I Think Rand Paul Took An Oath To Act Like He's From Mars!

[LordBrownTrout]

We shouldn't be giving Ukraine 40 billion dollars.

 

[Flash]

This past week Senator Rand Paul blocked passage of the $40 billion aid package for Ukraine. How incredibly irresponsible and demonstrative of unwise leadership for the nation by this Senator at this time. Senator Paul provided for his reasons for this obstructionism that his oath of office isn't to any foreign nation but rather to the U.S. Constitution he tries to imply that the appropriation is excessive and unnecessary he wraps the U.S. flag around himself and says his oath of office is to the national security of the United States. Well based on your own standards Senator Paul you are a big fat failure because this appropriation couldn't be more vital to America's national security interests; by intention and goal Vladimir Putin is a one-hundred percent risk of pulling America into a war with Russia and it will be a major war with a shocking number of deaths granted it is not this step of Putin's plan but it is definitely a future step. Putin has made it quite clear that his goal is to reconstitute the old Soviet Union which means Russia conquering Poland and Germany an invasion of either country would trigger America entering into a war with Russia because of NATO treaty obligations. From 2008 to 2013 the Pentagon estimate of the cost to send and maintain a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan was $1.3 million per year, over the next decade the cost to send and maintain a U.S. soldier in a war in Europe would probably be at least approximately $2 million dollars a year and if you figure that if America fights a NATO war with Putin it is going to have to send at least 150,000 troops so you're talking $300 billion dollars a year just to maintain the force level in the war now when you pivot to the cost of the ammunition used and the cost to replace the weapons systems destroyed in the war you are talking trillions, plural, of dollars price tag for such a war. An expenditure of $100 to $150 billion to win the Ukrainian war and avoid the bigger war sounds like a bargain if you're in to using your brain!

This Ukrainian War holds the potential for mind boggling consequences for America from the standpoint of a future War with Russia. If the Ukrainian people lose this war that means Putin gets control of all Ukrainian agricultural wealth which the world needs, specifically the Middle East and Africa cannot live without, plus Ukrainian's mineral wealth which is sizable that means that Putin considering also Russia's noteworthy agricultural and mineral wealth will have the wherewithal to rebuild the Russian Army to the level that could competitively conquer Eastern Europe; of course, no one can say for sure whether it would succeed because it depends how well NATO fights. But also crucially important to consider is that this Russian Army will be ten times more effective than the one we see today and the one we see today can lay waste to wide swaths of territory at will. This point is so important the Russian Army learns from their mistakes in the Syrian War Russian pilots initially sucked at conducting bombing runs but over time they became quite good. In this war, the Russian army sucked at coordinating its forces on offensives specifically around Kyiv but in the later Battle of the Donbas specifically around Izyum the Russian Army has dramatically improved their coordination amongst units on offensives. One would have to be an incompetent military expert not to identify all the shortcomings of the Russian military during this War and again you can be assured that Vladimir Putin will have these failures remedied for the next war. The list would include the Russians relied on rail infrastructure for logistics that is too maintain supply lines instead of truck capacity; their coordination between different types of units on offensives is weak, their battlefield communications ability is unreliable, they don't have a non-commissioned officer corps which prevents them from having front line units having the leadership to take initiative to accomplish battlefield goals, they use conscripts as opposed to professional soldiers as front line combat soldiers who are ineffective, the Russian military industrial complex is not self reliant they rely on imports which during a war your enemies can shut down such supply chains, etc..

On the other hand if the Ukrainian people win this war not only will the Kremlin miss out on an enormous amount of wealth to rebuild its Army. The Ukrainian people are going to make it their top priority to build a military and security apparatus to stop any future invasion of their country by the Russian Army, they will have the wealth to do so and most importantly they will have the allies to sell them the weapons and technology to accomplish this goal. The Ukrainian people have seen a monster in Vladimir Putin, a being that has no conscience no scruples about taking innocent peoples lives to accomplish a political or strategic goal so one can be assured that the Ukrainian people will make an outstanding effort to stop this Russian monster from significantly hurting their nation again. The stakes could not be bigger for the Free World (which includes the United States Senator Paul) and its welfare and well being in the Ukrainian/Russian war and its outcome.

