Senator: Ending US aid to Ukraine would be historic mistake

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The U.S. would risk enabling the spread of extremism in Europe if it stopped providing support to Ukraine in its war with Russia, Maine's independent senator said Monday in the wake of meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Sens. Angus King of Maine and Jack Reed of Rhode Island, who sit on the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, traveled to Kyiv last week to meet with Zelenskyy. King said he came back more certain that U.S. aid to Ukraine is vital.

Ukraine is slated to receive $44.9 billion in U.S. aid as part of the recent government spending bill. The U.S. should continue supporting Ukraine until Russian President Vladimir Putin is out of power, King said. He characterized Putin as “a dictator.”

Failure to continue supporting Ukraine would be akin to Western nations' failure to combat the rise of Germany in the 1930s, King said. He said he plans to make that case to constituents and Republican lawmakers who have voiced skepticism of continued U.S. involvement in the war.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/senator-ending-us-aid-ukraine-180548831.html

[Initech]

1. Doesn't matter what we want. The extremist shitheads control the house now.

Conspiracy theories and Fox News bullshit are going to dominate public discourse for the next two years. Fuck.

[ColinC]

4. Aid comes out of already allocated funds

Unless they completely fit the defense budget, I can’t imagine Ukraine losing much help

[PortTack]

5. Exactly. The latest funding was part of the 65 bills President Biden signed. 43 billion in aide for

Ukraine is Secured. It should be enough for the coming year.

[Deuxcents]

2. It would be madness to even think about pulling our support

[Bayard]

3. MAGAts are on a mission

Search and destroy anything good and just that this admin has been doing. They could care less about throwing Ukraine to the wolves.