the politicians if any non-compliance is identified.
Speaker Mike Johnson is one of the “gang-of-eight” members within the legislative branch. The Go8 are briefed and controlled by the IC, using the exact same intelligence given to the President. Speaker Johnson has the funding of Ukraine as his top priority, because the IC officials who set priorities have told him it must be. WATCH (prompted):
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(Via Fox News) – […] “When we return after this period, we’ll be moving a product. But it’s going to, I think, have some important innovations,” Johnson told Fox News’ “Sunday Night in America with Trey Gowdy.”
Both the House and Senate are currently on the second week of a two-week recess, when lawmakers are working in their home districts. The House is back on Tuesday, April 9.
Johnson said he has been “working to build consensus” on a supplemental national security and foreign aid package, though he signaled it would look different from prior attempts. He said the House would “be moving it right after the district work period.”
It comes after Republicans killed a $118 billion package with aid for Ukraine, Taiwan, Israel and the U.S. border earlier this year, arguing it did not go far enough to tackle the ongoing border crisis. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and President Biden have been pressuring Johnson to take up a slimmer $95 billion package without border measures.
“We’ve been trying to use that as the only leverage we have to force change on the border. We’re still trying to force the president to use his executive authority, and most of the American people know that he has that authority. He’s not using it,” Johnson argued.
On Ukraine specifically, he said, “There’s a lot of things that we should do that make more sense and I think we’ll have consensus around.”
Johnson highlighted three details specifically – the first being the REPO Act introduced in the House last year by Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, which would liquidate seized Russian assets and send that as assistance to Ukraine.
The speaker also pointed out that former President Trump recently floated the idea of aid to Ukraine in the form of a loan, though he did not mention specific terms save for Kyiv paying Washington back if they win the war against Russia.
[…] Johnson described the third proposal, “And then, you know, we want to unleash American energy. We want to have natural gas exports that will help unfund Vladimir Putin’s war effort there.” (read more)
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Latest US POLLING – […] “poll shows that two years after Russia’s initial invasion, the Ukraine war has become a partisan dividing line: Majorities of Democrats think it’s extremely or very important to prevent Russia from seizing more Ukrainian territory, to negotiate a permanent ceasefire between the two countries, help Ukraine regain its land and provide general aid to its military, while less than half of Republicans and Independents agree.” (read more)
And while tax payers in the US are scraping to find the money to pay their taxes for Congress to send to Ukraine, Volodomir Zelensky has supposedly bought a $20 million former residence of King Charles from him back in February or March.
https://londoncrier.co.uk/2024/04/zelenskyy-acquires-highgrove-house-former-residence-of-king-charles-for-20million
Per the article.
“The war in Ukraine has been close to the King’s heart. It may explain the nature of an unusual sale of the King’s property to Volodymyr Zelensky – whom Charles III probably sees as a defender of democracy.”
Ukraine hasn’t been a democracy since 2014.
And now it officially has a de facto dictator as its ruler.
All together now… Heil Zelensky!
Is that the comedians 4th or 5th multi-million dollar estate ??!!!
He will need more money for the interior, so I am with Johnson.
The people see nothing. All kickbacks to US politicians and Government in the Ukraine
I did some research on this claim, it is not true.
Americans are suffering and the top priority in the cesspool is what?
You cannot make this stuff up
The corruption and pure evil increases with each day.
Johnson is an idiot…giving Ukraine the Russian money will be the final name in the US debt coffin. It’s $300 BILLION. Trey Goudy is a RINO.
Why is he an idiot?
You are under funny assumption that he cares about the country.
Let’s see how much money he will make in 2024.
Probably got something on one of Johnsons kids or he himself
Johnson is creepy.
Johnson seems a complete fool. Does not care about us at all and says he’s some great Christian. His ears are shut to the voices of God and the people IMHO. Perhaps the IC is blackmailing him is the only excuse I could give him.
He is just the latest bullshitter in a long line of bullshitters.
Johnson seems to think that Americans hate Putin and Russia. We don’t! We see that this is just another huge money laundering scheme by the War Party to steal our money! Russians are just victims of the scam like we are!
I am reminded by Johnson’s “thinking” these days, that he also like Zelinsky, knows how to play the piano with a digit that shall not be named. I’m so sick of this s–t.
Misinformed maybe.
We don’t have hypersonic missiles like the Kinzhals.
We’ve already lost at least 9 of the 31 Abrams tanks sent to Ukraine.
Bradley fighting vehicles get destroyed regularly.
Both sides have plenty of drones- no edge there.
The Ukes have no air cover left in many cases.
The last 9 months have been slow Russian victory after victory in the east.
