America's failure to finance Ukraine

Republicans in the US Senate recently rejected the Biden administration's emergency funding bill, which includes tens of billions of dollars in a new aid package for Ukraine. In exchange for supporting the bill, they are demanding stricter measures to control illegal immigration from the Mexican border. According to NBC, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the US government plans to allocate another package of military aid to Ukraine this month, until the end of 2023, but after that Ukraine's appropriation budget will be exhausted. On the other hand, members of the Alphen group, 40 former senior US and NATO diplomats and defense officials, on Monday called on Congress to approve new aid to Kyiv. They warned that Ukraine's defeat in a war with Russia would be catastrophic for it and would jeopardize the security of the United States and its allies. Members of The Alphen Group, a group of experts on strengthening NATO and European security, wrote an open letter to Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives. “The United States and its allies must help Ukraine prevent a Russian victory, which would be catastrophic for Ukraine and its people and jeopardize the future security of the United States and its allies,” The Alphen Group said in the letter. “This war is at a tipping point where decisions made by the United States and its allies and NATO partners will determine whether the outcome is favorable to their interests or disastrous for Ukraine and the West.” “Refusal of further US support for Ukraine would be a huge failure of bipartisan foreign and defense policy and would weaken American leadership both globally and in Europe,” the letter emphasizes. In turn, the European Union has pledged to supply Ukraine with one million 155mm artillery shells by next spring.