A dramatic meeting at the White House on Tuesday to provide $60 billion in additional funding for NATO’s war in Ukraine ended in a 4-1 vote with conservatives. This is hardly fair, but it reflects the sturdy pressure from globalists to throw more money into this bottomless pit of war.
The top two Democrats in the House and Senate, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who does not represent most Republican senators on the issue, joined forces with President Biden to intimidate Speaker Johnson into allowing a House vote on the amount $60 billion in additional funds. Johnson emerged from that meeting rightly stating that we must put the crisis on our southern border first.
Speaker Johnson is on the same side as Donald Trump, whose influence is growing despite Democrats’ attempts to exclude him. Trump’s sweeping victory over globalist candidate Nikki Haley in her home state of South Carolina on Saturday continues his trajectory toward re-election in November, making Biden a lame duck for the remainder of his term.
The satirical magazine Babylon Bee joked: “Congress issued a dire warning to the American people on Friday, sternly reminding voters that unless they continue to send billions of dollars in taxes to Ukraine, the war could end.” American taxpayers should not finance further bloodshed there.
However, newly elected Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski went on CNN on Sunday to demand this foreign aid, pompously telling Speaker Johnson that “your country’s credibility is at stake.” Sikorski speaks excellent English because he was educated at England’s Oxford University, which has been promoting globalism since the time of the first Queen Elizabeth over 400 years ago.
Sikorski would not have maintained his position if the previous conservative Polish government had not foolishly allowed the admission of over a million Ukrainian migrants. This huge inflow plunged the Polish economy, with its GDP plummeting from a growth rate of 5.3% in 2022 to just 0.2% and high inflation in 2023.
Meanwhile, Russia appears to be flourishing, producing huge amounts of oil, a contrast to Biden’s anti-energy policies that are hampering our economy. Russia’s largest oil producer, Rosneft, last week declared a 47% raise in net profits in 2023 to $14 billion, with oil financing a third of the Russian government’s budget.
Russia’s military-based economy produces much more munitions than the West. Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH), who opposes more funding for the war in Ukraine, said last week at the Globalist Conference in Munich that Ukraine uses as many Patriot missile interceptors in a month as it takes the United States in a year to produce, and the Patriot has now a five-year retroactive order.
On Tuesday, the U.S. military announced the elimination of 24,000 positions, in part due to personnel shortages. Recruitment for our military has fallen well below expectations, and threats by DC politicians to send American troops to defend the borders of petite NATO member states will not be tolerated by voters.
Phyllis Schlafly called for NATO’s dissolution at the end of the Cold War and opposed the “mission creep” that led NATO to meddle in Ukraine to provoke Russia. We should not support Ukrainian President Zelensky’s ambition to occupy the Crimean Peninsula, where the Russian navy has been stationed in Sevastopol for 240 years.
Zelensky canceled national elections scheduled for spring, and globalists pretending to care about promoting democracy should oppose this. There is a huge Ukrainian American electorate in Ohio, where their senator Vance openly opposes further American financing of this war.
House Speaker Johnson has a golden opportunity to set conditions before authorizing a vote on sending more billions to Ukraine. First, Johnson should demand that Biden completely close our southern border to end illegal immigration there, and second, he should halt funding for politicized prosecutions against Trump and his supporters.
The latest data from the Biden administration shows that Arizona has overtaken Texas for the worst illegal alien invasion. The Border Patrol reports that 250,000 illegal immigrants have entered the Arizona sector over the past four months, despite the treacherous landscape there.
The shocking murder of a youthful nursing student in Georgia and the “disfigurement of her skull” while jogging has been brought to delicate by an illegal alien who was arrested twice but released. “Instead of sending him back, Biden’s failed policies allowed him to be released into a country where he murdered an innocent American girl,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) wrote on Twitter.
Politicians in DC should focus on the many problems along our own border before sending more money to finance a border dispute in Eastern Europe. Trump promises to end this war by forcing Ukraine and Russia to negotiate an agreement, which is a reasonable approach.
John and Andy Schlafly are the sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924–2016) and run the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles writing and policy work.
