The president's emergency budget request is not just a plea for military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.
Joe Biden addresses the nation on the conflict between Israel and Gaza and the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday.President Joe Biden’s emergency budget request—which totals $105.85 billion—is not only a plea for much more military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. It’s also a political document designed to attract those lawmakers and their constituents who are leery of spending money on faraway conflicts.
However, it also includes $13.6 billion for security on the United States’ Southern border—thus, Biden seems to hope, mollifying critics who say he should focus more on our own borders than on the borders of faraway foreign allies. When terrorists and dictators don’t pay a price for their aggression, Biden said, “they keep going.” If Vladimir Putin succeeds in conquering Ukraine, he could move on to Poland and the Baltics. Those are NATO members, meaning if they’re attacked, the U.S. would be treaty-bound to respond directly. “We do not seek to have American troops fighting against Russia,” Biden said.
“Hamas and Putin represent different threats,” Biden said, “but they share this in common: They both want to completely annihilate a neighboring democracy.” He also noted that Iran is helping both Hamas in Gaza and Russia in Ukraine—and that North Korea is providing weapons to Russia as well.to describe what he saw as a growing alliance among Iraq, Iran, and North Korea), Biden seemed to be suggesting that the concept now applied to Iran, North Korea, and Russia.
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