Senator Rand Paul is not the only leader in our nation whose behavior is wrong and shameful about aiding Ukraine. Republican Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee thinks just like Senator Paul, he was on Maria Bartiromo show today saying he is going to vote "no" on the bill saying we have so many other problems as a country we need to be focusing on; he ignored the national security ramifications of this Ukrainian conflict for the United States acting like a real partisan opportunist. I bet you if the Republicans take control of Congress this November and then want to dramatically increase the defense budget his vote will be a big "yes" he will be clamoring about the security needs of America makes such spending necessary. This opportunism isn't only limited to politicians, right-wing talk radio host Mike Gallagher exhibited the same deplorable behavior! This past Friday on his show he is singing the praises to the optimum degree for Senator Rand Paul and his opposition to the Ukraine aid bill. Gallagher continually hammered on this problem and that problem in the nation the Democrats aren't addressing but he completely ignored the national security ramifications for America if the Ukrainian people lose this war. This is par for the course for a lot of these right wing radio hosts they don't responsibly discuss issues they just wind people up, foment public discontent and anger with their comments the majority of the time not caring about the rightful merits and morality of what they are saying. Then these right wing hosts become taken back and want to wash their hands of any culpability when their listeners call in and advocate taking the government back by force saying things like we should grab our guns and go out onto the street and rectify things. When will you guys ever learn when you talk like irresponsible citizens and ignoramuses on the radio you cause some of your listeners to follow you and act like you, then the country ends up with a mess!

There are some shitty things in the bill beyond military aid to Ukraine. Typical Democrat raiding of the treasury, including unaccountable slush funds.

 

[Smokin' OP]

This is a different beast. His diatribes against the NYC first responders was the lowest of the low. That's the thing I associate most with him. Looking those people in the eye and saying "well.....

December 13 2021
After a string of tornadoes decimated large swaths of Kentucky, Rand Paul leaped into action.

"As the sun comes up this morning we will begin to understand the true scope of the devastation, but we already know of loss of life and severe property damage," the Kentucky Republican Senator wrote to President Joe Biden.
"The Governor of the Commonwealth has requested federal assistance this morning, and certainly further requests will be coming as the situation is assessed. I fully support those requests and ask that you move expeditiously to approve the appropriate resources for our state."

Which makes sense. Disaster relief is a place where the federal government can make a real difference -- particularly in the early stages of the aftermath as residents (and even state government) may be struggling to get back on its feet.

The problem? Well, Paul has made something of a career out of opposing disaster relief in places other than Kentucky.

In 2013, he opposed a disaster relief measure for the Northeast following the devastation caused by Superstorm Sandy. "I would have given them 9 billion and I would've taken the 9 billion from somewhere else," Paul explained at the time, citing the price tag for the measure. "I would have taken it from foreign aid and said, 'You know what, we don't have money for Egypt or Pakistan this year because we have to help the Northeast."

Four years later, Paul voted against relief funds for the victims of Hurricane Harvey, which struck Louisiana and Texas. The Senate voted against an amendment offered by Paul that would have funded the Harvey relief efforts with money previously allocated for foreign aid.

 

[Smokin' OP]

There are some shitty things in the bill beyond military aid to Ukraine. Typical Democrat raiding of the treasury, including unaccountable slush funds.

Really?

June 14 2020
Building ramparts of secrecy around a $600-billion-plus coronavirus aid program for small businesses, Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin has moved from delay to denial in refusing outright to disclose the recipients of taxpayer-funded loans.

Mnuchin told Congress at a hearing last week that the names of loan recipients and the amounts are “proprietary information.” While he claimed the information is confidential.

But Mnuchin abandoned this ambiguous position last week, making it clear during a Senate hearing that the administration has no plans to release the names and amounts of beneficiaries. While the SBA administers the program, the Mnuchin Treasury Department has ultimate control.

