11 JANUARY 2024
The US Foreign Affairs Committee, House Armed Services Committee, and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, all of which are chaired by Republicans, have issued a joint document in which they criticise President Joe Biden’s administration for its lack of assistance to Ukraine and demand decisive actions in this regard.
Source: Ukrinform news agency, citing the document
Details: The document, entitled the “Proposed Plan for Victory in Ukraine”, was signed by Chairman Michael McCaul of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Chairman Mike Rogers of the House Armed Services Committee, and Chairman Mike Turner of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. It was drafted in late 2023 but has only now started to stir discussions among relevant stakeholders.
The plan’s cover shows a photo of Russian President Vladimir Putin standing alongside Chinese President Xi Jinping, Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, and the self-proclaimed Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko.
The plan is intended to address critical issues in relation to the US and its allies’ support for Ukraine and to set out a victory plan in which Ukraine wins and Russia loses.
The plan contains five sections: The Threat, Proposed Plan for Victory, Oversight, Burden Sharing, and Timeline of Biden’s Deadly Delays in Sending Weapons to Ukraine.
The Foreign Affairs Committee press release stated that Russia and an alliance consisting of China, Iran, Iran’s proxies (like Hamas and Hezbollah), and North Korea, are “working together to undermine American interests around the world”. “Their goal is to diminish the US economy, fracture key alliances, and establish a new world order of totalitarianism. The United States has not faced a more dangerous array of adversaries since World War II,” the press release said.
The authors of the report said in the press release that the US Congress has a “responsibility to defend freedom from the likes of Russia, China, and Iran. Many of you have questioned why we should support Ukraine, and this report will not only address your questions but will provide you with the information to inform others, especially our constituencies, why our support is needed.”
“Biden’s mantra of supporting Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes’ is a losing strategy,” the report itself says.
“Instead, House Republicans believe President Biden should present a credible plan for victory and arm Ukraine with the weapons it needs to win as soon as possible,” the report continues.
“Since the first day of the war, Biden’s debilitating hesitation to provide critical weapons to Ukraine has delayed a Ukrainian victory,” the report also says. Ukraine needs the longest-range variant of ATACMS (300 km, not the 160 km Ukraine was given), F-16 fighters, and sufficient quantities of cluster munitions, artillery, air defences, and armour “to make a difference on the battlefield”. “This delay is costing Ukrainian lives and the American taxpayer,” the report stresses.
The authors of the report believe that Ukraine’s path to victory requires “(1) providing critical weapons to Ukraine at the speed of relevance, (2) tightening sanctions on the Putin regime, and (3) transferring frozen Russian sovereign assets to Ukraine.”
The report stresses the importance of oversight over the US aid, though it admits that the countless checks conducted to date have not detected any significant violations.
“Defeating Putin in Ukraine now will prevent a Russian invasion of a NATO ally, which would be immeasurably more costly in terms of American blood and treasure,” the report says.
“As a percentage of GDP, the US ranks just 30th in total assistance to Ukraine, with Poland, the Baltic states, the UK, Norway, and others contributing more in terms of this metric. In terms of security assistance by GDP, the US ranks 14th,” the report notes.
Support for Ukraine is not “charity”, the press release added.
“After President Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, supporting Ukraine to defeat Putin’s invading forces is critical to restoring American deterrence in Europe, the Middle East, and the Indo-Pacific,” the press release said.
The Proposed Plan for Victory in Ukraine “will ensure that Ukraine is able to make the needed advances on the battlefield to force Putin to the negotiating table,” the press release promised.
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It was Republicans who created this sound strategy. They are not maga morons. Furthermore, this is something that Biden should’ve done. His cowardly too little too late methodologies have spilled lots of Ukrainian blood for far too long. He also wasted a lot of money, and not to mention letting the American people, who are footing the bills, wonder what in the hell our goals are. Those are facts.
Wait, Scradge and bert say the GOP hates Ukraine and wants her to lose and hand everything over to Putler.
But as I’ve been saying, the vast majority of the GOP wants even more weapons going to Ukraine.
Thank God a non-US and non-UK media outlet reported the truth. I guess the reason those inflicted with TDS are avoiding this article is because they’re also afraid of the truth.
These GOP chairmen are correct, Ukraine needs MORE weapons and LESS excuses and a PLAN of victory.
Please provide evidence to back up your drivel accusation. I am pro-Republican. I identify exclusively the magaputler cult as arseholes who want to hand Ukraine to a nazi regime. Read your magaputler house mags Gateway Pundit and Breitbart for proof.
Now please name even one maga shithead who who blocked aid yet supports Ukraine?
You still don’t get it, bro, very few GOP don’t support Ukraine just like very few Democrats don’t support Ukraine but they get most of the attention, in order to continue the false narrative. I’m afraid you fall for the false narrative because you repeat it over and over and over and over again. Usually with no mention whatsoever that some Dems don’t and their favorite newspaper doesn’t either.
To your question, some GOP didn’t vote to support Ukraine because they insisted on border security. Got it? They’re idiots for mixing the two but they still support Ukraine.
One Dem voted against aid: Sanders; a known tankie fucktard.
Now provide the list I requested of Republicans who voted against aid, yet are supporters of Ukraine.
I will save you the trouble. No such people exist. All of them are magaputler shitheads with track records of anti-Ukraine hate and lies.
“very few GOP don’t support Ukraine just like very few Democrats don’t support Ukraine”
But the GOP who don’t support Ukraine are blocking funding for Ukraine. The few Democrats who don’t support Ukraine have no such power. (Nobody claimed that all Republicans are MAGAt morons, or that none of them support Ukraine. But all the Republicans in the House ceded power to the minority who are against Ukraine.)
“some GOP didn’t vote to support Ukraine because they insisted on border security.”
That’s the excuse some are using *now*. But that wasn’t mentioned when they first started blocking support. Recall that eighty-nine Republicans voted in favor of eliminating the funding for Ukraine back in July.
https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-ndaa-ukraine-funding-republicans-1812772
And MTG said, “Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine.”
And Matt Gaetz introduced a “Ukraine Fatigue” resolution seeking to end “military and financial aid” to Ukraine.
“They’re idiots for mixing the two”
You could have stopped at “They’re idiots”. And the idiots who are controlling the House are opposed to supporting Ukraine, period.
Mike Johnson, the MAGAt Republican Speaker of the House,
• Voted against the 2022 Ukraine Supplemental Appropriation
• Voted in favor of Amendment 21 to H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act, which would have stricken $300 million of assistance for Ukraine.
• Voted in favor of Amendment 22 to H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act, which would have prohibited all security assistance for Ukraine.
• Voted in favor of Amendment 25 to H.R. 2670, the National Defense Authorization Act, which would have removed the extension of lend-lease authority to Ukraine.
• Voted against H.R. 5692: Ukraine Security Assistance and Oversight Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2023.
The only bad thing is that most Republicans allow themselves to be led through the arena by nose rings, led by the maga morons.
“They are not maga morons.”
But the maga morons are the ones blocking the funding for Ukraine.
A ruSSian victory will be a catastrophe for the free world. VOTE NIKKI HALEY! And don’t complain again in case she won’t win! SC 🇺🇸
I must say, you’ve been a Nikki Haley guy for years. Now the world is catching up with you 😉