The last massive aid package Congress authorized for Ukraine has about $6 billion left, which is expected to be used up by mid-summer, POLITICO reported Monday.
So far, the US has authorized about $113 billion in spending on the war in Ukraine, which includes military aid, direct budgetary aid, training, funding for US troop deployments in Eastern Europe, and other types of assistance.
Once the final $6 billion dries up, the Pentagon won’t be able to ship more weapons to Ukraine. That means the White House is expected to ask Congress to authorize more spending on the war soon.
A senior Biden administration official told POLITICO that the White House is discussing a new package and is going to time it so the weapons can keep flowing to Ukraine. The official said the administration is “fully committed” to supporting Kyiv in the war “for the long haul.”
The POLITICO report said that massive aid packages for Ukraine might not be as easy to ram through Congress as they were before, citing the debate over the debt ceiling and dissent from a small but significant group of Republicans. But the majority of Republicans support arming Ukraine, including GOP leadership, who have been critical of President Biden for not sending longer-range weapons and fighter jets.
“Although there are dissenting voices, the large majority of certainly Republicans — for sure in the Senate and arguably in the House as well — believe strongly that we need Ukraine to win and that the outcome there is something that matters not only to that region, but to the United States and our national security interests,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
On the Democrat side, there is virtually no opposition to arming Ukraine. While there’s still strong support in Congress for arming Ukraine, hawks in Washington are concerned it could decline if Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive fails.
US can easy pay for next 20 years of the war in Ukraine. The problem is, even with two hundred billion annual help, Ukraine can’t last that long because of the shortage of soldiers; NATO countries are contributing not enough. And yet, expensive as the war in Ukraine is, the economic/financial war against Russia is much more expensive. US can’t sell their debt to the world outside of their own military block any more. This time American and EU people are going to pay for the war an enormous price and even that will not help. They are going to lose anyway.
Yes & no. The fincance-ials, decline of the dollar, signify a powerful argument for Defeating Russia. If the Ukra-Nazis can’t pull it off, there will be a Russia-US ‘hostile incident’ in or above the Black Sea and NATO will be all in. It could even be Zelensky’s present shuttle tin-cupping is cover for ascertaining the readiness of the respective members for “phase 2”.
If the falling dollar is an issue, wait for BRICS possible competing basket of (likely digital) currencies that may be introduced in August at the Durban meeting.
Those sanctions that are not having the effect we were told they would will be even more hampered.
As to your incident; the US xant even blowup a pipeline without it blowing back on them. I would love to see how they screw up a Alex Jones type operation to get NATO involved
Capitalism is stupid because its brain is exclusively bent on limitless acquisitiveness. But it correctly perceives the Decline of the Dollar as an (forgive me) existentialist threat.
So the Chinese version which is way more fascistic is a better capitalism?
Yes, a hybrid of State capitalism with Private, with an enlightened State leadership investing massively in infrastructure and social and material amelioration, and strictly regulating the Private sector.
Wasn’t that tried in both Italy and Germany?
That was just a really long description of Fascism.
Classically the “fasces” consist of Gov’t, Military, Capital, and Labor functioning collegially. In practice it became an hybrid of Gov’t and Military.
Governments usually have militaries involved with them but when a nation’s major businesses and manufacturers become partners that’s kind of the definition of classical Italian Fascism that China has modernized.
I don’t think so. China has a large state capitalist sector and the gov’t is decidedly ascendant. Private capital has to fit within the gov’t master plan.
It sure does in that neo-Fascistic nation.
Private capital marries, gets in bed with government, fits in, or how ever you want to say it.
You’re using the term in a procrustean fashion. US bourgeois capitalism fits it more closely.
The decline of the dollar is unavoidable because the global financial and economic center is moving from US to China. Crusade against Russia is also the crusade against China. If China could be cut from Russian natural resources, it would be easy to cut China also from Persian Gulf oil and then the industrial development of China could be slowed down. China is surrounded by American military bases and by not so friendly countries. That’s why China needs Russia even more than Russia needs China.
Agreed, unless the US intervenes to stop it which is precisely what it’s about doing.
It almost makes you think that this was the plan all along. the real “powers that be” profit from empires both coming and going. It’s been this way for centuries.
