The Senate has passed a $95 billion dollar aid package for Ukraine and Israel but the Majority Leader in the U.S. House of Representatives, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) signaled that Republicans there will not pass it without the border security measures they want.
However, a bi-partisan border security measure is already on the table that Johnson et al have also rejected, refusing to work across the aisle to mitigate the border crisis now in favor of dictating an approach as a campaign promotion for 2024.
In a bipartisan realm most Americans yearn for, fair play, not political warfare would win the day. Those in the GOP following Trump’s whims are too afraid of him to reach across the aisle and solve problems now to help unify the country. That fear should be a warning bell. They fear their own candidate or else most Republicans would cross the aisle and pass this bill.
This state of affairs feeds the Dictators’ Axis daily and increases chances of lost strategic leverage for the United States. This in turns increases chances that U.S. boots on the ground will be necessary to do what Ukraine has been doing to stop the Russians from marching into Eastern Europe.
Ironically, Johnson and the House majority in deference to Trump by emboldening Putin will likely drive more migration from areas considered next targets of the Dictators’ Axis across the world. With Trump signaling his lack of support for NATO on the campaign trial refugee migration will only get worse.
If action isn’t taken now, many weaker states and their resources will likely fall to this Dictators’ Axis which will continue working toward its global mercantile guild with which to isolate, reduce trade with, and choke-out the free nations, including the United States. Their goal would be to reverse resource leverage against Americans on behalf of a wave of global dictatorships spreading North, West, and South, surrounding free nations in the West, and the West Pacific.
If the Putin’s momentum is not stopped as soon as possible, these negative outcomes will unfold with greater speed and momentum as time passes, putting the United States in an isolated, outnumbered position economically, internationally, and militarily. This means the United States could face an Axis of forces with very few friends left to join us in defense against gray, irregular, and kinetic warfare in the decade to come.