“We believe this is confidential information and in many cases for sole proprietors and small businesses it is confidential information,” Mnuchin said during the Senate Small Committee hearing. companies.

 

[Flash]

Really?

June 14 2020
Building ramparts of secrecy around a $600-billion-plus coronavirus aid program for small businesses, Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin has moved from delay to denial in refusing outright to disclose the recipients of taxpayer-funded loans.

Mnuchin told Congress at a hearing last week that the names of loan recipients and the amounts are “proprietary information.” While he claimed the information is confidential.

But Mnuchin abandoned this ambiguous position last week, making it clear during a Senate hearing that the administration has no plans to release the names and amounts of beneficiaries. While the SBA administers the program, the Mnuchin Treasury Department has ultimate control.

“We believe this is confidential information and in many cases for sole proprietors and small businesses it is confidential information,” Mnuchin said during the Senate Small Committee hearing. companies.

Now that some have had time to read it, per a breakdown of the bill, we now know that

$54 million goes to the CDC.
$67 million is given to the DOJ for salaries and expenses.
$110 million is marked for embassy security in other countries.
$4 billion is delegated to Joe Biden for “foreign military assistance” with essentially no stipulations whatsoever, meaning he can spend any or all however he wants! This has never been done before in American history, for damn good reasons!
These assholes are arrogantly, brazenly corrupt and lawless!

 

[Smokin' OP]

Now that some have had time to read it, per a breakdown of the bill, we now know that

$54 million goes to the CDC.
$67 million is given to the DOJ for salaries and expenses.
$110 million is marked for embassy security in other countries.
$4 billion is delegated to Joe Biden for “foreign military assistance” with essentially no stipulations whatsoever, meaning he can spend any or all however he wants! This has never been done before in American history, for damn good reasons!
These assholes are arrogantly, brazenly corrupt and lawless!

IF they did that, I agree.
Soooo, you have a link, right?

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

I think we should withdraw from NATO and declare war on it.

I also want a constitutional amendment banning foreign aid

 

[Flash]

IF they did that, I agree.
Soooo, you have a link, right?

You are confused Moon Bat.


More money to the goddamn CDC after they fucked up the pandemic, got everything wrong and lied to the American people? Really?

More money to give to the goddamn assholes in the DOJ who spent all their time going after the Patriots that took Selfies in Pelosi's office while ignoring all the insurrection and destruction by BLM? Why should those shitheads in the DOJ get higher salaries while the rest of America is suffering from Biden's inflation? The same traitors that took part in the coup against Trump? Is that a payoff for the DOJ assholes being the jackbooted thugs for the filthy Democrat Party?

Millions for a goddamn foreign aid slush fund with no accountability? How do we know that money isn't going to those countries like China or Russia that made Biden's family rich?

As far as foreign embassy security where in the hell was VP Biden when our embassy was over run in Benghazi? He didn't give a shit then so what scam is he pulling with the money now?

 

[johngaltshrugged]

No, I don't, I remember where the story is. If you need your hand held then you don't have any rebuttal.

So you make a claim but, when pressed, can't be bothered to show any proof for the claim you made... typical progressive tactic when you have nothing but hot air & disinformation
Thank you, come again

 

[DudleySmith]

So you make a claim but, when pressed, can't be bothered to show any proof for the claim you made... typical progressive tactic when you have nothing but hot air & disinformation
Thank you, come again

I don't waste much time on demands from ideologues so go ahead and prove it wrong; that way you won't have to rely on strawmen and mindlessly parroting the same old libertoon bullshit over and over and over again. Thanks in advance, parrot.

As for the Peanut Gallery, they can do a search with 'Ron Paul + Loves Pork' and find all they need to. Ignore the vast majority of libertoons, including both the Pauls; they make a living telling other sociopaths what they want hear.

 

[Smokin' OP]

You are confused Moon Bat.

Sooooooooo.......................no link?
Figures, BS never has one.

