{"id":17552,"date":"2022-05-02T05:12:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T03:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=17552"},"modified":"2022-05-02T05:12:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T03:12:18","slug":"that-ability-not-to-have-to-send-our-sons-and-daughters-into-battle-is-priceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17552","title":{"rendered":"That ability not to have to send our sons and daughters into battle is priceless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/may\/01\/biden-request-33bn-ukraine-aid-michael-mccaul-republican\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;\">Approval for Biden Ukraine aid request likely after Pelosi Kyiv visit, McCaul says<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bob Menendez, the Democratic New Jersey senator who chairs the upper chamber\u2019s foreign relations committee, echoed Pelosi\u2019s pledge that the US would continue to support Ukraine financially.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will do what it takes to see Ukraine win because it\u2019s not just about Ukraine, it\u2019s about the international order,\u201d he said on NBC\u2019s Meet the Press.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Ukraine does not win, if [Russia\u2019s president Vladimir] Putin can ultimately not only succeed in the Donbas but then be emboldened to go further, if he strikes a country under our treaty obligations with Nato, then we would be directly engaged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo stopping Russia from getting to that point is of critical interest to us, as well as the world, so we don\u2019t have to send our sons and daughters into battle. That ability not to have to send our sons and daughters into battle is priceless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to keep our eye on the ball. And that is about helping Ukraine and Ukrainians ultimately being able to defeat the butcher of Moscow. If we do that, the world will be safer. The international order will be preserved, and others who are looking at what is happening in Ukraine will have to think twice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">Samantha Power, administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), laid out the urgent need for Congress to approve the package during an interview on CBS\u2019s Face the Nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\">\u201cThere are vast swaths of Ukraine that have been newly liberated by Ukrainian forces, where there is desperate need, everything from demining to trauma kits to food assistance, since markets are not back up and running,\u201d she said, noting that from previously approved drawdowns \u201cassistance is flowing\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: Approval for Biden Ukraine aid request likely after Pelosi Kyiv visit, McCaul says Bob Menendez, the Democratic New Jersey senator who chairs the upper chamber\u2019s foreign relations committee, echoed Pelosi\u2019s pledge that the US would continue to support Ukraine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=17552\">Weiterlesen <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":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}