Of the $60 billion, only $14 billion is paying for arms for Ukraine, and that’s nowhere near enough. From Andrew Korybko at korybko.substack.com:
At the absolute most, this aid package might prevent Ukraine’s collapse by keeping the state running and possibly slowing down Russia’s already glacial advance, thus potentially averting the worst-case scenario that the Ukrainian Intelligence Committee warned about in late February.
A lot of hype accompanied the House’ scandalous passage of a long-delayed $60 billion aid package to Ukraine after the Republican Speaker cut a deal with the Democrats to make it happen. Supporters claim that it’ll help Kiev reverse the disastrous military-strategic dynamics that set in since the failure of last summer’s counteroffensive. They expect that Ukraine will either stop Russia’s gradual advance or maybe even launch the second counteroffensive that Zelensky recently spoke about.
Those are unrealistically high hopes, however, since it turns out that only around $14 billion or a little less than one-quarter of the total aid package will go towards buying new American arms for Ukraine. The Guardian reported on this politically inconvenient fact as did other outlets, which noted that $23 billion will go towards replenishing the US’ own depleted stockpiles. Meanwhile, $11 billion will fund current US operations in the region while $8 billion will help the Ukrainian government stay afloat.
At the absolute most, this aid package might prevent Ukraine’s collapse by keeping the state running and possibly slowing down Russia’s already glacial advance, thus potentially averting the worst-case scenario that the Ukrainian Intelligence Committee warned about in late February. They raised awareness back then of the very real possibility that a Russian military breakthrough by sometime this summer might coincide with large-scale nationwide protests that topple the government.
How much did Russia spend after Vlad stocked up like mad on gold?
Did they get true bang for their buck?
Meanwhile in Russia, production lines go brrrappp clang and closed only on Sunday for getting right with God.
The experience is priceless as they [RF] now has the best land Army in the world.
When Europastan rump vassals bust a move they are in for a rude shock at the new toys and the amount.
Ivan knows how to WAR and get ready for a purposeful demonstration.