(#5552) Ukraine aid is the hill trump will fail to survive

      The one thing that trump is determined to stop is aiding Ukraine. He has a deal with putin that if he breaks it will certainly cause putin to retribute toward trump a mighty hurt. This is why trump will not give his blessing to aiding Ukraine. The republican party will have to find a way around trump so as to get Ukraine the aid. There will likely be a vote this week to help Israel and what the outcome of that vote does to the republican party will be in large part due to whether Ukraine aid is part of it. If not then anything could happen even republicans voting against a stand alone bill just to help Israel.
     That would be the only way for the more moderate republicans in the House of Representatives to force the trump speaker of the House to offer a bill that also includes Ukraine, in order to get aid to Israel. It is an opportunity to force the Ukraine aid along despite the obstruction and threats coming from trump. The defense of Israel is a much more delicate issue with the often distorted evangelical base of the republican party. So it's heightened importance may be the push that Ukraine aid needs to get past the trumpian deal with putin to quit Ukraine and give it to putin. I don't hold out much hope for anything any more but when an opportunity shows itself I must at least root for it.
     So it seems another week of guessing how the pressures of trump may be overcome by rationality is upon us. All of this makes me long for the next election when we can eliminate the republican party from power in the last sector of our government that deals with legislative issues. Ukraine will likely need to fend off Russia without American help until the election makes for a new majority in the House. 9 months of strategy to survive instead of having the aid and literally kicking Russia out of Ukraine now. What the republican party is doing to Ukraine will forever stain the moral and ethical ground they suppose they stand on. They are not moral or ethical in their ambition to let a democracy of brave intelligent people be consumed by a treacherous and tyrannical figure like putin!