US Demonstrates Long-Term Commitment to Ukraine

Recent developments in the latest iteration of russia’s long-term wars against Ukraine have compelled the United States and other free world allies of Kyiv to step up their expressed support “to the end” for Ukraine.

And it couldn’t have come at a more propitious time.

The latest example of russia’s stubborn commitment to annihilating Ukrainians came on June 6 with destruction of the Kakhovka dam in occupied southeastern Ukraine.

Regardless of how mercilessly brutal they are toward civilian Ukrainians, the russian cutthroats in uniforms are incompetent on the battlefield. Nonetheless, their commanders formulate evil plots to kill as many Ukrainians as possible and to harm as much of Ukrainian towns and countryside as possible.

That was the goal of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam earlier this week. The structure, which has been in russian hands for some 12 months, was built in the days of the evil soviet empire. According to engineering reports from Ukraine, it was meant to withstand intense bombardment from the outside, but not from within. Consequently, russian sappers had the time to find the dam’s vulnerable areas and then plant enough explosive devises to blow up the dam and release water the size of the Great Salt Lake.

Norwegian seismographers determined that a massive explosion caused the dam to be destroyed. A BBC correspondent reporting this finding laid all of the evidence in a row and said the guilty party could not be anyone else but russia, the kremlin, putin and the invading army.

The devastation has been biblical. People have drowned, towns and farms have bene inundated, crops destroyed, livestock killed. The regional and global ecological damage has not yet been calculated but it is expected to consume everything in its path, leaving the people without food or water or arable land.

This is the second time that russia has destroyed this dam for its egocentric malicious reasons, the previous one being during World War Two. And this is the second time russia is forcing famine upon the Ukrainian nation, the previous time was the infamous Holodomor. Clearly, moscow is intent on fulfilling its centuries-old mission of killing all Ukrainians and ravaging the countryside as it captures the country.

The scenes of the devastation ahead of U.S. elections should serve as a stark reminder to all Republican and Democratic candidates that it is in America’s best interest to help Ukraine defeat and subdue Russia before it rolls across Europe and the Atlantic to the shores of the U.S.A.

According to the U.S. Institute for the Study of War (ISW), the Ukrainian army has conducted counterattack operations in at least three areas of the front within 24 hours with mixed results, the Baltic News Network reported. ISW said in a report published on Thursday, June 8, that these operations are part of a broader counterattack effort that has been ongoing since the 4th of June.

Ukrainian forces have switched from defense to offensive towards Bakhmut, and have advanced even by two kilometers in some places.

The Ukrainian army carried out a limited but significant offensive in the west of the Zaporizhzhia region overnight on June 8. At the same time, Russian forces put up fierce resistance and regained their original positions.

Fortunately, the Biden Administration has again come forward with help. The U.S. announced today a new $2.1 billion package of military aid to Ukraine.

The Pentagon elaborated that this is long-term weapons aid for Ukraine. The new assistance package will include funding for more Patriot missile battery munitions, Hawk air defense systems and missiles, and small Puma drones that can be launched by hand.

The latest funding, one of the larger packages the U.S. has provided, comes as there are signs that Ukraine has begun the much anticipated counteroffensive to take back territory that has been seized by Russia. Unlike the U.S. equipment, weapons and ammunition that are more frequently sent from Pentagon stocks and delivered quickly to Ukraine, this money would be provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and is meant to be spent over the coming months or even years to ensure Ukraine’s future security needs.

In a statement, the Pentagon said the package shows America’s continued commitment “to both Ukraine’s critical near-term capabilities as well as the enduring capacity of Ukraine’s Armed Forces to defend its territory and deter Russian aggression over the long term.”

The aid also will include munitions for laser-guided rockets, an undisclosed amount of artillery rounds, and funding for training and maintenance support.

President Biden said yesterday he’s confident the U.S. will have the necessary funding to support Ukraine “for as long as it takes” to fight invading Russian forces, despite skepticism in the GOP-led House about providing supplemental spending for the effort.

“I believe we’ll have the funding necessary to support Ukraine for as long as it takes,” Biden said at a press conference with British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who supports the policy of helping Ukraine. “And I believe that that support will be real, even though you hear some voices today on Capitol Hill about whether or not we should continue to support Ukraine and for how long.”

Biden and White House officials have been adamant since Russia first invaded in February 2022 that the U.S. would stand with Ukraine for as long as it took to bring the war to an end. The U.S. has thus far allocated billions of dollars in military and economic aid to Kyiv.

A number of administration officials reportedly have acknowledged that the fighting in Ukraine has intensified in recent days, but much of the focus turned early this week to the destruction of the Kakhovka dam.

The free world is solidly in support of Ukraine. Which is a good thing but it shouldn’t let its guard down. The kremlin and its killers for hire have stated that they will mobilize 200,000 walking dead russians to fight in Ukraine. Russia must be defeated, dismembered and decolonized as soon as possible before this plan is fulfilled.