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Zelenskyy Goes To D.C. Seeking Greater U.S. Support in Fight Against Russia

Zelenskyy Goes To D.C. Seeking Greater U.S. Support in Fight Against Russia

By September 22, 2023 Politics 0 Comments


Dangerous luck for Zelenskyy in D.C. On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy met with President Joe Biden, making his plea for higher U.S. assist for the conflict effort towards Vladimir Putin’s Russian invasion. Although the White Home had simply introduced a $325 million air-defense bundle for Ukraine, “the Biden administration has opted to not present Ukraine with long-range missiles often known as ATACMS that will permit Kyiv to strike nicely behind Russian strains,” stories Axios.

 Zelenskyy’s plea for a further $24 billion additionally doesn’t look prone to materialize, as Rep. Chip Roy (R–Texas) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R–Ohio), together with six senators and 22 members of the Home, used the event to voice their opposition to that prime greenback quantity of Ukraine assist. As Republicans within the Home proceed to oppose spending invoice proposals, the U.S. authorities inches nearer to shutting down, offered appropriations can’t be agreed to by the Sept. 30 deadline.

In the meantime, as Zelenskyy has been within the U.S. this week, relations between Poland and Ukraine have soured as a consequence of a grain dispute, and Poland has declared it’s going to not arm Ukraine. Additionally this week: “Practically 50 kids from Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine have been taken to Belarus… with the assistance of a charitable basis that has been accused of facilitating Russia’s forcible deportations of Ukrainian kids,” stories The New York Occasions. 

On Tuesday, whereas in New York, Zelenskyy addressed the final meeting of the United Nations and sounded alarm concerning the kidnapping and deportation of youngsters from occupied areas.

Kamala Harris, right here to safe the border and finish all gun violence? The White Home has created a federal Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention and tasked Vice President Kamala Harris with main it. “Each time I’ve met with households impacted by gun violence as they mourn their family members, and I’ve met with so many all through the nation, all of them have the identical message for his or her elected officers: ‘do one thing,'” [President Joe] Biden stated in a press release.

This, apparently, is that one thing. It isn’t clear how this workplace will really work to resolve the issue, neither is it clear that Harris’ earlier busywork—supervising the administration’s border technique—was accomplished efficiently. No data has been launched on how a lot funding this workplace will gobble up, both.

Brokers of the state hopefully held accountable: This week, Cause‘s Billy Binion has been protecting the Tony Timpa wrongful loss of life trial from Dallas.

In August 2016, “Timpa informed a [911] dispatcher that he was having a psychological well being disaster,” saying “he had schizophrenia, bipolar dysfunction, melancholy, and anxiousness and that he had not taken his medicine. Two personal safety guards handcuffed Timpa and waited for the cops.” Timpa was then held down by law enforcement officials in a susceptible restraint for over 14 minutes as he cried out, asking them to cease and telling them he was going to die. The law enforcement officials joked as they held Timpa down. Following his loss of life, the federal government refused to offer Timpa’s household the physique digital camera footage of the incident, after which invoked certified immunity to protect the cops from civil legal responsibility (which was later appealed and overturned). “Tony Timpa’s story exhibits how far the federal government goes to forestall victims of abuse from in search of recourse,” notes Binion, who has coated this case extensively.

Now, lastly, Timpa’s case will likely be weighed by a jury. Trials like these are “extremely priceless fact-finding instruments—significantly when the defendants are authorities staff who might have violated the Structure on the direct expense of the taxpayer,” writes Binion.

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