After more than two months of bickering, the bipartisan bill in the United States has finally passed a bill to aid Ukraine.
The bill on aid to Ukraine began to be submitted to the National Assembly for approval last year, and after half a year, the dust has finally settled. However, the aid to Ukraine bill is actually more like "staining" Israel's light.
According to the voting results, the bill to aid Israel received 366 votes in favor and only 58 votes against, and 37 of these 58 votes came from the Democratic Party.
311 voted in favor of the aid bill, 112 voted against, 101 Republican lawmakers expressed support, and all voted against it were Republicans.
The two bills show a striking similarity, with both bills passed, but the signs of party splitting are hard to hide.
American "Churchill"?
First of all, there is no one more serious problem of division than the Republican Party. Although 112 people voted against the Ukraine aid bill, and all of these people are Republicans without exception, the bill was successfully passed thanks to the Republicans, because the Republicans have more than half of the seats in Congress, so whether the Ukraine aid bill is passed or not depends on whether the Republican Party wants it to pass.
In order to pass the bill smoothly, House Speaker Johnson can be described as laborious. Due to the bipartisan struggle in the US Congress, including the struggle within the Republican Party, which has a majority in the House of Representatives, the Republicans and Democrats have bargained over related issues, and the Republicans have demanded that if they want to pass the aid bill, they must improve the illegal immigration policy at the border, otherwise there is no room for negotiation between the two parties.
But Johnson still "pushed the crowd out" and insisted on pushing for aid bills to Ukraine and Israel to be voted on and passed in the House of Representatives. Johnson explained that if the United States does not continue to supply weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, Russia may emerge victorious, prompting it to penetrate deep into Europe and drag the United States into another world war.
NATO's eastward expansion has been 22 times, constantly challenging Russia's bottom line, and in Johnson's mouth, Russia has become an aggressor. The reason why the United States is aiding Ukraine is nothing more than to consume Russia's power and at the same time reap the wealth of the war.
Similarly, this batch of aid bills also includes $2 billion for arms sales to Taiwan, and the purpose behind it must not be clear, and everyone knows what it is for.
The United States, out of its own political interests, has continuously sent weapons to relevant regions to add fuel to the fire, and it is completely possible to say it in a big way, so why engage in these little tricks to slander Russia and China as "threatening the free world led by the United States".
And Johnson also became a "big hero" overnight in reversing the impasse in aiding Ukraine.
CNN even likened him to former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, praising him for "being on the right side of history."
However, "Churchill" could not escape the fate of being deposed.
Although Johnson has been praised by the American media, within the Republican Party, his colleagues may not see him that way. "Rare political courage" and "extraordinary legislative skills" are the words praised by the American media for Johnson, but in the mouth of Republicans, they have become "disloyal" and "traitor".
Johnson's concession on the aid bill has undoubtedly angered a large number of Republican conservatives. In particular, after Johnson promoted the passage of the aid bill to Ukraine, the Republican Party, which had the upper hand in border immigration policy, lost its original advantage.
Georgia Republican Rep. Taylor Green posted on social media on the 20th that Johnson's insistence on promoting the foreign aid bill regardless of US border security is a "betrayal" of Republicans and the American people. This sentence can be said to be very straightforward to show how much Johnson's "advocacy" has cost the Republican Party a head start in immigration policy. Taylor Green concluded by saying, "It looks like we need a new speaker." Rep. Lauren Bobert, Republican of Colorado, similarly said "I will never again support Mike Johnson as Speaker."
Yes, Johnson may now be at risk of being ousted. In fact, if we look at a speaker, we can find that the current speaker of the US House of Representatives is not an easy position to do. The last Speaker McCarthy, who was in office for 9 months, was removed from office because he bowed to the Democrats on a "short-term appropriations" bill, which effectively avoided a government shutdown, but also made Republicans think that the speaker was too soft on the issue of the Democratic Party.
Right now, Johnson can be said to have made the same mistakes as McCarthy.
If conservative Republicans call for a recall motion to vote, who will save Johnson?
Does Johnson count on the Democrats to save his position as Speaker, but I'm afraid that the Democrats will not be so easy to help Johnson.
Ukraine splits the Republican Party, Israel splits the Democrats
In addition to the Ukraine aid bill that has caused serious rifts in the Republican Party, the aid bill has also caused divisions within the Democratic Party, but it is far less serious than that of the Republican Party.
First of all, both the aid to Ukraine bill and the aid bill were proposed by the Democratic Party. But unlike Republicans' opposition to support for Ukraine, support for Israel is almost a consensus among politicians of both parties.
Interestingly, although the proposal to invoke the bill was put forward by the Democratic Party, the main opponents also came from the Democratic Party. The New York Times said on the 20th that as the Palestinian-Israeli conflict intensifies, there are signs of weakening firm support for Israel in Congress. According to the latest poll conducted by CBS and YouGov, the number of Democrats supporting Israel has fallen from 47% last year to 32%.
Why such a huge drop is to talk about the main ideology within the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party's governing style is quite "American-style democracy," which is different from the Republican Party's "rugged" and "western cowboy" style of governance and conservative social views. The Democratic Party supports multiculturalism and inclusion, advocates respect for people of different races, religions, genders, and cultural backgrounds, and its main slogans are so-called "liberal democracy" and "equality of human rights", and uses "universal values" as its main ideological propaganda.
Although all politicians know that the so-called "liberal democracy" is nothing more than a set of lies, and "equality of human rights" is nothing more than a set of deceptions, there is an old saying that a lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.
Therefore, it is inevitable that some Democrats believe in the American set of values of "liberal democracy". But it also leaves them with a dilemma, which is that as the situation in Gaza grows and the Palestinian people are suffering more and more casualties, the Democratic-dominated government is clearly at odds with the ideas it was propagated.
Many Democratic lawmakers are caught in a moral dilemma, with Democratic Rep. Jackson saying that military aid to Israel would make the United States more responsible for the atrocities and terrible humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza. In addition to Jackson, 19 Democratic congressmen have bluntly stated that if the US Congress provides military aid to Israel, then the United States will be complicit in this tragedy.
However, whether it is the aid bill or the aid to Ukraine bill, in essence, it is a verbal "fire extinguishing" but in fact a "fire", and using Ukraine to do something to make the fire happen.
Now that the U.S. election is approaching, the Republican side of Congress has already experienced a temporary change of leadership, will Johnson, who passed the aid bill, end up in the same fate as McCarthy?
We'll see.