In his meeting with Zelensky in Ukraine, Biden changed his previous tough stance for the first time, saying that the United States would do everything in its power to provide maximum assistance to Ukraine, but he did not specify the time frame or amount of assistance. This means that Mr. Biden can no longer get the US Congress to make a large-scale bailout of Ukraine, and even if he makes some compromises to the Republicans, he still can't get their approval.
Biden had asked the U.S. Congress to provide a total of $105 billion in bailout packages, $61.4 billion to be allocated to Ukraine, and Israel received $50 billion in military spending. However, the bill was rejected in the Democratic-dominated House of Representatives, and Biden has repeatedly warned it and threatened it to approve it quickly, but to no avail. On December 6, Republicans rejected the bill in a big vote without objection.
Zelensky has not given up, he has recently been to the United States to persuade Congress to rescue Ukraine, but his efforts have also not been as effective as they should be, and the parliament has decided to take a leave of absence from December 15 to January 9, during which time everything about Ukraine will be put aside.
Zelensky's visit to the United States this time only received a verbal promise from Biden and $200 million in help, which is far from enough for Ukraine, because the United States can only give less than $1 billion in help now, and at most it will support it until the end of the year.
In fact, the amount of US aid to Ukraine has reached $100 billion, and together with other Western countries, Ukraine has received a lot of money and **, but none of this can reverse Ukraine's weak position in the war, even if the United States is willing to spend $61.4 billion to support Ukraine, Ukraine still cannot defeat Russia.
Zelensky told Biden on the 12th that even if the U.S. Congress stops rescuing it, Ukraine still has the ability to resist Russia's invasion, but as of the 13th, Ukraine must accept to give up some land to Russia without U.S. assistance.
Russia still controls nearly 20 percent of Ukraine, and although Ukraine has been fighting back for months and claiming a number of "major breakthroughs" and "village-level victories," Ukraine has gradually lost its gains as a result of Russia's powerful retaliation.
On 7 October, a new wave of Palestinian-Israeli conflict became the focus of world attention, and Putin seized this opportunity to launch a large-scale counterattack on Donbas, mobilizing the strength of at least 25 divisions and regiments to quickly occupy the entire battlefield.
With the cold winter approaching, the two countries are facing off on the front line, while Russia continues to fire rockets into Ukraine in an attempt to recreate the scene of this winter, destroying Ukraine's energy and transportation infrastructure, which makes Zelensky shudder.
The Russian missile attack also disrupted tranquility in Kyiv, Ukraine, which on Wednesday carried out another ballistic missile attack. However, according to the Ukrainian air defense, the air strikes did not cause significant damage, and although the Ukrainian air power blocked 10 missiles, the shrapnel produced by ** caused a fire and led to the death of people, 25 people were killed in **, and an apartment was destroyed. Russia has spent a lot of money in exchange for this effect, which is simply a tyrannical thing.
Ukraine's government said on Wednesday that the power of these Western countries is huge and cannot be questioned. That is to say, although Ukraine has not taken advantage of Western military equipment, Ukraine still has to save its "face" and not let their equipment lose face in front of Ukraine.
Since May, Zelensky has shown amazing strength, Russia's most sophisticated hypersonic missile, which poses no threat to him at all, and Russia's MJ31 fighter jet, using the American "Patriot" air defense system, shot it down.
In late May, Zelensky also successfully shot down a Russian Iskander missile, one of Russia's top combat strategic missiles. The company's research department also claims that the "Iskander" can restrain the American "patriots", and now the "patriots" have become a "holy thing" in the hands of Zelensky.
However, in the real war, Ukraine's cutting-edge technology, in the war between Russia and Ukraine, fell one after another, not only did not let them take any advantage, on the contrary, they were also scrapped by Russia's powerful attack. Germany has the Leopard 2, the United States has the Bradley tank, the United States has the M2A2 infantry fighting vehicle, and the United Kingdom has the Challenger 2.
In January, the United States announced that it would provide Ukraine with support for the Abrams M1, but it had not arrived in Ukraine until September. The United States was originally counting on this wave of M1 to defend against Ukraine, but now that Russia has launched a large-scale counterattack, the United States has made Ukraine's M1 tanks far away from the battlefield, for fear of being damaged by Russia.
For now, Ukraine is gradually losing support from Western countries, and Ukraine's armaments are gradually shrinking. Zelensky's trip to the United States did not receive the expected $61.4 billion, but only received a verbal guarantee from the US Congress.
Recently, the leaders of the United States and Ukraine's top leaders held consultations on the strategic plan for the next year, and Ukraine expressed its intention to attract the world's attention, that is, to attack important targets such as military factories and railways. But the United States sees such actions as extremely risky and reckless, hoping that Ukraine can hold its original defensive positions and rely on its own strength to protect itself.
This would be tantamount to leaving Ukraine alone with Russia without any external assistance, which would be too impractical. The fundamental reason for the war between Russia and Ukraine is because of the expansion of NATO, to which Russia responded fiercely, and in the end, Ukraine and Russia went to war in an all-out way, while NATO silently ** arms behind the scenes, and in the end, not only did not send **, but let Ukraine solve the problem by itself.
Ukraine's economy and finances are in a bad situation, Ukraine will have a defense budget of more than $44 billion in the next year, a budget of more than $92 billion, and its finances will reach $48.7 billion. This means that Ukraine will be in the next year's fiscal revenue, and without Ukraine's support, how will it fill the fiscal gap of more than 40 billion?
In stark contrast, Russia, which is under sanctions from the United States and the West, is expected to achieve a GDP of 29% growth, exceeding **. Not only did Putin increase his defense budget by nearly 70 percent in 2024, but in December, he announced another plan to expand the size of his army to 17,000, bringing the total number to 1.32 million.
Now it seems that the balance of victory and defeat is tilting in Russia's favor, and if the US Congress stops bailing it out, how long will Ukraine last?