The leaders of the G7 nations pledged open-ended support for Ukraine after the second day of a three-day summit in Germany.
In a statement, the leaders of the US, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, and Canada said they would provide Ukraine with military, economic, and humanitarian assistance “for as long as it takes.”
“We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support and stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes,” the statement said. The G7 leaders said they are “committed to sustaining and intensifying international economic and political pressure” on Russia and Belarus through economic sanctions.
The White House released a fact sheet announcing a plan to implement new sanctions on Russia in coordination with G7 nations. Under the plan, the US will implement higher tariffs on more than 570 groups of Russian products, a move that comes as Americans are facing soaring inflation and gas prices.
The US will also ban the import of Russian gold, which President Biden announced on Sunday. “Together, the G7 will announce that we will ban the import of Russian gold, a major export that rakes in tens of billions of dollars for Russia,” Biden wrote on Twitter. The G7 also plans to increase sanctions targeting Russia’s technology industries and sanctions on Russian officials.
The White House said the US will provide Ukraine with $7.5 billion in economic aid to help Kyiv “cover its short-term budgetary funding shortfalls” that will be taken from the $40 billion Ukraine aid bill Biden recently signed into law.
So far, the US-led sanctions campaign against Russia has backfired on the West. Russia is making more money on oil exports than before the invasion and the sanctions have done nothing to stop Russia’s offensive.
The US is supporting one ursus horribilis against another. The US is so out of its depth. We have the illusion of control.
“For as long as it takes” … to do WHAT?
What exactly is it they think is going to happen here? Ukraine is losing chunks of territory now and losing morale rapidly. Do the big 7 think idiotic statements like this and … “we’re behind you all the way” … are going to keep the poor Ukrainians going?
The madness of the alleged “leaders of the free world”, the completely incompetent and unthinking fools who let hatred of Russia and nonsensical pretence that Ukraine is free, democratic, independent (!!!!) guide their actions. They ignore their sanctions, wasteful money production, sending huge weapons to be destroyed by the Russians, not thinking of the future of any of us.
They are setting themselves up for a catastrophic fall, when the economic depression hits they will have to justify their open ended commitment while millions are in a food line stretching right pass the white house.
After the midterm elections Biden will be even more of a lame duck, BOJO is shaky, he may have to resign in the next weeks or month, same goes for Macron, he lost his majority and Scholz is new, but come fall time he will be tested and a simple vote of no confidence can send him home. Then the question is why Canada is involved almost 2000 miles away and Ukraine is not a NATO member, so, what is in it for the Canadians or the de facto Japanese NATO member other than pay for Biden’s war? What are their problems with Russia?
So, the US and West have made the conscious decision to borrow money they don’t have, to give to Ukraine, while simultaneously cutting their own exports (and losing money there), and paying more for imports. What a pack of imbeciles.
The US and West have been doing this for decades. What really bothers you is not the action but the recipient.
No, what bothers me as an American is the negative impact it is having on MY country, and MY countrymen, for NO legitimate purpose. The people being hurt are, unfortunately NOT on Ukrainian proxy payrolls so get nothing out of this fiasco; and neither do the average Ukrainians, who are simply having their agony prolonged.
The Ukrainian people DO NOT get anything out of this but blood and suffering. The Azov people and American war profiteers profit from this war. The American president Joseph Biden is in the drivers seat, it is his, BIDEN’S war. He is the force behind the war, he serves the MIC, he was elected by Americans not the Ukrainian people. We got nothing out of Afghan and Iraq fiasco either. Our government is robbing the people. It was the Obama/Biden neocons who funded the regime change of an elected government in Kiev. They are still in Biden’s administration.
I agree; I stated that the only thing the average Ukrainian is getting is having their suffering prolonged.
There was an error in my post which I did edit.
I can’t speak for Javy, but I’m pretty sure most people here are against our taxpayer money being sent to foreign countries for whatever reason. And if you had been here previously to the Russia/Ukraine war you’d understand that. And once again you pretend that that aid isn’t killing more Ukrainians.
Not the aid killing, Russia is. If Russia didn’t invade, there would be no death toll. Ukraine is doing what any country who has been invaded and wants to be free would do.
