The Capitol Building in Washington DC. File photoWASHINGTON, May 12.Kentucky Senator Rand Paul on Thursday blocked the upper house of the U.S. Congress from passing a bill to allocate additional assistance to Ukraine for a record amount of nearly $40 billion. «We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy,» he said. According to him, Congress should carefully weigh the costs that the state treasury will incur if such an initiative is adopted. «The biggest threat to the United States today is public debt, inflation and the collapse of the dollar,» the senator emphasized. /uploads/2022/05/b5f5e7fe24ddcf51fb8e8b932fbd260b.jpg» />Hellish, but not eternal: who will break first due to Western sanctions, the Senator stressed that the United States in the current conditions simply cannot afford to play the role of world policeman to the detriment of its budget. Paul tried to initiate an amendment to the bill that would allow federal oversight for the allocation of funding for Ukraine. The amendment was rejected by Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Earlier, the House of Representatives approved an additional aid package for Ukraine by sending the bill to the Senate for a vote. As the US State Department noted, Washington, considering the issue of allocating an assistance package in this amount to Kyiv, is counting on a speedy resolution of the crisis around Ukraine.The United States is on the verge of destroying the petrodollar with its own hands. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stressed, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the Ministry of Defense, the Russian military strikes only on military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, nothing threatens the civilian population. The ministry called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation. Against this background, the United States and its NATO allies continue to pump weapons to Ukraine. The day before, President Joe Biden signed a lend-lease law that simplifies the provision of military assistance to it. Moscow has repeatedly stated that the supply of Western weapons only prolongs the conflict, and the transport of weapons becomes a legitimate target. In addition, Western countries have imposed new sanctions against Russia, however, from -for this, they faced high inflation in the fuel and food markets.
