The Biden administration is sending Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying Kyiv’s effort to defend itself from Russia’s invasion may grind to a halt without it.

The Biden administration on Monday sent Congress an urgent warning about the need to approve tens of billions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Ukraine, saying Kyiv’s war effort to defend itself from Russia’s invasion may grind to a halt without it.

In a letter to House and Senate leaders and also released publicly, Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young warned the U.S. will run out of funding to send weapons and assistance to Ukraine by the end of the year, saying that would “kneecap” Ukraine on the battlefield.

She added that the U.S. already has run out of money that it has used to prop up Ukraine’s economy, and “if Ukraine’s economy collapses, they will not be able to keep fighting, full stop.”

  • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    27·
    11 months ago

    Did you forget that China is the second largest economy in the world? The Middle East and OPEC has a stranglehold over the world energy. Asia is the world manufacturing hub. The west is not the only relevant international community.

      • Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        11 months ago

        No matter what their governments are they are still a part of this world. And my original statement still stands.

        • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          I know what you’re saying. I’m suggesting they aren’t world citizens; they aren’t needed to conduct most of the world’s business going forward and are, for the most part, adequately addressed by a policy of isolation and containment. They grow weaker with time, more dependent on one another, and spread increasingly thin. Talking about the “Group of Friends” countries.

          Your point was that such countries aren’t supporting Ukraine so it’s technically not accurate when I say the international community is supporting Ukraine.

          My point is, of course they don’t support Ukraine, they are sucking the tits of Daddy Russia, or Daddy Iran, Daddy China: such shitholes of oppression and corruption as Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, North Korea, Belarus, Laos, Zimbawe, etc. They are hypocritically united by isolationism, codependency, shared disregard of human and labor rights and legal and international norms. And therefore it is accurate to say they aren’t part of the international community; how can they be part of something they want to burn down?