Al Jazeera Net correspondents
Moscow- Russian observers had different views on the seriousness of the request to Congress by the administration of US President Joe Biden to provide $24 billion in military aid to kyiv, according to an article in the newspaper “Politico”, which details the Biden administration’s request for $8 billion in military aid. “initiative to strengthen Ukraine’s security” and $16 billion to replenish dwindling weapons stocks.
Although there are only weeks left before Biden leaves office, the newspaper reports that the White House Office of Management and Budget has proposed that Congress include this aid in the decision to extend government funding, which was approved last September and expires on December 20.
And testify Moscow and the West The atmosphere of tension is highest between them, especially after the West gave Ukraine the green light to use long-range weapons deep in Russian territory, which happened during the attack launched by his forces against the two provinces. Kursk And Bryansk, where Russia said the attack was carried out with American and British missiles.
He was the Russian president Vladimir Putin On the 21st of this month, he announced that his country had used – for the first time – the latest Russian medium-range, non-nuclear, “class” ballistic missiles.OreshnikIt struck the Yuzhmash military-industrial complex in the Dnieper, Ukraine.
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International conflict researcher Fyodor Kuzmin says Biden is racing against time to pass his decision before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, amid his attempts to disrupt any settlement of the conflict between Moscow and kyiv, as he recently allowed Ukraine to carry out strikes with American weapons deep into Russia, agreed to launch anti-personnel attacks, relieved Ukraine of debt in the amount of about 5 billion dollars and imposed sanctions on Gazprombank.
He added in his interview with Al Jazeera Net that Russia – in any case – has shown that it has the capacity to disrupt any tangible effect of any Western military aid to Ukraine in the future, and that if the If the Biden administration implemented its intentions, it would. do not hesitate to reuse the “Oreshnik” missile, which has demonstrated specifications capable of causing enormous destruction.
According to him, the current US administration is now faced with the fact that it can no longer be ignored that the use of this missile led to a paradigm shift in the war in Ukraine and that Russia may not have no longer need nuclear weapons to respond to attacks on its territory.
Kuzmin explains that “Oreshnik” is a non-nuclear weapon, and by no means a weapon of mass destruction, but it is a very precise weapon with enormous destructive power, and Westerners do not have the means to protect themselves from it , and they will – in his estimation – be faced with taking this fact into consideration, even if they refused to accept the idea of a Russian victory in the war.
Propaganda and attrition
While some Russian observers describe Biden’s recent moves as part of his plan to support kyiv before Trump came to power, others doubt Washington’s intention to do so, after Russia used the “Oreshnik” hypersonic missile, which, according to President Putin, had no antidote. the world.
Director of the Center for Political Predictions Denis Krkudinov believes that Biden’s decision to enlist Ukraine’s support before leaving office is “first of all a propaganda decision, because the primary need of the current US administration is to compensate for the munitions spent by the Pentagon, and not to supply weapons to kyiv.”
He noted in his interview with Al Jazeera Net that in recent months, while awaiting the results of the US presidential elections, “the United States has been spending heavily on weapons. It has supplied ammunition to Israel and Ukraine, outside the agreed limits. which caused a state of exhaustion of the American arsenal. »
He added that the “hot heads” of the West, after the experience of using the “Oreshnik” missile, would reconsider the idea of deploying NATO forces to Ukraine to fight there, and if the states -United are not ready to fight, the The rest of NATO members will simply appear in Ukraine as “a cut chicken”, “the head” in the face of attacks by Russian forces, according to his description.
The same speaker explains that the British army is made up of around 80,000 individuals and has a very small number of combat units, and that the German army is made up of 175,000 individuals, describing them as having “forgotten how to fight”, while France. The country is going through a deep political and economic crisis, and as for the United States, public opinion is opposed to the war. President-elect Donald Trump cannot ignore it.
Although no official statement has yet been released by the White House confirming what Politico reported, and in the absence of official comment from Moscow, this statement has received the attention of Russian observers and media, who believe that this is reminiscent of the United States’ statement. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, in which he said: “President Biden will demonstrate that we will continue to need constant resources for Ukraine, because the threat it faces will remain, no matter what happens on the battlefield or at the negotiating table. »