U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan vowed on NBC’s “Meet the Press” yesterday that the Biden Administration would continue to send “critical aid and additional resources,” meaning mainly weapons, to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his country’s military. “Our policy is unequivocal that we will do whatever we can to help Ukraine succeed. And it will be … President Zelenskyy and the democratically-elected government of Ukraine that determines what that success constitutes,” he said, obfuscating the reality that the 2014 Maidan coup was anything but democratic. “We need to keep giving them military support and strong economic sanctions to improve their position, their posture at the negotiating table,” he said.
Sullivan then said that America envisions a future of Ukraine without Russian interference—and with Russia essentially backed into a corner. “At the end of the day, what we want to see is a free and independent Ukraine, a weakened and isolated Russia, and a stronger, more unified, more determined West,” he said. “We believe that all three of those objectives are in sight, can be accomplished, and we will do what it takes to support the Ukrainians in their effort to help bring those objectives about.”
