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Him_over_there:

I’m looking at a Reuters article, with the headline: “Biden seeks $33 billion war chest to support Ukraine, Zelensky wants quick approval”

So who the Hell is this selfie-loving, diminutive character, that appeared on the World stage in a puff of frenetic aggressive energy, dressed in a green costume, like some mischievous Zionist Leprechaun, demanding unending monies from Western tax-payers?



https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-looks-congress-oligarchs-more-cash-help-ukraine-2022-04-28/
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Adite
Adite: So I have read that article and then did a quick Google.

1. People are dying. It includes humanitarian aid.
"$8.5 billion in direct economic assistance to the Ukrainian government and $3 billion in humanitarian aid."
(From your reference).

2. It makes it easier for the US to seize Russian assets.
"Biden's proposal would also let U.S. officials seize more Russian oligarchs' assets, give the cash from those seizures to Ukraine, and further criminalize sanctions dodging."
(From your reference).

3. It includes measures and funding to limit the direct impact of shortages on the US.
"Additionally, the request includes funding to support the production of United States food crops that are experiencing a global shortage due to the war in Ukraine, for example, wheat and soybeans helping to address rising food prices here at home and around the world. The request also would help increase domestic production for strategic minerals and materials produced in Russia or Ukraine and respond to global shortfalls and reduce price pressures."
(From: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/28/letter-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives-on-fiscal-year-2022-emergency-supplemental-funding/)

4. The US officials are keen to dissuade Russia from acting further. Money spent now can save plenty in the future.
(From: https://www.state.gov/united-with-ukraine/)

The US, as always, is acting to protect its own interests.
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Him_over_there
Him_over_there in reply to Adite:

The thing is [Adite], there's only so many blankets, medical supplies and packed lunches one can supply to a people in the name of Humanitarian Aid - and even this would leave a great deal of spare change, within the first Billion. (China already have that angle covered btw.) they have wisely decided not to to send lethal supplies, because doing so is like pouring petrol on to a fire.

You mention how this gigantic sum of American money will somehow help seize Russian properties in the West. This makes no logical sense, but we should take note, that such actions are completely without due process. There is no legal merit to assuming possessions, or someone's private property, purely on the grounds that they are part of an ethnic minority. This is something that occured during Hitler’s Germany by the way; to Jews; during the whipping up a similar type of chauvinistic enthusiasm within reactionary layers of the German public’

Also. I see you mention the ‘criminalisation of sanctions dodging’, as if it were a good thing. We should remember that Sanctions are designed to initiate a war of attrition against a people. Criminalising any objection to being part of this act of violence is in itself criminal coercion
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