Russia - threadbanned users in OP

https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/russia-builds-30km-tsar-train-barrier-using-over-2000-freight-cars-in-east-ukraine/a1056413573.html

Another oil refinery hit.

I don't follow. The US haven't had 10mil illegal immigrants enter the US under Biden's tenure. There was a border bill which was dismissed by the GOP.

A strong US, needs a strong Europe and a strong Europe needs Ukraine to prevail.

It's just nonsense.

@pixelburp "In what respect? Not sure a noted right-wing senator espousing The Great Replacement conspiracy theory has much to contribute here. For sure we know the MAGA crowd are hell-bent on stopping Ukrainian aid, this guy's rant is only confirming what we know about their demagoguery."

Long term, population depletion has consequences. Even short term. Russia's population is decreasing by 700,000 per year. Not to mention those being killed in Ukraine - that's another 300,000. Likewise with Japan and most western countries. There are endless ramifications from this that affect current policy in all countries.

Hopefully sorted soon.

What else can you expect from a Country where its own women will not bring babies into the World???

The real issue to be overcome in the house is Mike Johnson. He's already signalled that he's not keen. And if he doesn't schedule the vote then it will never occur.

He's been making noise again that he wants border control measures as part of this. However the 4 month long highly conservative negotiated border control + foreign aid failed in the senate last week. Astoundingly voted against by the very republicans who negotiated the bill. Utter madness. But that's the Republican party under the influence of Trump for you. And Johnson was against it before the details of the bill were even revealed. So it's pretty obvious that Johnson is just kinda doing what Trump wants.

So this leaves a few options.

1. Johnson is removed by a vote of no confidence and replaced by someone who will bring the bill to the floor. This would require a vote by 3 republicans who are not afraid of Trump or his MAGA cohort. Funnily enough there's been a few house republicans who are strongly pro ukraine that have recently announced they won't be running for their seats again in November. So they'd be immune to the Trump threat. https://twitter.com/cathymcmorris/status/1755670100038816171 , https://twitter.com/RepGallagher/status/1756389895096918262. At which point some cohort of the democrats would need to offer a vote of no confidence protection to the next speaker. They didn't do this for Kevin McCarthy and in my opinion that was an enormous mistake. But I don't know how likely this whole scenario is.
2. Something called a discharge petition. Where all the democrats and either 3-5 house republicans,(I think, depending on how many democrats of the 218 they'd lose) would be needed to basically force the issue to the floor past Johnson. Democrats have said they're considering this move and some Republicans have also made noise that they'd support it. It would be quite rare and these things don't work very often. It would also be highly embarrassing for Johnson but weirdly be the out that he'd need to avoid losing his speaker position and have plausible deniability to stop Trump killing his career in the primaries.
3. Johnson calls the vote due to senate pressure. Probably won't happen.

As far as I've read these are the options available. But then I'm not political expert either so take everything I say with a grain of salt. There's enormous pressure to get this bill passed but also substantial opposition. I do think if it makes it to the floor for a vote it'll get enough votes. But getting there will be the real battle. So fingers crossed.

Just another day of threatening your neighbours again.

I really hope the new aid is passed soon, but I am unfortunately still pessimistic.

(As you imply) Trump ultimately sets the Republican party agenda, and I mean their (Manchurian!) candidate recently said publically he would throw the mooching Europeans (and by extension the Ukrainians) to the wolves, let Putin work his will. The Republicans as a collective seem to be...well...okay with that really.

Doesn't look like the elected Republicans in the US will expend political capital this year to oppose what Johnson is doing, or this dangerous stuff Trump is coming out with, so it must fit with what a big portion of the party base believes now. Silence and doing nothing gives consent. I am an 80s Cold War child, and it is incredible to me, though I suppose the earlier history (mid to late 1930s and early WW2 period) shows this kind of political current is not unprecedented for US politics.

I think Ukraine (and Europeans) should be planning for the aid not to come through till post the next US election. I am of course assuming the Democrats win it there. I suppose even if they don't, there may be more open battle betwen the factions inside the Republicans over the issue, with the US election out of the way. There is serious disagreement among them on Ukraine, but seemingly not enough will there to go hard against Trump, and support the Biden admin. goals in an election year.

Thats because no law can be passed in the US unless it passes all 3 branches house, senate and president who then signs the law. The senate is inherently an undemocratic institution which is weighted in favour of small population states which tend to be very conservative against the bigger population states and thus a build in bias in favour of conservatism is part of their system.