In a column published by the “New York Times”, the American president specifies his strategy and dismisses any desire to promote a change of diet in Moscow.
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The desirable contours, the limits of the possible. Joe Biden took the pen, Tuesday, May 31, in the New York Times, to specify its support strategy for Ukraine, militarily assaulted by Russia. While divergences of tone, even perspective, seemed to be taking shape lately between Washington and the Paris-Berlin axis, which keeps the line open with the Kremlin, the American president wanted, in this gallery, to recall the parameters of the commitment of his administration. This considers that the negotiations will be inevitable between kyiv and Moscow to put an end to the conflict, but that the time has not come to approach them, as the situation on the field is moving and the Kremlin, not available.
“It is a vital national interests of ensuring a stable and peaceful Europe,” writes Joe Biden. He therefore inscribes his policy in a form of continuity: coordination with the allies to strengthen sanctions against Russia, consolidation of the oriental flank of NATO, with the candidates of Sweden and Finland, and, finally, helps Massive military in Ukraine, symbolized by the $ 40 billion envelope (37.3 billion euros) voted by the Congress. In this context, the Biden administration crosses a new threshold in sophistication.
While the Russian army has made progress in Donbass, Washington decided to respond to a pressing demand from President Volodymyr Zelensky, as part of a new $ 700 million aid tranche. Ukrainian forces will receive multiple rocket launcher systems (Himars), mounted on light armored vehicles, provided they are not used to target Russia on its own territory. The shooting distance of these systems would reach almost 80 kilometers, an unprecedented asset for kyiv, which will allow him, according to Joe Biden, to “aim more precisely key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine”. The United States has given up delivering more sophisticated systems, with a range of 300 kilometers.
Since the start of the war in Ukraine on February 24, the United States provided kyiv nearly $ 3.8 billion in security assistance, mainly in the form of arms deliveries, of More and more sophisticated and expensive. Recently, 108 Howitzer artillery systems were thus deployed. But the Biden administration only designs this aid in the name of support for Ukrainian sovereignty, the right of kyiv to defend itself against an external aggression.
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