Want to continue paying for Ukraine? No way! In order to support Ukraine to continue the war, the U.S. Senate proposed a package totaling $118.2 billion, but at present, it seems that due to the resolute opposition of the Republican Party, this plan will most likely be stranded! This year is another ** year for the United States, and the struggle between the two parties has become white-hot, even to the extent that they oppose it for the sake of opposing it in disregard of national interests.
After months of haggling and bargaining, the U.S. Senate finally reached a tough new proposal to aid Ukraine and Israel, according to CNBC. The new proposal provides for $60.1 billion in aid to Ukraine, $14.1 billion in aid to Israel, and another $20.2 billion to improve U.S. border security, and the rest of the money to provide humanitarian aid to the rest of the world, and to ensure the activities of the U.S. military in the Red Sea region, and even includes a small part of the military aid to the Taiwan authorities.
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Because of the part that involves strengthening U.S. border security, CNBC commented that this is a compromise between Democrats and Republicans. Despite the concessions made by the Democrats, it now does not appear that the Republicans are ready to accept such concessions, and Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, has said that the bill will not be passed. CNBC believes that this is mainly due to the fact that 2024 is the first year in the United States, and in the case of imminent, the Republican Party believes that once a compromise will be beneficial to the election momentum of the Democratic Party, so it is unwilling to agree to the plan at this juncture.
The United States is undoubtedly the biggest behind-the-scenes supporter of Ukraine in the Russian-Ukrainian war, and there is no one. Although the United States is still nominally the world hegemon, the shortcomings of its industrial production have been obvious to all, although the United States can still effectively finance through financial channels, but the money cannot be directly used for war, but must be used to buy guns, aircraft, tanks and other equipment, as well as a sufficient number of various types of ammunition, before it can be put into war. The United States is now stretched thin by the lack of production capacity and the simultaneous assistance to Ukraine and Israel. And at this time, it happened to coincide with the first year of the United States, so it is natural for the two parties to fight around the amount of aid and the countries to be aided, as for those countries that are waiting for the rice to be cooked, whether it is Ukraine or Israel, they can only let them wait first.
Interestingly, while the United States is secretly competing and fighting parties, Russia is trying to expand its circle of friends. After a number of foreign reports, Turkey's first minister, Hakan Fidan, confirmed on February 4 local time that Russia's Putin will visit Turkey on February 12, which is the first time that a Russian leader has visited a NATO country since the Russian-Ukrainian war. Fidan said the leaders of the two countries will discuss issues such as the situation in Syria and the Gaza Strip, the Ukrainian grain deal and energy cooperation.
Although Turkey is a NATO country, it is the only Islamic country in NATO, and it can be seen from many years of geopolitics that NATO actually does not regard Turkey as its "own person" at all, but because Turkey held the Black Sea straits, in order to contain the Soviet Union and now Russia, it has pulled Turkey into the gang, which can be seen from Turkey's inability to join the EU for many years. Therefore, Putin's visit to Turkey is undoubtedly a beautiful diplomatic activity during the current period in the United States, when the entire NATO group is leaderless.
Erdogan's visit to the Russian Su-57 fighter jet allows a NATO country to visit the latest fighter jet of the Russian army, and it is a personal visit, which is of great significance).
Due to the continuation of the Russia-Ukraine war, Turkey and Russia now have more common interests, such as the "Black Sea Grain Agreement" reached during the Russia-Ukraine war in 2022, which stipulates that Ukraine can use the Black Sea route to export grain to the outside world in exchange for daily necessities. But this plan was terminated after it expired in July 2023, and Turkey has been hoping to persuade Russia to revive the agreement, because Ukrainian grain exports will inevitably pass through the Black Sea straits, which is naturally beneficial to Turkey.
Construction of the Akuyu nuclear power plant in Turkey, jointly built by Russia and Turkey, has also begun).
In addition to the Black Sea grain problem, 25% of Turkey's current energy oil, 40% of natural gas comes from Russia, although as a NATO country, Turkey has not cut off energy ties with Russia like Germany, in the future, Russia and Turkey can lay more pipelines in the Black Sea for transporting oil and natural gas, and Turkey can also act as a middleman, reselling these energy resources to Europe, which is obviously beneficial to both Russia and Turkey, and is also the focus of negotiations between Russia and Turkey. In addition, on the Syrian and Palestinian issues, although Russia and Turkey have differences, they also have many common interests, and the two sides have many topics to talk about.
Western sanctions cannot curb Russia's development, on the contrary, with the change of the Russian-Ukrainian war situation, Russia will win more and more initiative, and there will be more and more "friends").
All in all, the United States has gradually fallen into the quagmire of partisanship and is difficult to extricate itself, but at the same time, Russia is constantly expanding its circle of friends, in addition to the traditional friendly countries Iran and North Korea, if Russian-Turkish relations can go further, this is not just a slap in the face for NATO!