He was referring to the potential expiry of American military support — tens of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons transfers — that has sustained Ukraine’s self-defence for nearly two years against Russian forces.
Meanwhile, military aid for Ukraine runs out in a couple of weeks, leading defence analysts to predict the country at war with Russia would be lucky simply to hold the territory it already has.
If House Republicans got their way, the deal would replicate their existing legislation that completes Trump’s wall with Mexico, cracks down on asylum and makes it easier to detain and deport unaccompanied migrant children.
House Speaker Mike Johnson shared an anecdote Tuesday to drive home his point that America’s Ukraine plan is almost comically opaque, with the very people leading it misaligned on what they’re trying to achieve.
There are the economic fears: A monster national budget deficit after a year where the country lost almost one-third of its economy, which is one reason Zelenskyy was at the World Bank promoting his idea of using frozen Russian assets to fund the Ukrainian government.
The top Senate Democrat, Chuck Schumer, shuddered at the implications of a Putin triumph, imagining that future generations might look back on it as a turning point in the ascent of autocracy.
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