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US says it will run out of funds for Ukraine this month

Author:     LARA SELIGMAN
Source:     Politico
Publication Date:     12/18/2023 | 02:16 PM EST
 Link: US says it will run out of funds for Ukraine this month
Stephan:  

When you hear this covered in media it is framed as a fight between MAGAt Republicans and Democrats in Congress, and arguments over our southern border. I am sorry to tell that is the least of it. This may cause Ukraine to lose the war. If that happens it is only a matter of time until Putin starts another war somewhere else. He needs a war to justify maintaining his authoritarian rule. But that’s not even the most important part of it. If the MAGAts cause the U.S. not to to honor its commitments to Ukraine, the entire geopolitical world order that has obtained since the end of WWII will change. No country will ever trust America again to keep a commitment. The status of the U.S. will be damaged beyond repair and China, in my opinion, will become the dominant nation in the world because of all the help China is giving developing nations.

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby  Credit: Andrew Harnik / AP

The U.S. will run out of funding for Ukraine this month if Congress does not act to pass President Joe Biden’s emergency supplemental spending request that has been stalled for weeks on Capitol Hill, a top U.S. official said Monday.

The Biden administration plans to announce one more package of military aid to Ukraine this month, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Monday. But after that, funding for Ukraine will dry up, he said.

“When that one is done … we will have no more replenishment authority available to us. And we’re going to need Congress to act without delay,” Kirby said.

The Pentagon still has $4.4 billion in presidential drawdown authority to provide weapons to Ukraine directly from Defense Department inventory, according to Pentagon spokesperson Lt. Col. Garron Garn. But the weapons DOD can transfer to Ukraine are limited by the necessary funding to replenish U.S. stockpiles, and that’s what is almost gone.

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