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Source: Ukrinform
U.S. draft budget for 2022 envisages $756M in aid to Ukraine - Kuleba
December 17, 2021
U.S. draft budget for 2022 envisages $756M in aid to Ukraine - Kuleba
The United States' draft budget for 2022 provides for a total of $756 million in assistance to Ukraine, including $400 million to strengthen its security.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said this during an online briefing on Friday, December 17, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.
"The draft budget of the United States for 2022 provides for a total of $756 million in assistance to Ukraine, including $400 million to strengthen its security, but our goal of $1 billion in support remains unchanged and we are confidently moving towards it," he said.
Kuleba added that the U.S. had allocated more than $460 million to support key reforms in Ukraine through the Department of State, the Pentagon and the United States Agency for International Development. He also noted that with the help of the United States, Ukrainians received about 2.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
"That is, we are talking about a very broad bilateral partnership," Kuleba concluded.
U.S. President Joe Biden and his top aides continue to assert that Russia is building up forces to attack its western neighbor.
A senior U.S. Democratic Senator revealed more than he intended when he gleefully expressed a desire to see Russia invade Ukraine and for it to become another "Afghan quagmire".
Senator Chris Murphy who sits on the policy-influencing Senate Foreign Relations Committee told CNN at the weekend: "Ukraine can become the next Afghanistan for Russia if it chooses to move further."
Murphy (48) is a vociferous anti-Russia hawk having previously declared Moscow a "permanent, persistent" national security threat to the United States. He is well connected to the U.S. foreign policy establishment through his committee work in the Senate and before that as a lawmaker on foreign relations committees in the House of Representatives. He is prominently associated with the Atlantic Council and Foreign Affairs journal which are the premier forums for debating U.S. imperial objectives.
Thus, Murphy's remarks about comparing Ukraine to Afghanistan can be seen as not just an unfortunate slip of the tongue. His remarks reveal a deep-going calculation by Washington planners.
The massive media campaign orchestrated by the U.S. State Department and intelligence agencies over the past four weeks in which Russia is accused of planning an invasion of Ukraine is an extraordinary development. Bereft of facts or credible logic on the part of Russia, instead it seems most plausibly to be a contrived crisis aimed at provoking Moscow into a conflict.
Just last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was playing to the gallery by "warning" Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that there would be severe repercussions if Russia invaded Ukraine. Moscow has dismissed these claims as unsubstantiated hysteria. It maintains that troops within its own territorial borders are a sovereign internal matter. In any case, the satellite images purporting to show Russian mobilization actually refer to military formations nearly 300 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
Nevertheless, U.S. President Joe Biden and his top aides continue to assert that Russia is building up forces to attack its western neighbor. When Biden holds his video call with Putin Tuesday, it is expected to be a major talking point for the American side, even though the evidence for such serious claims is scant.
Western news media regurgitate tendentious American claims along with dubious satellite images as if they are solid facts. There is an unmistakable echo of the media-driven fabrication over alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq which was used to justify the U.S. and British war in 2003.
U.S. intelligence has also been shared at an unprecedented level with European and NATO allies in a bid to convince skeptical nations such as Germany that Russia is allegedly intending an invasion. U.S. intel is claiming that the offensive is only weeks away, perhaps at the end of next month.
The whole media frenzy has a madcap tone that is disconnected from reality. The buildup of military forces in the region is by the NATO-backed Kiev regime which has half of its total troop numbers now positioned near the contact line against pro-Russian separatists in southeastern Ukraine.
The Kremlin warns that the Kiev regime is ready to launch an offensive against the breakaway region to settle the more than seven-year civil war by military force. The Ukrainian political leadership has consistently shown disregard for implementing the 2015 Minsk peace accord.
There are no "common values" between Europeans and the US
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"The draft budget of the United States for 2022 provides for a total of $756 million in assistance to Ukraine, including $400 million to strengthen its security, but our goal of $1 billion in support remains unchanged and we are confidently moving towards it," he said.
Kuleba added that the U.S. had allocated more than $460 million to support key reforms in Ukraine through the Department of State, the Pentagon and the United States Agency for International Development. He also noted that with the help of the United States, Ukrainians received about 2.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines.
"That is, we are talking about a very broad bilateral partnership," Kuleba concluded.
U.S.-Ukraine Plan Emerges… Make Another Afghan Quagmire for Russia
December 10, 2021 | By Finian Cunningham
U.S. President Joe Biden and his top aides continue to assert that Russia is building up forces to attack its western neighbor.
A senior U.S. Democratic Senator revealed more than he intended when he gleefully expressed a desire to see Russia invade Ukraine and for it to become another "Afghan quagmire".
Senator Chris Murphy who sits on the policy-influencing Senate Foreign Relations Committee told CNN at the weekend: "Ukraine can become the next Afghanistan for Russia if it chooses to move further."
Murphy (48) is a vociferous anti-Russia hawk having previously declared Moscow a "permanent, persistent" national security threat to the United States. He is well connected to the U.S. foreign policy establishment through his committee work in the Senate and before that as a lawmaker on foreign relations committees in the House of Representatives. He is prominently associated with the Atlantic Council and Foreign Affairs journal which are the premier forums for debating U.S. imperial objectives.
Thus, Murphy's remarks about comparing Ukraine to Afghanistan can be seen as not just an unfortunate slip of the tongue. His remarks reveal a deep-going calculation by Washington planners.
The massive media campaign orchestrated by the U.S. State Department and intelligence agencies over the past four weeks in which Russia is accused of planning an invasion of Ukraine is an extraordinary development. Bereft of facts or credible logic on the part of Russia, instead it seems most plausibly to be a contrived crisis aimed at provoking Moscow into a conflict.
Just last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was playing to the gallery by "warning" Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that there would be severe repercussions if Russia invaded Ukraine. Moscow has dismissed these claims as unsubstantiated hysteria. It maintains that troops within its own territorial borders are a sovereign internal matter. In any case, the satellite images purporting to show Russian mobilization actually refer to military formations nearly 300 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
Nevertheless, U.S. President Joe Biden and his top aides continue to assert that Russia is building up forces to attack its western neighbor. When Biden holds his video call with Putin Tuesday, it is expected to be a major talking point for the American side, even though the evidence for such serious claims is scant.
Western news media regurgitate tendentious American claims along with dubious satellite images as if they are solid facts. There is an unmistakable echo of the media-driven fabrication over alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq which was used to justify the U.S. and British war in 2003.
U.S. intelligence has also been shared at an unprecedented level with European and NATO allies in a bid to convince skeptical nations such as Germany that Russia is allegedly intending an invasion. U.S. intel is claiming that the offensive is only weeks away, perhaps at the end of next month.
The whole media frenzy has a madcap tone that is disconnected from reality. The buildup of military forces in the region is by the NATO-backed Kiev regime which has half of its total troop numbers now positioned near the contact line against pro-Russian separatists in southeastern Ukraine.
The Kremlin warns that the Kiev regime is ready to launch an offensive against the breakaway region to settle the more than seven-year civil war by military force. The Ukrainian political leadership has consistently shown disregard for implementing the 2015 Minsk peace accord.
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Why did the US drop almost $1 billion of central bankers' "fairy dust" magic money on Ukraine unless it is to prepare for a war when the "US and Europe have no common values?"
There are no "common values" between Europeans and the US
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