What $61 Billion for Ukraine Won’t Do, by Ted Snider

It won’t win the war for Ukraine. From Ted Snider at theamericanconservative.com:

There are problems money can’t fix.

On April 20, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the long-delayed $61 billion aid package for Ukraine. The package quickly passed Tuesday night through the Senate on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk, where it will quickly be signed. 

House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly reversed course and led the aid package through the House in part because, during intelligence briefings, he came to “believe the intel” that without the “lethal aid,” “Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe if he were allowed. I think he might go to the Baltics next. I think he might have a showdown with Poland or one of our NATO allies.”

That Ukraine is a stepping stone in Russia’s march through Europe has long been a key argument in justifying continued aid for Ukraine. Johnson should not have so readily believed it. Aside from the not unimportant question of whether Russia even has the ability to invade Europe and engage in a war with all of NATO, there is no evidence that this is Putin’s intent. U.S. Ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith said on April 2 that she “really want[s] to be clear” that “we do not have indicators or warnings right now that a Russian war is imminent on NATO territory.”

Nor does the historical record suggest waging war on NATO and conquering Europe has ever been Putin’s intent. Putin’s claim that the decision to go to war was motivated by the security necessity of keeping Ukraine out of NATO has been verified by NATO and Ukrainian officials. Davyd Arakhamia, who led the Ukrainian negotiating team at the Istanbul talks, says that Russia was “prepared to end the war if we…committed that we would not join NATO.” Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky called  the promise not to join NATO “the first fundamental point for the Russian Federation” and said that “as far as I remember, they started a war because of this.” 

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One response to “What $61 Billion for Ukraine Won’t Do, by Ted Snider

  1. Sun von Rommel

    Enemedia is on about the White House influencing the private banking cartel Federal Reserve with that guardrails keep it independent horseshit again.

    Is Ron Paul currently in government?

    Throw some more money at it is managerial apparatchik 101 as those with nothing to lose stick with you got the money but we have the time.

    There just isn’t enough cannon fodder for the Ziolensky washing machine fun park but he has plenty of mansions to lounge at.

    An update of Rolf Steiner and where the Iron Crosses grow with Christian crosses of the UKE KIA.

    A feature to them.

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