More money to the goddamn CDC after they fucked up the pandemic, got everything wrong and lied to the American people? Really?

The only people that fucked up the pandemic was Trump and his idiot cult.

More money to give to the goddamn assholes in the DOJ who spent all their time going after the Patriots that took Selfies in Pelosi's office while ignoring all the insurrection and destruction by BLM?

The scumbag, retards that tried to overthrow the US government are traitors and deserve everything coming to them.
Of course, teabaggers try to equate the summer riots with the insurrection at the capitol.
Like trying to equate hurricane Ida in Louisiana and the tornados in Kentucky.

Ignoring the rioters?
Over 11,000 people were charged and arrested, you stupid fuck.

June 2 2020
Police across the US have arrested more than 11,000 people — a remarkable sum, yet a conservative count — during protests against police brutality sparked by the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.

Why should those shitheads in the DOJ get higher salaries while the rest of America is suffering from Biden's inflation?

WOW, Biden is a badass, he raised the prices of everything in the entire world.
The orange retard never had that kind of influence, the only ones he did, was his moronic cult.

The same traitors that took part in the coup against Trump? Is that a payoff for the DOJ assholes being the jackbooted thugs for the filthy Democrat Party?

WTF?
That was an Italian satellite and Hugo Chevez.
Or was it George Soros and the Vatican?
Hard to keep up with the rantings of Q NUTS.

Millions for a goddamn foreign aid slush fund with no accountability?

No accountability?
Slush fund?

That was the orange grifter and his regime.

March 24 2021
Building walls of secrecy around a more than $ 600 billion coronavirus aid program for small businesses, Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin moved from delay to denial by categorically refusing to disclose the recipients of taxpayer-funded loans.

Mnuchin told Congress at a hearing last week that the names of loan recipients and the amounts are “proprietary information.” While he claimed the information is confidential, ethics advocates and some lawmakers see the move as an attempt to shirk responsibility for how the money is spent.

How do we know that money isn't going to those countries like China or Russia that made Biden's family rich?

That was your grifting dear leader.

President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)May 13, 2018

Too many jobs in China lost?........................."Merica" first?

Trump did not mention in that tweet or its follow-ups that on Thursday, the developer of a theme park resort outside of Jakarta had signed a deal to receive as much as $500 million in Chinese government loans, as well as another $500 million from Chinese banks, according to Agence France-Presse. Trump’s family business, the Trump Organization, has a deal to license the Trump name to the resort, which includes a golf course and hotels.

The grifter drops sanctions, get's a $1 billion Chinese check.

Trump's crime family get's approved for 38 Chinese patents?................"Merica" first?

As far as foreign embassy security where in the hell was VP Biden when our embassy was over run in Benghazi? He didn't give a shit then so what scam is he pulling with the money now?

Biden was aboard the Italian satellite, Chavez launched, so he could change votes 8 years later.

 

[Big Bend Texas]

This past week Senator Rand Paul blocked passage of the $40 billion aid package for Ukraine. How incredibly irresponsible and demonstrative of unwise leadership for the nation by this Senator at this time. Senator Paul provided for his reasons for this obstructionism that his oath of office isn't to any foreign nation but rather to the U.S. Constitution he tries to imply that the appropriation is excessive and unnecessary he wraps the U.S. flag around himself and says his oath of office is to the national security of the United States. Well based on your own standards Senator Paul you are a big fat failure because this appropriation couldn't be more vital to America's national security interests; by intention and goal Vladimir Putin is a one-hundred percent risk of pulling America into a war with Russia and it will be a major war with a shocking number of deaths granted it is not this step of Putin's plan but it is definitely a future step. Putin has made it quite clear that his goal is to reconstitute the old Soviet Union which means Russia conquering Poland and Germany an invasion of either country would trigger America entering into a war with Russia because of NATO treaty obligations. From 2008 to 2013 the Pentagon estimate of the cost to send and maintain a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan was $1.3 million per year, over the next decade the cost to send and maintain a U.S. soldier in a war in Europe would probably be at least approximately $2 million dollars a year and if you figure that if America fights a NATO war with Putin it is going to have to send at least 150,000 troops so you're talking $300 billion dollars a year just to maintain the force level in the war now when you pivot to the cost of the ammunition used and the cost to replace the weapons systems destroyed in the war you are talking trillions, plural, of dollars price tag for such a war. An expenditure of $100 to $150 billion to win the Ukrainian war and avoid the bigger war sounds like a bargain if you're in to using your brain!

