"We have issued the last package that we had withdrawn and for which we had funding," John Kirby said.

“We have issued the last package that we had withdrawn and for which we had funding,” John Kirby said. White House National Security Council strategic communications coordinator John Kirby said at a briefing Thursday that “the assistance we were providing has come to a halt.”

The White House official also said it is very important that Congress continues to approve the allocation of money to Ukraine. He stressed that Kiev needs help more urgently during the winter period.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      It’s sad to watch these world leaders who understand long strategy use the short American attention span to twist global politics to their own ends.

  • Froyn@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    It’s clear that Ukraine is of “National Security Interests”. So I vote we just take a lil bit of the budget allocated for military spending and use it where it would be best served.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 months ago

    Funny how are government starts fucking up the war most Americans support AND fucking up the other one that most Americans don’t support.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
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      8 months ago

      One of those effects the transfer of capital far more than the other. The whole reason we have a navy is to police international waters for commerce.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The Kurds welcome Ukraine in joining the long list of groups abandoned and left in ruins by the US after being promised support to fight their enemy as long as needed.

    Biden needs to focus on committing Genocide now. He has no time for Ukrainians beating an invasion. Surely Zeloonsky understands, he unconditionally supports israel’s genocide himself.

  • ZK686@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I love how we can’t get anything done about our borders from the Democrats, yet, when THEY ask for more funds for Ukraine, the Republicans are just supposed to say “sure!”

  • Might Be@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    The headline is a bit misleading, as you can see in the 2nd paragraph of the submission text, it’s the current round of assistance that has halted, and they’re pushing for Congress to continue their support of Ukraine.

      • MicroWave@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Yeah, the site is suspect. The article uses the Russian spelling “Kiev” instead of the Ukranian “Kyiv,” which is a giveaway that the site might be spreading Russian propaganda. Also:

        Argentina seems to show a particularly interesting trend. The country has the region’s highest number of RT online readers, and, in 2014, it was one of the first countries in the region to allow RT to broadcast on public television. Current Argentine President Alberto Fernandez has since added Telesur, the Venezuelan television network, to his country’s basic national television service. Telesur now streams Russian propaganda and disinformation to 83% of the Argentine population. Given the reach of these outlets, it is an unlikely coincidence that 67.4% of Argentinian residents said in 2020 that they view Russia favorably.

        https://www.bfna.org/digital-world/growing-audiences-and-influence-russian-media-in-latin-america-7wlrwqpupm/

    • Endorkend@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      And it’s not that it has halted.

      It has concluded.

      It being halted would mean that that which was meant to be allocated is stopped from being allocated before all of it was allocated.