11/9: Ukraine News Round-up
Thank you Sen Wicker: Statement on N Korean troops in Ukraine.
Ranking Member of Sen Armed Service Committee makes a strong statement about the risk to America, Europe and the Indo-Pacific as a result of North Korean troops entering the Ukrainian battlefield.
“WE need to invigorate our defense industrial base and give Ukraine – as well as Taiwan and Israel – the tools they need, or risk sending American service members into a conflict. The Biden-Harris administration must also start drastically increasing cost imposition on Russia and China, the two pillars of the Axis of Aggressors, who are enabling North Korea’s aggression. We do not have time to waste. The world is watching.”
Good list of Republicans who support Ukraine and are supported by Trump. Additional info on defense spending in district.
WSJ: Russia attacks the West
Russia Suspected of Plotting to Send Incendiary Devices on U.S.-Bound Planes
Two devices that ignited in Europe, officials say, were part of a covert operation to put them on cargo or passenger aircraft
Thank you, Sikorski Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs
Polish foreign affairs minister: Putin miscalculated U.S., European resolve in war with Ukraine
“Russia is, and for the foreseeable future will remain, a danger—not only to individual countries, not only in its immediate neighborhood, but to the transatlantic community and the international rules-based order as a whole,” he said.
“Putin was counting on our fatigue, on our lack of resolve and determination, but he miscalculated,” he said. “It is true that far too many European countries, for far too long, ignored the dangers growing at our borders. Today, even long-term skeptics admit Europe needs to become more responsible for the security of its borders and of its region.”