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]

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.

How Bill Clinton Sealed Ukraine’s Fate: The inside story of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994, when Kyiv returned its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for ‘assurances’ from Moscow and Washington.


2005: arms destruction

2009-2017: Obama administration


2014-2017: non-lethal aid

  • 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

2022-2023

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2023

Objections and counter-arguments

Benefits for the USA

Ideas

Opinion polls

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Other countries’ aid

Estonia

More

  • 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.”

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