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American Abbatoir:- US Regime knows Ukraine offensive is Suicidal – fuels it anyway for Obscene Profits

Amid ‘staggering’ Ukrainian toll and souring US polls, Biden seeks $ 24,000,000,000 more for war profits

from thefreeonline on AUG 15, 2023, by Aaron Maté at mate.substack shared with thanks!

The Zelensky government appears to be a willing partner in McConnell’s sacrifice ritual.

Ukrainian defence minister Oleksiy Reznikov is said to have told US officials that flooding Ukraine with weapons allows NATO allies to “actually see if their weapons work, how efficiently they work and if they need to be upgraded. For the military industry of the world, you can’t invent a better testing ground.”

As Ukraine faces “staggering” losses and US public mood shifts, the Biden administration seeks billions more to prolong the war.

The Biden administration is asking Congress for an additional $24 billion for the Ukraine proxy war, more than half of it in military aid. The request comes one week after a CNN poll showed, for the first time, that a majority of Americans oppose additional funding to Kiev.

For a White House committed to ensuring a Russian “quagmire” in Ukraine, public opinion is of secondary importance. Two months into a widely hyped yet now faltering Ukrainian counteroffensive, a fresh influx of NATO weaponry appears necessary to prolong the war.

Biden seeks $24 billion for Ukraine, testing bipartisan support in Congress

In one of several gloomy assessments to appear in US establishment media, a senior western diplomat tells CNN that the prospect that Ukrainian forces can “make progress that would change the balance of this conflict” is “extremely, highly unlikely.”

Russian and Ukrainian soldiers refuse to kill each other, but on different sectors of the front libcom.org

Ukraine’s “primary challenge” is breaking through Russia’s heavily fortified defensive lines, where “Ukrainian forces have incurred staggering losses.” According to Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley, US military assessments of the war are “sobering,” with Ukraine now facing “the most difficult time of the war.”