President Joe Biden and his national security adviser Jake Sullivan “bought” the idea that the Russian Federation could use nuclear weapons if the United States provided Ukraine with “too many” weapons.
The delay in providing American aid to Ukraine got a new explanation. The head of the Foreign Committee of the US House of Representatives, Michael McCaul, said that President Joe Biden and his national security adviser Jake Sullivan “bought” the idea that the Russian Federation could use nuclear weapons if the United States will give Ukraine “too many” weapons.
Too careful
“Jake Sullivan is too cautious. He’s too scared. And he’s bought into the idea that if we give them too much, Russia will use tactical nuclear weapons against us. Most of the intelligence I’ve seen suggests not. Because it’s a game changer for everyone,” McCall said.
He also noted that Biden is of the same mind as Sullivan on this issue and is as wary of aid to Ukraine as Sullivan.
According to McCall, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, on the contrary, even at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, fully supported the provision of MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine, and aid to Ukraine was mainly “slowed. down” by Sullivan.
“Not him.her. In my opinion, it’s Jake Sullivan and the White House. This is a very timid reaction. I like Colin Powell’s doctrine. Whether you go in or not. Don’t stop halfway. You know, we’re giving Putin exactly what he wants. It’s a stalemate. War of attrition. And he has more bodies that he can throw,” the congressman emphasized.
Critical moment
The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, spoke with US Presidential National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, after which he remained confident that the aid would eventually be approved, Politico reports.
At the same time, the publication wrote that he was not sure when this would happen, but insisted that it should happen soon.
“Meanwhile, it is costing us lives, and I really hope that a decision will be made this month, because Ukraine is approaching a critical moment,” Yermak said.
They are not inviting you to join NATO
Ukraine wants to receive an official invitation to join NATO. But alliance officials agreed that this would not happen during celebrations at the NATO summit in Washington in July, The New York Times wrote.
The article says that NATO does not want to accept a new member who, according to the alliance’s rules on collective security, “would lead it to the biggest land war in Europe since 1945.”
This has forced NATO to find some kind of “middle ground,” something short but meaningful enough to show that the alliance supports Ukraine, as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said this week, ” for a long time.”
However, what that is is not yet clear, according to senior Western diplomats involved in the discussions.
The publication writes that proposals presented at a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels this week to give NATO more control over the coordination of military aid, funding and training of Ukrainian forces were immediately met with doubts.
The United States and Germany remain opposed to inviting Ukraine to begin membership negotiations in Washington, as was done at last year’s summit in Vilnius. They want to remove the issue from the agenda in July, despite a similar process in the EU that was approved last winter.
However, as the article states, they want to give Ukraine “specific obligations” that it can fulfill. Efforts to clearly define the conditions that Ukraine must meet in order to start negotiations with NATO have not yet progressed.
Source: korrespondent
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