Blinken says Biden is sending aid to help Ukraine keep fighting next year

[riversedge]

Source: pbs


Nov 13, 2024 11:22 AM EST

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Biden administration is determined in its final months to help ensure that Ukraine can keep fighting off Russia’s full-scale invasion next year, sending it as much aid as possible so that it might hold Russian forces at bay and possess a strong hand in any potential peace negotiations, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday.

“President Biden has committed to making sure that every dollar we have at our disposal will be pushed out the door between now and Jan. 20,” when president-elect Donald Trump is due to be sworn in, Blinken said.

NATO countries must focus their efforts on “ensuring that Ukraine has the money, munitions and mobilized forces to fight effectively in 2025, or to be able to negotiate a peace from a position of strength,” Blinken said during a visit to Brussels.

The U.S. will “adapt and adjust” with the latest equipment it is sending, Blinken said, without providing details.

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Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with a sophisticated combination of missiles and drones for the first time in 73 days on Wednesday. That came a day after the Pentagon said most of the North Korean troops sent to help Moscow’s war effort are fighting to drive Ukraine’s army off Russian soil in the Kursk border region.............

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Good. We know Trump will not help!!

[maxsolomon]

1. And then what.

Eventually, Ukraine will run out of Biden-supplied US ordinance. Will Europe pick up the slack? Can they?

Ukraine is going to be Finlandized. MFer DGAF about them because they didn't bend the knee before Impeachment 1.0.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Gotta feeling

That Germany will be stepping. They want Zelensky fighting the Russians over there, so they don't have to fight them in Germany.

[maxsolomon]

3. Rusher doesn't have an appetite to directly confront NATO.

This is Revanchism - Putin wants to reconstitute the empire of Catherine the Great. The area he's taken from Ukraine is "Novorossiya".

Wiki:

The name received renewed emphasis when Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in an interview on 17 April 2014 that the territories of Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odesa were part of what was called Novorossiya.[14][15][nb 2] In May 2014, the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic proclaimed the confederation of Novorossiya and its desire to extend its control towards all of southeastern Ukraine.[18][19][20] The confederation had little practical unity and within a year the project was abandoned: on 1 January 2015 the founding leadership announced the project had been put on hold, and on 20 May the constituent members announced the freezing of the political project.[21][22][23]

Anna Nemtsova forecast this disintegration in August 2014, and she predicted the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine then too.[24] Oksana Yanyshevskaya, a Ukrainian government official, in a July 2014 interview with her said that Novorossiya "is some sort of artificial idea that lives only in the minds of people in the Kremlin."[24]

Gerard Toal opines that "In breaking apart a sovereign territorial state, it is helpful, if not always necessary, to have an alternative geopolitical imaginary at the ready and for this ersatz replacement to have some degree of local credibility and support." The Novorossiya idea is just this portmanteau.[27][28]

The idea of Novorossiya goes hand-in-hand with the erasure of Ukrainian statehood,[29] or as Vladislav Surkov said in his defenestration interview in February 2020, "There is Ukrainian-ness. That is, a specific disorder of the mind. An astonishing enthusiasm for ethnography, driven to the extreme." Surkov claims that Ukraine is "a muddle instead of a state. […] But there is no nation. There is only a brochure, ‘The Self-Styled Ukraine’, but there is no Ukraine."[30]

[JustAnotherGen]

4. Friedrich Merz

Is talking about increasing the defense budget to $80B Euros. He's also talking about sending long range Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

He's a center right conservative - but right now I'm driven by the proximity of my family in Italy and Germany to Ukraine.

Scholz isn't protecting my little nieces in Freiburg.

[4catsmom]

5. thank you Joe

at least we can keep Ukraine safe for a while