An aid package scheduled for Ukraine later this month will be the final one unless Congress approves additional help, the White House warned Monday.
While aid provided to Ukraine thus far has been essential in resisting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country “still needs our help,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday.
He pointed toward a letter to Congress from the comptroller of the Department of Defense, Mike McCord, warning the department had fully allocated all remaining funding under the department’s replenishment authority earmarked for Ukraine.
“We are still planning one more aid package to Ukraine later this month. However, when that one’s done, as the comptroller Mr. McCord made clear in his note to Congress today, we will have no more replenishment authority available to us, and we’re going to need Congress to act without delay, as we have been saying,” Kirby said.
That’s what we always had. The people fighting the Cold War weren’t patriots, they were business people making business decisions at the expense of human lives.
At one point in time, and even today, there has to be people that are here because we believe we can do good. So maybe fuckwads of this vein have always infected everything. But the same must be true for people fervent to do good, else we wouldn’t have come this far before devolving back into warlords.
We came this far because it was profitable to come this far. The cogs of humanity have turned not because good people wanted to make progress, but because aloof people can make money off of the backs of good people who want to make progress. It’s why the biggest steps forward are from people who try to change the status quo; they’re willing to move outside the system of profit so they look for novel ways to do so. It just so happens that that’s usually also a very profitable endeavor for a new set of people. That’s not to say that good people don’t get to positions of power, but that good people get to those positions of power because the rich people let them.