By David Sole
Joe Biden has been busy in the last few weeks of his presidency rushing billions of dollars in cash and heavy military equipment to the Zelensky proxy regime in Ukraine. Biden has been an eager advocate for over a decade of getting Ukraine to fight a war to “weaken Russia.” As Vice-President under President Barack Obama in 2014, Biden helped organize a coup in Kiev to oust the elected Ukrainian government that was seen by the United States as too friendly to Russia. Now, as his term of office comes to an end, Biden is seeking to bolster the Ukrainian government that is losing the war planned by the CIA and US State Department.
On December 30 Biden announced that his administration is “surging as much assistance to Ukraine as quickly as possible.” This includes air defense systems and artillery among other weaponry. It is divided between $1.25 billion being drawn down from Pentagon stockpiles plus another $1.22 billion from big defense contractors paid for by US taxpayers.
The US Treasury Department reported on the same day that Biden had ordered another $3.4 billion to be sent for direct aid to Ukraine’s budget as “the final disbursement of funds appropriated under the bipartisan Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024.”
Total US aid to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s Special Military Operation in February 2022 has amounted to over $175 billion in military weaponry and budgetary assistance.
On December 30 Ukraine’s Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that the US government “will provide Ukraine with $15 billion, backed by future revenues from frozen Russian assets.” This is part of a total of $20 billion from the United States and another $30 billion pledged by other G7 nations. These funds are in the form of loans (will they ever be repaid?) that are to be taken from profits from about $300 billion of Russian assets seized by the US and European Union. Russia has denounced this as “theft.”
The last-minute rush of weapons and money to Ukraine by Biden is, in part, driven by the fear that the incoming Trump administration may not continue aid to Ukraine. This was a refrain in Trump’s electoral campaign. It remains to be seen if Trump actually cuts off Ukraine after his inauguration on January 20 or whether it was a phony campaign promise. It should be remembered that the previous Trump regime, from 2017 to 2021, participated in the build up of Ukraine’s armed forces in preparation for the war with Russia that broke out early in 2022.
Meanwhile, it has been revealed, again, that there are strong pro-Nazi forces that are openly operating across the country. Russia’s stated goals in launching its military intervention was to “denazify” Ukraine, to demilitarize Ukraine and, most importantly, prevent Ukraine joining NATO and putting US/NATO bases along Russia’s western border.
On December 30 hundreds of neo-Nazi Ukrainians marched in the city of Lviv in celebration of the birth of Stephen Bandera, a Ukrainian collaborator with Hitler’s Nazi invaders in World War II. During the “festivities” someone damaged a large menorah, a Jewish religious symbol of the Hanukkah holidays.
The menorah was only erected last month over the site of the Golden Rose Synagogue of Lviv which had been destroyed by the Nazi invaders. Bandera’s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists worked with the Nazis in their genocide of Ukrainian Jews. It is estimated that around 1.5 million Jews were murdered in Ukraine during World War II.
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