This Ukrainian War holds the potential for mind boggling consequences for America from the standpoint of a future War with Russia. If the Ukrainian people lose this war that means Putin gets control of all Ukrainian agricultural wealth which the world needs, specifically the Middle East and Africa cannot live without, plus Ukrainian's mineral wealth which is sizable that means that Putin considering also Russia's noteworthy agricultural and mineral wealth will have the wherewithal to rebuild the Russian Army to the level that could competitively conquer Eastern Europe; of course, no one can say for sure whether it would succeed because it depends how well NATO fights. But also crucially important to consider is that this Russian Army will be ten times more effective than the one we see today and the one we see today can lay waste to wide swaths of territory at will. This point is so important the Russian Army learns from their mistakes in the Syrian War Russian pilots initially sucked at conducting bombing runs but over time they became quite good. In this war, the Russian army sucked at coordinating its forces on offensives specifically around Kyiv but in the later Battle of the Donbas specifically around Izyum the Russian Army has dramatically improved their coordination amongst units on offensives. One would have to be an incompetent military expert not to identify all the shortcomings of the Russian military during this War and again you can be assured that Vladimir Putin will have these failures remedied for the next war. The list would include the Russians relied on rail infrastructure for logistics that is too maintain supply lines instead of truck capacity; their coordination between different types of units on offensives is weak, their battlefield communications ability is unreliable, they don't have a non-commissioned officer corps which prevents them from having front line units having the leadership to take initiative to accomplish battlefield goals, they use conscripts as opposed to professional soldiers as front line combat soldiers who are ineffective, the Russian military industrial complex is not self reliant they rely on imports which during a war your enemies can shut down such supply chains, etc..

On the other hand if the Ukrainian people win this war not only will the Kremlin miss out on an enormous amount of wealth to rebuild its Army. The Ukrainian people are going to make it their top priority to build a military and security apparatus to stop any future invasion of their country by the Russian Army, they will have the wealth to do so and most importantly they will have the allies to sell them the weapons and technology to accomplish this goal. The Ukrainian people have seen a monster in Vladimir Putin, a being that has no conscience no scruples about taking innocent peoples lives to accomplish a political or strategic goal so one can be assured that the Ukrainian people will make an outstanding effort to stop this Russian monster from significantly hurting their nation again. The stakes could not be bigger for the Free World (which includes the United States Senator Paul) and its welfare and well being in the Ukrainian/Russian war and its outcome.

Senator Rand Paul is not the only leader in our nation whose behavior is wrong and shameful about aiding Ukraine. Republican Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee thinks just like Senator Paul, he was on Maria Bartiromo show today saying he is going to vote "no" on the bill saying we have so many other problems as a country we need to be focusing on; he ignored the national security ramifications of this Ukrainian conflict for the United States acting like a real partisan opportunist. I bet you if the Republicans take control of Congress this November and then want to dramatically increase the defense budget his vote will be a big "yes" he will be clamoring about the security needs of America makes such spending necessary. This opportunism isn't only limited to politicians, right-wing talk radio host Mike Gallagher exhibited the same deplorable behavior! This past Friday on his show he is singing the praises to the optimum degree for Senator Rand Paul and his opposition to the Ukraine aid bill. Gallagher continually hammered on this problem and that problem in the nation the Democrats aren't addressing but he completely ignored the national security ramifications for America if the Ukrainian people lose this war. This is par for the course for a lot of these right wing radio hosts they don't responsibly discuss issues they just wind people up, foment public discontent and anger with their comments the majority of the time not caring about the rightful merits and morality of what they are saying. Then these right wing hosts become taken back and want to wash their hands of any culpability when their listeners call in and advocate taking the government back by force saying things like we should grab our guns and go out onto the street and rectify things. When will you guys ever learn when you talk like irresponsible citizens and ignoramuses on the radio you cause some of your listeners to follow you and act like you, then the country ends up with a mess!

