US House of Representatives approves critical $61bn package - BBC News
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The long-awaited vote comes as Ukrainian troops face a weapons shortage in the war against Russia.
  • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    FINALLY!!! 10,000,000,000s more dollars to perpetrate mass genocide in Palestine! I love dead children!

    Ghoul

      • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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        6 months ago

        Yeah, and it comes with an additional $26,000,000,000 to continue the mass butchery of innocent men, women, and children in support of a genocide that eclipses what Russia is doing.

        It also comes with banning the largest platform for pro-Palestinian content…

              • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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                5 months ago

                It’s still one package, mate. The fact that they voted on the Israel part separately is irrelevant when the vote fucking passed anyway.

                • realitista@lemm.eeOP
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                  5 months ago

                  No they are separate packages. It’s not possible to vote on things separately if they are one package.

                  • brain_in_a_box@lemmy.ml
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                    5 months ago

                    The foreign aid package passed on Saturday also includes: - $26.4bn (£21.34bn) in military support for Israel, with $9.1bn (£7.36bn) of that allocated to humanitarian aid for Gaza - $8.1bn (£6.55bn) in funding for allies in the Asia-Pacific, including Taiwan, to “counter communist China”.

                    k

      • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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        5 months ago

        The same bill included billions for Israel. You can’t separate the 2; they’re literally the same funding package.

          • t3rmit3@beehaw.org
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            5 months ago

            I never said you can’t; that’s your choice to make whether you can compartmentalize these from each other on an emotional level.

            But whether you are happy for Ukraine or not, on a factual level you cannot ignore that this bill’s passage is also furthering a genocide.

            Unless you are openly valuing the lives of Ukranians over the lives of Palestinians, I’m not sure you can say the bill’s passage is ultimately a good thing.