The ink was barely dry on President Biden’s signature transferring another $61 billion to the black hole called Ukraine, when the mainstream media announced that it was not the kickoff of a failed US policy . The elites have no intention of shutting down this gravy train, which carries wealth from the middle and working class to the rich and connected class.
Reuters wrote just after the aid bill’s passage that Ukraine’s “$61 billion lifeline is not enough.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell went on the Sunday shows after the bill passed to say that $61 billion is “not a lot of money for us…” Well, that’s easy for him to say – after all, it’s always easier to spend someone else’s money. money!
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was far from grateful for the $170 billion we have sent to his country so far. In an interview with Foreign Policy magazine as the aid package was being passed, Kuleba had the gall to criticize the United States for not producing weapons quickly enough. “If you can’t produce enough interceptors to help Ukraine win the war against a country that wants to destroy the world order, then how are you going to win the war against an enemy perhaps stronger than Ukraine? Russia?
What do you mean for a “thank you”?
We can understand why Ukrainians are frustrated. Most of this money won’t help them fight Russia. US military aid to Ukraine has depleted our own weapons stocks. The money will therefore be used to create new production lines to replace the weapons already sent to Ukraine. It’s all about the American arms industry. President Biden admitted as much when he said, “we are helping Ukraine while investing in our own industrial base.”
This is why Washington desperately wants to ensure that if Donald Trump returns to the White House, the “Ukraine” gravy train cannot be stopped by his – or future – administrations. Last week, news broke that the Ukrainian government was in negotiations with the Biden administration to sign a ten-year security agreement that would guarantee U.S. funding for Ukraine for the next two and a half U.S. administrations.
It would unconstitutionally tie the hands of future presidents on foreign policy and leave Americans on the hook for billions of dollars more that would be taken from them and sent to the arms industry and a corrupt foreign government.
The US arms industry and its supporters in Washington DC are determined to keep Ukraine’s money flowing…until they find a way to start a war with China after losing the current war against Russia. Of course, that depends on whether there’s anything left of us when the smoke clears.
When President Biden signed the $95 billion bill intended to continue the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and provoke a future war with China, he called it “a good day for world peace.” Yes, and “War is peace”. Debt is good. Freedom is slavery. We live in a post-truth society where billions spent on unnecessary wars are “not a lot of money.” But the piper will be paid and the debt will be forgiven.
Dr. Ron Paul is a former member of the House of Representatives. This article was written and published by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.
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