Speaker Mike Johnson announced he is sticking with his plan to put a series of foreign aid bills on the floor, including funding for Ukraine, after facing significant pressure from hardliners.
“After significant Member feedback and discussion, the House Rules Committee will be posting soon today the text of three bills that will fund America’s national security interests and allies in Israel, the Indo-Pacific, and Ukraine. #AureFreePress
Finally #MikeJohnson acts, probably on behalf of #TFG. Hopefully, aid for #Ukraine, in particular direkt needed ammunitions and air-defense systems won't arrive too late. #Putler will no ramp-up drones and missile strikes even further in the weeks to come before delivery.
With all due respect, asking the wrong questions rarely leads to the right answers, let alone solutions that work.
And if assumptions are incorrect, an analysis is incomplete or even faulty, the deductions and conclusions can never be correct, even if they sound reasonable
Via Prof. #RobertEKelly, Pusan National University (South Korea)
"Snap Insight: Iran-Israel conflict will get worse before it gets better
For years, Iran and Israel have engaged in tit-for-tat strikes against each other. Their conflict increasingly looks like a slow-motion war with no obvious off-ramp...
...than 120 #BallisticMissiles, a very small number penetrated the #Israeli
border, while the rest of the missiles were intercepted. This small number fell at an
air force base in #Nafatim and caused minor damage to infrastructure."
I agree.
I'd go even further re/ "de-escalation," though:
The #MullahRegime needs a face-saving "victory" against the aggressor, at least for it's populace.
Telling the world and rubbing it in that "you accomplished nothing" will only anger the Mullah Regime further, as well as a big part of the #Iranian people, against #Israel and the West ("Death to America!")
IDF and Netanyahu Regime: tone it down, better STFU!
...Also, the "ironclad support" must be within the framework of international law: if the Netanyahu Regime clearly is the aggressor or escalates situations beyond any reasonable retaliatory measures (#Gaza, #IranianConsulate in #Syria,) it cannot be that the West defends #Israel against--reasonable--retaliation.
It is like the nasty small guy on the playground that hits others and then quickly runs away, hiding...
...nation hostage is, IMO, a casus belli. Portugal should consider invoking #NATO Article 5.
The mass delivery of #Iranian drones to #RussiaIsATerroristState causes enormous hardships in the #WarInUkraine. The West is footing the gigantic financial bill.
Maybe it is time to solve the weapons problems at its root: take ot #Iranian drone and ballistic missiles factories as a response.
However, w/o telling him to desist from further escalation or else...it will not work.
Besides, "Bibi" is the guy who embarrassed mighty Ronald Reagan twice with severe acts of aggression. (Interesting #TheEconomist pod last week--paywalled.)
For decades, the US always had his back. He's not going to change now, not in his old age and with his political and legal back against the wall.
I'm ...
...almost willing to bet.
I've been saying it for months: #Netanyahu needs war, if necessary even escalation. As soon as the war is over, he will face criminal charges.
No, he's not a madman, but utterly ruthless and doesn't care about non-Jewish lives at all, and #Jewish lives only if it serves him politically.
Can't we just agree that both sides are wrong? The Israelis just sort of took the land from the Palestinians, and the Palestinians have killed lots of innocent Israeli civilians over the years.