{"id":1711256,"date":"2022-10-26T07:58:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T11:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711256"},"modified":"2022-10-26T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T12:05:07","slug":"115-billion-dollars-in-u-s-aid-to-ukraine-is-a-bad-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/115-billion-dollars-in-u-s-aid-to-ukraine-is-a-bad-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"$115 Billion Dollars in U.S. Aid To Ukraine Is A Bad Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F115-billion-dollars-in-u-s-aid-to-ukraine-is-a-bad-idea%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1711256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ukraine-11-e1666714588433.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>I wrote an article yesterday (published just hours ago) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/115-billion-in-total-aid-for-ukraine-is-possible\/\">proposing<\/a> that the extra <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/lawmakers-could-rush-through-50-billion-in-aid-ukraine-report-2022-10\"><span>$50 billion<\/span><\/a><span> in aid that Congress is expected to send to Ukraine was a bad idea. That brings the grand total in total aid from the U.S. \u2013 if passed \u2013 to $115 billion\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Why is this a bad idea? <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Because U.S. aid is the only thing propping up the Ukrainian resistance \u2013 allowing the suffering to continue as the likelihood of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/how-world-war-iii-starts-would-putin-use-tactical-nuclear-weapons\/\">nuclear exchange<\/a> increases; meanwhile US domestic spending priorities are being neglected while we send an eleven-figure sum to Ukraine. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And for what? <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Territory in eastern Ukraine that serves no strategic purpose for the United States; territory that is not worth the U.S. investment nor the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/what-will-nato-do-if-russia-uses-nuclear-weapons-in-ukraine\/\">risk of nuclear war<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I proposed as an alternative to sending unlimited amounts of aid to Ukraine that the US initiate some sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/the-long-road-to-a-peace-deal-between-russia-and-ukraine\/\">peace settlement<\/a> between Ukraine and Russia. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Simultaneously, thirty House Democrats, led by Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), released a letter making a similar proposal: direct diplomacy with Russia to end the war in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2022\/10\/25\/house-progressives-letter-russia-ukraine-diplomacy\/\"><span>letter<\/span><\/a><span> was pretty mild. The CPC condemned Russia\u2019s \u201coutrageous and illegal invasion of Ukraine\u201d and re-upped support for a \u201cfree and independent Ukraine.\u201d The group even emphasized their belief that \u201cmilitary and economic support\u201d to Ukraine should continue. But in endorsing direct diplomacy with Russia, the group committed what has become a cardinal sin in Washington. The group and their letter were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2022\/10\/25\/inside-the-democratic-divisions-on-ukraine-00063288\"><span>eviscerated<\/span><\/a><span>, with fellow Democrats leading the backlash.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>One House Democrat said that \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/does-this-picture-mean-vladimir-putin-has-cancer\/\"><span>Vladimir Putin<\/span><\/a><span> would have signed that letter if asked\u201d and that \u201cthat bone-headed letter just put Dems in the same league as Kevin McCarthy, who said in the same week that Ukraine funding could be in jeopardy.\u201d Well, McCarthy is generally unpleasant and misguided but with respect to indefinitely funding Ukraine, his skepticism is warranted.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) took to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChrisMurphyCT?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><span> where he said there was \u201cmoral and strategic peril in sitting down with Putin too early\u201d and that \u201csometimes, a bully must be shown the limits of his power before diplomacy can work.\u201d Well, the limits of Putin\u2019s power extend to nuclear weapons. Should we allow Putin to test the strategic limitations of his nuclear arsenal before we agree to engage diplomatically?<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Representative Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), a member of the CPC who opted not to sign the letter, said that \u201cit\u2019s up to the Ukrainians to determine their destiny, and the best way to do that is to support Ukraine in their fight for freedom, their fight for democracy.\u201d Okay, so we\u2019re using platitudes about freedom and democracy to suggest that the Ukrainians should have free reign to dictate America\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/08\/08\/world\/europe\/us-ukraine-aid-russia.html\"><span>checkbook<\/span><\/a><span> and geopolitical strategy.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The aggregate response from Democrats denouncing the CPC\u2019s letter is barely sensical \u2013 yet predictable and mostly, uncontested. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The war in Ukraine is understood to be unwinnable for the Ukrainians. Only with American support can the Ukrainians blunt the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/is-putin-building-his-very-own-maginot-line-in-ukraine\/\"><span>Russian<\/span><\/a><span> advance. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>So Americans, in choosing to support Ukraine indefinitely, are propping up an unwinnable war in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2022\/10\/24\/world\/-russia-ukraine-war-news\"><span>perpetuity<\/span><\/a><span>. And all the while the risk of nuclear exchange increases. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Wouldn\u2019t it make more sense to engage in the diplomatic process and force a peace settlement? What\u2019s the alternative exactly, annihilation? And why are slivers of eastern Ukrainian territory vital to US interest and pride? It just doesn\u2019t quite add up.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>My suspicion is that the left is so ardently anti-diplomacy-with-Russia not because of Russia\u2019s illegal invasion of Ukraine \u2013 but because the left has conflated Russia with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.19fortyfive.com\/2022\/10\/a-donald-trump-comeback-what-that-means-for-the-ukraine-war\/\"><span>Donald Trump<\/span><\/a><span>. Through Russiagate, claims of Russians interfering in US elections, and the persistent and silly claim that Trump is aligned with Putin, the left views standing up to Putin as a way of standing up to Trump \u2013 who remains the left\u2019s public enemy number one.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>The left needs to recalibrate its perspective on Ukraine \u2013 and prioritize peace over pride.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><span>Harrison Kass is the Senior Editor at 19FortyFive. An attorney, pilot, guitarist, and minor pro hockey player, he joined the US Air Force as a Pilot Trainee but was medically discharged. Harrison holds a BA from Lake Forest College, a JD from the University of Oregon, and an MA from New York University. He lives in Oregon and listens to Dokken. Follow him on Twitter @harrison_kass.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an article yesterday (published just hours ago) proposing that the extra $50 billion in aid that Congress is expected to send to Ukraine was a bad idea. 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