The Speaker

President Joe Biden called on the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, to pass the bill to aid Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. This is a national security matter. This is the Reuters coverage on this:

U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday said he is willing to meet with House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson to discuss a funding bill for Ukraine’s war against Russia, saying that Republicans are making a mistake by opposing the aid package.

The Senate in a bipartisan vote earlier this month passed a $95 billion aid package that includes funds for Ukraine, but Johnson so far has declined even to bring it up for a vote on the floor of the House, which Republicans control by a narrow 219–212 margin. He has been demanding a meeting with Biden.

Now, let’s look at the politics of this. Because they are related to our place in the world, as well as the Russians taking Avdeevka, or the IRGC apparently having volunteers in Donetsk. For this, let’s look at Yigal Levin:

The Russia no Context channel, which monitors the publications of the Russian occupiers and pulls out all sorts of interesting things from VK and not only, publishes these Murzilok with the following comment:

“Donetsk region. Iranian mercenaries from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who signed a contract with the army of the Russian Armed Forces, are based…