Paul facing 4 challengers won his primary with 86% of the vote.

I'd say his constituents believe he's representing them well.

 

[Big Bend Texas]

Sooooooooo.......................no link?
Figures, BS never has one.

The only people that fucked up the pandemic was Trump and his idiot cult.

The scumbag, retards that tried to overthrow the US government are traitors and deserve everything coming to them.
Of course, teabaggers try to equate the summer riots with the insurrection at the capitol.
Like trying to equate hurricane Ida in Louisiana and the tornados in Kentucky.

Ignoring the rioters?
Over 11,000 people were charged and arrested, you stupid fuck.

June 2 2020
Police across the US have arrested more than 11,000 people — a remarkable sum, yet a conservative count — during protests against police brutality sparked by the deaths of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd.


WOW, Biden is a badass, he raised the prices of everything in the entire world.
The orange retard never had that kind of influence, the only ones he did, was his moronic cult.

WTF?
That was an Italian satellite and Hugo Chevez.
Or was it George Soros and the Vatican?
Hard to keep up with the rantings of Q NUTS.


No accountability?
Slush fund?

That was the orange grifter and his regime.

March 24 2021
Building walls of secrecy around a more than $ 600 billion coronavirus aid program for small businesses, Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin moved from delay to denial by categorically refusing to disclose the recipients of taxpayer-funded loans.

Mnuchin told Congress at a hearing last week that the names of loan recipients and the amounts are “proprietary information.” While he claimed the information is confidential, ethics advocates and some lawmakers see the move as an attempt to shirk responsibility for how the money is spent.

That was your grifting dear leader.

President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)May 13, 2018

Too many jobs in China lost?........................."Merica" first?

Trump did not mention in that tweet or its follow-ups that on Thursday, the developer of a theme park resort outside of Jakarta had signed a deal to receive as much as $500 million in Chinese government loans, as well as another $500 million from Chinese banks, according to Agence France-Presse. Trump’s family business, the Trump Organization, has a deal to license the Trump name to the resort, which includes a golf course and hotels.

The grifter drops sanctions, get's a $1 billion Chinese check.

Trump's crime family get's approved for 38 Chinese patents?................"Merica" first?

Biden was aboard the Italian satellite, Chavez launched, so he could change votes 8 years later.

You must be smoking Crystal Draino again.

Trump followed the advice of the "scientists" throughout the pandemic led by Fauci.

 

[Turtlesoup]

Now that some have had time to read it, per a breakdown of the bill, we now know that

$54 million goes to the CDC.
$67 million is given to the DOJ for salaries and expenses.
$110 million is marked for embassy security in other countries.
$4 billion is delegated to Joe Biden for “foreign military assistance” with essentially no stipulations whatsoever, meaning he can spend any or all however he wants! This has never been done before in American history, for damn good reasons!
These assholes are arrogantly, brazenly corrupt and lawless!

$4 Billion for Joe Biden--of course, the big guy always gets his 10%.

 

[Smokin' OP]

You must be smoking Crystal Draino again.

Trump followed the advice of the "scientists" throughout the pandemic led by Fauci.

Really?
You must have had an orange kool-aid overdose or have the MTG "amnesia".

What "scientist" was the orange retard taking advise from, when he claimed:

Jan. 30: “We think we have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment — five — and those people are all recuperating successfully. But we’re working very closely with China and other countries, and we think it’s going to have a very good ending for us … that I can assure you.” — Trump in a speech in Michigan.

