Sad Faces in the Kremlin As the House Sends Ukraine Aid Package to Almost Certain Senate Approval

Russian officials showed a pouty face after the House voted to approve a $96 billion aid package that included $61 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine. The general mood and tenor of the comments give the impression that Russia was surprised that the bill passed by a whopping 311 to 112 margin.

Just last week, Russian television was upbeat that Speaker Mike Johnson, or "our Johnson" as Olga Skabeeva calls him, would scuttle the bill because he needs Trump's approval to move on it.

There was a lot of wishcasting going on, and I could've saved them the heartbreak if they had just given me a few clicks.

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This is Presidential Spokesman Dmitry "Pornstache" Peskov on the passage of the REPO Act. This bill, already passed by the Senate, allows the US government to use frozen Russian assets to pay reparations authorized by the UN General Assembly.

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has claimed that the US House of Representatives' decision on aid for Ukraine will "make the US even richer and Ukraine even more bankrupt". He further stated that the United States will "have to answer for the decision to seize Russian assets, as Moscow will take measures meeting its interests without time limits".
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"As for the bill on the seizure of Russian assets, we still need to sort out the details. In any case, as long as the seizure of our assets is in question, this will cause irreparable damage to the image of the United States of America, this will force numerous investors in that country to save their funds, since the immutability of private property, what is more, state property will be violated."
He said America will "have to answer for this" and gave a chilling warning that Russia will be "taking action in such a way that best meets our interests." He further noted: "The seizure of Russian assets will damage the US image and scare away investors in that country."

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Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's comments could have been ripped from social media, David Sacks's "X" account, or the comments section of this website.

We have no interest whatsoever in the noise coming from the House of Representatives over approving aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, which goes hand in hand with the tug-of-war between the White House and the Republicans who, with the upcoming presidential campaign in mind, were also pushing for funding the efforts to put an end to illegal border crossings from Mexico.
One thing is clear: regardless of their party affiliation, the US ruling elites are willing to flood the Kiev regime with weapons for it to continue to fight to the last Ukrainian and to continue, among other things, to carry out terrorist attacks targeting civilian sites in Russia, to perpetrate acts of sabotage, and to kill journalists. For this purpose, Washington is resorting to the trivial theft of frozen Russian assets, for which Congress has given the green light to the Biden administration.
Interestingly, amid these internal squabbles, the White House is no longer banking on an ephemeral victory by the Kiev regime under its control. All it wants is for the Ukrainian armed forces to hold out at least until the November voting without damaging Biden’s image. Actually, this is why the agony of Zelensky and his inner circle is being dragged out, and ordinary Ukrainians are being forcibly driven to slaughter as cannon fodder. The Republicans who are lobbying the interests of the US defence industry, which will receive the bulk of allocations to Ukraine, have a stake in this as well.
Considering this, we confirm that Washington’s actions as an active party to the conflict will be rebuffed unconditionally and decisively, and its increasingly deeper plunge into the hybrid war against Russia will end up in a fiasco for the United States as scandalous and humiliating as in Vietnam and Afghanistan. In any case, frenzied attempts to save Zelensky’s neo-Nazi regime are doomed. The goals and objectives of the special military operation will be achieved in full.

Former Russian President and current deputy head of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev was also suffering from gritty undies. [Italics in the original.]

Medvedev, who serves as the deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, argued that “the vote of gleeful American bastards” will only prolong the fighting and “increase the number of victims of this war.”
“Obviously, we will win, regardless of the bloody dollars shoved down the throat of the insatiable [American] defense industry. The strength and the truth are on our side,” Medvedev wrote on Telegram, calling the US “a despicable empire of evil of the 21th century.”

Medvedev called the aid package "Russophoblc" and described the criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine as a " continuation of the civil war of the divided people of our formerly united country.”

The veracity of their statements is of little import, mainly because their commentary is entirely detached from reality. What is clear is that the vote on the Ukraine aid package shook Kremlin insiders. That is what we should pay attention to for two reasons. First, the aid package is large enough that they are panicked, and second, they obviously thought the fix was in. The second item is something we should ponder. Are they getting their political intelligence from alt-right US social media accounts, or do they own someone who is telling them that?