{"id":53281,"date":"2022-10-19T15:13:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T15:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53281"},"modified":"2022-10-19T15:13:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T15:13:23","slug":"dont-turn-back-on-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53281","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t turn back on Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Memo to Kevin McCarthy: If Republicans take control of Congress after the midterm election, y&#8217;all will trifle with trouble if you resist delivering as much aid as possible to Ukraine, which is fighting &#8212; successfully &#8212; for its independence against Russian aggressors.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. House GOP leader has said Congress might keep the checkbook open as the war progresses. My own view is that McCarthy is sending a chilling message to Ukrainians and is giving a bit\u00a0 of comfort to Russian thug Vladimir Putin as he continues to prosecute his immoral and illegal war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>It seems plausible, in a bizarre way, for the Republican congressional leader t threaten to pull back on aid to Ukraine. The GOP&#8217;s titular leader, Donald Trump, has been cold-stone silent on the Russian invasion, seeming to imply an endorsement of the action that Putin took against a sovereign nation.<\/p>\n<p>Is this the kind of congressional leadership this country needs in this time of dire peril? I think not!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memo to Kevin McCarthy: If Republicans take control of Congress after the midterm election, y&#8217;all will trifle with trouble if you resist delivering as much aid as possible to Ukraine, which is fighting &#8212; successfully &#8212; for its independence against Russian aggressors. The U.S. House GOP leader has said Congress might keep the checkbook open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=53281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Don&#8217;t turn back on Ukraine<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1941,2670,9899,5125],"class_list":["post-53281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-gop","tag-kevin-mccarthy","tag-ukraine-war","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53282,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53281\/revisions\/53282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}