NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg will propose establishing a $100 billion five-year fund for Ukraine when the alliance’s foreign ministers meet on Wednesday, multiple media outlets reported on Tuesday.
The idea is to lock in long-term support for Ukraine amid uncertainty around US aid to Ukraine as the $60 billion President Biden is seeking for the proxy still hasn’t been authorized by Congress.
The plan is also meant to prevent any future US president from withdrawing support from Ukraine. Financial Times described it as “Trump-proofing” the proxy war as the former president has expressed opposition to the conflict, although he recently floated the idea of providing Ukraine with loans.
POLITICO reported that one idea would involve the 32 members of the alliance contributing to the $100 billion fund at the same rate they contribute to the alliance’s budget. That would put most of the burden on the US since Washington pays for about two-thirds of NATO’s budget.
The US and its allies are also considering shifting control of a US-led coalition that coordinates arms shipments to Ukraine, known as the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, to NATO. US officials said the purpose of doing so is to ensure weapons continue to flow to Ukraine during a second Trump term.
The reports said that Stoltenberg is hoping to get the plans worked out before NATO leaders hold a summit in Washington this July, but it could face resistance from members who oppose the proxy war, such as Hungary and Slovakia.
“This will be crossing a Rubicon. NATO will have a role in coordinating lethal support to Ukraine,” a NATO diplomat told Financial Times. “I see consensus emerging and I think it will be there by the time we get on the plane to Washington.”
NATO is looking to secure long-term funding for the proxy war despite the reality that Ukraine has no chance of winning on the battlefield. As that’s become clear, Ukraine has stepped up attacks inside Russia, which risks escalating the conflict into a full-blown war between Russia and NATO.
Secretary Stoltenberg feeding at the trough like all the pigs.
Touché Ole!
Why help Ukraine?
Let Russia take over any country it wants.
In the name of Peace, of course.
Putin dosen`t want to take over Ukraine , you are getting Russia mixed up with America which does want to control the world they have said as much because they are fast running out of natural resources and need more from every country on the planet , America is %5 of the worlds population but uses %25 of the worlds resources , not to mention the US Military which has a larger carbon foot print than China or India .
Putin wants all of Ukraine. The US is running out of which natural resources? We are an oil and natural gas exporter, we have more than enough land for renewables, as well as significant mineral resources. The US also has an abundance of capital, entrepreneurship, and labor.
You all sound like the drunk a**hole at the end of any bar, spewing “facts” that they saw on Fow News.
well you are correct.
the US is the world’s leading exporter of oil and natural gas.
the only thing that US is running low on is clean drinking water.
maybe somebody (Trump) should not have eliminated the American Clean Water Act that Nixon started right before he left office.
you conveniently ignore that Russia intervened when Ukraine tried to take over Crimea, which was never part of Ukraine.
“Crimea, which was never part of Ukraine”
It was part of Ukraine from 1954 (transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR by Kruschev) until 2014.
Hilarious. ‘Give NATO $100 billion USD!’ the grifters demand.
Let’s see how ridiculous this is.
Major European nations are about to enter / have entered de-industrialisation and severe recession (if not depression) – so they won’t be able to afford it.
Both NATO military doctrine & weapons systems have been humiliated in the Ukraine conflict, but the NATO grifters won’t change a thing. If anything, they will will misuse the funds to reward themselves.
NATO has never been more divided and after the Ukraine debacle may struggle to stay together as a credible alliance – but yep let’s give the grifters $100 billion.
You get my drift. Grift, grift, grift by lazy little NATO piggies & apparatchiks (like Jens the Failure), that’s all this is. It’s such a ridiculous washer of money, they’ll probably do it, too.
Hahaha. C’mon! You tankies are usually a little better with your BS!
“NATO has never been more divided..”
NATO has expanded and really DOES surround Putin now. (The Baltic Sea is being referred to as a NATO lake!)
“Both NATO military doctrine & weapons systems have been humiliated in the Ukraine conflict..”
Really?
https://www.wsj.com/world/u-s-dominates-foreign-weapons-market-as-russian-exports-plummet-94611f2b
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/03/russia-arms-sales-weapons-exports-worldwide-ukraine-war/
Brilliant way to defund the NATO war machine… I support!
Well, well, ahem, hmmm… Who all is gonna pay for this trouble?…60 billion bucks simply ain’t piss in a damn bucket, is it?…
The plan is also meant to prevent any future US president from withdrawing support from Ukraine.
That’s ridiculous. That’s like saying there was a way of making all US presidents honor the JCPOA. We know how that worked out.
It’s the plan of a mind diseased by age, of an individual who is a walking basket case, run by the hands behind the curtain, but unfortunately eager to do the bidding of those hands.
It’s the plan of a mind diseased by age, of an individual who is a walking basket case, run by the hands behind the curtain, but unfortunately eager to do the bidding of those hands.
In the name of defending democracy at all costs, they’re arranging to ensure that little things like election results won’t be able to derail their forever wars.
Burn the village to save it, abolish democracy to protect it.
Stoltenberg is back to competing with Biden for Most Senile spokesman for the addled brain flock.
Twenty billion/year is barely enough for the corrupt “government” of Ukraine to keep stealing at all levels, all the way down, on their current scale. It won’t pay for any more services, nor even any more fighting. It just funds the corruption.
UN must expel USA 1st.