Two American war parties approve spending $40.1 b for war on Ukraine w/all 'progressive" members voting Yes

Both the House and Senate have voted to approve the Biden request for additional funds to conduct our war in Ukraine.  While Biden had requested $33 B, Congress added $7 b more, approving a total of $40.1 Billion.   

This again was another bi-partisan support for more war by the two American War Parties, the Democrat' and Republicans.  The House vote was 368 Yes vs 57 No, while the Senate vote was 86 yes v 11 No.  All the No votes in both the Senate and House were from Republican members of Congress.  All OR Representatives voted Yes as did both Or Senators.  Note that all members of the Progressive Squad voted including AOC voted in favor of additional funding.  Progressive Senator Sanders voted in favor.  

Checking the websites of Rep. Blumenauer and Bonamici as well as Sen Wyden and Merkley, looking for press statements from them explaining their votes.  None of them thought their votes important enough to warrant a statement.  SHAME!

See the votes in the House here and in the Senate here.  

I think that it would be very appropriate for us to call Rep. Bluemanuer and Rep. Bonamici as well as Senators Wyden and Merkley and ask that they explain their vote.  We need to have some accountability.  Find their contact info easily here:  https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/map

Glenn Greenwald in a story noted:  

 

To put this $54 billion [DD note:  that is $40.1 billion plus $14 billion which had been approved shortly after the beginning of the conflict] amount in perspective, it is (a) larger than the average annual amount that the U.S. spent on its own war in Afghanistan ($46 billion), (b) close to the overall amount Russia spends on its entire military for the year ($69 billion), (c) close to 7% of the overall U.S. military budget, by far the largest in the world ($778 billion), and (d) certain to be far, far higher — easily into the hundreds of billions of dollars and likely the trillion dollar level — given that U.S. officials insist that this war will last not months but years, and that it will stand with Ukraine until the bitter end.

Link to Glenn Greenwald story:  https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-bizarre-unanimous-dem-support-426?s=r

War is not the answer!

American war drums continue beating against Russia.

The Russian massing of troops at the Ukrainian border continues to be justification for the beating of the drums of war in the US, in the media and by Democrats in the halls of Congress. What the US media does not inform the American people about is that the Russian nation has a justifiable fear about the expansion of NATO to surround Russia. It is the US and their European partners in NATO that pose a military threat and are the aggressors, perhaps leading to a nuclear confrontation between the two nuclear powers, a confrontation which cannot end well for the peoples of the world.

Columnist Norm Solomon writes about the drum beat and the likely consequences of war between the United States and Russia.in his article: The United States to Russia: Do as We say, Not as We Do. Included in this column is a link to the historical records of what Russia was promised when the US, Russia and others were negotiating the unification of East and West Germany - the US and allies promised Russia that NATO would not move " one step closer to Russia." Yet following that time, it has moved right up to the border of Russia, engulfing most of the former Soviet bloc nations of eastern Europe. And now the United State is not willing to seriously negotiate with Russia.

In the meantime, a bill (S3488 & HR6470: Defending Ukraine Sovereignty Act of 2022) is being promoted by Democrats in Congress which would authorize the President to impose economic sanctions on Russia. Our Senators Merkley and Wyden are both co-sponsors, while none of our OR Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors of the House version.

All co-sponsors in the House and Senate are Democrats except for one Independent in the Senate. Please contact Senators Wyden and Merkley, asking them to remove themselves from the list of co-sponsors. Find their contact information here.