2023-12-06 21:04:00
Democrats and Republicans can’t agree? However, for Joe Biden, the release of funding to support Ukraine “cannot wait any longer”, he warned on Wednesday December 6, addressing the elected representatives of the American Congress, who are not arriving to agree on a new envelope for Kiev. Conservative elected officials condition this aid on a clear tightening of migration policy in the face of arrivals of migrants at the border with Mexico, which the Democrats refuse.
The failure of a vote on additional funds would be “the greatest gift” offered to Russian President Vladimir Putin, he added, asserting that the master of the Kremlin, if he managed to seize the Ukraine “won’t stop there”. He raised the hypothesis of a Russian attack against a NATO member country, which would trigger the entry into war of the United States and therefore of “American soldiers fighting Russian soldiers”.
“Important compromises”
The American president expressed his growing frustration with conservative elected officials. He also said he was ready to make “significant compromises” on this point in order to obtain support from both chambers on Capitol Hill. Such support would make it possible to extend military aid to Ukraine, of which Washington has been the most important supplier since the Russian invasion in February 2022. Conversely, a drying up of American financial support would represent a disaster scenario for Kiev, whose counter-offensive in the summer did not bring the hoped-for territorial gains.
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While waiting for a majority to emerge in Congress, Washington announced on Wednesday new military aid to kyiv, in the limited amount of $175 million drawn from the executive’s reserves. The detail includes air defense equipment, missiles and artillery ammunition.
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