Kateryna Chernoval23:58, 11.12.24

3 min.5

McConnell doesn’t know whether the US will spend more money on military aid to Ukraine in the future.

US Senator from Kentucky, Republican Mitch McConnell, criticized the position of US President-elect Donald Trump and his Vice President J.D. Vance, who claim that the United States should not spend more money on Ukraine.

This is reported by the Financial Times . It is noted that McConnell plans to spend the last two years of his term fighting “isolationist elements in today’s Republican Party, which are becoming increasingly isolationist.”

“The costs of deterrence are much lower than the costs of war,” he emphasized, recalling the example of World War II, in which the United States spent 37 percent of its GDP on war, while last year this figure was about 2.7%.

The publication emphasizes that these words of the senator are aimed directly at Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, who argue that the United States should not spend more money on Ukraine. McConnell is a staunch supporter of Ronald Reagan’s views on the role of the United States in the world.

“For most American voters, I think the answer is simple: ‘Let’s stay out of this.’ That was an argument made in the 1930s, and it just won’t work. Thanks to Reagan, we know what works – not just talking about peace through force, but demonstrating it,” the Republican explained. 

It is known that McConnell will chair the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee, which will decide how to spend billions of dollars for the Pentagon.

The senator doesn’t know whether the US will spend more money on military aid to Ukraine in the future, but, he said, “the goal here is to make sure the Russians don’t win.”

Speaking about Ukraine and Israel, McConnell emphasized:

“We have two Democratic allies fighting for their lives. I don’t think we should control what they think is necessary to win.”

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