U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to hold separate votes this week on new assistance packages for Israel and Ukraine, aiming to assemble fragile coalitions to support both embattled allies.
I absolutely hope very very much that this will be the moment of sea change in American politics, where we fund Ukraine way too late (as opposed to after they’ve lost the war, which is what will happen if we don’t), and funding for Israel becomes a point of contention for the first time in decades and gets held up, after Netanyahu has done his absolute level best to tee up that result by being directly antagonistic to the US at the exact same time he’s ramping up his war crimes to historic and world-outraging levels
I am I have to say somewhat prepared to be disappointed though
I absolutely hope very very much that this will be the moment of sea change in American politics, where we fund Ukraine way too late (as opposed to after they’ve lost the war, which is what will happen if we don’t), and funding for Israel becomes a point of contention for the first time in decades and gets held up, after Netanyahu has done his absolute level best to tee up that result by being directly antagonistic to the US at the exact same time he’s ramping up his war crimes to historic and world-outraging levels
I am I have to say somewhat prepared to be disappointed though
No way Republicans will shoot down Israeli budget. So…