President Joe Biden personally apologized to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday for the months-long delay in transferring more taxpayer money to Ukraine.
Biden apologized on the world stage during bilateral talks in Paris.
“It is very important that in this united body, the United States of America, all Americans stand with Ukraine as they did in World War II.”
“I apologize for the weeks that went by without knowing what was going to happen on the funding front,” Biden said.
The president blamed “very conservative” lawmakers for delaying the aid, even as a growing coalition of lawmakers has questioned the willingness of some in Washington to provide unlimited financial assistance to Ukraine.
The United States is now More than $175 billion in aid to Ukraine Ukraine has spent a lot of money on its war with Russia since it began, but it has not led to victory. Moreover, the Biden administration has not presented the American people with a clear strategic plan for Ukraine to win the war, nor has it explained why the American people should continue to send their hard-earned dollars to Kiev. The money already sent has not helped Ukraine win against Russia.
Still, Biden assured Zelensky that “America stands with you.”
“We’re still in it. Fully, thoroughly,” Biden said.
Meanwhile, Zelensky told Biden that the US needs to support Ukraine in the same way that American military power supported Allied forces in World War II.
“It is very important that you are with us,” he said, “that all Americans, in the unity of the United States of America, stand with Ukraine as they did in World War II – how America saved lives, how America saved Europe.”
Americans’ views on taxpayer money being used for the Ukraine-Russia war continue to change.
Last fall, a large percentage of Americans said the U.S. government was overreacting. But a recent Gallup poll found I found that A growing number of Americans believe the United States needs to do more to help Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the Pew Research Center I found that Roughly one-third of Americans believe the U.S. intervenes too much. Interestingly, Republicans are more likely than Democrats to think the U.S. intervenes too much, but Democrats are also more likely to want the U.S. to become more involved in foreign wars.
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