This is a weird ass thing to flex on since it is everything libs and neocons want, so what's his angle exactly? Could he singlehandedly stop the Ukraine funding and bring an end to this war?
An Aside: The USSR never should have transferred Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in the 1950's. Crimea had been Russia's largest warm water port for almost 200 years at that point. Khrushchev's shifting around of populations and territories is still causing messes to this day.
I used to think that the creation of the state of Israel was the modern original sin of western geopolitics, but I'm starting to think it's just all the arbitrary line drawing after ww2 in general.
The whole Black Sea region has seen war and conflict for 1000's of years. Longest peace in that area might've been under the Ottomans.
Nativist populists and actual libertarianism tends to be isolationist. Also while I think Rand is a corrupt piece of shit himself, there probably is some part of him that truly is the anti-“waste” small government guy he idealizes himself as.
Critical support for Comrade Paul.
this too. his only selling point to voters is that he's willing to be the single dissenting vote in unanimous decisions. here literally all he's asking for is more oversight for the spending.
Me, still in school first hearing about "Doctor No" Ron Paul whose gimmick was voting 'no' on everything passed by congress: Hey that's pretty cool! What's a libertarian? Sounds good so far!
"I would say that we agree oversight is critical," Psaki replied.
"...which is why we are 100% going to over look the fact that we have no idea where this money is going"
ELI5 how one senator can be the "lone holdout" on a vote? Doesn't he need like 40 other senators to do anything?
Well there's the fillibuster for one, not that this is a fillibuster and not that the current rules make a mockery of the actual tactic. But that is one way for a lone holdout to gum up the works and Rand is using some other rule that will buy them another week to make the package bigger or some other dumb shit.
And there are many rules like this. The rules that govern that body are so arcane that the only way anything happens is if it is preordained to happen. This is how you know that when the Women's Health Protection Act (codifying Roe v. Wade) went up for a vote and failed to pass 49-51, you know that is the result that both Democrats and Republicans truly and actually wanted.
libertarians are generally against military spending. they're against all kinds of spending, but no one else in congress disagrees on things like axing benefits programs and starving regulatory agencies.
Yeah he's gonna hand wring over the spending and then vote for it next week anyways.
