President Biden recently requested $33 billion of aid for Ukraine in their war against Russia. However, Congress in their infinite wisdom recognized that in his embarrassing, dementia-riddled state he must have meant to say $40 billion, so they went ahead and raised the pot $7 billion.
Apparently, Rand Paul was the only senator willing to stand against the war hawks in their disastrous push to not only reignite the cold war but to actually lead NATO headfirst into a hot war with a nuclear power.
What could possibly go wrong?
The veneer of America’s neutrality in the current conflict is rice-paper thin. If anyone can explain how sending billions of dollars of weapons into a warzone doesn’t classify you as a belligerent, I’m anxiously waiting to hear your justifications.
It is common knowledge outside of our deceptive corporate press that the CIA has been actively training Ukraine’s defense forces since at least the beginning of this war in 2014. Additionally, their sponsored mercenary forces are fighting side by side with the Ukrainian nationalists, including Eric Prince’s Academy (formerly Blackwater), as well as Hayat Tahrir al Sham jihadis (Syrian al Qaeda affiliate al Nusra rebranded).
The risk of this kind of foreign aid is far-more destructive than just its capacity to lead to the deaths of countless innocents. Currently, Americans are facing the highest level of government-induced inflation in 40 years. The prices of gas, food, housing and other consumer goods are rapidly rising.
Regardless what the news is telling you, it wasn’t Vladimir Putin who created trillions of dollars of new money under cover of COVID, diluting the value of the existing money in circulation.
Our irresponsible legislators have already put 30 trillion dollars on the national credit card. As Senator Paul noted, “it’s not as if we have that money lying around. We will have to borrow that money from China to send it to Ukraine.”
The sane and prudent path forward would be to deescalate this conflict through diplomacy in an attempt to curtail unnecessary loss of life and destruction of the productive capacity of the breadbasket of Europe.
However, Russia seems to be the only party interested in negotiations. Our Secretary of State Antony Blinken has stubbornly refused to sit down with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to discuss a peaceful resolution to the war. They last met in December 2021. Ukraine’s actor president Zelenskyy appeared on “60 Minutes” in his campaign for American support, proclaiming that negotiations and diplomacy were a waste of time.
Wars are always instigated by the corporate media and fought for the benefit of bankers and weapons manufacturers. What could possibly be the reason for such unnecessary belligerence when we can least afford it? The dollar is in its last days of reserve currency status. The scam of fractional reserve banking has run its course, and the egregious misallocation of capital is unraveling. The bankers are desperately trying to sow chaos sufficient to justify a reset of their failing system in the form of central bank digital currencies.
Economic sanctions are absolutely an act of war. However, Russia’s economy has only been strengthened by western sanctions, as they have forced the crumbling of the dollar’s hegemony on the world market. In the same way that America’s treatment of Qaddafi in Libya proved as an example to other countries of what happens if you give up your nukes, our sanctions on Russia are driving other countries away from holding dollars for the settling of their international debts. America is an empire in decline, and our foolish politicians just can’t seem to help but to accelerate our demise.
Schatz, Hirono, Kahele and the rest of them don’t care about your family’s well-being and security. They have proven they are willing to jettison whatever righteous principles they claim to hold in order to remain loyal to a corrupt party machine. Their assurances ring hollow while they vote for more deficit-financed money that your children will be held responsible for paying to send it into foreign conflicts that endanger us all with the threat of nuclear war. Remember their traitorous deceptions come November.
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Brady Stewart is a resident of
Kapa‘a.
Mr. Brady Stewart-
Spoken like a true 2022 Republican Trumpist. “Anything the Democratic (and democratically elected) President says or does must be bad”.
You are desperately trying to sow chaos sufficient to justify a reset of the thinking of the general public (and most all of the Federal legislators, both Democratic and Republican) regarding the invasion of a free and independent nation by the aggressive, authoritarian, maniac Vladimir Putin.
You think that the unified Nato countries, including the US, should just roll over and let Putin have his way? The US is not acting under a veneer neutrality in the current conflict. It is standing up to bad-boy bully, along with the vast majority of the rest of the world.
