“We have issued the last package that we had withdrawn and for which we had funding,” John Kirby said. White House National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby said at a briefing Thursday that “the assistance we were providing has come to a halt.”
The White House official also said it is very important that Congress continues to approve the allocation of money to Ukraine. He stressed that Kiev needs help more urgently during the winter period.
How the hell did we go from McCarthyism to “hurting Russia is less important than hurting democrats” in this hellhole?
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It’s pretty easy for a foreign government to buy a small handful of US Congresspeople or Senators to do their bidding.
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Because McCarthyism wasn’t about being anti-Russia, it was about being anti-communist. And since Communism is generally (always?) politically left, it’s still and always has been about being reactionary conservative.
It wasn’t even about political alignment, it was about trotting out a bogeyman to scare people into reactionary voting instead of informed voting.
Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.
Well there’s been about forty to fifty years between them. So… a lot?
Dark money and the southern strategy.
Once the cold war was over they needed a new enemy to vilify.