Loading military aid for Ukraine at Dover Air Base, USA. Archival photoMOSCOW, May 19. Uncontrolled aid to Ukraine could lead to financial ruin for the United States, Senator Rand Paul said in a Federalist column. Previously, the politician did not agree with the bill submitted to Congress and blocked a fast-track vote on allocating $ 40 billion to Kyiv, proposing an amendment that would involve tightening overseeing the spending of funds sent to Ukraine.
"We cannot bankrupt our own state by taking part in another foreign conflict. Against the background of a public debt of 120 percent of GDP, rampant inflation not seen since the 1980s, and significant disruptions to the supply chain, the United States must first make its own economy sound before helping other states,” Paul explained. .
The Republican noted that after the coronavirus pandemic, inflation in the United States reached a 40-year high. In particular, gasoline prices have almost doubled compared to last year, energy prices — by 32 percent, groceries have risen in price by nine percent, and a used car will now cost the average American more than a third more.
Aimed at Russia — hit the dollar According to Paul, this situation occurred due to the «reckless spending» of the American government, which now threatens to make the US national debt unsustainable. «I have repeatedly emphasized that the main threat to national security is our public debt. Only over the past two years, the United States has borrowed more money than ever before,» the parliamentarian emphasized. At the same time, US spending on Ukraine, if the law on new assistance to Kyiv is passed, will amount to 60 billion from 2014, which is almost ten times more than the annual Washington's spending on cancer research, Paul noted.
"If you put the interests of other nations above your own, it will not end well. <…> Not only are we flirting with financial collapse, but we also risk inadvertently getting involved in a war with another major power", the senator concluded.
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 agency called the liberation of Donbass the main goal of the operation. How Ukraine will pay for US military assistanceAgainst 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.Read the full text of the article on the InoSMI website >>