What will $61bn US package mean for Ukraine's war with Russia? | Inside Story
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- The US House of Representatives agrees a $61 billion aid package to Ukraine after months of political wrangling.
More than one-third will go on weapons to battle Russian forces.
Will this help end the war?
Or will it just prolong the fighting and bloodshed?
Presenter: Tom McRae
Guests:
Chris Hedges -- Former Middle East Bureau chief of the New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize winner
Anatol Lieven -- Director of the Eurasia Programme at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Patrick Bury -- Defence and security analyst, Associate Professor in Security, University of Bath, former British Army officer & NATO analyst
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These people talks as if Russia is just sitting and waiting on them deciding how they need to win.
their willful naivety is quite impressive I must say.
😂
To be fair this war has been a big strategic disaster for Russia both in the Black Sea as in the Baltic Sea. The blackmail of Europe with Russian gas also failed. I think it is reasonable to assume Russia will collapse in the near future. Just look at that Wagner mutany. A bit of land grab in de Donbass is not going to change that. It is the last thing Europe wants of course because that could even be worse than the Putin regime. That is why Ukraine is not really getting what it needs to defeat Russia while it would be easy to defeat russia at the moment.
2 years look where they are donbass was under russia before the invasion so.they are where yhey where 2 years ago a liltle more farther
Well said ! Lol
Ukrainian needs Hilary Clinton leadership ,lol ,as soon as she is back then Russian will run away 😂
The US calling other countries aggressors wtf
@StopThinkingSmoothie haha the US who is the most warmongering country in the world calling another country an aggressor do u not see the irony in that or r u just an idiot
russia invades ukraine killing more then 100 000 ukranians how else you want to call it ? but you only care about gaza you are just as hypocrite as the one you blame
@StopThinkingSmoothie The US is the most aggressive country on planet, calling other countries aggressive is hypocrisy.
@@SimbaM2kufuthat trend overall was reversing under Trump
@StopThinkingSmoothie OP talking about US thats projecting stuff
More job losses, more homeless people in the streets of America, more innocent Ukrainian lives lost. This is how cheap life is to America
@StopThinkingSmoothie Russia is fighting a border war that threatens its security, they have to fight.
most of the cash is for the american militairy industry so it provides more jobs. + not helping ukraine causes lost lifes and russia's brutal invasion causes lost lifes. your comment thats cheap. you dont care about facts you just justify and twist things because you hate america.
More life will be saved. 90% is going back to USA ECONOMY anyway - so jobless can find the job in arms factories
In the USA: homeless millions , drug addiction, gun violence, 20 war veterans committing suicide every day, prostitution … A barbaric land. But war mongering tops the list !!!!
@StopThinkingSmoothie both of you are right. No one truly wins in a war.
Army industrial complex get most of this money 😂😂
Sympathy to the US taxpayers
They don't have to earn money they can print 😂😂😂😂
In law printing money is a crime, but to our government it’s business as usual.
Thanks! We get used for our tax dollars, otherwise we’re an obstacle and nuisance to these neocons who run our government
@@venkatsantoshd You'd think they'd print a few cents more for free healthcare, education, and excellent clean public transport for its own people too.
We are mostly supportive of these aid bills. The small but load contingent don’t have to votes to stop it
Is absolutely disgusting and hideous to spend so much money 💰 yet there is so many much poverty and inequality in the USA. It could be used for infrastructure development, education and social services instead of war .
Maybe some mental health facilities !
The MAGA crowd are never going to pay for infrastructure development, education and social services because that's communist (supposedly). They're far happier to see their leadership misappropriate funds on the mass scale. I should remind you: Trump sees Putin as a role model.
You could say the same with Russia ; they spend so much on military budget just to invade Ukraine , instead of building their country
You forget that money is spent from the defense budget basically and it's for protection against a fascist county RF that wants to grab land in EU
@@MarincaGheorgheEu is not the us taxpayers responsibility. Our responsibility is to our homeland. Nowhere else
This is going to get ugly because Putin he won't accept it to lose
Ignorant comment
You think so? Really? I thought it was ugly right from the get go when the West egged zelensky to throw the lives of common joe Ukrainians for the sake of European greed and ambition.
Then he can find a nice tall window, and bow out.
He lost he should end weastern hegemony he is totally drama.
£61 000 000 000 million
How many starving humans could we feed with that ?
We could feed an entire country but there's no profit in that is there .
