Betrayal of America: Washington Militarists “LAWFULLY” Plunder US Treasury

Few Members of Congress Raise Objections

As the United States’ general economy struggles “against multiple headwinds, its notorious military-industrial complex is enjoying a golden opportunity.… 

“Annual revenue of the West’s military-industrial complex will reach 510 billion dollars in 2025, an increase of 106 billion dollars from that of 2021.” The lion’s share of the profits will likely go to “top U.S. defense contractors.” November 8, 2022 Xinhua news and opinion

“For the United States, war is an extremely profitable business.” The United States, by the largest and most devastating war in human history, “was crowned the world’s sole superpower.” The “gross national product (GNP), measured in constant dollars, grew from 88.6 billion U.S. dollars in 1939 to 135 billion dollars in 1944; and the share of war-related production in GNP jumped from only 2 percent—to an astonishing 40 percent (source: British economic historian Alan Milward). 

Author Xin Ping, a commentator on international affairs, writing regularly for Xinhua News Agency, Global Times, CGTN, China Daily etc. https://english.news.cn/20221108/4cd4d21b2ae64654abef1c7aff5f6295/c.html

Gushers Reported in 

Domestic and International Sources

 

March 16, 2022 White House Press Release 

“Fact Sheet on U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine”: “President Biden today announced an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine, bringing the total U.S. security assistance committed to Ukraine to $1 billion in just the past week, and a total of $2 billion since the start of the Biden Administration.” https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/16/fact-sheet-on-u-s-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

August 8, 2022 USAID Press Release: 

“The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in coordination with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, is providing an additional $4.5 billion in direct budgetary support to the Government of Ukraine….” https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/aug-08-2022-united-states-contributes-45-billion-support-government-ukraine

October 14, 2022 U.S. Department of Defense Press Release 

“$725 Million in Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine”: “Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $725 million…. This authorization is the Biden Administration’s 23rd drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.” https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/3189571/725-million-in-additional-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

October 21, 2022 Congressional Research Service (CRS) update (using DOD figures)

U.S. funding slated for Ukraine from 2014 through October 14, 2022 exceeds $20.3 billion. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12040

October-November International News sources: 40 billion-dollar gusher passes U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 368 to 57. 

 

A Few Members Raise Objection 

on social media platforms

GAETZ

“‘Maintaining Ukraine as an international money laundering Mecca isn’t worth’ the threat of nuclear war’”—

3 Congresses Matthew L. GAETZ II: private practice attorney, former member of the Florida state house of representatives, JD William & Mary Law School (Williamsburg, VA) MOC 2017-present https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000578

GOSAR

“‘Ukraine is not our ally’” (and) “‘Russia is not our enemy.’” We need to address our crippling debt, inflation and immigration problems. None of this is Putin’s fault.’”
“‘Calling us names is not a logical position.” “‘I have no principle to follow but the path of peace and non-intervention. My grown children have known nothing except American war and intervention for naught.’” ♦ “‘NO MORE Foreign Aid, especially not to fund a war that we should have NO involvement in’”—

6 Congresses Paul GOSAR dentist, DDS Creighton University (Omaha, Nebraska), MOC 2011-present); ♦ Censured by the U.S. House of Representatives (November 17, 2021) for posting a “‘manipulated video on his social media accounts depicting himself killing U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and attacking President Joseph Biden.’” https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000565

GREENE

“US aid to Kiev has ‘killed thousands and thousands of people [and] drastically driven up the cost of living all over the world’” ♦ “Focus on ‘criminal gangs’ ‘making billions trafficking humans and drugs, killing over 300 Americans [per] day;’” focus on the “domestic oil and gas industry” … instead of obsessing on Russian leadership—

Freshman Member of  Congress Marjorie Taylor GREENE (2021-present), business owner, University of Georgia baccalaureate https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000596

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