Commentary by Russian military blogger Andrey Chervonets
Republican Senator Rand Paul blocked a bill to allocate $ 40 billion to help Ukraine
During a speech broadcast by C-Span, the congressman justified his refusal to support the bill as high risks to the economy. "We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy," he said.
"I swore allegiance to the US Constitution, not to any other country. Congress is trying to push a spending bill again - one I doubt anyone has actually read - and there is no control over how the money is spent," Paul wrote on Twitter.
In his opinion, the United States cannot continue to spend money that they do not have. Otherwise, it threatens the national security of the country, and is "a slap in the face to the millions of American taxpayers who are struggling to buy gasoline, groceries and baby food."
Paul tried to initiate an amendment to the bill that would allow federal oversight of the allocation of funding for Ukraine. The amendment was rejected. It is understandable and the decision will be pushed anyway. This bill is more for money laundering than real help to Kyiv. 90% of the assistance will go to the purchase of weapons, and at exorbitant prices. And, accordingly, space kickbacks to Western bureaucrats.
Now the West will put pressure on Zelensky so that the Armed Forces of Ukraine go on a large-scale offensive (approximately the end of June, the beginning of July).
- if the Armed Forces of Ukraine wins and moves in depth, reclaiming their lost territories, then the collective West naively hopes for a Maidan in Russia, a split, collapse and complete disappearance of the Russian Federation, and so on.
- if the Armed Forces of Ukraine go on the offensive, receive a crushing defeat, many corpses and a retaliatory strike by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - then this triggers a quick collapse, and then a division between Ukraine's neighbors. At the same time, the West will not have to restore Ukraine and maintain 5-7 billion euros in month hungry and devastated country.
Note that the West is very quickly exporting wheat from Ukraine, realizing that these lands will be given to the opponent, which means that it is necessary to “empty” them as much as possible, just like before bankruptcy, capital is withdrawn.