US President Joe Biden has asked Congress to allocate $ 33 billion in military, economic and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, as well as grant it more powers to seize and resell the assets of the Russian oligarchs. “We need this measure – said Biden – to support Ukraine and its struggle for freedom”. The US, he added, must contribute “weapons, funding, ammunition and economic support to make their courage and sacrifice make sense”.
Over 20 billion in armaments
The bulk of the package would go to arms, with a share of $ 20.4 billion earmarked for military and security assistance to Ukraine. The rest of the figure is split between $ 8.5 billion in economic assistance for the government of Kiev and $ 3 billion in humanitarian assistance and global food security, now threatened by the blocking of exports of raw materials arriving from Ukraine. and Russia. The White House, according to the agency Bloombergbelieves that the package could cover Ukraine’s costs until September 30, which coincides with the end of the fiscal year.
In addition, again on the Ukrainian front, Biden insists on new retaliation against the Russian oligarchs. The US president has asked the members of the two chambers to grant him new powers to seize and sell the assets of the oligarchs who orbit in theentourage of Putin. Biden’s acceleration comes at a stage of evolution of the Ukrainian conflict, again according to Washington’s interpretations.
USA: now the goal is to weaken Russia
The White House has long argued that the war has moved to the eastern borders of the country after the failure of Russian troops to take over the capital. The new scenario risks translating into a prolonged, bloody war, with the US committed to supplying arms and support to Ukraine. Washington’s new strategic goal is to weaken Russia “to the point where she can’t do the kind of thing she did with the invasion of Ukraine,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a press conference in Poland. Biden said he has already spent all of the funding arranged for the conflict in a $ 13.6 billion package approved in March. “Basically, we’re out of money,” he said.
