Summary
The U.S. announced $5.9 billion in additional aid to Ukraine, including $2.5 billion in military support and $3.4 billion in budget assistance, as President Biden finalizes his term.
This brings total U.S. military aid since 2022 to $61.4 billion and budget aid to over $30 billion, supporting Ukraine’s government and military amid intensifying Russian attacks.
Biden emphasized the importance of continued support, though uncertainty looms under Trump, who has questioned U.S. involvement.
Treasury Secretary Yellen warned against cutting aid, calling Ukraine’s success vital to U.S. interests.
Nonsense. No one forced them to invade Ukraine. You can’t be forced to invade another country.
They claimed they didn’t want NATO on their borders. Well now they have it with Finland and Norway and Ukraine is, unlike it was before, seeking NATO status.
(And, of course, NATO had been on their borders in Kaliningrad already, along with the Baltic states. Why didn’t that force Putin to go to war and invade somewhere?)
Russia has invaded through Ukraine by both the French and the Germans to devastating effect. Ukraine is a more sensitive situation. The Baltic states can be cut off in a day between Kaliningrad and Belarussia. It would also be very difficult not impossible to invade through Scandinavia. Ukraine being a part of an every expanding NATO is a reasonable concern for Russia especially when NATO is led by the largest war country in the world.
None of that is in any way a defense of Russia invading Ukraine.