Everything is a business opportunity especially war.
Even the Chinese are gaining business wise and they are just watching from the cheap seats for the most part.
Maybe it was the plan all along but it wasn’t planned by the humans. Some humans like mad are struggling for the power. Not everyone, of course, but a certain type. Those particular humans are always struggling very hard to get power over other people. All their lives are about that. They care about nothing else. In the end, when they get power, they can’t do anything good for other people, only the evil.
Those who don’t believe in God, they think it is natural and it is the only possible way of existence for the human society. Those of us who believe in Jesus Christ’s teaching, think that behind this dark force which is motivating humans to struggle for the power no matter what, is Satan. Satan is standing in the way of the human evolution to the perfect society. It is possible to defeat this dark force if we stop lying ourselves and if we don’t allow the other people to lie. Once the lies of those who are struggling for the power are exposed, they can’t succeed.
If the humans fail to liberate themselves from the lies, our chance to survive is very slim.
“”Those particular humans are always struggling very hard to get power over other people””
and their families. that kind of desire is ingrained in people by their parents and their parent’s parents.
huh. now i am wondering whatever became of the Bush’ daughters.
“Those who don’t believe in God, they think it is natural and it is the only possible way of existence for the human society.”
Bullshit.
Your denial is a strategic move for power. I have you figured out.
I think you are right, it can’t be coincidental that all NATO governments with a few exceptions are traitors of their nations, that the left social democratic success over decade is
just thrown over board, including decades of neutrality and prosperity as in Finland and Sweden. A NATO member like Norway is complicit and participates in destroying the pipeline and the European economy.
That all is not possible if they were lawfully democratically elected governments. They are paid for, the CIA operates out of embassies everywhere. The US at home has become a questionable one party Democracy of scandals and corruption. It looks bad for all of us.
Yes, it looks bad but not hopeless. I think the priority of those in Anglo-Saxon world who believe in justice and democracy, should be the liberation of Assange. His case is absolutely clear. He is persecuted because he exposed the lies and the crimes. His liberation would mean the victory of the truth and justice over the lies and the evil. His liberation could be the beginning of big positive changes.
But the neocons have concrete where they should have a brain.
Zelensky started to sell Ukrainian assets already. The USA/UK neocons broke the German economy already, the EU and NATO are cracking up. Maybe the European people get it, the USA is their biggest enemy, not Russia. Their governments knew it all along, they sold out just as the Ukrainians did.
Just think of the silence about the pipeline sabotage and more.
The USA is Germany’s and Europe’s biggest enemy, not Russia.
The oligarchy is the enemy. If US by some miracle could be liberated from the oligarchy, US would be the enemy to no one.
Yes, but could is not would.
That is our best hope to end the killing and destruction.
NATO is bankrupt already, most NATO allies are also EU members, and Biden broke the back of the EU continuing where Trump left off. Sanctioning you very own allies is stupid to put it mildly, blowing up their pipeline just made it worse. Biden is fighting the world, even his allies.
Bankruptcy or no bankruptcy, American oligarchy is keeping the power firm. At least in US. It looks, there is greater chance that some states get the independence than anything may change in US political system.
Even American oligarchs have limits, the patients of the population has limits too. Civil wars are not new in the USA, first there was slavery and then there was the civil rights movement and who knows what can happen?
And Blackrock wins the jackpot!
The last announced weopons package was not from our stores but were for goods to be manufactured and will be shipped in ’24.
The article I was reading shared this is because they’ve burned through what is readily available but we are now to the point where we have to start making it.
So how does that work if they are running out this Summer?
I’m sure we will find enough stuff for them this summer but if we are to the point where our stores are depleted and everyone is of the opinion they need a huge influx to support some huge push to end this (that no one is seriously supporting except some coke addled comedian( it is time to end this instead of letting Biden run as a war time President w
i bet that Raytheon and General Electric et-al are cranking out missiles and other stuffs as fast as they can
Profits are yuuuge!
If you need a nice dividend flow you need to look into Defence stocks.
How about this: Before any monies leave the US treasury, let us invite the wealthy überKlasse to pitch in with a ProxyWarTax at say 50% of their total worth over all assets.
