{"id":2122284,"date":"2023-12-11T20:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-putin-thinks-his-dreams-are-coming-true-with-ukraine-aid-impasse-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2023-12-11T20:12:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T01:12:19","slug":"zelensky-putin-thinks-his-dreams-are-coming-true-with-ukraine-aid-impasse-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelensky-putin-thinks-his-dreams-are-coming-true-with-ukraine-aid-impasse-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky: Putin sees his dreams coming true as Ukraine aid stalls in Congress"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fzelensky-putin-thinks-his-dreams-are-coming-true-with-ukraine-aid-impasse-in-congress%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=2122284&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--><h2>The Political Standoff Threatening U.S. Aid to Ukraine: A Victory for Putin<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cLet me \u2063be frank with you, friends: If there\u2019s\u200b anyone inspired\u200d by unresolved issues on Capitol Hill, it\u2019s just Putin and his sick clique,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky told a National \u2063Defense University audience \u200dat\u200d the\u200b outset\u200d of a trip\u2064 to Washington,\u2062 D.C. \u2062\u201cThey see the dreams come \u2063true \u2063when they see the delays. \u2026 They see freedom \u200dfalling when the support of freedom fighters goes down.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>MADURO&#8217;S THREAT AGAINST OIL-RICH NEIGHBOR RAISES SPECTER OF PUTIN COPYCAT IN VENEZUELA<\/h3>\n<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin welcomed\u2063 Zelensky with a prefatory pledge that <strong>\u201cAmerica&#8217;s commitment to supporting \u2064Ukraine against \u2064Russian aggression is \u2062unshakeable.\u201d<\/strong> The \u200capplause\u2062 that followed\u200d the line couldn\u2019t silence Zelensky\u2019s apparent recognition\u200c that this support\u2062 has been shaken and might fail, a prospect \u200bthat has stirred an array of anxious appeals\u200c to the West.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Simply put, we cannot get tired of this situation because otherwise we will die,\u201d Ukrainian first \u2064lady Olena Zelenska told the BBC in an interview that aired Sunday. \u201cAnd if the world gets tired, it will just \u2062let us die. We badly need help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The provision \u200bof that assistance \u2063has come into doubt in recent months as Republican skepticism about Ukraine aid hardened into \u200ba demand \u200cthat the legislation to provide the funding also include border security provisions that Republicans\u2063 long have favored. President Joe Biden\u2063 hoped\u2064 to sidestep that demand by assembling \u200ca supplemental funding bill that \u200dwould\u200d include other more popular priorities,\u200c such as funding for Israel and\u200d various U.S. initiatives in the Indo-Pacific region, but the talks remain stalled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of what it would\u200b mean for Ukraine, what it would mean for Israel, what\u2064 it \u2064would mean for \u2062our efforts to be competitive in the Indo-Pacific \u2014 I think the only \u200bpeople who\u2019d be happy if this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-ask-congress-for-33-billion-to-support-ukraine-through-september\/\" title=\"Biden to Ask Congress for  Billion to Support Ukraine Through September\">supplemental budget request<\/a> is not voted on and approved by Congress are sitting in Moscow, sitting in Tehran, sitting in Beijing,\u201d Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday. \u201cFor Ukraine,\u200d this is absolutely vital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky argued more broadly that the war in Ukraine has high-stakes implications for \u2064Western security as he\u2064 cast the conflict as the beginning \u2063of a Kremlin effort to re-litigate the collapse of the Soviet Union \u200dand the end \u2064of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince\u2063 1989, freedom\u2019s\u2062 enemies got stronger, trying \u2062to turn their annoyance at\u2064 freedom\u2019s success into a comeback,\u201d Zelensky \u200bsaid. &#8220;Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine isn\u2019t just about some old-fashioned dictatorship trying to settle scores, real \u2062or imagined. It\u2019s\u2062 not just Moscow trying to split Europe again. It\u2019s Putin attacking\u2062 that big shift that happened\u200d back in \u20621989.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That assessment has traction \u200bon both sides of \u2062the \u200daisle\u200c in Congress, \u2064where leading Senate Republicans believe that <strong>\u201cif Russia prevails, there\u2019s no \u2062question that Putin\u2019s appetite for empire will extend to NATO,\u201d<\/strong> in the recent words of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).<\/p>\n<p>Yet the \u200binflux of immigrants across the southern border has enervated House Republican support for the war in Ukraine as right-wing border hawks have argued \u2064that the \u2062Biden administration is more willing to support Ukraine than the U.S. citizens affected by the border crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need any admonishments \u2062about what\u2019s at stake for America and our allies in Ukraine\u2019s fight against Russian aggression,\u201d McConnell said Thursday. &#8220;Republicans have spent years urging the administration to start performing even\u200d the bare minimum of its fundamental responsibility to secure our southern border and enforce\u200d our nation\u2019s laws. Right now, the crisis \u200ccreated \u200dby the Biden administration\u2019s\u2063 neglect is bringing \u200dillegal \u200baliens \u200cto the United States at a rate of \u2064300,000 a month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As frustration\u200c with the \u200dborder crisis feeds conservative House Republican opposition to aid for Ukraine, a pair of California Democrats warned Biden against striking a compromise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCaving to demands \u2062for these permanent \u2064damaging policy changes as a \u200d\u2018price to be paid\u2019 for an unrelated one-time spending package would \u200cset \u2063a dangerous \u2062precedent,\u201d Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Rep. Nanette\u2062 Barragan \u2063(D-CA) said Monday in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky, whom Biden invited to Washington with the apparent goal of tipping the balance in that debate, tried to strike a\u200d rhetorical note congenial to\u200b the Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople like Putin shouldn\u2019t \u2064even hope\u200d to conquer freedom,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd we can show our children and grandchildren what real confidence is, as was shown to us\u2063 \u2026 when in \u2064Berlin the great words were spoken: \u2018Tear down this\u2062 wall.