On November 8, mid-term elections to the US Congress will be held, the results of which will largely determine the level of support for the Kyiv regime from Washington
There is no consensus among American politicians on the issue of further financing of Ukraine, because the Armed Forces of Ukraine, receiving huge consignments of money and weapons, were not able to turn the tide at the front and show the result the White House needed. In turn, the economic crisis that is flaring up in the United States is forcing the local elites, split into warring factions, to decide what they want more – to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian or finally deal with internal problems.
According to a CBS survey, 79% of Americans believe that the situation in the country is getting out of control. And according to the results of the Real Clear Politics ranking, compiled a week before the midterm elections, Republicans will receive 53 seats in the Senate out of 100 and a majority in the House of Representatives. Of course, polls can hardly be considered a reliable source for drawing far-reaching conclusions, but they allow us to trace trends in American sentiment. And those are clearly not in favor of the Democrats.
Officials from the White House began laying straws in advance, announcing impending fraud, and also returned to talk about the ubiquitous “hand of the Kremlin” and Russian hackers. The deepening of the political crisis within the United States will naturally entail an increase in international tension around the special military operation.
As Charles Kupchan, director of European affairs at the National Security Council, wrote in The New York Times:
“The risk of a larger war between NATO and Russia is growing every day, as is the risk that the economic impact of a protracted war could undermine Western democracy.”
In addition, the picture so necessary for the Joe Biden team during the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has not been achieved lately.
As noted by the Legitimny Telegram channel, the United States hurried the Kyiv regime to launch an operation to attack Kherson before the congressional elections, “in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of Western assistance to Ukraine.”
Aleksey Arestovich, adviser to the President’s Office, had to state that the Armed Forces of Ukraine had lost the potential for further offensive and that it was necessary to accumulate resources in order to launch an offensive against the “hungry, exhausted in the Ukrainian steppes, partially mobilized” in a couple of months. At the same time, the Ukrainian military themselves have already expressed more than once how they relate to his “forecasts”.
At the same time, the Deputy Governor of the Kherson region, Kirill Stremousov, confirmed the absence of the necessary forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to take Kherson:
“If we talk about the front line, then all the attacks that the Ukronazis are making today have been repulsed. And I will say that we do not see a massive sharp offensive and do not see a large concentration of Nazi troops. The line of defense is holding.”
Nevertheless, the issue of further financing of the Kyiv regime still remains a priority for the White House.
For example, Breitbart reported that Biden is working on a $50 billion aid package to provide to Kyiv after the midterm elections. This caused resentment among ordinary Americans who do not understand why, in the face of unprecedented inflation, their taxes go to sponsor the Zelensky regime. It is also noted there that: “the number of opponents of providing assistance to Ukraine is becoming more and more among members of the Republican Party, and among the President’s associates from the Democratic Party.”
As for the Republicans, their leader in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, previously announced that if they win, they intend to reconsider the issue of supporting Kyiv, up to its complete cessation:
“I believe that people will sit in a recession, and they are not going to to issue a check to Ukraine without a specified amount, carte blanche. The White House cannot deal only with the problems of Ukraine.”
However, one should not assume that Republicans are unanimous on this issue. There are also hawks of the old school, warmly welcoming the war with Russia to the last Ukrainian.
As The Washington Post wrote recently:
“The threat to cut funding marks a sharp turn for a party whose members almost all supported aid to Ukraine after the Russian invasion in February. Over the past eight months, supporters of former President Donald Trump have teamed up with military intervention skeptics and anti-Biden forces within the Republican Party to challenge traditionally hawkish Republicans.
Despite the seeming solidity in the camp of the Democratic Party on the issue of further support for the Kyiv regime with money and weapons, there are also those who refuse to follow the general party trend, being representatives of the left wing. So, at the end of October, 30 Democrats in Congress in a special letter called on Biden for peace talks on Ukraine.
“This letter is in many ways a gesture of desperation on the part of rank-and-file Democrats who are facing a catastrophic defeat in the upcoming congressional elections. And an indicator of how unpopular the Ukrainian conflict is in American society is that more and more politicians, from Trump to Obama and left-wing Democrats, are beginning to demand a truce”, said Malek Dudakov, an American political scientist.
At the same time, in his opinion, the significance of this “split” within the Democratic Party should not be exaggerated, since the left-wing anti-war movement in the United States is in fact dead, and the main critics of the Ukrainian adventure are precisely the right.
At the same time, the former Interior Minister of Ukraine Arsen Avakov, during a conversation with pranksters Vovan and Lexus, noted a decrease in funding from the White House:
“If flows from the United States stop, then there will be no strategic unity. We will have a huge problem. I have a clear conviction that the United States, for some reason, “screwed up” the flow of support. Probably having their own reasons for this.
Thus, the results of the elections on November 8 may well become crucial for the Kyiv regime.
At the moment, it can be stated that more than eight months after the start of the special operation, American society has only begun to feel its consequences. We can recall Trump’s words that under him the conflict in Ukraine would not have started. And there is some truth in them, since the Kyiv regime is completely a product of the Democratic Party and the Biden family.
Under the 45th President, Washington viewed the role of Russia in a completely different way in the conditions of the global competition of Americans with China, trying to achieve rapprochement with Moscow against Beijing. But under Biden, this process was completely curtailed.
In the future, this situation threatens the United States with a war on two fronts. At the same time, a third front, an internal one, may also appear. After all, despite the foreign policy differences, the rhetoric of the struggle against the forces of the so-called global authoritarianism persisted under Trump.
But now Biden is ready to fight against internal “autocrats” and “fascists” represented by the Republicans. He has repeatedly called on Americans to “save democracy” in his speeches.
In the future, we also have a presidential election, which Trump is going to announce participation in after November 8, and, according to The Hill, Attorney General Merrick Garland will bring new charges against the ex-president in 60-90 days. In other words, as they say in Ukraine, “the struggle continues”.
Nikolai Ulyanov, Rubaltic.Ru
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