Do I classify myself and those who share my views as belligerent? No, I classify ourselves as determined not to allow Putin to have his way because, if we do, the rest of Eastern Europe and the rest of all of Europe and beyond, are in jeopardy. It is. Vladimir Putin and those around him, and those allied with him, and the oligarchs who support him who are the belligerent ones.
By the way, the dollar is stronger right now than at any time in recent history.
I beseech the electorate to remember the traitorous actions and deceptions of most of the Republican party deceptions come November. Remember the January 6 insurrection at the Capitol, hoping to overturn honest election results. Remember the unwillingness of most Republicans to support meaningful gun control legislation on a nationwide scale. Remember that gun violence in America is the leading cause of death for children in the US. Remember the anti-abortion zealots who want to control women’s bodies yet are unwilling to support the rights and well-being of those children, and their parents, after they are born.
Remember…
kauaiboy as another “kauaiboy” can you just stop embarrassing us all with your comments on TGI? You immediately go with the ad hominem attacks and and managed to contradict yourself repeatedly. You sir, are the one touting the party lines of the Left while you call others Trumpists. Isn’t the whole philosophy of your party platform during Trumps Presidency that orange man bad? Anything he says is a lie? As you waste your time defending the same party that has created the worst education, health care and cost of living in the entire Country? Is there not a better example in our Union that policies of the left lead to deficits and lack of than right here in Hawaii?
The fact that you just stated “By the way, the dollar is stronger right now than at any time in recent history.” is all anyone needs to know about your ability to use discernment in today’s world. You have not taken the time to properly educate yourself and you are completely upside down in your understanding. If the dollar was strong inflation would not be happening. Interest rates would not be going up. Mortgage applications would not be slowing to a crawl. Our fiat petro dollar is on ropes as evidenced by Saudi Arabia now accepting other forms of payment other than the US dollar (because they know it is collapsing) and Brady was spot on in his example of fractional reserve lending being one area that is not sustainable long term.
You still walk around thinking J6 was anything other than a peaceful protest and that the election was “honest”. Have you seen 2000 mules yet? I bet geo tracking is some sort of conspiracy right?
Mr Stewart, in my opinion this is pure Russian propaganda and should be called out as such. Pure crap.
I concur…. luckily we can get away with voicing our opinions no matter how far fetched and unsupported by critical thinking or facts.
Ain’t democracy great????
Russia invaded the Ukraine. Did you forget that fact? If Russia hadn’t chosen to start a war and try to take over an independent country, target civilians, rape and murder innocent people, and bring in their allies as well, you wouldn’t have written this biased letter.
Right on Brady Boy! Let’s move to Russia where you can continue to express your views. We can replace some of the thousands of Russians who are leaving the country as they can’t stand the newfound economic prosperity and freedom of expression! Maybe we can even join the armed forces as Vlad is running out of able bodied troops.
War is hell. Innocent people are dying, and to make matters worse we have civilians from our own country sowing party-biased propaganda. Don’t act like Democrats and Republicans aren’t just different flavors of slop in the pig trough…
Zelensky downplayed US warnings of a Russian invasion.
When the invasion did occur, the US pledged $13 billion in aid.
Will another $40 billion sent to the Ukraine government prevent Russia from ultimately controlling the eastern territory and establishing a land bridge to Crimea? Highly doubtful
When hostilities end, all that money and armament may end up where it doesn’t belong.
Think Afghanistan
What is the Biden administration’s end game in Ukraine
Giving Ukraine money now is just prolonging the misery and death. What are the Ukrainians taking back? Flattened cities. Biden is encouraging Putin by telling him publicly what he will not do.
“By the way, the dollar is stronger right now than at any time in recent history.” Thanks for the laugh kauaiboy! Bumbye you go learn some history maybe and realize what you just said is not even close to being a fact. When you say stuff like this you make everything else you say not so credible to those who have discernment. You make other kauaiboys like me shame everytime I gotta see you repeating exactly what the powers at be want you to. All you do is expose your hypocrisy when you say stuff like in this case “Spoken like a true 2022 Republican Trumpist. “Anything the Democratic (and democratically elected) President says or does must be bad”. But how come when you put the shoe on the other foot you was saying the same thing about anything a republic says or does must be bad?