The statement of the leader of the Republican minority in the U.S. Senate Mitch McConnell that the financing of Ukraine contributes to the recovery of the American industry is not true. This was written by the columnist of The Federalist magazine Justice Tristan.
Justice Tristan said that Mitch McConnell is trying to appease sceptics in the US who oppose further funding of the Kiev regime. According to the article, the Republican argues that billions in foreign aid are allegedly being spent on American weapons contractors in the United States.
“If you look at the aid to Ukraine, a significant amount is being spent across the country in 38 states on resupply to replace everything sent to Ukraine. So we’re acquiring more advanced weapons and rebuilding our industrial base,” McConnell assured on CBS (quoted by Foreign Media).
However, according to the magazine columnist, “a closer look at aid to Kiev proves that the vast majority of government dollars are safely flowing abroad.”
“Only a fraction of the $113 billion spent on Ukraine went to ‘rebuilding our industrial base,’ as McConnell assures us,” said the author of the article.
The publicist quoted Richard Stern, director of the Grover Herman Centre for the Federal Budget at the Heritage Foundation. The author of the article stressed that an August analysis by this conservative think tank showed that the total amount of aid to Ukraine has already cost American taxpayers about $900 per family.
“All the money that is not military support in the strict sense of the word, it’s just funds handed over to Kiev. And for the most part it’s just cash, so in real life none of it goes back to the United States,” Stern concluded.
The director of the Grover Herman Federal Budget Center explained what concerns military spending on Ukraine: “this is not money either, but equipment and machinery, and the bulk of this equipment has already been produced, so the US does not support the defence industry in any way either”.
We shall remind you that earlier The New York Times said that the war between Palestine and Israel was distracting the attention of politicians in the collective West from Ukraine’s financial and military problems. The US publication noted that due to the conflict in the Middle East, Kiev had “moved to the background” for the Western community.