The Department of Defense has announced two billion-dollar military aid packages, short- and long-term deliveries, in the days since President Joe Biden signed his national security supplemental legislation into law.
But it’s unclear what impact it’ll have on the battlefield or what success in Ukraine even looks like in the eyes of the Biden administration, be it total victory against Russia or simply buying enough time to push it to the negotiating table. Lack of clarity on the end game has led to criticism from the portion of House Republicans who held up the passage of Biden’s supplemental request for several months.
“There is no person in the United States House of Representatives that can tell you what objective we are meeting by injecting this money into Ukraine,” Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who voted against the
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