As the old saying goes, they can put their money where their mouths are.
Note to Lindsey Graham: Your national security interests – not ours.
great idea, include every elected official who voted for the continues war to pay a congressional war tax, they support and make the wars possible and sacrifice nothing, but make the people pay the bill. They are war profiteers, they get paid by the MIC and other big war profiteers like big oil companies.
Just like support for Israel, support for Ukraine is built-in to Washington’s political equation. This is because the same neocon/neolib cabal that controls our foreign policy owns both major parties and the MSM. Sadly, the only way for this to end is for the rest of the world to isolate both the USA and Israel, dump the petrodollar, and send all US troops home where they belong. The end of an empire is never a pretty sight.
imagine what would happen if every US soldier returned to american soil and had nothing to do except follow orders
Maybe they could be put to work building bridges and other infrastructure. Seriously, with the end of the petrodollar, those troops will be the least of our concerns.
The military engineers could rebuild the failing infrastructure, starting with collapsing bridges and clean drinking water in every city.
the irony is that the US military are the ones who foul up every drinking water that come across
They do pollute wherever they have bases, that is true too, but drinking water, are you sure?
Yes, look at what happened to Trump when he did not hand over the money to Ukraine.
don’t pretend that Trump is any kind of good guy
I do not.
They went after him for this, for not funding Ukraine. It was an easy point of attack inside the Beltway politics, because Ukraine War. That was my point.
There are many, endless, valid ways and reasons to attack Trump. They chose this, and that tells us something about Ukraine in that political life.
Ukraine Aid Funding Expected to Run Out by Mid-Summer
oh well!
Right, Spy; maybe it would end the sh*tshow.
probably won’t
“On the Democrat side, there is virtually no opposition to arming Ukraine. While there’s still strong support in Congress for arming Ukraine, hawks in Washington are concerned it could decline if Ukraine’s long-awaited counteroffensive fails.”
Priorities. No mention of the effect on the Ukrainian people if the counteroffensive fails, just whether or not the spigot can remain open.
When did Ukrainians ever matter? They were always pawns in the grand chess game. Even Victoria “f-ck the EU” Nuland would tell you that.
A few billion here and a few billion there….. How soon do we get to the real money?
This would be our best chance to shut down the neocons.
I doubt it will happen. More money for war is near automatic.
However, it is worth realizing that this is our best chance. Maybe pure partisan hatred of Biden could be leveraged for a good thing, this time.
That’s what I thought with Gaetz’s resolutions. But both barely got over 100 votes and they were evenly divided between D’s and R’s. Any vote on this will be the same but probably with zero D votes.
Uncle Sams’ piggy bank is bottomless, a black hole, they will just print mo’ money.
This would be a jubilant moment for both sides to stop dying and start negotiating. But the western war pigs and the anti-Russians will find ways to keep this human sacrifice going.
Dont forget the Russian pigs you support who started this chaos by invading a neighboring country under false pretenses. This wars ends when Russia pulls out and returns the land it stole. It’s that simple.
Only to simple minded people like yourself.
Yes, of course, because in your mind, Russia never invaded Ukraine.
You should open your mind to the reality of who is behind most of the problems in the world, hint, it’s not Russia. Did you see the article below Julio where it says the U.S. war on terror has caused an estimated 4.5 million deaths? Invading countries has consequences and guess who has invaded more countries, Russia or the U.S.? Not even close.
From another article here today:
“This is the third time since the end of Cold War 1.0 that the US has tried to destroy the Russian economy. The first was carried out by Bill Clinton in the 90s and resulted in a deeper and longer lasting Depression than the worldwide Great Depression of the 1930’s, with a declined of GDP of 43% and a shortening of lifespan by four years. Such is the cruelty of economic warfare.”
https://original.antiwar.com/john-v-walsh/2023/05/15/the-wests-economic-war-on-russia-has-failed/
These are part of the many “false pretenses” that went on after the cold war “ended” that has led us up to where we are today.
I’m still waiting for your Russian munition inventory roster you guard so jealously.
