AGI-I Republicans in the US Senate they did Skip the development of an extraordinary law which would have allocated approx 111 million dollars, of it in large part of the aid to Ukraine. 51 voted for urgent review of the law, 49 voted against it. This would have required 60 votes.
It’s a slap in the face for US President Joe Biden, just hours after he appealed to Congress to approve the allocation at a critical moment in the war between Ukraine and Russia. The text This also included funds for Israel and humanitarian aid for Gaza. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders voted with the Republicans.
Biden thus issued a clear warning Russian leader Vladimir Putin “won’t stop there” if he manages to conquer Ukraine. The US President called on Congress to provide emergency aid to Kiev. “If Putin takes Ukraine, he’s not going to stop there… He’s going to keep going, he’s made that clear,” Biden said at the White House.
And if Russia attacks a member of the NATO alliance, Biden warned, “then we will have something that we don’t want and that we don’t have today: American troops fight against Russian troops… if it is relocated to other parts of NATO.”
“Congress must approve funding for Ukraine before the holidays, that’s easy,” Biden said. “We all – he added – have seen the brutality that Putin is inflicting on Ukraine by invading another country and trying to subjugate its neighbors.” “Our European allies,” he continued, “are ready to stay on our side.” They know that Putin will continue to move forward and attack NATO allies“.
For the President of the United States, “stopping aid to Ukraine is the best gift to Putin”:
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