Biden’s Speech Inflames Republicans. “Asks for no less handout than $100 billion”
Crisis in the US – and Ukraine – About to Get a Lot Worse, and Longer
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Breitbart news represents many Republicans when it tears apart Biden’s presidential speech yesterday evening 19 October 2023 as follows:
The world thought the speech would be about Israel. And he did talk about Israel. But the speech was really about Ukraine.
He tried to connect Israel and Ukraine in order to suggest to Americans that if you support Israel’s war for its own survival, you must also support limitless taxpayer resources being sent to Ukraine – after those funds make a pit stop in the bank accounts of U.S. defense contractors, of course.
Yes, duplicitous Joe used dead Jews as an excuse to give a speech about Ukraine funding — from the Oval Office, no less.
Yes, – using “dead Jews” in Israel as Breitbart bitterly calls it, as an emotional pressure to blackmail Republican members of Congress for billions more in Ukraine aid and to secure the continued over-spending by Biden’s own government for months to come.
This is against the will of the majority of House Republicans, who adamantly want to reduce spending and who already once cut out Ukraine spending in the temporary funding until 17 November 2023.
This explosively negative reaction to Biden’s move from the activist Republican wing as presented by Breitbart above was expected.
Yesterday, 19 October 2023, activist-Republicans blocked the move by so-called “moderate” members of Congress (a.k.a. the “uniparty”) to get a more conformist House Speaker elected through the backdoor by empowering the Speaker-pro-tempore, who so far has only got formal duties.
That didn’t work. The activist Republican Rep. Jim Jordan is back on the agenda in the fight for a new House Speaker – and that fight may now take weeks if not months, in which period Congress cannot pass either funding or bills.
The crisis in Ukraine and in US spending and governance is about to get a lot worse – and longer. Meanwhile, as Biden is losing the political funding-game in Washington, and the US is losing the war in Ukraine, things are about to get a lot worse for US troops in the Middle East as well.
In the past 48 hours, US troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked no less than 7 times. So far, these attacks seems to be only warnings to the US about what is about to happen, once the US uses its two aircraft carriers and 2,000 marines off the coast of Lebanon to attack.
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Karsten Riise is a Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School and has a university degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from Copenhagen University. He is the former Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Mercedes-Benz in Denmark and Sweden.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.