How many are hungry because of Russia attacking Ukraine? Ukraine's wheat fed much of Africa & the Middle East.
Not to mention how quickly these funds will be wasted in support of the losing side in a proxy war
Lol nobody wants to take care of the hungry or homeless when we're not sending aid, stop trying to deflect. The minute anyone mentions bringing people out of poverty, the same people crying about "funding a proxy war" get all butthurt and cry socialism. So, go away, bot.
⚜️🛰📡📺 If they think equal chineses they can solve all problems no even food problem.
@StopThinkingSmoothie 🎯
Basically 61B down the drain, good luck if they think that will defeat Russia 😂
Oh stop it, Russia already lost. "3 days to Kyiv" is now "2.2 years and not a single one of the 10 largest cities in Ukraine captured".
@@InterviewsWithTheAncients they didnt win the initial goals but they have achieved their other objectives
Absolutely nobody in Russia said anything about 3 days, nobody and Russia captured many cities but gave them back when ukraine said they wouldn't join nato. Boris Johnson went to Ukraine and told them to retract their statement Russia stopped retreating and Ukraine hasn't been able to move Russia since. @@InterviewsWithTheAncients
let me qoute ur hero who will save u and then explain to me why u hate china
''biggest disaster in the XX century was fall of soviet union '' vladimir putin ex kgb republicans hero meanwhile china bad coz its communist xD
im just in shock how low iq american right is not all of course some have brains
@@dunnoewatzgood explain 40 mile convoy to kiec then xD
Zelensky will put much of that in his private box and will disappear and leave Ukrainians to fend for themselves
You think USA is gonna send $61billion in cash? You clearly have no clue how the world or the USA works.
Come 20th may zelensky, will no more be president of Ukraine, election not held
bruhhhh he could have done exactly that the last 2 years. why hasn't he already done that at the start of the war when it was looking really grim? you are cynical
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@@DaltonFallssome of it will be in liquid assets, yes. And to be fair, a lot of the funds sent to Ukraine haven’t actually been accounted for. There is definitely at least some theft going on
If only 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers are dead, and they started with 650,000 where is the remaining 620,000 soldiers?? Some one need to reassess their figures.
The wounded is about 5-10 times that.
plus 310,000 russian casualties. thats a lot of hurt people
It's probably 100k dead 200k wounded and thousands m.i.a
Al Jazeera is anti Russia
Firstly, not all in the military are in combat roles. Secondly, there are usually at least 3x more wounded than killed in action. There are also PoWs held in Russian camps. And rotation or R&R is required too.
That said, 30,000 KIA sounds too low for a war that has been going on for two years.
Is this a joke or what.... US SENATOR TALKS ABOUT RUSSIA,CHINA AND IRAN AS ENEMY OF THE WORLD...😂😂😂😂😂
You're the fool, living in delusion.
And the real enemies of the world are another way around
Of course that senator thinks people don't know the truth
According to that senator, Iran attacked an Israel consulate.
Its a clown show.......
The real question should have been is how much that money would have helped our homeless crisis, or our border security crisis 🤔
US citizens are just an obstacle to their quest for endless war and profit for donors and themselves. Name of the game: grift!
Republicans were handed a mainly republican bill and rejected it because Trump wanted to campaign on the issue.
So stop crying about the border when they clearly don’t really care
I done a google search and got my calculator while high last night and i may be wrong but every homeless person in the full of USA could get 100k, not that that's the right way to go about it haha
@@justchilling548 outstanding calculation,it reflects the impact it could have made 🤗
USA spends 2 trillion on social welfare, what more do you guys want ? Why are you people so upset about 0.6% of the money ? Why do you guys want Ukraine to lose ?
Russia has taken the West Sahel of Africa, armed Niger,Mail and Bukino Faso, with air defense ballistic missiles formed a greater alliance with China and Iran, took lead of the BRICS organization all while fighting the entire West, absolute power.
African iq fully on display 😊
Russia also killed a lot of Africans and Ukrainians in the process.
yet, Russia is parking so much money in the west still. amazing
Very true, only a few intelligent people can see that.
It means Zelensky will buy new mansion
No no he’s going to steal Putins once Ukraine break into Russia 😂😂
They've been saying that for 2 years, keep dreaming buddy.
Your comment implies that there is something wrong with Putin having lots of mansions.
hahaha cynicismmmmm.
