Before leaving Madrid following the conclusion of the NATO summit yesterday, President Joe Biden promised that U.S. support for the regime in Kiev will go on “as long as it takes” to prevent a Russian victory in the Donbass. “In the next few days, we intend to announce more than $800 million more, including a new advanced Western air defense system for Ukraine, more artillery and ammunition, counter-battery radars, additional ammunition for the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system we’ve already given Ukraine and more HIMARS coming from other countries as well,” he said.
“So we are going to stick with Ukraine and all of the Alliance is going to stick with Ukraine as long as it takes to, in fact, make sure that they are not defeated by—by Ukraine—I mean, excuse me, in Ukraine by—by Russia,” he sputtered. Biden claimed that “Ukraine has already dealt a severe blow to Russia. Russia, in fact, has already lost its international standing. Russia is in a position where the whole world is looking and saying, ‘Wait a minute, all this effort—you tried to take the whole country. You tried to take Kiev. You lost. You’ve tried to take the Donbass and all of it. You haven’t done that yet.’
“The generic point is that we’re supplying them with the capacity—and the overwhelming courage they’ve demonstrated—that, in fact, they can continue to resist the Russian aggression,” he went on. “And so, I don’t know what—how it’s going to end, but it will not end with a Russian defeat of Ukraine in Ukraine.”
When a reporter asked Biden how long Americans will have to pay high prices for gasoline (which Biden blames on Russian President Vladimir Putin), he replied: “As long as it takes so Russia cannot, in fact, defeat Ukraine and move beyond Ukraine.” (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/06/30/remarks-by-president-biden-in-press-conference-madrid-spain/)