Feb. 10: “Now, the virus that we’re talking about having to do — you know, a lot of people think that goes away in April with the heat — as the heat comes in. Typically, that will go away in April. We’re in great shape though. We have 12 cases — 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now.” — Trump at the White House.

Feb. 26: But that’s a little bit like the flu. It’s a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we’ll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner.” — Trump at a White House coronavirus task force briefing.

March 10: “And we’re prepared, and we’re doing a great job with it. And it will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.” — Trump after meeting with Republican senators.

March 17: “I’ve always known this is a — this is a real — this is a pandemic. I’ve felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.” — Trump at a White House task force press briefing.

March 23: “People get tremendous anxiety and depression, and you have suicides over things like this when you have terrible economies. You have death. Probably and — I mean, definitely — would be in far greater numbers than the numbers that we’re talking about with regard to the virus.” — Trump at a White House task force briefing.

March 24: “So I think Easter Sunday and you’ll have packed churches all over our country. I think it would be a beautiful time. And it’s just about the timeline that I think is right.” — Trump in an interview on Fox News.

April 5: “We’re starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. And hopefully, in the not-too-distant future, we’ll be very proud of the job we all did. We can never be happy when so many people are dying, but we’re going to be very proud of the job we did to keep the death down to an absolute minimum — the least it could have happened with this terrible, terrible virus.” — Trump in a task force press briefing.

 

[tyroneweaver]

This past week Senator Rand Paul blocked passage of the $40 billion aid package for Ukraine. How incredibly irresponsible and demonstrative of unwise leadership for the nation by this Senator at this time. Senator Paul provided for his reasons for this obstructionism that his oath of office isn't to any foreign nation but rather to the U.S. Constitution he tries to imply that the appropriation is excessive and unnecessary he wraps the U.S. flag around himself and says his oath of office is to the national security of the United States. Well based on your own standards Senator Paul you are a big fat failure because this appropriation couldn't be more vital to America's national security interests; by intention and goal Vladimir Putin is a one-hundred percent risk of pulling America into a war with Russia and it will be a major war with a shocking number of deaths granted it is not this step of Putin's plan but it is definitely a future step. Putin has made it quite clear that his goal is to reconstitute the old Soviet Union which means Russia conquering Poland and Germany an invasion of either country would trigger America entering into a war with Russia because of NATO treaty obligations. From 2008 to 2013 the Pentagon estimate of the cost to send and maintain a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan was $1.3 million per year, over the next decade the cost to send and maintain a U.S. soldier in a war in Europe would probably be at least approximately $2 million dollars a year and if you figure that if America fights a NATO war with Putin it is going to have to send at least 150,000 troops so you're talking $300 billion dollars a year just to maintain the force level in the war now when you pivot to the cost of the ammunition used and the cost to replace the weapons systems destroyed in the war you are talking trillions, plural, of dollars price tag for such a war. An expenditure of $100 to $150 billion to win the Ukrainian war and avoid the bigger war sounds like a bargain if you're in to using your brain!

This Ukrainian War holds the potential for mind boggling consequences for America from the standpoint of a future War with Russia. If the Ukrainian people lose this war that means Putin gets control of all Ukrainian agricultural wealth which the world needs, specifically the Middle East and Africa cannot live without, plus Ukrainian's mineral wealth which is sizable that means that Putin considering also Russia's noteworthy agricultural and mineral wealth will have the wherewithal to rebuild the Russian Army to the level that could competitively conquer Eastern Europe; of course, no one can say for sure whether it would succeed because it depends how well NATO fights. But also crucially important to consider is that this Russian Army will be ten times more effective than the one we see today and the one we see today can lay waste to wide swaths of territory at will. This point is so important the Russian Army learns from their mistakes in the Syrian War Russian pilots initially sucked at conducting bombing runs but over time they became quite good. In this war, the Russian army sucked at coordinating its forces on offensives specifically around Kyiv but in the later Battle of the Donbas specifically around Izyum the Russian Army has dramatically improved their coordination amongst units on offensives. One would have to be an incompetent military expert not to identify all the shortcomings of the Russian military during this War and again you can be assured that Vladimir Putin will have these failures remedied for the next war. The list would include the Russians relied on rail infrastructure for logistics that is too maintain supply lines instead of truck capacity; their coordination between different types of units on offensives is weak, their battlefield communications ability is unreliable, they don't have a non-commissioned officer corps which prevents them from having front line units having the leadership to take initiative to accomplish battlefield goals, they use conscripts as opposed to professional soldiers as front line combat soldiers who are ineffective, the Russian military industrial complex is not self reliant they rely on imports which during a war your enemies can shut down such supply chains, etc..

