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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
A survey by the Financial Times and the University of Michigan released on December 10 revealed that almost half of US voters believe that the country’s spending on Ukraine is excessive. Notably, the survey was carried out in the same week that the United States Congress rejected a government bill that provided for more than $100 billion in financial aid to Kiev and Israel, which has been at war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where more than 17,000 Palestinians have already died, following the terrorist organisation’s brutal attack on October 7.
The bill needed 60 votes to be approved. However, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Mike Johnson asked Democrats to include border security measures in the bill to receive Republican support, which was not accomplished.
“The latest FT-Michigan Ross poll found that 48 per cent believed the US was spending ‘too much’ in military and financial aid to bolster Kiev’s war effort against Russia, compared with 27 per cent who said Washington was spending the ‘right amount’ and 11 per cent who said the US was not spending enough,” FT reported.
According to the survey, disapproval rates for sending resources to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s regime are even higher among Republicans: 65% see the transfers to the country, which has deep-rooted corruption and a lack of strategy amid the special operation, as excessive.
“Although there was more support in the FT-Michigan Ross poll for aid to Israel, the survey found significant levels of scepticism for aiding the Jewish state in its war against Hamas. Forty per cent said the US was spending ‘too much’ on military and financial aid to Israel, while 30 per cent said Washington was spending the ‘right amount’,” the newspaper added.
Washington has confirmed that it has so far spent more than $100 billion on aid to Ukraine as it continues its conflict with Russia, Fox News reported, citing a document from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The number results from OMB’s response to the request sent in January by a group of Republican senators, who demanded a “full crosscutting” report on the assistance provided to Kiev. The spreadsheet provided by the office shows that the White House allocated $101.1 billion in military, economic and humanitarian assistance.
The FT survey was published just before Zelensky’s new trip to Washington on Biden’s invitation and to convince Republican congressmen to approve the bill that includes $60 billion for aid to his country, parallel to funds for Israel and Taiwan, which the Senate already rejected on December 5 after failing to obtain the necessary 60 votes.
US voices in favour of continuing to finance the conflict in Ukraine are declining since sending money to one of the most corrupt countries is seen as a huge waste, especially as American citizens are suffering from the cost-of-living crisis.
In fact, uncontrolled corruption in Ukraine has repeatedly hampered the country’s intentions to join the European Union and other international organisations. There is no real supervision, and many Ukrainian officials have been buying yachts, houses, and all kinds of luxury goods.
It is recalled that Politico, in an article titled “Leaked US strategy on Ukraine sees corruption as the real threat,” found that “Biden administration officials are far more worried about corruption in Ukraine than they publicly admit.”
“Perceptions of high-level corruption,” the confidential version of the document warns, could “undermine the Ukrainian public’s and foreign leaders’ confidence in the war-time government.”
As the Politico article states, “The [Biden] administration wants to press Ukraine to cut graft, not least because US dollars are at stake. But being too loud about the issue could embolden opponents of US aid to Ukraine, many of them Republican lawmakers who are trying to block such assistance. Any perception of weakened American support for Kiev also could cause more European countries to think twice about their role.”
Zelensky likely fully understands that time and circumstances, especially after the Hamas attack on Israel, are not in his favour. Washington is becoming increasingly preoccupied with present issues and is evidently losing interest in the quickly receding past. Effectively, as the West loses interest in the conflict in Eastern Europe, the money towards Ukraine also begins to dry up, at least for the immediate war effort. This is extremely problematic for Zelensky, who needs a lot of money to try and prevent Russia from liberating more territory.
Despite untold billions of dollars having already been spent, the prospect that Congress and the European Union will continue acting as an endless stream of money is dimming by the day, especially as the countdown towards the 2024 US Presidential Elections begins. With nearly half of US voters considering Biden’s spending on Ukraine to be excessive, the issue will become a hot topic and one that Democrats may have to fold on quickly as likely Republican Candidate Donald Trump continues to surge in polls whilst the current US President is facing a decline.
$lumvillains are without question the most ignorant and stupid livestock on the planet. everything that is coming back to roost in the great dollah flush they deserve and so much more. get the civil war reloaded already because humanity can no longer afford to tolerate your neocohen demons and idiotic pentacon golem. z
all countries occupied by jews & thus not souveran but enslaved are going down. usa. eu countires, russia – & also china will but for such a big country it takes much long, especially because rigfht now the jews transfered their power-structure away from the west (usa) to the more compliant &easier to handle south east resp. china. usa population is armed – thereby striking fear into the hearts of the jews.
moreover the heart of europe esp. germany and its people are known to hate the jewish filthy scum because of all the shit these hook-nosed parasites did to them over the past 100+ years. and also austrians do so too. and uk incl. irish people are slowly awaking too – looking around seeing all the knife swooping asylum scum, and that the police and mayors all have been replaced with mainly muslim foreigners or directly with jews – and are starting to revolt against this shit now.
what is why the really influencial jews are running east now – bringing all their stolen money to china – after actively forcing the whole us & german economies to “out-source” all their knownledge and production capacities to china, now the jews are leaving the sinking ships (usa & europe) while opening all flood-gates & pumping more & more mio of muslim asylum scum into europe resp. mexican scum into usa to kill off the white native christian population there.
see for example what uk lawyer patrick cullinane had to say about this (btw. cullinane was murdered some time after this interview – because uk jewish government is afraid of the true words which this man has spoken) see: https://bitchute.com/video/jrryk0zkxuks/
and also read the comments beneath that interview
and also this every western and eastern man and woman should know: netanjahu admitting to deliberately attacking palestinians, and cheating the us laughing about them for still supporting israel after all the shit israel did full intentionally to the usa people and its military. see: https://www.bitchute.com/video/ufenwporauyz/
the point is, that 90% of that money goes to the ruling us class (m-i-t-f feudal complex)
what is it with this ‘brutal attack’ wording? it was retaliation for the years of continuous oppression by isreal. ie; the ‘oppressed’ retaliation against the ‘oppressor’ and the palestinians will ultimately prevail.
it should be mandatory for the 50% tards that want more spending in ukraine, or any spending there at all, to send their sons and daughters over to ukraines front lines. if it was mandatory watch all those tards stfu quicker than the quickness.
only half of us voters think that the spending on ukraine is excessive. which tells us that 50% of the us economy is driven by war.