And I have been visiting this site and reading its blogs since 2001. Before this Ukraine war, the blogs was antiwar commenters. Now is just anti US / pro Putin.
But Russia did invade and they aren’t going to “lose” this war without Ukraine being completely destroyed first. Now, the US/NATO and you can continue to ignore that until the last Ukrainian is dead but that is fact. So, as long as the aid continues, Ukrainians will die.
And even after 20 years of that, nothing will be accomplished just like in Afghanistan, the US destroyed the people for NOTHING.
Will you bet your house on that ‘Ukraine will lose’ statement? The second Russia’s economy drops, they will retreat just like the did in Afghanistan. And the Ukrainians will not stop fighting with or without NATO.
I said Ukraine will be destroyed before Russia loses. And yes, I’d be willing to bet my house on that.
Without the Obama/Biden regime change this would not have happened. Why would the Ukrainians want to go to war just to become a NATO member, when NATO had already said no?
Biden is using Ukraine and NATO to provoke Russia.
He already met with Zelensky in Sept. 2021 immediately after the Afghanistan retreat fiasco, he was dying for conflict with Russia, after the Navalny issue and the Scripale case, that all is part of it, they never produced a shred of evidence concerning the poison claims.
You can go back to Bush and 2008, all war criminals.
It is the UK/USA keeping the war in Ukraine going.
Trump lost because he was not Russophobe enough.
It is a very factual statement, like it or not, it is true, NATO and EU are in the process of national suicides, all of them, including the shysters in Washington.
It was criminal then and it is criminal now. I am ashamed for all NATO member shyster governments, every one of them.
Why don’t they tell Zelensky to sit down to negotiate a settlement or no weapons and no funding for him and his people, demand an accounting to where the money goes. But that is not what Biden wants, he wants more war and suffering and the total destruction of Ukraine and more, but by no means peace.
“Why don’t they tell Zelensky to sit down to negotiate a settlement or no weapons and no funding for him and his people, demand an accounting to where the money goes”
Because there is no negotiation, the only ‘diplomacy’ is if Russia takes all and Ukraine becomes another Belarus.
Russia did offer negotiation a long time ago back in Dec. 2021. Russia has made many offers to negotiate, every time Zelensky makes a move in that direction he is being called back by Biden. Only the MSM omits these facts, they do not want you to know the truth.
Not ones did Biden even touch on any negotiations, he only makes more demands, imposes more sanctions, including the allies.
Biden is using Ukraine and NATO for his purpose, which is the destruction of Russia, he doesn’t give a damn about the lives of the people, regardless of nationality. See how brutal he is against the Afghan people, only because as president he was incompetent to manage an orderly retreat it was a fiasco. So now he takes revenge by killing the people with sanctions, he is evil.
The Russians don’t need to negotiate.
If they secure LPR, DPR, and a land corridor to Crimea, they can just declare victory and suppress any Ukrainian attacks on those areas if the Ukrainian regime still wants to play.
The Russian “offers to negotiate” were along US lines: “Do exactly as we say, without any quibbles, and maybe we’ll stop beating on you for a while.” And the things they wanted were things they were not, and are not, going to get unless those things are handed to them. Which ain’t gonna happen.
RUSSIA IS DEFENDING ITS BORDERS, what do we fight for more than 1500 miles away from our borders? Ukraine is not a NATO member, what exactly do the Ukrainians fight for, just for the privilege to become a NATO member, or what? What about the Europeans? Russia did not invade a single one of them. Now tell me, what exactly is this war about? What is it Ukraine and the USA are fighting for.
Biden has said: he wants Putin replaced, (he must have Navalny in mind) and Russia weakened. So speaks the aggressor, it is Biden’s war.
For what are the Europeans committing economic suicide not to mention the total destruction of the continent if it is a conventional war only. A nuclear war at least would hit Washington D.C. and the Pentagon and NYC and Philadelphia and some other places. Putin will not go down without taking the USA down with Russia.
President Putin has said, he will protect Russian borders. There will be no more an invasion of Russia, he will take the war to where it comes from and there will be no world without Russia. He means what he says, he does not lie for votes.
That is not what WE think he believes, HE said it.
