Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge Apr 29, 2024
Soon on the heels of President Biden last week signing into law a $61 billion aid package for Ukraine’s defense, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday indicated that he’s working with Washington on a bilateral security agreement which would last ten years.
“We are already working on a specific text,” Zelensky said in his nightly video address. “Our goal is to make this agreement the strongest of all.”
“We are discussing the specific foundations of our security and cooperation. We are also working on fixing specific levels of support for this year and the next 10 years.”
He indicated it will likely include agreements on long-term support centering on military hardware and joint arms production, as well as continuing reconstruction aid. “The agreement should be truly exemplary and reflect the strength of American leadership,” Zelensky added.
But ultimately a key purpose in locking such a long-term deal in would be to keep it immune from potential interference by a future Trump administration.
Below is what The Wall Street Journal spelled out last year:
The goal is to make sure Ukraine will be strong enough in the future to deter Russia from attacking it again. More immediately, Ukraine’s Western allies hope to discourage the Kremlin from thinking it can wait out the Biden administration for a potentially more sympathetic successor in the White House.
Western officials are looking for ways to lock in pledges of support and limit future governments’ abilities to backtrack, amid fears in European capitals that Donald Trump, if he recaptures the White House, would seek to scale back aid. Trump has a wide lead in early polling in the Republican presidential primary field, but soundly lost the 2020 election to President Biden and has been indicted in four criminal cases in state and federal courts.
We and others have previously underscored that NATO and G7 countries are desperately trying to “Trump-proof” future aid to Ukraine and the effort to counter Russia.
As for its first new weapons package in the wake of the $61 billion being authorized, the Biden administration has announced new arms packages totaling $7 billion. The US has vowed to rush the weapons to Kiev, given that by all indicators its forces are not doing well on the frontlines.
“We are still waiting for the supplies promised to Ukraine – we expect exactly the volume and content of supplies that can change the situation on the battlefield in the interests of Ukraine,” Zelensky had said over the weekend. “And it is important that every agreement we have reached is implemented – everything that will yield practical results on the battlefield and boost the morale of everyone on the frontline. In a conversation with Mr. Jeffries, I emphasized the need for Patriot systems, they are needed as soon as possible.”
Zelensky announces that Ukraine is working on a security agreement with the U.S. that will fix levels of support for the next 10 years. The $61 billion was just the beginning. The next two U.S. presidents won’t be able to switch it off. pic.twitter.com/q1RWCxf93m
— David Sacks (@DavidSacks) April 28, 2024
But all of this means the war will be prolonged, and this puts negotiations much further away on the horizon, despite what are now daily acknowledgements of Ukraine forces being beaten back. Currently the governments of Greece and Spain are being pressured by EU and NATO leadership to hand over what few Patriot systems they possess to Kiev. The rationale is that they don’t need them as urgently as Ukraine does.
It matters not what Biden or Zelensky say. It’s Russia who’ll decide.
AmeriKa is actually capable of KEEPING an “agreement” – ANY agreement! – for TEN YEARS???
LMFAO!! 😂
As I revealed/explained before to you morons, this war won’t end until the Commie Jews of NATO & Russia have decided/agreed that enough Aryans have been liquidated…
This is why Russia should have knocked over Jewkraine rapidly to avoid any of this happening.
“In his nightly video address on Sunday night, President Zelensky said that he is working on the wording of an agreement with the Biden administration that will commit the U.S. to supporting Ukraine financially and militarily for the next ten years”
In his nightly video address on Sunday night, President Zelensky said that he is working on the wording of an agreement with his fellow demonic kikes in the U.S. administration that will commit the U.S. to supporting Ukraine financially and militarily for the next ten years
Biden’s lucky if he can put on his drawers in the morning.
The kikes in his administration have to hold him up, sort of like the movie “Weekend at Bernie’s. Or a weekend with Biden.
Not really “news”..
Old political trick..
In case a given adminstration gets voted out..the incumbents will load up on their list/book on various agendas to make them ” nuke proof ” so that if they are voted out ,then the new Gov’t is SOL re changing and/or cancelling them.
As noted in the article…the plan is to supply weapons at least 10 years into the future…possibly longer.
Rest assured long term unbreakable /irrevocable contracts have been signed with Military Industrial Complex cult.
Any hope for peace in the near or distant future is null and void.
Bullshit. If Trump ends this stupid fiasco, there will be no need for the US to funnel these lying psychopaths another fucking dime.
russia is best tool to destroy whole western
decadence+ to build a new society without
any rich parasites in whole europa but first
has to nuke London city + jewSA deepstate
+ its militaryindustrial pest .
@ BRIGGS
EXACTLY ; Macchiavelli ;
generosity do seldom ,
cruelty do fast !