United States Congress seeks to approve fifty billion dollars in Ukraine aid.
“U.S. lawmakers are considering voting to approve $50 billion in security and financial assistance to Ukraine before the new Congress is seated in January 2023.
This would be the largest single tranche of U.S. aid to Ukraine to date, and is being considered amid concerns that the Republican party could curtail the scope of U.S. assistance to Kiev, should it take control of either chamber of U.S. Congress in the upcoming midterm elections.
NBC noted the previous assistance package was approved in September, worth $12 billion. The proposed $50 billion would ensure ‘Ukraine survives the year’, according to an unnamed Republican senator.
Sources in the Ukrainian government confirmed the $50 billion package is being discussed with Washington.
The U.S. Congress has so far approved $65 billion in Ukraine aid, since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Congressional Republicans earlier signaled they would not “continue to give Ukraine a blank check,” if they win the midterm elections in November. In response, the White House said supporting Ukraine remains an issue with broad bipartisan support, suggesting that midterms are unlikely to change U.S. commitment to supporting Ukraine, whatever their outcome might be”. -The New Voice of Ukraine
Opinion polls have shown dwindling support among American voters for financially backing Ukraine.
House minority leader Kevin McCarthy remarked on the excessive amount of foreign aid to Ukraine, “I think people are going to be sitting in a recession and they’re not going to write a blank check to Ukraine. They just won’t do it”.
This foreign policy on the part of the U.S.’ foreign rulers is entirely pro forma in keeping with the fact that empires are prone to fighting proxy wars in their final stages.
The U.S. Director of National Intelligence, Avril Haines, has referred to the situation in Ukraine as Russia’s “military conflict with Ukraine and the West”, an apparent acknowledgment of the U.S.’ role as a participant.
In the eyes of Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, the West is already “essentially going to war with Russia through a proxy” due to its sharing of arms and intelligence with Kiev.
Once the inevitable winter offensive gets underway, it will be interesting to see whether Russia’s response is limited to the territory of Ukraine or not.