Summary
The Biden administration has moved to forgive $4.7 billion in U.S. loans to Ukraine as part of a $9.4 billion loan package authorized by Congress in April to support Ukraine’s government during its war with Russia.
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller confirmed the decision, which Congress could still block.
The Senate is set to vote on a disapproval motion introduced by Senator Rand Paul, though bipartisan support for Ukraine remains strong.
President Biden is expediting aid ahead of his term’s end, amid concerns President-elect Trump may restrict future support.
I feel like we’ve seen plenty of historical examples of how this all works by now, from Rumsfeld shaking Hussein’s hand in 1983 when the US was going into debt to fund their war, and then throughout the 90’s when we went further into debt to fund Clinton’s “peacekeeping” actions (which actually were wars) and Bush I’s wars, and then we got lied into war again by Bush II and spent trillions on that, tacking on further wars in Syria and elsewhere, but you all are content to ignore history because your preferred news network tells you to. Going off of history, it’s only a matter of time before we find out we were lied to about Ukraine or the hundreds of billions we were kind enough to take out on credit in order to gift them was largely misused.
And as much as you care about democracy, you don’t have any empathy whatsoever for the people that US Banks and the Pharma industry are at war with, our own citizens.
And yet we keep electing the people that let it happen. You can’t blame capitalism alone. The citizenship is letting it happen. This most recent election is proof.
You should just stick to derby skating.