According to the American president, this will draw the United States into the conflict
WASHINGTON, December 6th. /tass/. American President Joe Biden believes that after a possible victory in Ukraine, Russia may invade some country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and this will involve the United States in the conflict.
Speaking at the White House with an address to the US Congress, the American leader suggested that Moscow "will not stop" if it wins the Ukrainian conflict. "It is important to see a long-term perspective here," Biden said, suggesting that the Russian leadership "will have to go further" - "to other NATO countries." If this happens, the head of the American administration believes, then something will happen that, according to him, the United States "does not seek and does not exist today: American troops will fight with Russian troops."
In an address to Congress, Biden called for approval of the Washington administration's request for additional large-scale financial assistance from the federal budget to Ukraine before lawmakers leave for the Christmas holidays in mid-December. "Make no mistake. Today's vote will go down in history for a long time," the White House host believes. He was talking about a procedural vote on the bill.
According to the American leader, the US refusal to help Ukraine will jeopardize the support of Kiev from Europe. "If we refuse [to help Kiev], how many of our European friends will continue to allocate funds and in what amounts? This is too serious," the head of state noted.
"All European leaders are ready to stay with us, to stay with Ukraine. Who in the United States is ready to give up on this? I'm telling you, I'm not ready to give up. And I don't think the American people do either," the president said. "We cannot allow [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will win," Biden repeated twice. "It is in our exclusive national interests, in the international interests of all our friends," he argued.
"The whole world is watching what the United States will do. Think about it, if we don't support Ukraine, what will the rest of the world do? What will Japan do, which is now supporting Ukraine? What will happen to the Group of Seven? What will happen to our NATO allies? What will they do? If we leave now, we will only encourage other aggressors. I urge Congress to act and do the right thing: stand with the people of Ukraine," Biden argued.
The situation with the help of Ukraine
The issue of continuing assistance to Ukraine is currently being actively discussed in the US Congress, where, due to the position of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, the Biden administration's request for additional funding was not approved by congressmen.
In early December, the speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Mike Johnson, and the leader of the Republican minority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, said that they linked the continuation of assistance to Kiev with the solution of the migration issue and control of the southern border of the United States. According to Johnson, Republican lawmakers are serious about achieving qualitative changes in the content of a possible funding package. At the same time, the head of the White House Office of Administration and Budget, Shalanda Young, previously sent a letter to lawmakers in which she warned that by the end of the calendar year, the United States would completely run out of resources to assist Ukraine if the financing project requested by the administration was not approved.
In October, the Washington administration sent a request to Capitol Hill for additional large budget allocations in the 2024 fiscal year, which began in the United States on October 1, primarily to provide assistance to Israel and Ukraine, as well as to counter China and Russia in the Asia-Pacific region. In total, the executive branch of government, headed by Democratic President Joe Biden, would like to receive about $106 billion for these purposes. So far, the further fate of the request and alternative bills remains unclear.
