Ariz.-based author and publisher Chris Buskirk, left, and the American-born, cross-dressing Ukrainian defense spokesman | LinkedIn / X
Ariz.-based author and publisher Chris Buskirk, left, and the American-born, cross-dressing Ukrainian defense spokesman | LinkedIn / X
Arizona-based publisher and author Chris Buskirk criticized a recent report that the U.S. will continue to “pay salaries of Ukrainians” even in the event of a U.S. government shutdown.
“Of course it will,” Buskirk posted on X. “For Congress, Ukraine’s borders are of the utmost importance. No price in blood or treasure is too high!”
“America’s borders? Barely an afterthought,” posted Buskirk. “Keeping money flowing to Americans? Meh. But the greenbacks must keep flowing to the man in the green t-shirt.”
Buskirk is publisher of American Greatness and author of the 2023 book, “America and the Art of the Possible: Restoring National Vitality in an Age of Decay.”
The "man in the green t-shirt" to whom Buskirk is referring is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who last week was promised $325 in military aid during a president with President Joe Biden.
Buskirk's posts were in response to a Newsweek report that said a U.S. government shutdown “would create a situation where U.S. federal employees will be waiting on paychecks, while U.S. taxpayer money will be paying the salaries of Ukrainians.”
The head of the U.S. Agency for International Development announced in July that $1.2 billion in U.S. taxpayer monies would be used toward the salaries of “more than 57,000 first responders” in Ukraine.
The U.S. has sent “four rounds of funding, totaling $113 billion” to Ukraine, reported Newsweek, not including the package announced by Biden last week.
U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), a critic of unfettered Ukranian military funding, earlier this month asked the Biden Administration if any U.S. funding was supporting Ukraine’s American-born, cross-dressing spokesperson, “Sarah Ashton-Cirillo”, who recently threatened “physical violence to anyone who circulates ‘Russian propaganda.”
Ashton-Cirillo responded in a post on X, saying that he answers “only to the Ukrainian people, the command of the Ukrainian army and the US taxpayers.”
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense shortly thereafter announced that Ashton-Cirillo was suspended, pending an investigation, reported American Greatness.
Alerts Sign-up