Published December 16, 2023
motorcade’s sirens didn’t merit much attention—Washington’s streets teem with police escorts, especially around Capitol Hill. But the black Mercedes S-Class sedan, shimmering in the summer of 2022’s heat, stood out. Weird, I thought. DC’s elite are usually in Chevys or Cadillac SUVs. Then the wife of Ukraine’s president, Olena Zelenskyy, stepped out.
If the American taxpayer could only see this, I thought. Along with the Mercedes, her suit, hair, and phalanx of assistants and bodyguards drew a distinctly different appearance than her husband’s green sweatsuits, a disaster casual look much fawned over by Western media.
For that visit, the taps were wide open—$48.7 billion in American assistance dollars flowed in 2022.
Hawks, following Senator Mitch McConnell, backed nearly unlimited funds. “Now is not the time to be risk-averse!” Senator Joni Ernst said from the Senate floor. “Best money we’ve ever spent,” said Senator Lindsey Graham.
In March of 2022, just 11 senators and 57 congressmen voted against the $40 billion aid package. Their nay votes look wiser with each passing day.
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SOURCE: www.dailycaller.com
RELATED:How the US keeps funding Ukraine’s military — even as it says it’s out of money
With Ukraine aid in peril, Zelenskyy joins Biden at the White House to plead his case for more aid
Published December 16, 2023
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has been increasingly pressuring Congress to pass stalled legislation to support Ukraine’s war against Russia, saying that funding has run out.
On Tuesday, however, President Joe Biden touted a new military aid package worth $200 million for Ukraine.
Money is dwindling. But the announcement of more weapons being sent to Kyiv just underscores the complexity of the funding. So has the money run out? Or are there still a few billion dollars floating around?
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SOURCE: www.apnews.com
RELATED: Additional US military aid to Ukraine will be a ‘fiasco’, Kremlin says
Moscow is ‘very attentively’ watching as US President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet in Washington.
Ukrainian army brigade recruits take part in a military exercise in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine, in March 2023 [File: Violeta Santos Moura/Reuters]
Published December 12, 2023
Any further United States aid to Ukraine will be a “fiasco”, the Kremlin has said ahead of a meeting in Washington between US President Joe Biden and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Moscow is also “very attentively” watching developments as the two leaders are set to meet on Tuesday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Zelenskyy’s visit is part of a last-ditch plea to US lawmakers to keep military support flowing as he battles Russia.
ditional aid for Ukraine and Israel is at serious risk of collapse in Congress.
“It is important for everyone to understand: The tens of billions of dollars pumped into Ukraine did not help it gain success on the battlefield,” Peskov said, speaking at a news conference in Moscow on Tuesday.
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SOURCE: www.aljazeera.com
