The 61bn dollar question is what Trump does now by Martin Jay!
(2024-04-26 at 19:18:03 )

The 61bn dollar question is what Trump does now by Martin Jay!

The southern border issue is still left hanging while Ukraines borders take precedent with United States lawmakers.

Until just a few days ago, no one in the world had heard of Mike Johnson. The Republican House speaker in the House of Representatives made world acclaim when he threw his weight behind an aid package for Ukraine totalling some 61bn USD and throwing the cat among the pigeons in so doing.

Johnson has made a lot of friends in the Democratic party and lost a few from his own party in making the aid package happen, while he insists that he was briefed by intelligence experts which urged him to rush the bill through.

Perhaps he was offered incentives. We may never know. But the deal that went through was so unprecedented that it has left many Republicans wondering if there is any point in having a majority in the House at all, especially given that the southern border issue is still left hanging while Ukraines borders take precedent with United States lawmakers.

The move was a decisive victory for President Biden though, at least in the short term whereas for Donald Trump many analysts are saying that his one master card he had to play during the elections - that he personally will stop the war in Ukraine along with the spending - has now been shown to be a busted flush.

For Biden and for his western elitist surfs, the objective was clear: keep the business of war going as long as possible with Zelensky in power to extract maximum profits.

The flawed thinking is of course that those who signed off the aid package are literally using the plastic sacks of cash as a way of keeping warm as they chuck it onto the bonfire of the vanities otherwise known as the war that Biden did not want but was very much brought about by a nervous reaction to the so-called election interference in 2016.

The real flaw in the failed joined-up thinking is that the money will have some if any impact on the war itself.

The real crisis Zelensky has is not so much with military hardware as he claims but more with infantry.

This latest tranche of military aid will provide missiles, which is the new thinking from Kiev and the NATO knuckleheads.

Just like the Americans were convinced they could win the war in Vietnam with air superiority, the thinking now in Ukraine is that missiles and missile defences are the game changer.

However, no one can blame Biden for the stunt which drew Trump in and made him now a signed-up member of the crankies.

Analysts now point out that Donald Trump has crossed one of his own red lines and will not have the punch it will require to win in December as he and many of his supporters actually backed the bill.

Was he playing a bluff? Will he say once in office "I only signed it as I knew it would put Biden in a much tougher hole to climb out of but now I am president, I am going to stop the war in an instant by stopping the cash flow"?

Hard to say. Hard to double guess Donald Trumps mind when he does not even know himself and so many of his decisions about his own self-preservation and glutenous business cravings rather than salient political common sense.

But can this money have any real impact between now and December, given what we know about stockpiles in the United States and how long it even takes to get kit to Ukraine, even if it is ready and good to go?

Russia will of course take advantage of this military failure of Zelensky and push ahead with their tanks on firm ground now, with the winter well behind them, with President Biden playing a high stakes gamble that Americans will not be asking him in the mid-winter how is it that he can not find 160 odd billion dollars for fighting poverty in the United States, while he can to pay the salaries of civil servants in one of the most corrupt countries on the planet!

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