The US Senate has approved a package of $95 billion military aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.

After six months of blockade, military aid usa To ukraine has definitely been approved. There was no surprise. In total, 79 senators voted in favor, and 18 – all Republicans – voted against. Now the law is ready Joe Biden Ratify it along with its form, which will definitely happen this Wednesday. Thus ended a period of suffering for Ukraine, which since January had been deprived of barely $300 million (about 280 million euros) of direct military aid from the United States, plus some of the slipping bombs, due to the opposition of the ‘Trumpists’. units were received. To provide more aid to Kiev.

In total, the aid amounts to $60.1 billion (56.1 billion euros), a figure practically identical to the $61.4 billion first requested by Joe Biden in October, which should theoretically be allowed Kyiv Fighting would continue for about a year, especially now that Ukraine was beginning to develop its own highly effective missile systems and drones. Added to this is the fact that Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor, jake sullivanIt appears that it has lost the battle for control over arms shipments to Ukraine, so the material that is about to be sent to Kiev is going to be much more destructive.

for now, white House The first deliveries are planned in the coming days, which could cost up to a billion dollars (930 million euros) and include thousands of artillery mounts, anti-aircraft missiles and a new round of ATCMS, short-range missiles. Washington To date, it has barely been delivered to Ukraine due to fear of Russian reprisals.

Now, once upon a time Sullivan’s thesis was moscow If the US gave Kiev large quantities of ATACMS, it would also respond with a nuclear bomb, which Biden’s government has shown willingness to do by giving Ukraine a version of the rocket with a range of about 295 kilometers, which is what it has given so far. Now, that barely reached 160 kilometres. ATCMS can play a very important role in warfare, as HIMARS – missiles with a range of about 90 kilometers – did in 2022. The US has thousands of ATCMS that have, in fact, ended their useful life and are stored in storage waiting to be replaced by the LRPF, which is already entering service.

The biggest difference between the aid approved last night and the aid proposed by Biden is that $9.5 billion (15% of the total) is not non-refundable, but “excusable credit”, In fact, this is a purely cosmetic measure. No one doubts that the Kiev government will never return those credits, like the Soviet Union, Great Britain, France De Gaulle and nationalist china chiang kai shek He never returned most of the credits given to him by the United States for fighting Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan during World War II.

The legislation also includes $26 billion (24.3 billion euros) to Israel specifically for that country to replace its air and anti-missile defense systems, as well as $8 billion (about 7.5 billion euros). taiwan Improve your security to face possible invasion from China