Ukraine aid vote: US House of Representatives approves critical $61bn package - BBC News
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The long-awaited vote comes as Ukrainian troops face a weapons shortage in the war against Russia.
    • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
      11·
      6 months ago

      Yeah, and it comes with an additional $26,000,000,000 to continue the mass butchery of innocent men, women, and children in support of a genocide that eclipses what Russia is doing.

      It also comes with banning the largest platform for pro-Palestinian content…

            • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
              1·
              5 months ago

              It’s still one package, mate. The fact that they voted on the Israel part separately is irrelevant when the vote fucking passed anyway.

              • realitista@lemm.eeOP
                1·
                5 months ago

                No they are separate packages. It’s not possible to vote on things separately if they are one package.

                • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  5 months ago

                  The foreign aid package passed on Saturday also includes: - $26.4bn (£21.34bn) in military support for Israel, with $9.1bn (£7.36bn) of that allocated to humanitarian aid for Gaza - $8.1bn (£6.55bn) in funding for allies in the Asia-Pacific, including Taiwan, to “counter communist China”.

                  k

    • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
      3·
      6 months ago

      The same bill included billions for Israel. You can’t separate the 2; they’re literally the same funding package.

        • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
          3·
          6 months ago

          I never said you can’t; that’s your choice to make whether you can compartmentalize these from each other on an emotional level.

          But whether you are happy for Ukraine or not, on a factual level you cannot ignore that this bill’s passage is also furthering a genocide.

          Unless you are openly valuing the lives of Ukranians over the lives of Palestinians, I’m not sure you can say the bill’s passage is ultimately a good thing.

            • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
              1·
              5 months ago

              Ah, good to know. I heard Johnson was aiming to split them into separate bills, but hadn’t heard those versions were the ones passed. Most news outlets keep referring to them in the singular, which there was a bill that the Senate was building that was still unified.