This is not mincing words: Stupid is as stupid does. The MAGA House claiming dead on arrival the national security bill the Senate is sending you makes America not great again, but weak again. You deserve to be branded as MAKE AMERICA WEAK AGAIN.
On NATO and Trump's long-time plans to kill the alliance and let Russia do the hell they want with NATO allies: two most historically consequential stupid quotes: Neville Chamberlain on Nazi annexation of Sudetenland:: "Peace in our time" and gave the green light for Hitler to begin World War II. Trump: Let Russia do the hell they want with NATO allies. Belly up to an aggressor only whets their appetite.
date 2/( 23/2024) Plan B: Should Speaker Johnson beat down a movement to force him to bring Ukraine aid to the floor, because he knows he would lose, if that fails, there may be a plan B to support Ukraine. While this concept was applied to post-Ukraine, assuming it survives this conflict, I wonder if it could be applied to funding military aid. Use of Russian treasure held in Western banks could be tapped. Post-conflict reconstruction was discussed recently by Fareed Zakaria on CNN. Western Nations holding Russian funds should freeze them and set up a reconstruction fund for Ukraine, not only funding Ukrainians from Russian money but also providing a reconstruction fund kept out of the hands of Russia. I am not sure of the legality of this but after I wrote this, I heard the former ambassador to Russia on MSNBC suggest this. He carries enormous weight. We will know the week of Feb. 25 when the House returns to work. and the discharge petition forces Mike Johnson to bring to a vote. Update Feb 25.: on MSNBC review I heard an interview I missed .. Rep Jim Hines believes that will be the ultimate solution. The only question is whether to take the interest of the 300 billion Western banks have in Russia or the principle. If the bulk of it is in Swiss banks, that will be a difficult job, but for the first time in history, the Swiss have been supporting one of the combatants, Ukraine and NATO, instead of being neutral.
https://www.eda.admin.ch/deza/en/home/countries/ukraine.html#:~:text=Switzerland%20supports%20Ukraine%20on%20its,democracy%20and%20strengthen%20local%20governance.
Update: 2/12/2024 https..2/16/2024 /www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfVQcMM1fK4 Trump confirms again and even suggests it is OK if Russia attacks our NATO allies if they do not pay up their share. Same song, off-key verse. Sheer is horrifying and confirming that Trump is an FOP, a friend of Putin, not the US. He sang this in his term in the Whtie House and then forgot Europe had stepped up to the contribution plate. His brain has calcified and his head-nodding followers are a bunch of ignorants, like lemmings following their leader back to 1938. Stupid does when ignorant is. Here is per capita NATO contributions per member per capita per percent of GDP. Trump is hoping anyone hearing him is ignorant enough to swallow this. https://www.google.com/search?q=nato+contributions+by+country+per+capita&rlz=1CAJFMC_enUS1016US1016&oq=nato+contributions+by+country+per&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0i512j0i390i512i650l2.120405415j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Both Congress and Germany have gotten the memos: https://thehill.com/homenews/4360407-congress-approves-bill-barring-president-withdrawing-nato/#:~:text=Congress%20approves%20bill%20barring%20any%20president%20from%20unilaterally%20withdrawing%20from%20NATO,-by%20Laura%20Kelly&text=Congress%20has%20approved%20legislation%20that,or%20an%20Act%20of%20Congress.
The update is that NATO meeting in February, 2024, the average contribution is now 2% and all members are pledged to meet those minimum goals. In addition, the European Union this month pledged $54 bilion to keep the Ukrainian government afloat.
Update: 2/12/2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfVQcMM1fK4 Trump confirms again and even suggests it is OK if Russia attacks our NATO allies if they do not pay up their share. Same song, off-key verse. Sheerly horrifying and confirming that Trump is an FOP, a friend of Putin, not the US. He sang this in his term in the Whtie House and then forgot Europe had stepped up to the contribution plate. His brain has calcified and his head-nodding followers are a bunch of ignorants, like lemmings following their leader back to 1938. Stupid does when ignorant is.
The European Union voted to give $54 billion to Ukraine. Viktor Orban of Hungary came around, too.The money will help Kyiv keep its economy running in 2024 and sustain essential services such as health care, social protection and pensions. https://www.npr.org/2024/02/01/1228316748/eu-ukraine-aid-hungary-orban
The 'AGAIN' in MAGAland, means 1938, back to the failed past. Japan and Germany both looked at America Firsters and the neoNazi momentum in the USA to mean we were too self-centered to want to fight back, so they both looked at our isolationism as a weakness to be exploited, not a strength to admire. Japan saw us asleep at the wheel and sneaked up on Pearl Harbor; Germany counted on the strong pro-Nazi, American First movement to keep us out of the European war. The hard lesson both Japan and Germany learned took over four years and thousands of American lives to teach them.. The lesson America learned was that if you do not take leadership in the world, someone else we lead us. We will dance to their tune. of making Russia great again and China reaching their goals of dominance economically. I would be in favor of the USA deciding its destiny, not Russia and China, but if we fail to keep up with our international obligations and self-interest in this legislation and elect an FOP (friend of Putin), this is what we will become.
Not voting for all four elements makes MAGA look like national security is not in crisis and a hostage to Trump's political strategy to keep the chaos going so only he can fix it if he ever gets in the White House again so he can stop aid to Ukraine and months more of border crisis will be dumped in his lap, having passed the opportunity to accept Biden's acceptance of most of the border hawks wanted. The non-MAGA public is not as naive as Trump thinks and wonders what happened to the "crisis"? The crisis is Trump himself. Trump is leading MAGA down a primrose path of FOP , Friends of Putin, as Putin just sits until Trump gets into office. and hands over world leadership to Putin himself to call the tune to which America must dance. Trump's boasting of his negotiation skills simply plans just to capitulate to their aggressions, making us a loser by choice.
Of course, for Trump it damages his strategy by taking away his main pitch for being president, , anti-immigrants and suppression of "others", dating from birtherism and coming down the golden escalator to save us from brown immigrants who were" murderers and rapists" and the Muslim ban.. Trump had four years to come up with his own solution at the border and failed to do it. If elected again, Democrats can consider any deal "dead on arrival" too,in return, if they control one house of Congress. They had to make the offer at risk to losing the Hispanic vote. In spite of that, Biden handed Trump a victory, and he failed to accept it. Donald Trump Warns Border Bill is 'Death Wish' for Republicans (newsweek.com) Trump could have promoted the deal as giving himself credit because of his dogged efforts. But, no. As usual, it is all about him and his power lust and platform based on hatred of immigrants and "others" that appeals to his like-minded base and not about the country or solving a real crisis.
Ronna McDaniel to decide soon on resigning as Donald Trump's GOP chair (usatoday.com)Ronna McDaniel to decide soon on resigning as Donald Trump's GOP chair (usatoday.com)
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