Defense Secretary's extortion of Congress for Ukraine aid
Absurdly warns of U.S. troops fighting Russia on NATO territory
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recently delivered a classified briefing to Congress warning that if billions in more military aid were not lavished on Ukraine then that parsimony would “very likely” lead to U.S. troops on the ground in Europe defending a NATO country that Putin had been emboldened to attack. The hysterical warning was reminiscent of British Prime Minister Anthony Eden’s absurd alarm in 1956 that if Egypt’s Nasser were not ousted for nationalizing the Suez Canal western civilization would end. Putin’s armed forces can barely hold their own in Ukraine or Chechnya. His assassination of Wager Group maestro Yevgeny Prigozhin betrayed weakness, not strength. The collective defense budgets of NATO sans the United States dwarfs Russia’s military spending. To borrow from Mr. Bumble in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, if the intelligence community believes Austin’s jumbo threat inflation, it is a ass, a idiot.