The Biden administration asked Congress last week to approve a new bill with $24 billion for Ukraine to continue its war effort against Russia.

The money was part of a $40 billion supplemental request that would include $12 billion for disaster relief and $3.3 billion for infrastructure.

Shalanda Young, President Joe Biden’s budget director, wrote to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., that “the United States is committed to maintaining strong global opposition to Russia’s illegal war.”

About $7.3 billion for Ukraine will go to economic and humanitarian assistance, while much of the rest will go towards weapons. 

TRENDPOST: Biden wants to send Ukraine another $24 billion while the infrastructure in the U.S. crumbles. (See “AS U.S. INFRASTRUCTURE ROTS, U.S. KEEPS UKRAINE WAR ROLLING AS ‘BIGS’ CASH IN WITH WAR PROFITS,” 27 Jun 2023.)

Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican hopeful for president, criticized Biden’s request. 

“It’s malpractice not to ask whether the geopolitical disaster known as Hunter Biden has something to do with it: smells to me like we’re using U.S. taxpayer dollars to make good on a bribe from a nation whose state-affiliated company paid off the President’s son,” he posted on X.

Ramaswamy was referring to Hunter Biden’s cushy gig on the board of Ukraine’s gas giant Burisma while his father was vice president. 

Indeed, earlier this summer, the U.S. announced that it will contribute another $1.3 billion for its post-war rebuilding effort in Ukraine, if there’s still a country.

It is worth reminding our readers how the U.S. infrastructure is in a state of disrepair. (See “U.S. INFRASTRUCTURE: A ROTTING JOKE,” 1 Feb 2022).

We’ve noted that Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bill is a joke, with only $220 billion going directly toward infrastructure repairs. 

More Money, More War

A senior Biden administration official told CNN that the White House is unclear how many more times it will need to tap the warmongers in Congress for additional funding to keep bloodying the killing fields in Ukraine.

“We won’t be bashful about going back to Congress beyond the first quarter of next year if we feel like we need to do that,” the official said. 

A new CNN poll conducted by SSRS found that 55 percent said the U.S. should not authorize additional funding compared to 45 percent who say Congress should continue the support. About 51 percent said the U.S. has already done enough to help Ukraine.

This is the lowest support level since the start of the war. 

But the neocons in the Biden administration have been steadfast in their public support for the conflict.

John Kirby, a spokesman at the National Security Council who is one of Washington’s chief propagandists, called out people “who might be concerned that the costs financially are getting too high.”

“We would ask them to consider what those costs—not just in treasure but in blood, perhaps even American blood—could be if Putin subjugates Ukraine and then sets his sights on our NATO allies, because we obviously have a security commitment to protect our NATO allies,” he said, according to CNN. “This is a fight that’s much bigger than just about Ukraine’s sovereignty.”

TREND FORECAST: Kirby, for once, is correct with his assessment of the war. This conflict is the war that the West, led by the U.S., has wanted for decades with Russia. See:

● “WASHINGTON LOVES WARMONGERS. VICTORIA ‘FUCK THE EU’ NULAND GETS PROMOTION” (1 Aug 2023) 

● “WWIII: VICTORIA ‘F-CK THE EU’ NULAND ADMITS THAT THE U.S. HAS BEEN HELPING UKRAINE PLAN FOR COUNTEROFFENSIVE”(30 May 2023) 

● “U.S. UNDER SEC. VICTORIA ‘FUCK THE EU’ NULAND CALLS CRIMEA A LEGITIMATE TARGET FOR UKRAINE, ANGERS KREMLIN” (21 Feb 2023)

● “VICTORIA ‘FUCK THE EU’ NULAND WHO SPEARHEADED OVERTHROW OF DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE IN 2014, STILL IN POWER” (22 Feb 2022)

As we had forecast before Russia invaded Ukraine, their military will not be defeated. And, absent the mainstream media, they still control some 20 percent of the land they conquered since the invasion and destroyed over 60 percent of Ukraine’s water and power infrastructure. 

On the business front, while their ruble is down their second quarter GDP is up 4.9 percent.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the U.S. does not care how many Ukrainians have to die in its war effort against Russia and grim reports are beginning to emerge from the battlefield.

The New York Times wrote last week:

“The heavy losses were not a shock to them [Ukrainian military leaders]. Most of the commanders said that they had seen units, including their own, decimated at times during the past 16 months of fighting. The battalion commander, Oleksandr, said that casualties were so high during the counteroffensive in Kherson last year that he had been forced to replace the members of his unit three times.”

WSWS noted that media companies are beginning to report on the hell emerging in Ukraine. 

One senior Western diplomat told CNN:

“Russians have several defensive lines and the [Ukrainian forces] haven’t really broken through the first one. Even if they continue fighting for the next several weeks, if they haven’t been able to make more breakthroughs in the past seven or eight weeks, what is the likelihood that they will suddenly, with more depleted forces, succeed? Because the conditions are so challenging.”

The U.S. never says it’s sorry and never admits it is wrong, and the Ukrainians will, sadly, relearn this fact.