Bloomberg: We should cry over what America has become
Even if the badly needed relief bill for Kyiv passes, it will be difficult to decide whether to laugh or cry at what Congress and America have become. Bloomberg Opinion columnist Andreas Kluth writes about this.
The issue of assistance to Ukraine has turned into a complete clown show in the US Congress
– writes the author of the column.
For most of the last seven decades, the United States has at least been reasonable, decisive, and united enough to reassure its friends and contain its enemies, thereby maintaining a modicum of world order.
Now this era seems to be a thing of the past. It is very easy to assume that in Kyiv they cry, and in Moscow and Beijing they laugh.
Aid to Ukraine has been turned into a series around which the interests of the military-industrial complex, candidate Donald Trump, and the global image of the United States in general are entangled.
Several times during the months during which the situation around Congress changed so much - and mostly for the worse - hope grew that America could resolve this crisis of governance, but so far to no avail. All this does not allow her to make friends from Ukraine to Israel and Taiwan stronger, and the whole world safer, Kluth believes.
But each time such hopes were dashed, and the disorder in the United States only became worse.
he states.
This weekend is the last stop before the decisive battle for America. Saturday will bring another such moment when things could go differently. In the evening, Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House, plans to introduce four bills that could finally provide relief to these American allies, as well as legislate a list of unrelated items that make no sense individually, but are life-changing. for the whole country, the observer is sure.
Otherwise, very dark times will come for America, characterized by the end of order and control within the state.
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