Joe Biden and Volodymry Zelensky. NBC News/AFP.
Joe Biden has announced another $325 million in military aid for Ukraine, on top of the $24 billion is demanding from Congress. NBC News. The aid package will include cluster munitions, air defense weapons and anti tank weapons. Biden announced the aid package with Zelensky in the country. It is the forth aid package in six weeks and is designed to improve deficiencies in air defense. The package is separate from the $24 billion that Biden is requesting from congress. However, some Republicans are balking at the high price tag and limited results from the Ukraine war. Congress has already send $113 billion to Ukraine.
My Comment:
This is getting out of control. It seems like every day we are sending even more money to Ukraine and for little result. I personally find it utterly disgusting, especially since Ukraine will never be in a position to pay us back even partially for this aid.
Indeed, we never had any reason to participate in this war in the first place. Russia was not a threat to us and would never have been a threat to us if we hadn't been in NATO. We made them a threat to us by starting the coup in Ukraine and then aiding them in their civil war. And when the war calmed down we started arming them and encouraged them to attack Russia. Russia didn't stand for that and now we are out at least $113 billion and may be facing a nuclear war. For no reason.
And what is worse, we have very little to show for it. Russia, far from being destroyed by this war, is thriving now. Economic sanctions did nothing but push Russia into the arms of China and develop an independent economy that now threatens American dominance. They now have built up their army to the point where the are stronger now than they were before the war.
Even worse, the results on the battlefield has been abysmal. Though Ukraine has taken some ground they have paid an absurd price for it and are now so short of manpower they are drafting women, old men and even children. And there has been almost no movement on the front lines for quite some time. Not that it matters in an attritional conflict like Ukraine, as long as the Russians can outproduce and outnumber the Ukrainians the war is lost.
In a sane world the US Government would be cutting their losses and cutting the Ukrainians off. Indeed, some people in Congress are finally pushing back against the endless spending. But I don't know if there are enough of them, all in the GOP, to actually cut of funding. Doing so would be the right thing to do but our leadership appears to be insane.
Indeed, any rational person can see that Ukraine won't win the war but Biden and his team are just doubling down again. He keeps doing the exact same thing and getting the same results. Now he's sending M1 Abrams tanks even after similar tanks from Germany and the UK, the Leopard and Challengers, had very little effect on the battlefield. It's a very good example of how out of touch our elites are in this country...
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