From Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall

Back in March, George Soros wrote that the Ukrainian defeat of Russia was vital for progressing the global green revolution. The Republican Congress may be about to refuse Biden’s request for more military aid.

Playbook: McCarthy’s latest gambit falls flat

By RACHAEL BADE, EUGENE DANIELS and RYAN LIZZA 

09/18/2023 06:04 AM EDT

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IS UKRAINE AID DEAD? — Which brings us to the bigger picture: Ukrainian President VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY heads to Washington later this week in a last-ditch effort to shore up American support for his war-torn nation. But while there’s a broad bipartisan coalition keen on continuing aid to Kyiv, it increasingly looks like that assistance could become the latest casualty of the battle inside the GOP.

To recap: The White House and Ukraine’s bipartisan allies in the Senate have plotted for weeks to advance $24 billion in supplemental Ukraine aid alongside whatever temporary funding patch moves around the Oct. 1 shutdown deadline. House conservatives have erupted at the notion of attaching Ukraine aid to a CR, and even McCarthy’s gambit of moving it separately with border security legislation has gotten a chilly reception.

Now the notion of moving any Ukraine aid has appeared on the litany of grievances the hard right is using to threaten McCarthy’s speakership. And even Greene, one of McCarthy’s top allies on the right, told Playbook recently that no amount of border funding could compensate for another injection of U.S. taxpayer money overseas.

“It’s getting to be a very taboo issue in our conference, and the American people don’t support it,” Greene said, calling the battle against Russia’s invasion “a war that should be over.”

…Read more: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2023/09/18/mccarthys-latest-gambit-falls-flat-00116484

Soros’s article from March;

Russian defeat is inevitable, and will allow world to focus on our real problem — Climate change

The countries of the former Soviet empire eagerly await defeat of the Russian army in Ukraine, and the world will be able to focus on climate change, writes George Soros

THU, 23 MAR, 2023 – 01:28
GEORGE SOROS

It is just over one month ago that I gave a speech on the eve of the Munich Security Conference. Since then, so many remarkable things have happened — and have happened so fast — that it is worth comparing my predictions of a month ago with actual developments.

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The countries of the former Soviet empire, eager to assert their independence, can hardly wait for the Russian army to be crushed in Ukraine. At that point, Putin’s dream of a renewed Russian empire will disintegrate and cease to pose a threat to Europe.

The defeat of Russian imperialism will have far-reaching consequences for the rest of the world. It will bring huge relief to open societies and create tremendous problems for closed ones. Most importantly, it will allow the world to concentrate on its biggest problem, climate change.

…Read more: https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/commentanalysis/arid-41098510.html

If the opportunity to do the opposite of what Soros wants isn’t convincing enough, there is an additional problem which must be considered.

There is evidence Europe is spending a lot of cash on interfering with US domestic politics, by attempting to bypass US politicians who oppose the extreme European green agenda, and by providing substantial support to US politicians who share Europe’s green ideals.

We don’t often get to glimpse behind the curtain with European politics. Quite apart from the language barrier, European politics is generally a lot less open than US politics. But European politicians occasionally let important information slip.

One such slip was a public boast by then British Climate Change Minister Claire Perry, about all the good they were doing, reaching out to elected US politicians, and helping them to coordinate and sabotage President Trump’s America First agenda.

UK bypasses Donald Trump to discuss climate change with US city mayors directly

Claire Perry, the Climate Change Minister, says British Government is now speaking to ‘other players’ in US about how to fight global warming

Ian Johnston
Environment Correspondent
Tuesday 25 July 2017 14:21

The UK has started bypassing Donald Trump over climate change, talking directly to city mayors and other officials committed to trying to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the new Climate Change Minister has revealed.

Claire Perry, who was appointed to the post after the general election last month, said that British ministers had not “missed an opportunity” to tell the US President that they were disappointed he had decided to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, the news service Bloomberg reported.

She said she had been speaking to “other players” in the US, including the mayor of Houston, Sylvester Turner, who visited the UK last week.

…Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/uk-donald-trump-climate-change-us-city-mayors-talk-direct-paris-agreement-houston-sylvester-turner-a7859291.html

If you want to know why US politics today is so messed up, I suggest a potential explanation for what went wrong is good people in the USA are experiencing collateral damage from an ongoing and well funded European effort to destabilise and reshape the political landscape of the United States. These are the people Biden wants US taxpayers to help.

Stopping US financial aid to Ukraine, forcing Europe to step up and commit their own resources to stopping Russia, instead of treating the people of the USA with contempt, yet still expecting the USA to pay all their bills, would not only impede George Soros’ global green revolution, and potentially save the people of Russia from a completely unnecessary replay of the 1990s post Soviet social chaos and economic and political collapse, it would hopefully also draw resources away from whatever nasty games state sponsored European influencers are playing on the ground inside the United States.

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Update (EW): Just published, UN Zelensky speech confirming climate action is a key reason for supporting Ukraine.

… We know the possible effects of spreading the war into the cyberspace. The artificial intelligence could be trained to combat well – before it would learn to help the humanity. Thank God, people have not yet learned to use climate as a weapon. Even though humanity is failing on its climate policy objectives – this means that extreme weather will still impact the normal global life and some evil state will also weaponise its outcomes.

And when people in the streets of New York and other cities of the world went out on climate protest – we all have seen them… And when people in Morocco and Libya and other countries die as a result of natural disasters… And when islands and countries disappear under water… And when tornados and deserts are spreading into new territories… And when all of this is happening, one unnatural disaster in Moscow decided to launch a big war and kill tens of thousands of people.

We must act united – to defeat the aggressor and focus all our capabilities and energy on addressing these challenges.

…Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/9/20/full-text-zelenskyys-speech-to-the-un-general-assembly

My opinion, European climate activists are desperate for Russia to be utterly crushed, and soon, so they can turn the billions of dollars of resources they are currently spending on Ukraine against the political opponents of their extreme green agenda. Every dollar the USA sends to Ukraine brings that opportunity closer to their grasp.

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Update (EW): Like I said, glimpses behind the curtain. US citizen in jail in Ukraine, facing 5-8 years for the crime of journalism. Claims he has been beaten and extorted in prison. No contact since July. I wonder how long any of us who have ever criticised Zelensky would last, were we to ever set foot on Ukrainian soil?