“There is no appetite”: the US Congress made an alarming statement about aid to Ukraine

Republicans say that after Trump’s return, there will be no need to help Ukraine.

Speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, Mike Johnson, “has no appetite” for the continuation of American support to Ukraine. He made such a statement in an interview with Punchbowl news .

“I have no appetite for further funding for Ukraine, and I hope we don’t have to. If President Trump wins, I think he can really end this conflict. I really do. I think he will call [Russian President Volodymyr ] to Putin and will say that this is enough,” Johnson said.

According to the Republican, “everyone around the world is tired” of the war in Ukraine and wants “it to be resolved.”

“I’m not sure, but I think if Kamala Harris becomes president, I don’t think it’s going to end, and it’s a desperate and dangerous scenario,” Johnson said.

How Johnson blocked military aid to Ukraine

As UNIAN wrote, exactly one year ago, a parliamentary crisis occurred in the USA due to the inability to pass the budget for the 2024 fiscal year. One of the consequences of this was the change of the speaker of the House of Representatives – the position was given to a close associate of Donald Trump, Mike Johnson .

After that, a months-long epic began, during which Mike Johnson, under various pretexts, refused to submit bills on the allocation of military aid to Ukraine to the House of Representatives for a vote .

This delay led to a sharp reduction in arms supplies to Ukraine. According to many military observers, the months-long shortage of weapons in the Armed Forces at the very time when Russia began receiving millions of shells from North Korea led not only to the loss of Avdiivka, but also had a significant impact on the overall situation in the war .

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