• NovaPrime@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        If the President can go around Congress on Israel, he can do it for Ukraine if he wanted to.

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          2 years ago

          Not necessarily. Israel has a lot of special carveouts built into US law specifically for it. For example, they’re the only country that can spend US military aid money on their own suppliers.

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          2 years ago

          Republicans are actively blocking any funding for Ukraine. Meanwhile funding for Israel is passing through the house easily. It is literally their fault.

          Stop being a dipshit.

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            Republicans are actively blocking any funding for Ukraine.

            I don’t even think this is strictly true. Republicans simply don’t have a majority to pass a budget of any kind, and no one in the party is willing to compromise with the Democrats to pass a bipartisan bill. Even when the GOP has all three branches, they struggled to pass anything. They’re just bad at legislating.

            Ukraine is collateral damage.

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              2 years ago

              That’s the trick of the GOP… literally all they do is obstruct and destroy any sort of progress the Democrats do end up making lol.

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      2 years ago

      Ukraine produces 25% of europes food and 70% of the world industrial neon, which is needed for chip production. A famine in europe and giving control over chip production for the next 5 years to russia and china is a lot worse than losing our middle east stronghold.