President Biden chastised the Republicans in the House of Representatives when he commented on the death of Alexei Navalny on Friday. A few hours after the news from Russia was announced, Congress took a two-week vacation without passing a new arms grant to Ukraine. – Two weeks holiday. What are they thinking about? OMG! Biden raised his arms in the air behind the lectern in the White House and continued without a script. The President of the United States comments on the death of Alexei Navalny. Photo: LEAH MILLIS / Reuters – This strengthens the panic …, he muttered, before moderating himself. – Yes, maybe not the panic, but in any case the concern that the US is no longer an ally you can trust. But panic may be spreading in the White House. Because Biden has no more money for weapons for Ukraine. And Putin knows that very well. Will wait a month Senators on Capitol Hill were up all night Tuesday to pass their $95 billion aid package to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan before taking a winter break. The agreement was bipartisan. 70 voted in favor and only 29 voted against. But Biden will not get the money until the House of Representatives has passed his version of the package. And the manager there, Mike Johnson, doesn’t seem stressed. For the Trump friend, there is no urgency. He says he will discuss the matter at a party conference in one month. The Republican leader of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP Johnson initially rejected a Ukraine package that included measures to limit the immigration chaos on the border with Mexico, even though he had long demanded this. For several months, the politicians in the congress have been negotiating about Ukraine and border appropriations. Many Republicans, especially in the Senate, have tried to convince party colleagues that it would be dangerous for the US to drop aid to Ukraine. Trump profits from chaos But there is another who seems to have convinced most of the House of Representatives. Donald Trump wants neither aid to Ukraine nor an agreement on border security to be adopted. Trump has been adamant that he does not want a new aid package for Ukraine. Photo: SAM WOLFE / Reuters Immigration chaos is one of his most important election campaign issues. And throughout the election campaign he has flatly rejected more aid to Ukraine. Trump was also silent on Navalny’s death on Friday. A week ago, he lashed out at NATO members who do not pay at least 2 percent of their GDP to the defense alliance and urged Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” with them. It provoked strong and startled reactions. Some Republicans have criticized Trump. Others, like Sen. Marco Rubio, who ran for president in 2016, have simply said that people need to get used to Trump not speaking like a regular politician. No to Ukraine aid, Yes to Putin But the US is speaking with two tongues in its relations with Russia and Ukraine now. While the Biden administration, and Republican politicians such as presidential candidate Nikki Haley, emphasize how dangerous it will be for the United States to fail Ukraine militarily, the MAGA wing of the Republican Party is negative about more arms aid and positive about Putin’s Russia. President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Photo: Gavriil Grigorov / AP The Ukraine support is a good election campaign cause. A major pre-Christmas poll conducted by Pew Research shows that far more Republican and independent voters believe the US is giving too much support to Ukraine than those who think the support is just enough. Putin support is not at all as broad in the United States, but it increased in the Republican Party after Trump became president, although it fell again after Russia attacked Ukraine. Rather Putin than woke It began with Donald Trump calling Putin strong, smart and declared a genius in the 2016 election campaign, and continued with the politicized investigation into Russia’s meddling in that election campaign. Several influential figures in Republican circles have continued to praise Russia’s leader. The conservative journalist and former Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviews the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. Photo: Gavriil Grigorov / AP Last week, former Fox presenter Tucker Carlson interviewed Vladimir Putin for almost two hours. He is an important voice in the MAGA universe that controls the Republican Party. Carlson has argued that American liberalism poses a greater threat to the United States than Vladimir Putin. In 2022, he urged his Fox viewers to do the following self-examination: – Ask yourself: Why do I really hate Putin? Has Putin ever called me a racist? Tucker believed Americans should turn to the left and the democratic establishment in their own country rather than to Putin’s Russia. He added that in the election between Ukraine and Russia, the US should probably take Russia’s side. Such rhetoric has had an influence on many of the congressional politicians who will now decide Ukraine’s future fate.
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