Russian invasion of Ukraine/US Aid to Ukraine
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“ “To my fellow Americans let me just say - you're getting your money’s worth in Ukraine. The Russian military has been degraded by one half. It's been reduced in strength by 50% without a single loss of an American serviceman with less than 3% of our military budget. That is quite a bargain in military terms.”
- — Senator Blumenthal [3]
1991
- NEWS ANALYSIS : Bush’s ‘Chicken Kiev’ Talk--an Ill-Fated U.S. Policy : Ukraine: Efforts to keep the Soviet Union intact are recalled with bitterness by some in new nation.
- Chicken Kiev speech given by George H. W. Bush
1994: “You give your nukes to russia, they’ll promise not to invade you. Deal?”
“ The Clinton administration ignored flashing warning signs as it pushed Ukraine hard to accept unilateral disarmament—depriving Kyiv of a deterrent against Russia while providing nothing real to replace it.
2005: arms destruction
2009-2017: Obama administration
2014-2017: non-lethal aid
- Ukraine president secures U.S. military aid but not weapons, September 18, 2014
- Poroshenko asks Obama for weapons, obtains blankets, September 19, 2014
- Fact-checking Trump’s claim that Obama gave Ukraine ‘pillows and sheets’ (fact-check: true)
- “U.S. hands over armored military vehicles to Ukraine”, March 25, 2015 “The U.S. aid for Ukraine’s army will include 30 heavily armored Humvees and 200 other regular Humvees, as well as small drones, radios, counter-mortar radars and other equipment. All of the aid is nonlethal, and the drones are not armed.”
2017-2021, Trump presidency
2022-2023
- Randy Mott, “There is a major misconception the US is providing a big majority of the aid to UKR. This is only true of mil aid & because only the US had unused stores of the necessary eqpt. ”, March 7, 2023 (thread) (pdf)
2023
Objections and counter-arguments
- Sending Fighter Jets To Ukraine Raises The Specter Of The Cold War “The proposed arms shipments are significantly less provocative than the Soviets killing Americans in North Korea and Vietnam.” [4]
Benefits for the USA
- Timothy Snyder, “I have been hearing the idea from some Republicans that Ukrainian resistance comes at a cost to Americans. Nothing could be more wrong. Ukrainian resistance provides extraordinary security benefits to Americans” (thread) (pdf)
Ideas
Opinion polls
Other countries’ aid
Estonia
More
- Garry Kasparov, “A History of Betrayal: Biden’s Team Keeps Negotiating About Ukraine Without Ukraine”
- How successive U.S. administrations resisted arming Ukraine, March 5, 2022
- Seeks US Weapons at Middle East Arms Expo, February 24, 2014
- “U.S. Humvees Arrive In Ukraine”, March 26, 2015 “Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko welcomed the first 10 Humvees provided by the U.S. as part of non-lethal military aid. The vehicles were handed over to units which are fighting Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. It’s expected that a total of 230 Humvees will be delivered within the next 45 days.”
- Randy Mott, “A new theme is to force Ukraine to make peace. This is undoubtedly one of the dumbest ideas to emerge from the war. The Gaetz proposal would cut off US aid (now audited)to try to force a peace deal. This thread sets out the reasons why this is nonsense”, February 10, 2023 (thread) (pdf) (Matt Gaetz)
- Randy Mott, "Time for new report on aid to UKR & continued audit/oversight underway. "There has likely never been more accountability or transparency measures in place for US foreign assistance than what is available for Ukraine aid."
