So, what can possibly be done that hasn’t been done during the Biden years. And that’s a word not mentioned in the Politico piece: Biden. But, the piece is meant to be a hit job on Trump
‘Gee, I Don’t Know How We Can Stop This’: Republicans Prepare to Push Trump on Putin
While Ukraine just pulled off an audacious and effective attack on Russia’s bomber fleet, Vladimir Putin is slow-walking Donald Trump’s effort to nudge the warring countries toward peace talks and continuing to kill Ukrainian civilians, irritating the American president.
Soon, Trump could have on his desk a sanctions bill that would do grave damage to Russia’s capacity to fund the war by targeting the countries still buying Moscow’s oil and gas, the lifeline of their economy. The measure, co-sponsored by Senators Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), has amassed a remarkable 82 sponsors and both Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker Mike Johnson this week vocalized their support for confronting Russia.
There may not be again such an opportune moment to squeeze Putin and finally force him to the negotiating table.
Trump has gotten this further than Biden ever did. Not that things are really happening, because Ukraine refuses to give up land, and also wants Crimea back. This bill would hit France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Czech Republic in the EU. And India and Japan. And China. Some have significantly cut down their reliance, but, do still get natural gas from Russia. Getting beyond the notion of whether or not it is a wise idea to sanction friendly countries, will it actually move the needle towards stopping the war? Sanctions haven’t done a damned thing so far.
There’s only one hold-up: Trump doesn’t seem to want to.
There’s little indication he will publicly green-light Congress to send him the bill, let alone sign it were it to ever reach him, prerequisites for it to clear both chambers. In fact, on Wednesday the president, after speaking to Putin, released a statement previewing Russia’s reprisals for the airfield attack without any denunciation and intimated he’d rather have Putin’s help with Iran than push the Russian strongman toward a ceasefire in Ukraine. By Thursday, Trump wasn’t just offering punditry about Moscow’s coming counter-attacks, he was portraying more fighting as inevitable and perhaps even useful, likening the two nations to children on a playground better left to fight it out till they each tire.
See? Trump Trump Trump.
The gap between GOP lawmakers eager to starve the Russian war machine and a president more interested in, as he says, getting along with Putin in hopes they can do great deals together has never been starker. And it is about to present a test of Republican leaders in Congress: Is there anything on which they will force Trump’s hand?
Blah blah blah. No one is asking the question: will it do anything?
Trump got elected because of his promises including the one vto end the Ukraine war “”on day one!”
Mr Teach still faults that demon of left wing media for reminding us of the failure of that promise
Americans have the choice of widely differing media view points. Tech is triggered not by what IS said, (free speech!) but by the fact that overwhelmingly Americans choose to rely on the media he personally dislikes.
Lol and remember the stink he raised about Biden giving Ukraine 31 Brams tanks (out of our stockpile of 8000). OMG !!! He almost started nuclear war!!
Now that Trump has said Putin is playing with fire, Teach thinks?
john,
What is a Brams tank?
It’s the Indian Army version.
Thanks, still does not make sense.
The same old neocons doing the same old thing in the same old way. Promises to cripple Russia’s economy with sanctions will work this time for sure.
Ohhh! Thank you for reading my post and noticing my error!
Actually it should have been Abrams tank.i mistyped and left off the “A”
The “A” Brams is the latest model tank built by the USA
The US army has learned a lot by sanctificing those 31 tanks. And their probable life expectancy on a modern battlefield. Would you agree that Biden was correct in sending them?
Sometimes I make accidental mistakes, sometimes deliberately to check and see if anyone is reading them.
Not to worry. You can always tell when the pedants have no argument! They look for typos.
Neoconservatives like JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, the Bushes, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz got us into the quagmires of Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq costing Americans 10s of thousands of lives and TRILLIONs of dollars. Of course, Mr trump escalated defense spending in his first term, after President Obama had cut spending. NuRepublicans (MAGAts) want it both ways, increased defense spending for their business buddies (and “allies”) while decrying use of military, all the while poking the bears – Russia and China.
John,
No, Biden or whoever was running our government did nothing right for 4 years. Putting our military hardware in a conflict is as stupid as it gets and prone to cause world war.
gazprom the russian state natural gas company just announced their yearly report which said that output was the lowest since 1978. Largely gue to those Euros refusing up buy
The sanctions are working. They are hitting the economy of russia
Mr Teach wants to protect Putin at all costs. Mr trump wants Trump Inc to work with Putin Inc in the future so he has to step sofltly.
Big Don and Jaded JD tried to hamhandedly buffalo Zelenskyy but it didn’t work. Why not sanction Ukraine? Cut off all support!! Even back Russia!
Ukraine attacked Russian bombers. Putin attacks Ukraine civilians.
In case you’re still wondering…
Nws from the front
Bwaha! Lolgf!
MAGA47