On the other hand if the Ukrainian people win this war not only will the Kremlin miss out on an enormous amount of wealth to rebuild its Army. The Ukrainian people are going to make it their top priority to build a military and security apparatus to stop any future invasion of their country by the Russian Army, they will have the wealth to do so and most importantly they will have the allies to sell them the weapons and technology to accomplish this goal. The Ukrainian people have seen a monster in Vladimir Putin, a being that has no conscience no scruples about taking innocent peoples lives to accomplish a political or strategic goal so one can be assured that the Ukrainian people will make an outstanding effort to stop this Russian monster from significantly hurting their nation again. The stakes could not be bigger for the Free World (which includes the United States Senator Paul) and its welfare and well being in the Ukrainian/Russian war and its outcome.

Senator Rand Paul is not the only leader in our nation whose behavior is wrong and shameful about aiding Ukraine. Republican Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee thinks just like Senator Paul, he was on Maria Bartiromo show today saying he is going to vote "no" on the bill saying we have so many other problems as a country we need to be focusing on; he ignored the national security ramifications of this Ukrainian conflict for the United States acting like a real partisan opportunist. I bet you if the Republicans take control of Congress this November and then want to dramatically increase the defense budget his vote will be a big "yes" he will be clamoring about the security needs of America makes such spending necessary. This opportunism isn't only limited to politicians, right-wing talk radio host Mike Gallagher exhibited the same deplorable behavior! This past Friday on his show he is singing the praises to the optimum degree for Senator Rand Paul and his opposition to the Ukraine aid bill. Gallagher continually hammered on this problem and that problem in the nation the Democrats aren't addressing but he completely ignored the national security ramifications for America if the Ukrainian people lose this war. This is par for the course for a lot of these right wing radio hosts they don't responsibly discuss issues they just wind people up, foment public discontent and anger with their comments the majority of the time not caring about the rightful merits and morality of what they are saying. Then these right wing hosts become taken back and want to wash their hands of any culpability when their listeners call in and advocate taking the government back by force saying things like we should grab our guns and go out onto the street and rectify things. When will you guys ever learn when you talk like irresponsible citizens and ignoramuses on the radio you cause some of your listeners to follow you and act like you, then the country ends up with a mess!

doesn't matter. Biden is still a douche bag

 

[Kondor3]

Paul - and Paulites - are myopic, unrealistic isolationists... our adversaries call such folk Useful Idiots...

 

[sartre play]

Keep voting political party over best suited for the job, & we will continue to get underqualified people and returned half dead old people.

 

[g5000]

Goodness, another America hating puke who want us to help foreigners while we are hurting. Why not aid Americans first, commie?

Appeasers like you said we should let Hitler have the Sudetenland and then he will be satsified.

Well, now he wants all of Czechoslovakia. Okay. Then he'll stop. He's not a threat to us, just some foreigners we don't care about.

KGB Putin is trying to reconstitute the Soviet Union. And if you think it isn't in our interests to stop him, then you are a massively stupid useful idiot.

 

[Rigby5]

As far as foreign embassy security where in the hell was VP Biden when our embassy was over run in Benghazi? He didn't give a shit then so what scam is he pulling with the money now?

Small point, but we have no "embassy" in Benghazi.
We have only a consulate there, whose purpose was only to supply weapons, cash, and Toyota trucks to al Qaeda.