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Sunday, December 12, 2021
ANBOUND's Observation: Biden Attempts to Pressure Ukraine out of Fear of Russia
Chan Kung

The Biden administration has prepared a USD 200 million package of military assistance for Ukraine but held off on delivering the aid. NBC sources said that the related military aid document has been “on the president’s desk for roughly three to four weeks”. Biden was expected to announce this news last week, but this did not happen. Three people familiar with the situation attributed the delay in U.S. assistance to Ukraine to the need to give more time to diplomatic efforts in easing the tensions with Russia due to the situation in Ukraine.

It remains unclear as to what the USD 200 million package specifically includes. However, NBC sources said that Ukraine has requested “air defense systems, anti-ship missiles, more Javelin anti-tank missiles, electronic jamming gear, radar systems, ammunition, upgraded artillery munitions and medical supplies”. Sources said that the United States has other options for military assistance to Ukraine, including providing a larger package in the event of a Russian invasion.

The White House did not respond to the request for comment. A spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declined to comment as well.

NBC pointed out that the United States has continued to provide military assistance to Ukraine. This year alone, the amount has reached USD 400 million. An additional USD 50 million aid plan is under development, the largest U.S. military aid to Ukraine since 2014.

Analysis and Discussion:

In general, these aids are all informational signals, not military aids in the true sense. Compares with tens of billions of dollars in direct military equipment assistance provided by the U.S. to the Afghan government, the aid provided to Ukraine is more likely to be symbolic. Biden’s international relations team is mainly Jake Sullivan and Antony Blinken. Even before Biden officially sworn as the President of the United States, it was already quite apparent that both of them would be counterproductive to the Biden administration, and the withdrawal of the U.S. troops from Afghanistan and other incidents proved this point well.

Russia has no lack of outstanding intelligence analysts who will come to the same conclusion; therefore, Russia has no qualm to put pressure on the United States. President Biden’s international relations team appears to reveal their plans now, and even the Democratic Party’s media are now vaguely suggesting that Biden’s policies are probably becoming reminiscent to those that would be chosen by the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in the late 1930s. Biden’s team educated in elite American universities are now helpless to the measures taken by Russia, and the outcome is therefore quite obvious now.

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