The Biden administration for the second time this month has bypassed Congress to approve the transfer of nearly $150 million in military equipment to Israel
Secretary of State Antony Blinken informed Congress that he has made an emergency determination to immediately approve the transfer of “155mm ancillary items including fuzes, charges, and primers that make 155mm shells functional,” a State Department spokesperson said Friday.
The spokesperson said the additional items were added to previous sales, which “increased the total value of the sale to $147.5 million.”
Earlier this month, the administration rushed forward a sale of thousands of munitions to Israel, bypassing the standard 20-day period that congressional committees are typically afforded to review such a sale. The State Department sent an emergency declaration to the oversight committees that more than 13,000 tank shells would be delivered to Israel without any “further information, details or assurances.”
Can’t we just bypass Congress to immediately transfer weapons to Ukraine instead? That seems to be 1) the more important conflict, and 2) an actual “morally just” conflict where our support can make a real difference, and 3) an amazing return on investment and a pittance compared to what the Ukrainians themselves are having to sacrifice.
The difference might be that Israel has the financial ability to buy such weapons while Ukraine relies on funding from the US and other countries. The White House can probably green lit the sale of arms to Israel but not the transfer to Ukraine as that would involve the government paying on which Congress has oversight. I could be completely wrong though.
Israel consistently receives an annual aid package of 3 billion dollars from the U.S., a fixed amount regardless of relative peace or conflict. However, due to the ongoing genocide, they’re receiving extra funds this year. This parallels a scenario where if I give you 10 dollars, and you spend the same amount on something from me, the financial interaction remains balanced, akin to the U.S.-Israel financial dynamics.
So far it seems like the president can do just about anything if he just calls it a “major security risk to the country.”
Biden could 100% get Ukraine their weapons if he really wanted to. Zelensky just keeps forgetting to send a portion of the American taxpayer dollars back to bribe him.
The guys over at /Politics told me that It’s impossible to bypass Congress to provide weapons they were extremely certain of it.
It’s not that Biden only wants to help the Zionists because of the huge bribes he receives from AIPAC.
Genocide Joe surely has no way to provide weapons to Ukraine other than bowing his head to the Republicans, accepting their demands to buid the wall and waiting until next year.
He probably just forgot that he can’t do this bypassing congress thing twice this month already. Silly senile old man.
People forget Joe Biden is a republican, a DINO, it’s why he was saddled with Obama to make him more palatable to voters who saw Obama as too extreme with campaign promises to close Guantanamo, end the wars, codify Roe V Wade, and introduce single payer healthcare.
After all these years Biden is getting his wish of having a strong republican party. The emperor’s new clothes: there are no sides.
Biden needs to tell Netanyahu to fuck off. Biden is killing his chances at reelection with this. And with that, democracy in America cuz we all know trumps fascist plans. I am fucking furious about this.
Why can’t he just be a normal president and funnel weapons to terrorist enemies of the state using the CIA black account. $150mil is a literal drop in the bucket for DOD cost centers that legally cannot be audited.
The Dems win one election and throw it all away trying to appease fascists, only for fascists to choose their guy instead and further drive away the left.
Liberals just can’t stop aiding fascists, real fucking curious how it just keeps happening throughout history.
Except this time after 80 years of suppression of leftist ideology, nobody is here to fight for the liberals. I’ll watch them get dragged to camps with a smile on my face. Yknow since I’ll already be in the camp anyway.
You’d have to be an idiot to vote for trump regardless of whatever Biden is doing
Nobody is going to vote for Trump because of this. But it WILL cause enough folks to get dejected and not vote at all, and that’s all it’ll take for Trump to win. Democrats need a candidate people can be excited about voting for, or they WILL lose.
The “but the other guy is worse!” approach won’t work this time.
I’ve in no way shape or form voted or would vote Republican in my life, lol
But we deserve another option. I think Biden will lose
Why are you acting like he’s not doing this of his own desire? Biden is a zionist like 99% of other American politicians. Netanyahu isn’t making him do this. He’s just doing it.
Think I’m gonna vote for Trump just to shut up Biden’s genocide supporters.
If they don’t want me voting for Trump, they will have to run someone other than Genocide Joey!
You could vote 3rd party but I feel you prefer Trump and want an excuse to vote for him.
You’d be wrong about that, but I feel like you’re the kind of person to believe whatever he wants.
Maybe if Ukranians would start committing war crimes they’d be luckier with the US government… just saying…
They would need to be doing that to brown people we have no interest in using to maintain the petro dollar.
Israel is trading money for arms. We allow the president to authorize those sales. Ukraine is requesting that we give them shit. Financial appropriations require congress to approve. I don’t think it’s a matter of committing war crimes. If Ukraine wants to buy arms, I think Biden can bypass congress for those sales, too.
Hope bombing brown people in Gaza for a few months is worth losing the republic.
Isn’t this an urban conflict in a dense city full of civilians? How on earth are 155mm artillery shells being justified?
For use in southern Lebanon? Deterrence for anyone else thinking of joining the conflict?
Also didn’t sound right to me.
Lemme get this straight. We’ve put significant restrictions on Ukraine using US provided gear, against targets inside of other countries. Because runaway escalation would be bad.
But we’re supposedly cool if the IDF, then or at some point in the future, without prior approval or permission, uses US hardware against targets inside of other countries? Make it make sense, the justification for both countries is defensive wars against invading neighbors
