It is the view of this Dog that a failure to conquer the Ukraine COULD lead to Putin’s down fall as the Ukraine leader asks for….
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Congress is pushing Trump to start sending MORE arms to Ukraine now that Putin is ignoring the American President….
A bipartisan pair of senators on Thursday introduced legislation to provide $54.6 billion in aid to Ukraine over the next two years as Russia intensifies its attacks and U.S.-brokered peace negotiations have so far failed.
The measure by Senators Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the top Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, and Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, includes billions of dollars for direct weapons assistance, as well as money to replenish American stockpiles. It faces long odds in Congress given previous Republican opposition to sending more aid to Ukraine, and in light of President Trump’s aggressive campaign to slash spending, particularly foreign assistance.
But its release comes as Mr. Trump has significantly shifted his stance on helping Kyiv, including approving having European allies provide lethal aid to Ukraine and replenish their stocks with American weapons. Some Republicans have followed suit, signaling support for that effort and other ways of bolstering Ukraine’s defenses against Russian aggression.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump continued to take a harder line on Russi…..
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President Trump issued a warning early Thursday morning to former Russian President and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev after he criticized Trump’s foreign policy, telling him to “watch his words.”
“I don’t care what India does with Russia,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “They can take their dead economies down together, for all I care. We have done very little business with India, their Tariffs are too high, among the highest in the World.”
“Likewise, Russia and the USA do almost no business together. Let’s keep it that way, and tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he’s still President, to watch his words. He’s entering very dangerous territory!” the president added….
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