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What's Biden's endgame in Ukraine?

Last week President Biden signed a massive $40 billion aid bill for Ukraine.

Who cares that inflation is killing the American economy and mothers can't even get baby

formula?

For Washington spending on war and empire always seems to trump America's interests.

To put this giveaway to Ukraine in perspective, just since late February the U.S. provided

nearly $60 billion in assistance to Ukraine.

That is almost half that country's entire 2020 GDP.

The Biden administration claims that Ukraine is winning the war with Russia and that such

an expenditure to protect Ukraine's borders is critical to our national interests and

worth risking a nuclear war over.

But protecting Ukraine's democracy is no longer the stated goal of the administration.

Defense Secretary Austin outlined the administration's new intention not long ago when he said that

the real goal is to weaken Russia.

Biden's neocons are fighting a war with Russia.

But once again Congress has no interest in voting on a war declaration or even in debating

whether war with Russia 30 years after the end of the Cold War is a good idea.

There's a reason for our constitution for granting war powers to the legislative branch.

Having members of the House and Senate declare the U.S. to be in a state of war also enables

them through the powers of the purse string to define the goals of the war and particularly

what a victory looks like.

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