US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has congratulated Ukraine on Independence Day and promised that the US will maintain its support for it.
Source: Kamala Harris on X, as reported by European Pravda
Quote from Harris: “On Ukraine’s Independence Day, we join in celebrating the shared values that the Ukrainian people are bravely defending every single day: independence, sovereignty, and freedom.
We will continue to stand with Ukraine in its fight for freedom against Russia’s aggression.”
Background:
- During a speech at the Democratic Party convention in Chicago after accepting the nomination as a candidate for the US presidency, Kamala Harris promised to support Ukraine if elected president.
- Earlier, Time reported that Harris’s relations with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were “uneasy“.
- Harris has never been on a visit in Ukraine, even after the beginning of the full-scale invasion, though she met with Zelenskyy six times. Their latest meeting was held on the sidelines of the Global Peace Summit in Switzerland in June.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/24/7471737
“US Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris has congratulated Ukraine on Independence Day and promised that the US will maintain its support for it.”
We’ll see what happens next January. At least she congratulated Ukraine on its independence. I don’t see anything from Biden or Trump in that regard.
Biden did. Tovarish Trumpkov did not.
RFK “Brainworm” Jr is on a Republicans Against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) video saying :
He (Trump) “told me wants to cut the $200 Billion (sic) aid to Ukraine because we could use that money back here in the United States.”
Trump is standing by his side nodding solemnly.
That puts an end to any hope that Ukraine might have of any help from that quarter. As Jason Smart of the KP puts it:
“Trump has never, not once, promised he would send Ukraine more assistance. Anyone who says Trump would do more for Ukraine is delusional.”
That leaves Kamala as Ukraine’s best and only hope. Despite the EU having a collective GDP of $18.3 trillion, its members individually and collectively are failing Ukraine dreadfully.
If she’s elected president, then we can hope a continuation of the present lukewarm assistance, or in a best case scenario, she and her new security adviser, Secretary of State, and Secretary of Defense have more brains and more balls to do more.