Over 91% of $95.3 Billion Foreign Aid Bill Does Not Go to Ukraine
IN March of 2022, President JFK biographer Andrew Cohen wrote that Ukraine had made Joe Biden into a brilliant wartime president like Kennedy due to his “marshalling public opinion, mobilizing NATO and crafting a coordinated regime of sanctions.”
Joe Biden’s first year in office was destroyed by his spectacular bungling of US troops withdrawal from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, also known as the fighting season. Biden planned a photo op of the last US troops leaving on the 20-year anniversary of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade buildings in New York. But the Taliban quickly overran the country and 13 American Servicemen died from a terrorist attack on Kabul Airport. Thousands of Afghans who assisted the US and its allies, two hundred Americans and $71.1 billion in US equipment were left behind.
Biden through early 2024 spent $74.3 billion in the Ukraine. Currently, the Ukraine military fronts are in the process of collapsing and the Russians look poised to accomplish all their goals by taking about one third of the country.
Over the weekend of April 20-21, the US Congress passed the long stalled Ukraine aid bill valued at $95.3 billion. But a closer look at the legislation shows that 60% of the supposed $48.43 billion designated for Ukraine will go to US defense industrial base (DIB) companies for deliveries between 18 and 36 months. Other beneficiaries of the legislation include $14.1 billion for Israel, $2.4 billion to patrol the Red Sea, $2.8 billion to patrol around Taiwan, $2.58 billion to resupply INDOPACOM in Asia, and $3.3 billion to increase the US submarine fleet. Ukraine at best gets $7.8 billion of direct support.
Most honest analysts believe Russia will achieve its Ukraine territorial gains by the end of summer, forcing Ukraine to demilitarize. As a result, almost all of those US weapons systems will not go to Ukraine. Those Ukraine purchases paid for by the US, will be redirected to restocking US strategic supply levels that were run-down supporting since Biden took office.