As an American this sickens me. Utter waste of our tax dollars that could be so valuably used on literally anything else besides funding another war.
Putin started the war, so they are not funding 'another war,' they are funding the defence of the people of Ukraine.
@@chrisalex001 can you give me some good things to read bout geopolitics? You sound like you know allot and I’m learning myself thanks
imagine if that money was used to improve the lives of poor people in their own country, if it continues like this maybe China will really beat the American economy
@StopThinkingSmoothie You must be a Zionist bot.
Frankly, you know what our taxes are used for. This is just a drop in the bucket for how they give away money to the corporations and refused to tax them. So don't worry about foreign aid. Worry about the lobbyists that own your congressman.
It won't happen unless most countries reject the dollar as the world currency
This money is use to save lives of Ukrainians
China already beat USA many years ago
Im a US citizen and I’m sick of out government funding wars
But what can you do, besides just whining? Clearly your representatives are working for their own interests and not yours
You should be happy that they're helping a democratic country preserve itself from invasion by a dictatorship. Most US voters support the bill.
Well it’s Putin War , US and Ukraine are not the aggressors here , Russia can just stop the invasion and the war would be over , Ukraine has no choice to fight
This is why the world must leave US Dollars completely. They printed the money for their own purpose, while the world pay for them
And Europe is a sheep following the jokers
Unlike the Russians with their Dear Leader... go back to sleep.
And you're an empty profile following Putin.
These people are insane, 30k Ukraine soldiers? Stupid!
Very very
Lmao. You can have with 61B of equipment but with What army?
Wow $61bn is a lot of money which means more weapons for Ukraine. Goodluck Mr. Putin. Your days are numbered. Haha you will never defeat democracy, never.
A lot will be willing to die for $$$.
EUROPE gonna pay
I see why the FEDs are considering raises rates this year.
We should be sending MUCH more aid.
More 90.000 dollar bolts and washers.
Is Russia in a proxi war with 40 countries?? What ignorant are you interviewing ? The legitimate defence of a country under aggression has been supported with military equipment aid from more than 40 countries. Is Russia in a próxima war with 40 countries ?
Будьте вы прокляты с вашей помощью! Из Украины.
Russia is a vast, chaotic country with an economy the size of Italy's, wishing it could be a superpower again, and vainly imagining that it can achieve this by re-annexing a number of countries whose independence and inviolability were guaranteed by the then Soviet Union in the 1990s.
@@rolandscales9380 A clown of the century!
@@rolandscales9380 now do adjusted for ppp
US loving & enjoying the war game around the globe with taxpayers money. On the other hand, native Americans suffering for basic needs.
and you're worried about this why?
"We'd like to give them a little more than they asked for .."
Sick!
@@adinahaun6001 I was only kidding, I wouldn't give them one red cent.
Actually if they use it as leverage in negotiations and reach peace that's going to be good. Because without this package maybe Russia wouldn't even negotiate.
If they use it for another counteroffensive, it's going to be a disaster
That 61 billions will evaporated in a few weeks .!
Ukraine flighting for money 😢
No, they fight because Russia decided to invade.
I suppose you would just surrender if the Russians invaded your country...
Thank you Chris Hedges and others. Great report
Thank you, America, for supporting the people of Ukraine to defend themselves.
Ukraine is NOT russia.
Should have sent "men" instead of "our" money! Any "patriotic volunteers?"
Barely anyone wants to volunteer, it’s not our war. Why are we fighting for war/money hungry politicians.
We don't live in Ukraine
@@danielvertino8126 We might as well! Ukraine is being "priortized" over "domestic" necessities!
@@danielvertino8126 I was being sarcastic! You are sensitive, a "true American patriot!" (Lol)
Yeah, plenty.
Don’t ask what’s causing inflation. You’re looking at it!
I used to believe in the American values, but I now am completely disgusted and disappointed by their hypocrisy and condescending behavior..
The US has now spent 19.2% of its 2023 Defense Budget on Ukraine. The Total spent to date including the EU should be somewhere north of USD 280 billion and Russia is still conquering territory. It seems there is a lot of spending needed in Ukraine. May be another package of 400 billion should be sent to Ukraine and see if it may make a difference. All of this in the name of NATO expansion?