“RUSSIA IS DEFENDING ITS BORDERS”
Wrong!!! Russia is fighting to defend its GAS MONOPOLY. Any other reason is just a lame masking of this fact.
Follow the money Russian money trail.
They do need to protect their nations assets, after all, that is what the USA wants. The Russians and western oligarchs were after the resources and robbed Russia blind after the UDSSR fell, that is well known, Putin did put a stop to that, that is why the oligarchs hate him. Wars are fought for resources and markets, never for freedom and democracy, that is just propaganda BS. But wars are sold to the public as if it is all altruistic, to bring the people the blessings of capitalism, you know the neoliberal kind. The USA confiscated some 500 000 German patents, most of them international patents and some 60% of the corporations at the end of WW II, that is what wars are about, that is why China is in focus now.
Those Russian offers to negotiate were just that though, offers. There were never any actual negotiations to see if Russia would move from their demands.
Oh! just offers? But, but, but… diplomacy! Whatever happened to your optimism with Russia on diplomacy.
Negotiations to see if Russia moves from their demands?
Like, we don’t want to be a sovereign nation, here, take my country and do whatever you want with it.
I never had any optimism on diplomacy since the US/NATO never wanted diplomacy. They wanted to use Ukraine to bleed Russia and that’s what they are doing. My point was that Russia put forth their concerns and the US/NATO ignored them but you’re just too damn dense to comprehend that.
Yes, I know about those negotiations, all benefiting Russia seeking to turn Ukraine into another slave country like Belarus.
Russia has offered to negotiate a neutral Ukraine, they turned it down, expecting NATO would go to war for them, but it is the uk/usa/nato using the Ukrainians and the continental NATO as proxies. The European NATO people are traitors to their people and their continent. Biden does not permit Zelensky to negotiate, he wants to break Russia and replace the president with someone like the criminal Navalny. Biden the omnipotent, he will do a regime change of a popular elected president of a nuclear power. Think about that, he could not direct a professional retreat form Afghanistan, supported the Iraq invasion big time and can’t handle Venezuela and Iran. So much incompetence by a senile old man.
Do you know what the Minsk II agreement is? The MSM does not mention it, they never have real outside experts with different opinions as guest either. Prof. Mearsheimer, Col. ret. Scott Ritter, Col ret. Douglas Macgregor, Col. ret Richard Black, come to mind, there are many more from academia and government, diplomats like Ambassadore Matlock, and many more, not the paid ret. Generals sitting on the boards of the MI Corporations.
Do you know that the Minsk agreement was conveniently violated by both Russia and Ukraine?
Last time I checked, it was Russia who invaded Ukraine.
And while the US/NATO support Ukraine, Russia is now eyeing another valuable piece of land. This time Kazakhstan after its President told Putin to his face that he will not recognize the Donbas regions.
If Kazakhstan doesn’t change this position, they will magically grow 2 million Neo Nazis overnight and will give Putin a pretext to steal their border territories.
Why does the USA and NATO support Ukraine against Russia?
Ukraine is not a NATO member? Russia did not attack any NATO member. Did Ukraine implement the Minsk II agreement and turned down the option to negotiate a neutrality agreement with Russia and the Europeans?
Why did the USA fund the regime change of an elected head of state in Ukraine in 2014?
Why did USA/NATO arm and fund Ukraine making Ukraine a de facto NATO member? Why did NATO do military exercises in Ukraine near Russia’s borders and the Black Sea? Why did UK train Ukraine troops in UK including neo-Nazi Azov people? There is much more, but for now this is enough.
Two answers to each one of your questions but you seem to choose the Russian ones cause obviously, if it doesn’t support your narrative, it isn’t the right one.
I go back to my main point, any agreement with Russia meant that Ukraine will turn into another Belarus. Ukrainians chose the West option.
Your response does not answer my questions, you just made up what fits you narrative, with nothing to back it up.
Yes, repeating Afghanistan for the next twenty years is great because it was so successful in accomplishing nothing but destruction and dying and misery for the Afghan people and profits for our profiteers. Yes, what a great success that was, let’s do it all over again and maybe 30 years or even longer as long as others pay the bill.
Putin can order a halt to Russia’s Afghanistan 2.0 any time he chooses.
