President Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are expected to sign a deal for long-term US military assistance to Ukraine on the sidelines of the Group of Seven summit that begins in Italy on Thursday.
According to CNN, the deal will commit the US to 10 years of arming and training the Ukrainian military and helping build up the country’s military-industrial complex. The agreement is not expected to specify an amount that the US will spend on supporting Ukraine.
The deal could also be easily reversed by a future administration since it will be an “executive agreement,” not a formal military treaty, which requires the approval of the Senate. Initial reports about the plan said the idea would be to tie the hands of a future president and make it difficult for the US to stop supporting Ukraine.
The fact that the Biden administration is going for an easily reversible deal signals that the US might not expect the Ukrainian war effort to last much longer. Or, the administration doesn’t think it could get the votes it needs for a treaty, which requires two-thirds of the Senate to approve.
Ukraine has signed 14 similar bilateral deals with other NATO countries, but these are largely symbolic since they don’t go beyond the support NATO has been providing since the Russian invasion.
The US deal is expected to include a promise that it will hold consultations with Ukraine in the event of a future Russian attack, but it does not include a mutual defense commitment. President Biden also recently said he didn’t think Ukraine needed to join NATO, although the alliance continues to dangle membership in front of Kyiv.
WTF!!!!!!! How about a 10 year plan for the citizens of the United States? The Bidette administration got us into this mess, with the help of the rest of the uniparty. Crap!
There is a 10 year plan. We get the boot good and hard and we have to pay for it.
They have a long-term plan for citizens of U.S. but they keep it secret. You may guess what it is by watching U.S./Mexico border.
My question is, how can he sign a long term deal on behalf of the country when his “presidency” ended in May?
Questions, eh? That puts you on a list of inconvenient questioners … like most of us 🙂
Exactly.
And Biden's term expires in January.
That is indeed noteworthy. It would give the US the opportunity to comply or not with any or all of the terms however and whenever they see fit, with a proper legalistic argument. But then since when did legal matters hinder the US in unilaterally breaking or abrogating any bi- or multilateral agreements for any reason?
But in any case, it does incentivize the Russians to not leave any Ukraine for the US to have deals with in existence.
Hundreds of billions are drowned already in Ukrainian swamp. AIPAC believes it is a very good investment. Maybe for some people it is.
Well, if you're a Raytheon, Boeing etc. investor, it's pretty great all right …
This agreement with Ukraine is so brazenly one sided. Why not include Russia, since they are the ones origninally asking for security guarantees. Can't these BONE HEADS Neo-Cons understand that only by including Russia will you have security guarantees? It is hard to believe that the Ukrainian people themselves don't see the difference between guarantees for themselves and guarantees for all. For those who are aware of Ukraine history, it is the western Ukrainians who have yearned for independence since before the FIRST World War. They are the ones who have engineered the coup at Maidan, along with the US of A. They are the ones dragging the entire western world into the quagmire.
It works like this: the Galicians get to jettison the Russians from their country and get the pure, "white" national homeland they've been yearning for. The Natoians get to use/buy/sell lots and lots of overpriced weapons to please their bosses. And the Russians of both Russia proper and Novorussia get to die.
What's not to like from a demented psychopath's perspective?
Long enough to extract wealth through mineral resources and keep the war racket fat?
Such a bad administration. Will Zelensky still be in power all 10 years? No elections during forever war. Biden’s son worked for Burisma in Ukraine and had no energy knowledge, but zero connection to Biden’s endless support. None. Media told us, so must be true.
Public Relations move.
Non binding "excecutive agreement."
Also, from the link:
The US-Ukraine agreement does not make a specific monetary pledge to support Ukraine’s defense, two of the sources familiar with the agreement said. An annex in the agreement will lay out how the Biden administration plans to work with Congress on the implementation of the security commitments, one of the sources said, specifically the long-term funding that will be needed to support Ukraine’s defense.
And no different from the similar, phony "agreements" that the Ukraine has signed with the other NATO stooges.
Basically, the US "agrees" to do what it is already doing. Subject to change at any time, and without actually committing so much as one dollar.
A complete Nothing Burger.
Would this "executive agreement" be like the JCPOA that Trump tore up?
Not quite. As that was a multiparty deal, not a two party agreement. It survived for a while without US participation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action
But, yeah, a new President could tear up this “agreement,” just as Trump pulled the US out of the JCPOA.
Roads and infrastructure in America falling apart and Joey Biden signing a long term deal to give Americas national wealth away to Zelensky!
Soon Zelensky and his criminals will have more wealth than the Saudi Family.
More double talk and obfuscation. It is over, there is no fight left that Russia can't win!!! Perhaps a few terror like strikes on Russia will happen, but Russia has not even destroyed Ukraine's Parliament building, & not because they can't, but because Putin plans to normalize relations of Slavic brotherhood with them as soon as the Nazis & U.S. CIA are routed out or gotten out of Ukraine government by other ways. The Biden fools have destroyed their own credibility & supposed rules based order by sanding two & five thousand pound bombs to Israel to drop on the innocent families, Women & Childrenb of Gaza in defiance of international & U.S. law that proscribes sending weapons of war to states that are violating the laws of war and slaughtering innocent civilians. Bider is a defenerate & war criminal.
In the beginning, hardliners in Russia wanted Putin to order a full on "shock and awe" against Kiev.
Israel won't exist by end of the year. This is just another Biden scam to keep Zelensky fighting.
Apparently Antiwar doesn't like Don Rickles (who is Jewish). I used one of his jokes and my post was pulled.
I never found his brand of comedy to be funny.
Attack humor can be funny, depending on the delivery. Rickles was a funny guy. Andrew Dice Clay maybe not so much.
The Uni-party IS the War-party.
Biden isn't capable of doing that. What more proof does anyone need that unelected Warmongers run the US government's foreign policy.
Moved
Do we need more proof of the insanity of the Biden people and the Republicans and Democrats in Congress? 535 dehumanized human war criminals. The idiots in all the major NATO and EU CAPITAL CITIES AND MOST OF ALL the savage CRIMINALS in Tel Aviv and the people who vote for them and support the insane and criminal policies.
Two deranged people, the illegal and corrupt clown Zelensky and demented and corrupt Biden do all they can to destroy and sell their nations for many decades to come if they don't end it with a nuclear bang. Together with the butcher in Tel Aviv they are the worlds most dangerous men.