WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s top budget official warned in stark terms Friday about the rapidly diminishing time that lawmakers have to replenish U.S. aid for Ukraine, as the fate of that money to Kyiv remains tied up in negotiations over immigration where a deal has so far been out of reach.
Shalanda Young, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, stressed that there is no avenue to help Ukraine aside from Congress approving additional funding to help Kyiv as it fends off Russia in a war that is now nearly two years old. While the Pentagon has some limited authority to help Kyiv absent new funding from Capitol Hill, “that is not going to get big tranches of equipment into Ukraine,” Young said Friday.
Yeah, I am. The Americans sponsored a coup in 2014 to overthrow the democratic government of Ukraine to expand their influence in Eastern Europe. Once the government was overthrown, the country fell into civil war.
Russia tried to negotiate a peace to the civil war twice, with the Minsk Agreements. Then the Ukrainian coup regime refused to enact the agreements to end hostilities after being told by the Americans that they could join NATO and have nuclear weapons.
Russia, understanding the threat of nuclear weapons being stationed on their border, invaded Ukraine in 2022 to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO.
You’re deluded
@ evergreenguru: standard Ruzzian propaganda.
It was the Russians who violated the Minsk agreements. Ukraine was never going to join NATO. Russia invaded Ukraine because Putin was mad they wouldn’t join his little Eurasian Economic Union shithole. He thought that “American influence” had lost him his Ukrainian subjects, and threw a hissy fit.
Ukraine is an independent democracy, and the Russian speakers in Ukraine will never forgive Russia for slaughtering them.
This is completely false. Also, Ukraine has been begging to join NATO since Russia invaded. Western Europe rightfully refused to allow their inclusion (because it’d start WW3) and told them it was tough luck that the Ukrainian Regime was foolish enough to believe the Brits and Americans. They should’ve gone along with the peace negotiations Russia offered in 2022 or just honored the Minks agreements.