MUNICH – A Republican U.S. senator who opposes the United States giving Ukraine more resources argued at an international security conference on Sunday that the package stalled in Congress will not “fundamentally change” the reality in the conflict zone and that Russia has an incentive to negotiate peace.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Vice President Kamala Harris and others pushed for approval of the $60 billion aid at the Munich Security Conference, which coincided with the withdrawal of Ukrainian soldiers from the eastern town of Avdiivka after months of intense fighting.
But Senator JD Vance, an Ohio Republican and an ally of Donald Trump, said that “the problem in Ukraine … is that there is no clear end point” and that the United States does not produce enough weapons to support wars in Eastern Europe , Middle East and “potentially an emergency in East Asia.”
Republicans have called for a strategy that guarantees victory in the war and accountability for the funds allocated.
They won’t “rush” it.
House Speaker Mike Johnson insists he will not be “rushed” into passing the Senate's $95.3 billion foreign aid package, despite overwhelming support from most Democrats and nearly half of Republicans also includes aid for Ukraine.
If the package passes, “it will not fundamentally change the reality of the battlefield,” Vance argued, citing limited American weapons production capacity.
“Can we send the amount of weapons that we have sent in the last 18 months?” he asked. “We just can't do it. “No matter how many checks the United States Congress issues, we are limited.”
“I think what can reasonably be achieved is a negotiated peace,” he said, arguing that Russia, Ukraine, Europe and the United States all have an incentive to come to the negotiating table now and that the two-year war will eventually will end in peace. negotiated.
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SPRING: With information from AP