Harnwell: The US has no allies. America stands alone. Always has — always will. Embrace it.

Italian premier Giorgia Meloni was in Kiev this week to offer a little encouragement to dejected Ukrainians: “This land is a piece of our home, and we will do our bit to defend it.” It would appear “our bit” only meant telling America to cough up — as three days later, the speaker of Italy’s House of Representatives co-signed a disgraceful letter to Speaker Mike Johnson pressuring him into passing the $60bn for Kiev. Incredibly, the next day, Italy’s defence minister admitted in Parliament that defence spending has fallen from 1.59% of GDP in 2020 to 1.46% in 2023 — and “will probably fall” again this year!

Your NATO “allies”. You couldn’t make it up.

Sources:

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2024/02/24/ukraine-part-of-our-home-and-we-will-defend-it-meloni-at-g7_ae5c30ca-5314-4179-81f4-430b9ba6bf9e.html

https://www.riigikogu.ee/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Joint-letter_US-Speaker-M.Johnson_27.02.2024.pdf

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italy-getting-further-away-nato-2-defence-spending-target-minister-says-2024-02-28/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/29/hakeem-jeffries-mike-johnson-ukraine-bill

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-29/ukraine-russia-war-kyiv-sees-risk-of-russian-breakthrough-by-summer

https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-frontline-collapsing-russia-war-losses-1874210

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Aired On: 02/29/24