Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) told the International Security Council in Munich, Germany, on Sunday that the $60 billion U.S. aid package pending in Congress would “fundamentally change the reality” on the ground in Ukraine. ” He insisted that there was no such thing.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and others spoke at the 60th Munich Security Conference, which was held at the same time as Ukraine withdrew its troops from eastern Avdiivka after months of intense fighting. They are demanding that aid be allowed to pass through without hindrance, the Associated Press reported. report.
But Vance said on the final day of the conference, an annual gathering of security and foreign policy officials, that “the problem with Ukraine… is that there is no clear end point,” adding that the He said they simply aren’t producing enough weapons to support a war. There is a possibility of an emergency occurring in Europe, the Middle East, and even East Asia.
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House Speaker Mike Johnson insists he is “in no hurry” to approve the Senate’s $95.3 billion foreign aid package that includes aid to Ukraine, citing lack of funding and lack of aid to the United States. It is being held up by Republican opponents. Border security.
Johnson said he requested a meeting with President Joe Biden several months ago about these issues and is looking forward to a chance to speak one-on-one.
Even if the package passes, “it won’t fundamentally change the realities on the battlefield,” Vance argued, noting that there are limits to U.S. manufacturing capacity.
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Then he said: “Can we send the level of weapons we’ve sent over the last 18 months? We can’t do that. No matter how much of a check the United States Congress writes, that’s the limit for us.”
Vance went on to say, “I think the best thing to achieve is a negotiated peace,” adding that Russia, Ukraine, Europe and the United States have an incentive to come to the negotiating table now, and that two years of war may end soon. He insisted that it would end. An Associated Press report said the conflict could end with a negotiated peace.
Ricarda Lang, co-leader of Germany’s ruling Green Party, countered that Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly shown that he is “not interested in peace at the moment.”
JD Vance (left), US senator, Ricarda Lang, Bundnis90/Confederation President Die Grünen, David Lammy, British politician, Priyanka Chaturvedi, Indian politician, Natalie Tocci, host Recorded on the last day of the 60th Munich Security Conference. Hotel Bayerischer Hof. (Tobias Hase/Photo Alliance via Getty Images)
Stopping arms supplies to Ukraine now, she argued, “will either prolong the war or give up Ukraine and Putin will win.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, speaking separately at the same conference, said parliamentary delays were reducing the flow of U.S. arms and ammunition, with a direct impact on the front lines.
“Every week we wait means more people will be killed on the front lines in Ukraine,” he said.