NATO is resorting to terrorism to hide failing battlefield support.
Let those 4 voting provinces go to Russia, forget about Crimea, and save Odessa.
Absolutely correct on all points. Russia wants to de militarized ukriane not gain territory. People in the u.s. don’t get it because they never hear the real facts. Johnson is another moron in the swamp.
All those fake faces he made during the SOTU address gave me the creeps
The oligarchs of the defense industry (your real rulers) have spoken
And have since World War 2 when they realized there is a LOT of money to be made from war and propaganda works
Visit sibrel.com and prove him wrong by the way (you won’t)
What a wimpy, useless turd of a gelding this surrender monkey is. A real Christian man would stand up for principles of peace, life, responsibility as a steward of God’s creation. Profiting off the UKR v RUS human meat grinder is Satan’s work. Not to mention the blatant theft from USA citizens.
Dear God
What about the freaking WALL Johnson?
What about 20 million illegals
You are such a traitor!
Is it innapropriate to suggest Hodkinson’s aim may have been poor, but his targeting was spot on?
By now, 50 MILLION! 😡
Johnson: It’s Russia, Russia, Russia! We need to fight them there so we don’t have to fight somebody else…someplace else.
Johnson is Boehner 4.0.
Johnson is an Evangelical Zionist ushering in the Apocalypse with your tax dollars.
He hasn’t learned that the Zionists are laughing at the Evangelical Cattle by now?
Time for us not to pay federal taxes anymore!!!
these insane maniacs are going to get us all incinerated
Can a worm be a Christian? NO. End of discussion. Handwriting meet wall. What were we expecting after Johnson nodded and clapped his hands when Biden talked about further support for Ukraine at the SOTU?
The DC bubble is very very sick unto death.
Evidently Johnson knows his position is secure for the very reasons put forward by Gaetz. I am very disappointed in Johnson and unlike some I’m not the kind of person who needs to be disappointed beforehand. I wanted to wait and see how he handled the job. I can’t help thinking he’s also a phony Christian, like Pence. Christians I know are able to discern right from wrong when presented with truthful information.
I literally despise this flaccid, pathetic excuse for a Speaker- or a man, for that matter.
Definition of Insanity…..
Ukraine has already lost…
The Politico piece today:
According to high-ranking Ukrainian military officers who served under General Valery Zaluzhny — the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces until he was replaced in February — the military picture is grim.
The officers said there’s a great risk of the front lines collapsing wherever Russian generals decide to focus their offensive. Moreover, thanks to a much greater weight in numbers and the guided aerial bombs that have been smashing Ukrainian positions for weeks now, Russia will likely be able to “penetrate the front line and to crash it in some parts,” they said.
They spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely.
“There’s nothing that can help Ukraine now because there are no serious technologies able to compensate Ukraine for the large mass of troops Russia is likely to hurl at us. We don’t have those technologies, and the West doesn’t have them as well in sufficient numbers,” one of the top-ranking military sources told POLITICO.
Read the highlighted parts very carefully, particularly the last paragraph. High-ranking military officers secretly told Politico under anonymity that: “There’s nothing that can help Ukraine…the West doesn’t have the technologies in sufficient numbers.”
This comes back precisely to my point above about the big glamorized $60B “salvation” fund.
Read my lips, it’s quite simple: Ukraine has literally no chance whatsoever to do anything militarily in this war anymore. Ukraine and Zelensky’s only shot at survival is to push Russia into a confrontation with NATO. They are desperately attempting to do this each day by launching mass terror attacks all over Russia.
What he’s saying is that, even if the $60B were to pass, U.S. has little of actual value to send to Ukraine beyond small arms munitions and things of that nature. There are no more surplus Bradleys left, and none can be built as the factory closed down decades ago.
Yet Ukraine hinges their entire future on this mythologized support as if it’s some kind of instant videogame-like upgrade, a “power-up” that will immediately re-energize and supercharge the AFU—this is simply not the case.
As I said before, he knows he can’t even put a dent in Russia’s military so he has to go “all in” on hybrid terror warfare in order to cause Russia to lose its footing, over-react in some uncharacteristic way that can draw NATO into the conflict. This is why it’s best for Russia to continue ignoring these attacks while methodically prosecuting the battlefield operation. And by the way, in his new address, Shoigu stated that since the Crocus Mall massacre, 16,000 new Russian recruits signed up the very next day to enlist in the army. That’s on top of the normal 30k now enlisting monthly, making a total of over 100k so far for 2024.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-4324-zelensky-steps-closer?publication_id=1351274&post_id=143244990&isFreemail=true&r=24laf6&triedRedirect=true
But Zelenskiy won