\u2019 We need no \u200bless \u200bconfidence now than President [Ronald] Reagan had then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/zelensky-ukraine-putin-russia\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How does the political divide in Washington \u2062over Ukraine aid undermine America&#8217;s global\u200c leadership and commitment \u2063to defending democratic nations<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Pand beyond Ukraine, potentially destabilizing \u200cneighboring countries and challenging Western democracies.<\/strong> Even some Democrats who\u2064 are more reluctant to\u200d engage in military intervention acknowledge the\u200d significance of\u200d Ukraine as a test case for Western resolve \u2063in the\u200c face of Russian\u200b aggression.<\/p>\n<p>But while the stakes are high for\u2062 the \u200bsecurity of Ukraine and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/29-gop-legislators-give-white-house-bad-news-about-ukraine-funding-on-the-day-zelenskyy-visits-dc\/\" title=\"29 GOP lawmakers deliver negative news to White House on Ukraine funding during Zelenskyy's DC visit.\">broader geopolitical landscape<\/a>, the political\u200c standoff in Washington threatens to \u200bundermine U.S. aid to Ukraine and play into Putin&#8217;s hands. The delay in providing vital assistance to Ukraine not only weakens\u2062 its ability to defend itself against\u2062 Russian encroachment but also sends a message of wavering commitment from the United States, emboldening Putin to further exploit the situation.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that U.S. aid to Ukraine has long enjoyed bipartisan\u200d support, recognizing the strategic importance of maintaining a stable and pro-Western ally in the \u2063region. However, \u2062the recent demands from Republicans to tie Ukraine aid\u2063 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-house-republicans-push-against-senate-gop-proposal-to-tie-border-security-to-ukraine-funding\/\" title=\"Texas House Republicans push against Senate GOP proposal to tie border security to Ukraine funding\">border \u2064security provisions<\/a> have injected unnecessary complications into\u2062 the process,\u200b risking the timely provision\u2064 of \u2062much-needed assistance. While border security is a valid concern, it\u2064 should not be used as a \u200bbargaining chip that jeopardizes the security of a \u2062frontline ally facing \u2062Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>The political\u2063 divide in\u200d Washington over Ukraine aid not only threatens the lives and security of Ukrainians\u200d but also\u2064 undermines \u200cAmerica&#8217;s global\u2063 leadership and commitment to defending democratic nations. \u2062It presents Putin with an opportunity to exploit this division, showcasing perceived \u2063weakness \u200cin Western resolve and further advancing his revisionist agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the implications\u2063 of failing to support Ukraine \u200dgo beyond the \u200dimmediate security concerns. It sets a precedent that\u2063 the United States is willing\u2063 to abandon\u200b its allies when faced with\u200b domestic political obstacles, eroding \u2064trust in\u200b American commitments and \u2062emboldening other\u200d aggressive \u200cactors \u200daround the world.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken&#8217;s statement that \u200bthe only beneficiaries \u2062of a stalled supplemental funding bill for Ukraine are sitting in Moscow, Tehran, and Beijing highlights the\u200c urgency of passing the bill and the potential consequences of inaction. It is\u2062 essential for Congress to \u2064prioritize the interests of national security and global stability over political disputes and\u2062 swiftly pass the\u200d supplemental funding\u2063 bill to\u2062 support Ukraine and counter Russian aggression.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 Biden administration must also take \u200ba proactive approach in rallying bipartisan \u2064support for Ukraine aid and overcoming the political\u2062 obstacles that threaten its timely provision. It is crucial for the administration to\u2063 make \u2062the case \u2064for Ukraine\u200c aid as a \u2064critical component \u200bof countering Russian aggression, protecting Western interests, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pete-buttigieg-regularly-consults-with-dark-money-funded-green-groups\/\" title=\"Pete Buttigieg Regularly Consults With Dark Money-Funded Green Groups\">upholding democratic values<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the political standoff\u2064 threatening\u2063 U.S. \u2062aid to Ukraine is not just \u200da victory for Putin but\u200c a \u200dsetback for the United \u200dStates\u2062 and its allies. It is imperative for American leaders to rise above partisan divides, prioritize national security, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-desantis-warns-u-s-must-secure-southern-border-or-face-significant-risk-of-terror-attacks\/\" title=\"DeSantis: Secure Southern Border or Risk Terror Attacks.\">demonstrate unwavering support<\/a> for Ukraine in the face of\u200b Russian aggression. Failure to do so not only puts Ukraine&#8217;s future at \u200crisk but also undermines the credibility and\u2062 global standing of\u200c the \u200cUnited \u200cStates as a champion of democracy\u2064 and defender of freedom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Zelensky stated that the political deadlock jeopardizing U.S. assistance to Ukraine aligns with Putin&#8217;s desires. Speaking at a National Defense University event, Zelensky candidly expressed that Putin and his associates are the only ones benefiting from the unresolved matters on Capitol Hill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2122285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2122284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2122284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2122284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2122285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2122284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2122284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2122284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}