The United States admitted that there is no point in arming Ukraine - Russia will not give in anyway
Sometimes non-intervention is more in the US national interest than intervention, writes Daniel Depetris, a research fellow at the Defense Priorities think tank, in an article for the American magazine The American Conservative .
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He claims that Russia is an “occupier and aggressor” towards Ukraine, but at the same time calls on the United States to refrain from providing military assistance to Kyiv.
The author recalls that since 2015, the US Congress has allocated $750 million to improve the defense capabilities of the Ukrainian army and security forces, and then made an additional decision to allocate another $650 million to the Ukrainians over the next two years.
“However, the new administration needs to answer the question of whether the allocation of additional funds to solve the Ukrainian problem will help reduce the wave of violence in the country and stop the confusion in the elected authorities, or will it be just the opposite. Russia has repeatedly demonstrated that it will not allow a pro-Western democratic state to emerge on its western border, and that if a pro-Western government is formed in Kyiv, Moscow will do everything to maintain pro-Russian sentiment in the eastern regions of Ukraine. Hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid have not yet forced Russia to change its calculations, and new hundreds of millions of dollars are unlikely to do so. In fact, whenever Washington makes strong statements and allocates money to the Ukrainian military, the Russians respond in kind.
The political crisis in Ukraine is far from resolved, and this is largely caused by the actions of Russia, as well as the failure to comply with the terms of the Minsk agreements. But while the situation in the east today is far from peaceful, there is far less violence there now than at the height of the war in 2015. Sometimes non-intervention is more in line with US national interests than intervention, which has become the unconditional reflex of the foreign policy establishment in Washington since the end of the Cold War,” says Daniel Depetris.
The US has admitted that there is no point in arming Ukraine – Russia will not give in anyway.