It means usa is in 61 billion dollar more in debt and lesser Ukrainians in the world😂
Government by the people for the people, NO MORE. Weve seen horses as senators dating back to roman empire times in politics so this shouldnt surprise us anymore. The political class needs a good ol fash 1917 russian revolution except the political class is the monarchy in this case. if you know what i mean.
They got Money for War, But Not to feed the Poor.
Thank you for the analysis of the recent Ukraine war. It is frustrating to see the lack of transparency from the government in prolonging the conflict and benefiting the defense industry at the expense of Ukrainian lives. Your insights have highlighted the predictable negotiation outcome in this situation. 2024 elections foreign policy is a key issue for many of us.
Mr Bury seems to be ignoring the pathetic level of military hardware manufacturing capacity in the West.
What good is Billions of Dollars if you don't have the capacity to manufacture the armaments in a reasonable time frame ?
This is professional way to money laundering and getaway with it...
I learned some new perspectives via Chris Hedges. I'm guessing there a MANY people who disagree with his views & interpretations.
It’s BS who chooses to throw our money at who
Russia and its sympathizers are seeming pretty frustrated right now
you wont be saying the same when the begger comes asking for more funds again
@@tendwaten6027 You mean Kokainsky? Yeah you're right then
"war of nutrition"....
Nato nations uk france germany must also aid ukrain
with same time with U.S A then they will win for sure
If you add all the European countries togethere they have already spent much more than the USA on support for Ukraine. Also the US has mostly sent weapons which were about to come to end of service life and vast majority of US funds then spent on buying new and better weapons for US forces.
37 millions people the vast military equipment and economic power of the west and Ukraine cant find a few hundreds thousands soldiers to outnumber the Russians . That is not good moral at all.
What have the Russian and Chinese done that they are a treat to the World its the US and the West are a treat to the World
Imagine the average American couldn’t even afford simple health care or go to dentist but they have 61BN to help others country for war. Welcome to democracy
The more and more on packages, more and more losses on ukraine
We Americans can't have universal healthcare or free college, but we have money for wars in Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. 😢
Ok, let wait and see if the amount of money can rock the boat.
this is a late package, now get another aid package ready to go
Nice one bro
Pro-Purin pundits , shamefull.
Ukraine has signed up an eternal debt with the US,a higher bill will be coming to Ukranian citizen whose the worth must be paid by forthcoming generation.That concerns a country has been shrunk by war and its economy broken,it is impossible to get pay it back a short time.
BS, how are the vanquished enemies of the world from WW2, Japan, Germany, Italy doing, just fine.
Huge $61 billion aid package approved in US Congress on the mustached Austrian painters birthday. Coincidence?
Prepare another package again after three months
You do realize the previous aid package that passed in 2022, was $50 billion, right? You do understand this new package is even larger?
@@MrSlanderer even if they send trillions with NATO included they will never defeat spetsnaz.
Novel "game changer" 🤣
Congratulations to the users of the US state!
Secure our boarders first!
Some believe the war is at a stalemate? Really? Maybe these people haven't seen an updated map of the front line. I haven't seen it moving eastward. Also, maybe Russia isn't interested in moving further westward. Anyone consider that?
Bath’s analysis is grim
Russia took what they want and not going backwards
I'm pretty sure they can make 100bn instead of sending 61bn now the 39bn again in 6 months.
Why didn't they make 65bn instead of 61bn? It's only 4bn more
The military expert from the Uk demonstrates the most insight. This is not a traditional war that can be measured in quantities of men or older standards of armaments and soldiers. As Ukraine has demonstrated it will be a war determined by the elements of armament innovations as demonstrated by Ukraine’s use of military drone warfare.
wtf hedges historifical justification he's arguing the opposite in gaza
dude is literary in the bathroom!
The wild under estimation of the casualties 😮 Ukraine has 1.5 million injured and 400-500k KIA Russia is like 250k injured and 50-100 KIA
Ukraine won’t be able to mount an offensive for 50 years 💀
The better question is, what would that money mean for the regular American Citizen the goes out to work everyday to pay his taxes, and what their children future holds for them.
They are never going to defeat Russia that’s crazy, it is was that easy, the US would have done it long ago.
depends on what you mean by defeat. keeping Russia poor and beholden to china might be a defeat. like getting Finland/Sweden into NATO...startegy my friend, strategy
Money well spent , I wound give Ukraine another 60 B every six months for the next 10 years and then think about slowing up. Those Ukrainians have a set of "BALLS" .
be careful when someone keep repeating "you know"
“Ukraine’s war with Russia” needs to be corrected to “NATO’s war with Russia, using Ukraine as the frontman”.
