Breaking Ukraine News
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Ukraine war: Mysterious defence secretary trip to Washington amid fears of Russian escalation
The secretive, last-minute nature of the trip and a comment by a second defence minister, James Heappey - who said the conversations Mr Wallace would be having on Tuesday were "beyond belief" - suggested particularly sensitive and serious issues would be discussed.
The article goes on for a while. All we learn is that it’s a rushed meeting with counterparts at the Pentagon but also at the White House, that it has to do with Ukraine, and that it must be terribly important.
Meanwhile …
BREAKING: McCarthy signals GOP-led House likely to oppose more aid to Ukraine
WaPo ^ | Oct 18 | By Eugene ScottHouse Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is signaling that if Republicans win the House majority in next month’s midterm elections, the GOP is likely to oppose more aid to Ukraine in its war with Russia.
Since the invasion in February the majority of congressional Republicans and Democrats have united in authorizing billions of dollars in U.S. military and humanitarian assistance to Kyiv as a geopolitical and moral stand against Vladimir Putin’s aggression.
McCarthy, who could be House speaker if Republicans triumph, indicated that that could end in a GOP-led House.
“I think people are gonna be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine,” he recently told Punchbowl News. “They just won’t do it.”
McCarthy suggested that Americans want Congress to focus on issues closer to home.
What a joke of an 'news' article. Putin is losing ground and might be considering nukes? How about this: "Putin is about to run the table, the GOP has just stepped one foot off the Ukraine war bandwagon, Europe is dying, and the UK is in complete disarray. UK is meeting with the US to figure out how to turn the table over and hide their failure--without starting WWIII."
Nice calls, Mark:
"Boom. Past tense. Implying that Russian intentions may have changed and that Ukraine’s very existence is now in play. To my way of thinking, there is simply no way that Putin would say that if he had any significant doubt that he could follow through. He knows he’s winning. And that means that his enemies in the collective West are losing—bigly."
"The world is watching the US midterms. A Republican Congress with even a few outspoken opponents of elite war mongering could change the dynamics of US foreign policy virtually overnight."
https://meaninginhistory.substack.com/p/danchenko-ng-all-counts
Thanks very much for your recent prolific, prescient, and excellent posts.