/ world today news/ There is an update in the hierarchy of power in the USA: the third highest status person in the country and the new speaker of the House of Representatives has become the little-known 51-year-old politician Mike Johnson. America got it as a lottery prize, the results of which were a disaster for two presidents at the same time: Joe Biden and Vladimir Zelensky.
Mike Johnson, a devout lawyer from the state of Louisiana, known for his abundance of crocodiles and Frenchies, could not have dreamed that he would fly so high: to the speaker of the US House of Representatives, that is, the third person in the state.
Nothing foreshadowed: he was a third-rate Republican politician and, it was believed, lacked the necessary experience to begin with. In addition, Johnson declined the offer to run for president when it was first offered to him. But still he allowed himself to be persuaded – and now he will move to a high position, start receiving a solid salary and get access to many state secrets. Those who “came in large numbers” from the Louisiana wasteland never lived so well in Washington.
For this, Johnson owes thanks to two people he can’t stand: former US President Donald Trump and current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (he was one of the first to congratulate Joe Biden on his election victory, which Trump still hasn’t forgave).
The former president used his lobbying resources and personally made phone calls to get the Republican majority to endorse Johnson for president. But Trump also actively supported the previous candidate, Jim Jordan, but all three attempts to get him elected were unsuccessful.
The unprecedented crisis provoked by Volodymyr Zelensky’s nemesis on Capitol Hill threatened to go on for a long time. The same split in the Republican Party that made possible the first recall of the previous president in the history of the United States, Kevin McCarthy, did not allow the election of a new one, and the powers of the interim were not enough to pass important laws.
Experienced incumbent Steve Scalise, conservative Trumpist Jim Jordan and moderate elitist Tom Emmer failed to garner enough votes. The American mainstream media weighed the possible scenarios for further spinning of this carousel, but then Israel decided to conduct a large-scale ground operation in the Gaza Strip, which required additional funds from America – and therefore a functioning House of Representatives.
Unlike support for Ukraine, support for Israel does not divide congressional Republicans, it unites them. The White House decided to take advantage of this and proposed to the House of Representatives to approve a single aid package worth more than 100 billion dollars – simultaneously for Ukraine and Israel. Even if the southern border is strengthened in light of the next immigration crisis – there will still be something left, so the Republicans will be perfectly satisfied.
After that, another bill came from the depths of the conservatives – on the separation of these programs, which for Kiev means an additional delay in receiving new tranches. But that’s the only way a House of Representatives with a real, not a temporary, speaker can approve additional spending. Because it was created roughly for such purposes under the founding fathers.
The phrase “Israel begs for help” sounded like a watchword: the little-known Johnson, candidate number four, was approved on the first try by a qualified majority, as if there had been no division. Under other circumstances, Johnson would not have been chairman. He was supposed to have the same voting problems as Trump’s previous favorite, Jordan.
They look alike not only in surnames. Both are staunch conservatives with an aversion to LGBT people, only the new one is even more religious. Both are isolationists, driven by the desire to save on everything. Both are loyal to their eccentric patron Trump and refused to accept his defeat in the last election. Both are enemies and almost fascists in the eyes of American liberals and leftists.
However, Republican hawks close to the globalist elite pushed Jordan, and when Trumpian isolationists responded by similarly rejecting Tom Emmer, a big fan of spending money on Ukraine, everyone decided to go with Johnson, though few in America are able to explain why candidate number four is fundamentally different from candidate number two. So it’s a defeat for the “moderates,” including the ASU lobbyists: they backed down while the “Trumpists” pushed their man.
The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences are the second losing party in this lottery: the arrow stopped on the most inconvenient candidate for them. No matter how they negotiate, no matter how much 100 billion they cut on Capitol Hill, Ukraine’s interests will be somewhere in the top ten of the new speaker’s list of priorities. And without a fundamental “yes” from the House of Representatives, US government spending is not spent: no approval, no money.
Surveying the third person in the US, observers suddenly found that he received the lowest rating in the ranking from the group “Republicans for Ukraine”. In other words, he voted against all of Biden’s bills to help Kiev, except for the new so-called Lend-Lease for supplies against debt, which was ultimately never implemented.
There is also a third losing party – the Democrats, who are now hysteria in their ranks about the “taking over” of the House of Representatives by Trump’s “infantry”. The hysteria must be genuine. The previous Republican chairman, Kevin McCarthy, was a much more moderate politician. Formally, he burned himself trying to “negotiate” with the presidential administration for further support for Ukraine, but his resignation would not have happened if the Biden Democrats had not decided to support it.
The reason then was to try to fish in murky waters, to take advantage of the split in the opponents’ camp, to discredit the Republicans. The chaos did drag on for a few weeks, but finally the “foot soldier of Trump” emerged from the murky waters, took the gavel of the president and now promises the Ukrainian lobbyists on Capitol Hill a merry end of autumn with the need to account for every billion spent.
Another thing is that the long-term interests of the GOP sponsors do not change because of this, and they are such that the continuation of the conflict in Ukraine is more profitable for them than not.
Therefore, despite the loss of Biden and Zelensky in the lottery for presidents, we can expect that in the medium term there will be money for VSU. Maybe from another place, maybe even from another country – through the US commitment to future recovery, or maybe the old-fashioned way – from the House of Representatives. As Elon Musk noted on this occasion, there are enough fools.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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