The Ukraine is not Afghanistan for Russia, they beat Hitler they can deal with Biden, they are defending their country. What are we defending? Biden said, Putin must go and Russia must be weakened, that is what Biden is fighting for. Why? Ukraine is not even a democracy, Zelensky eliminated all opposition, he arrested and killed opposition leaders, he is in bed with neo-Nazis the most corrupt government on the European continent, The media is government controlled too, propaganda like the pilot who shot down 40 Russian airplanes, turned out the good guy never even existed, plenty of war crimes committed by the Azov Battalions too, and there is evidence to prove it.
Are the NATO members ready to sacrifice their nations, their continent for senile old Biden? They are crazy enough to do it if the price is right, traitors of their countries. These people will do anything for money, their only value.
Every other sentence from Putin’s apologists is about how Russia was “provoked” into invading Afghanis … er, Ukraine.
The word is “lured.” Just like in 1979.
And with the same result if Putin’s too dumb to take LPR/DPR and a land corridor to Russia, declare victory, and cut his other losses.
So us citizens in g-7 world will continue to pay high price for ukraine freedom. The next election I’ll be voting Green or Peace & Freedom in Amerika
Ukraine is no a democratic nation, Zelensky eliminate the opposition and arrested or killed opposition leaders. Media is government controlled, people who like Putin or Russia get killed by the Azov neo-Nazi people.
China’s population alone is greater than the G7 combined. Do they think they own the world?
Maybe they forgot the 20 years of terrorism and suffering inflicted on the Afghan people for nothing and they accomplished nothing but miseries and lots of profits for the American war profiteers and Biden is still at it.
Ukraine is on the butcherblock now all because the people want to become a NATO member? Fighting and dying because they do not want be a neutral and prosperous nation?
Or is it because President Biden wants a regime change in Russia, President Putin replaced with Navalny and a privatized neoliberal economy to weaken Russia and preserve American Supremacy? He said that is what he wants.
All that for as long as it takes?
Biden’s war, just like we had Bush’s and Cheney’s wars which Senator Biden supported strongly. All at the expense of the proxy nations people, their lives and their homeland. Our elected shysters are dripping with blood, they are the real war criminals, they are killers.
They want to repeat Afghanistan, really? Have they no shame? PM Scholz is German and he knows all about Hitler, does he want to repeat it? If he is a man with character he would resign.
Russia has proved itself it can be involved in a war and improve its economy simultaneously…! The G7 is wasting its time and will eventually collapse while the Other G7 (BRICS + Argentina & Iran) would flourish instead….!
Yep, Russia has historically attacked/invaded countries when its economy was doing very well (Afghanistan, Georgia, Crimea, now Ukraine) then conveniently strikes deal when the economy is crushed.
Notice the $7.5 billion to cover Ukraine’s government payroll had to be taken from the $40 billion already allocated. That means the US is actually cutting the amount of money it’s sending.
Banning Russian gold sales – yeah, right. See how other countries react to that. Apparently they also gave up on the unenforceable idea of gas “price caps”.
The West displays more weakness every day while Russia gets stronger every day. The Ukraine war will be over by end of year, if not sooner, and then what will the West do except cry about it.
How do you have any credibility? You said the war is gonna be over by April and you were wrong.
The war is over, moron. Now it’s just mopping up what’s left of the Ukrainian army. Enjoy!
How is the war over? You said Russia is going to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. The zelensky regime has not surrendered. Neo Nazis are still in the Ukrainian government. Scott Ritter said that if Russia allows western Ukraine to remain they will suffer strategic defeat.
Ukraine is not going to accept losing the Donbass or Crimea so what is Russia gonna do about that?
i just now saw on TV that NBC is going to host a “fundraiser for ukraine”
WTF didn’t biden give the ok for uncle sam to send $40 billion in aid to ukraine?
i guess $40 billion just isn’t enough for their punk-ass.
Not that anybody cares, but Zelensky told the G7 that he wants the war to end before winter of this year.
The people they pretend to represent are also likely to have something to say by winter of this year.
https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/war-should-end-before-winter-sets-in-ukrainian-president-zelensky-tells-g7-122062700622_1.html