President Joe Biden pleaded with Republicans on Wednesday for a fresh infusion of military aid for Ukraine, warning that a victory for Russia over Ukraine would leave Moscow in position to attack NATO allies and could draw U.S. troops into a war.

President Joe Biden pleaded with Republicans on Wednesday for a fresh infusion of military aid for Ukraine, warning that a victory for Russia over Ukraine would leave Moscow in position to attack NATO allies and could draw U.S. troops into a war.

Biden spoke as the United States planned to announce $175 million in additional Ukraine aid from its dwindling supply of money for Kyiv. He signaled a willingness to make significant changes to U.S. migration policy along the border with Mexico to try to draw Republican support.

“If Putin takes Ukraine, he won’t stop there,” Biden said. Putin will attack a NATO ally, he predicted, and then “we’ll have something that we don’t seek and that we don’t have today: American troops fighting Russian troops,” Biden said.

“We can’t let Putin win,” he said, prompting an angry reaction from Moscow.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    11 months ago

    A goddamn disgrace AND they’re hurting America in the long-term. If America can’t even back up Ukraine in delivering them aid, literally a drop in the bucket compared to how much we spend on our own military, what the hell are we good for anymore? American foreign policy is so dysfunctional and schizophrenic, we’re absolutely unreliable thanks to these dumb Republicans doing the bidding of Putin. We’re getting the best return on our investment in helping the Ukrainians compared to most of the Cold War era spending on our own military. We could spend 20 years throwing money into the trash trying to help Afghanistan and yet somehow only 2 years of fighting in Ukraine is too much?

    • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.worldEnglish
      263·
      11 months ago

      we’re absolutely unreliable

      You’ve always been unreliable allies. You entered WWI & II only after the wars were starting to be won. You’re closest allies (UK) fought the Battle of Britain and suffered the Blitz while your congress sat on it’s arse proclaiming neutrality and isolationism.

      There’s nothing unusual about this and the people of Europe know this. The Western Betrayal in Poland. France leaving NATO becaus eit didn’t trust the US nuclear umbrella.

      You’re Congress has always been a bunch of self-serving cowards. You’re people were supportive of Hitler in the early days of Nazism. Same shit, different Century.

      • Asafum@feddit.nlEnglish
        131·
        11 months ago

        I wish we would outlaw propaganda in public schools, we’re brainwashed to believe we’re The Best Country In The World™ and that we always Save The Day.™ That somehow we’re always the Good Guys and never do anything selfishly.

        Then you get out of highschool and if you’re “unfortunate” enough to learn about our actual history, and the actual reasoning we get involved in xyz, it completely shatters your image of the country you live in and work for.

        I may love my neighbors, my family, my friends, I love people, but God do I hate the American government mostly because I hate the obsessive wealth hoarding greedy assholes the infest the government for their own benefit and to every one else’s detriment.