Representative Matt Gaetz says weapon shipments will only \u201cprolong the killing\u201d
\nThe US must stop sending billions of dollars to bolster Ukraine\u2019s military, Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz said during a speech in the House of Representatives on Monday. He slammed President Joe Biden and both parties, saying the conflict in Ukraine is only benefiting military contractors.
\n\u201cTomorrow [at the State of the Union address] President Biden will tell us how much more we must do for Ukraine,\u201d Gaetz said, adding that the ongoing hostilities are only lining the pockets of America\u2019s military industry.
\n\u201cDefense contractors need there to be a war going on somewhere. Whether the arms end up in the hands of ISIS, the Taliban, the Azov Battalion, or on the black market,\u201d according to Gaetz. Washington\u2019s support of Ukraine with endless weapons will not end the war but just \u201cprolong the killing,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cBandits in the Sinaloa mountains hurt more Americans than the [Russian] men in Crimea,\u201d Gaetz said, adding that the benefits of the conflict to normal Americans are \u201cunclear.\u201d
\nHe lamented that \u201cforeigners\u201d have come to Washington \u201cto lecture us about spending our constituents\u2019 money on a conflict thousands of miles away\u201d \u2013 a reference to Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s visit to the US Capitol in December.
\nHe accused Biden of doing \u201ceverything possible\u201d to provoke a nuclear war with Russia and called on the White House to pursue a solution through diplomacy.
\nBiden promised 31 US-made M1 Abrams tanks for Ukraine in late January, but said that Washington would not send F-16 fighter jets. Gaetz noted that Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the warplane, was ramping up production in anticipation that there could soon be \u201cthird party transfers\u201d of the jets to Kiev.
\nAsked about the tank deliveries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in January that they will \u201cburn\u201d like every other weapon in the conflict zone.<\/p>\n
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