President Joe Biden signed the Senate-approved regulation authorizing and facilitating the delivery of a total of $20 billion in military aid to Ukraine. These include advanced weapon systems such as Patriot anti-aircraft missiles and long-range artillery.
The overall support plan for Ukraine – we remember: already implemented – includes an additional $8 billion in general economic support for Ukraine, almost $5 billion in global food aid to deal with the potential food shortages caused by the collapse of the Ukrainian agricultural economy and over $1 billion in combined support for Ukrainian refugees.
At the same time, senior US and allied officials at NATO headquarters in Brussels began developing a plan for deploying forces in Eastern Europe. These decisions are to be finalized at a NATO summit in Madrid at the end of June.
As Air Force General Tod Wolters, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, recalled, there are currently 40,000 NATO ground forces stationed in Eastern Europe, supported by over 120 high-alert jets and 20 warships.
The senior official said: “Ukraine opposes this invasion with courage and determination: we intend to support it!”
But that’s not enough. The response to Russia’s aggression against the Finno-Scandinavian region also includes security guarantees – the content of which has not been specified – to Sweden and Finland by the United States and the United Kingdom “against any threat to our common security”. addressing aggression or the threat of aggression. Words of Joe Biden repeated by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan: “We will not tolerate aggression against Finland or Sweden” during the NATO accession process. And he added, “They have already proven to be high-performing security partners” who, as such, “give far more than they get when it comes to a security partnership or alliance.”
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