There’s the old, worn “national security interests” generalization to justify the transfer of American tax $$$ to a corrupt, worthless regime in Kiev. Before any more $$ earmarked to our installed regime, demand they account for every dollar we’ve given them.
The Ukrainians sold their nation, they made the nation to cannon fodder for sale, from that point of view it is a great deal for Biden/Nuland and company.
You are right, they sold themselves to The West and The West is dominated by American oligarchy. So, actually, they sold themselves to American oligarchy.
Why it happened? Because 32 years ago, when they got their independence, The West looked so prosperous and Russia looked so miserable that it was a very much a natural choice for many of them, particular for their corrupted elite who started to move the stolen money to the western banks. Then they allowed “non-governmental organizations” into Ukraine. Most of those organizations were very much governmental, only they worked for the foreign government, not for their own one. Then little by little the Russo-phobic forces in Ukraine started to get stronger and the country became divided. So the far-right coup 2014 was supported quite massively in the west of Ukraine. Then everyone who didn’t shared the neo-Nazi ideology became the enemy. The massacre became normal. Then the war with Russia and the only choice for Ukrainian men became either migration from the country or go to the meatgrinder.
That is the much ignored part of history.
The NGOs are very much government funded organizations like you point out funded and connected to the CIA. The 3 Baltic states are not doing well either they lost close to 20% of their populations to migration. But Ukraine had the opportunity to become neutral and grow economically by doing business with the RF and the EU. The USA blocked it, they did not support the implementation of the Minsk agreements. The Americans deliberately started this catastrophe for Ukraine, Russia and Europe. In the end it will come home to haunt the hegemon monster USA. The neocons are destroying their very own allies and make enemies all over the globe while putting the world in ashes.
German officials have said ( Willie Wimmer, a Kohl official) Russia had offered much better economic conditions which the Ukrainians were able to compete with in the Russian market but not with the EU market conditions, that is why Yanukovych accepted the deal with Russia.
And how muxh does it cost him? He does not feel the tax bite as ordinary humans. Most people given the choice to spend OUR money would have many more urgent priorities than Uktlraine. Ukraine and its sponsors calculated wrong by provoking Russia.
It was not necessary to obliterate one language from a bi-lingual country that was Ukraine from its earliest beginnings.
It was not necessary to deprive Russian speakers of their language, culture, political representation, property and life. Yet, it was done.
These geniuses thought they could not lose. Either Russiia was going to swallow the abuse of the population that was until 1991 part of their common state — or opt for military solution. And saliva was running at the thought of military option, the prospect of crushing Russia economically was irresistible.
A little over a year now, Russia has restructured and reoriented its economy. and geniuses have lost. Plain and simple.
Rather than figuring out the failure — they intend to double down. Double down on what ? On Ukraine’s right to abuse its own population? Or is it bruised ego that needs soothing? Sacrificing our prosperity?
The gig is up. Russia is keeping its cards close to its chest. The skirmishes at present are hurting Ukraine — in spite of loud and fact free claims that Russia is suffering disproportionally.
So, how much is it worth to continue supporting Ukraine narrow ruling clique in its folly? How much longer can we pretend that Zelenski has support of Ukrainian population for his gamble?
Sure, UK has hosted spectacle called Eurovision. To tell how much we LOVE Ukraine. To stage the mawkish, insincere spectacle of solidarity, so transparent, so pathetic.
Perhaps the first prize should have gone to Croatia for a parody of Europe, its grotesque marching unity ending with performers looking stupid in cheap underware.
Graham and his empire builders likewise cannot see that Emperor has no clothese.
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Special counsel John Durham released his final report on Monday. It was all a scam.
Durham finds FBI rushed to investigate Trump: The special counsel’s office “conducted more than 480 interviews,” and “obtained and reviewed more than one million documents consisting of more than six million pages,” while also issuing 190 grand jury subpoenas.
The report also claims the FBI had no real evidence of collusion before launching the probe: Durham concluded that federal investigators did not have “any actual evidence of collusion” between Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia before launching the yearslong probe into the matter.
The report further claims the FBI failed to corroborate the Steele dossier allegations: The report is critical of the Steele dossier, the explosive document that had been used by the FBI to bolster its case for probable cause to secure surveillance warrants against a former Trump campaign adviser.