Ronald Reagan's Republicans Are Starving Ukraine of Military Support
The Kremlin rejoices at the chaos caused by America's 'fight column'
While Republicans, one by one, bend their knee before their “dear leader,” Donald Trump, they are using everything they can — including the kitchen sink — to prevent the country from being governed. Stagnation translates to chaos, which equals misery for Americans. Misery leads to calls for radical and extreme actions.
In Ukraine, though, Republicans are as calm as cucumbers as they systemically deny the Ukrainian warriors U.S. aid. The bottleneck created means that when shells are delivered to frontline artillery units, each gun is allocated three or four. A year ago, one of the gunners told CNN, they were able to fire 50 and 60 rounds a day.
This year, they fire between 10 and 20 shells if lucky. Russia recently received one million rounds from North Korea, so they have no problem. Russia is also lacking another issue as it nears the second anniversary of its war of genocide: It does not have a Republican Party in the country openly working to tear down its country. Putin has a solution to his army’s deadly incompetence: that same Republican Party working overtime to destroy Ukraine and the United States.
Russia has again resorted to the only tactic its army knows. It was used effectively during World War II and regularly in Ukraine. The “meat assaults,” human waves of infantrymen thrown at heavily defended positions with the expectation that most will die, are causing Ukraine’s defenders to burn through their precious supplies of munitions.
“Meat assaults” is how one Ukrainian sniper, “Bess,” described these attacks to CNN. His callsign means demon in Ukrainian and the scene he recounts is hellish. The dead soldiers, “just lie there frozen,” the Omega Special Forces Group officer said from a house several miles behind the frontline in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
“Nobody evacuates them, nobody takes them away,” he said. “It feels like people don’t have a specific task, they just go and die.”
“Teren,” the commander of a Ukrainian drone reconnaissance unit in the town, said that even “if we can kill 40 to 70 servicemen with drones in a day, the next day they renew their forces and continue to attack (Russia’s Relentless ‘Meat Assaults’.)”
The reliance on meat assaults has been so determined lately that it almost seems that upon hearing how the U.S. Congress was no longer going to fund Ukraine, the Kremlin forced its commanders to begin the assaults again to wear out the Ukrainian munitions’ stocks.
The vile cowards like Marjorie Tayler Greene, Matt Gaetz, and so many others are doing Trump’s bidding. Trump wants Putin and Russia to defeat Ukraine. It was Trump’s behavior when dealing with Ukraine that led to his first impeachment, and so he clearly would love to see President Zelensky in a Russian prison.
It’s hard to comprehend how so-called American patriots could be so openly rooting for our nation’s primary enemy to defeat one of our allies. This ally has been illegally invaded and has suffered what Ukraine has. The ignorance that pulses through the heart and soul of today’s Republican Party is utterly spellbinding. A loss in Ukraine empowers Russia and weakens the United States. A victory in Ukraine for Russia endangers all of Europe and pushes the United States and Russia closer to a nuclear war.
How the Republican Congress does not understand this is a question that I am sure many struggle to answer. When I think, however, of how far we have fallen, it sickens me to the point where I almost feel obligated to take some action. Elected representatives, who somehow keep getting re-elected despite their support for our nation’s enemy, are openly sabotaging Ukraine’s efforts to defend its country.
Even more tragically, these Republicans are sentencing thousands of innocent Ukrainians to death by refusing them the support they need to defend their land. Ukraine is a modern Continental Army — we have no right not to be supporting them until their — our — enemy is defeated.
As a lifelong Democrat, I learned to appreciate the limited government / pro-business perspective of the pre-Reagan GOP. A debate between them and the progressives of the Democratic Party was good, healthy policy wrangling. Today, the GOP is a threat to the country's political, economic, social and cultural well-being. We're in deep doo-doo.