Yokey palkey comrade
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The Blessed Virgin Mary
They can't buy a victory with dollars. Ask Afganistan and Iraq😁
Add Libya, Syria and Somalia
@@katimboallan4605 Vietnam, Cuba, Georgia, etc🤓
ask russian generals who were turned to fertilizer by Storm Shadow missiles 😆😆😆😆
@@VsevolodSidorenko Ukraine's losses are ten times higher according to BBC and CNN 😁
However, we aren't Ukrainians. We don't dance on corpses of fallen soldiers, Russian or Ukrainian😅
Nothing
I undrrstand why Israel forbidd al jazero
In this 2 year Special Military Operation Ukraine was given more than $200 billion yet it failed even to break the first Russian defense line instead it lost 765 000 troops plus 80% of all Nato useless weapons donated to them.
Is this a balanced discussion??
Al Jazeera only has balanced viewpoints on Arab issues. Otherwise it's pro-Western.
Russia can move slowly and it will cost US, UK and EU a Trillion. Taxpayer will Spend more and more and the Arms industry / Share Holders is earning the most of the Money
more money the usa doesn’t have
The US has PLENTY of cash.
@@ryanthompson198135 trillions debts
If the world does begin to collapse. Fruit, corn and wheat are very popular.
Sure, bring 3 pro-Russian experts on the panel.
Straight into rich WASP pockets 🤣
Remember, as you read these comments that we all amateur commentators without the full picture, some looking for confirmation bias, and others pedalling an agender.
published: january 2023, 16,000 families of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine received compensation, this is what the independent Russian media claimed, and at that time the Ukrainian media reported 100,000 KIA Russian soldiers?
What will 60b do? It's not like the Russians have been sitting around all this time😂
❤❤❤love. King
Hedges has always been a fool.
You're the fool, living in delusion.
Although I am unfamiliar with this particular station, I am deeply dismayed by the suggestion of engaging in a proxy war over Ukraine. Moreover, it is essential to highlight that the conflicts in Ukraine and Afghanistan are fundamentally distinct. The United States dedicated two decades to active involvement in Afghanistan. Regrettably, the news report in question appears to lack accuracy and impartiality, failing to meet the standards of responsible journalism. As an unbiased observer, I had not anticipated encountering such a biased narrative. It would have been more appropriate for the station to strive for objectivity rather than exhibiting an anti-American stance. Ultimately, these circumstances give rise to concerns regarding an underlying inclination towards favoring Russia's victory.
They made him an offer he couldn’t refuse.
As far as a war of attrition not favoring Ukraine due to differences of population and manpower goes, during the Afghan War of 1979-89 the population of Afghanistan was around 13 million. Meanwhile, the population of the Soviet Union was over 250 million. How'd that work out?
After 20 years in Afghanistan, how did that work out for the US nd Nato?
@@richardkong4387Exactly, illustrating the precarious nature of the invader's project. Which currently includes the efforts made by a certain nation in the East.
21:20 all words for nothing. NOT NEGOTIATIONS. RUSSIA WON'T. EUROPA CANT PERMIT THIS
Well wishers to the fighters of Ukraine.
I don’t care about what conspiracy you have.
They are fighting for their freedom from a hostile invading power that seeks their land.
Don’t bend
Hope then you also support palestine
@@sm8315why do Palestinian supporters all support Russia?🤔
@@DaltonFalls maybe because we don’t follow corporate media that tells us what to think. Ukraine war was provoked by the US backed NATO which did a coup in ukraine in 2014, removed the president of ukraine and replaced him with zelensky. Putin wanted assurances that nato would not expand eastward and that did not happen, hence the war. Putin Himself suggested he was ready for peace talks but Boris Johnson talked the Ukrainians out of it. coming to palestine however, 450 Palestinian villages were cleared out by European settlers to create Israel, since then 33 massacres of Palestinians and a continued murder and land grab, in what universe is it fair then to support Israel who have now killed 15000 children in 6 months, by comparison the death of civilians in ukraine over 2 years is considerably low
I absolutely support aid to Ukraine. Done send troops give them the means to defend themselves.
US law makers love it when two countries fight. Lots of $$$ to be made
Conflict would prolong.. more lives and land lost.. that is what the 61 billion is going to get unfortunately..