money, especially military support, will stay in the united states, it will go to defence contractors, but there is a few billion in there dedicated for budget support, so ukraine will be able to deploy that to pay pensions and teacher salaries and things like that. if this aid does not come soon, a lot of analysts are now beginning to think that the russians will get further, they could occupy ukraine within two years, and as speakerjohnson, who i think has had an epiphany overnight, said in the past 24 hours, that if ukraine is not defended, the russians will go further into poland and the baltic states, and eventually us troops would have to get involved. so that is a pretty scary scenario. a seniorfellow at a senior fellow at the united councils centre. and a reminder you can find all of our coverage of the war in ukraine our our website.
speakerjohnson and threatening him with hisjob but he responded to that rather skilfully and now he has been assured he will be allowed to see out his tenure until the end of november with democrat support and as a consequence he is acquiescing and allowing this vote to happen. if the bill passes as you suggest how long will it take for the money to get to ukraine? the long will it take for the money to get to ukraine? get to ukraine? the american military wants get to ukraine? the american military wants to get to ukraine? the american military wants to expedite - get to ukraine? the american military wants to expedite the get to ukraine? the american - military wants to expedite the said, they are sitting in poland and germany with stocks of patriot missiles and artillery shells waiting for the word from washington to supply ukraine with those. and so we can expect that to happen fairly quickly. this is a massive aid budget, $68 million, in context, thatis budget, $68 million, i
launched a huge campaign to lobby us legislators but it is the same as what has happened since the beginning of the war, this is a drip feed of assistance to ukraine. diaspora. having said that, a lot of this money, especially military support, will stay in the united states, it will go to defence contractors, but there is a few billion in their dedicated budget support, so ukraine will be able to deploy that to pensions and teacher salaries and things like that. if this aid does not come soon, a lot of analysts are now beginning to think that the russians will get further, they could occupy ukraine within two years and speakerjohnson who i think has had an epiphany overnight, said in the past 24 hours, that if ukraine is not defended, the russians will go further into poland and the baltic states, and eventually us troops would have to get involved. so that is a pretty scary scenario. involved. so that is a pretty
would not get through with just republican votes, but because there s support from across the aisle, it s assured to pass. and that will, of course, break the logjam that s been there for six months. and as a consequence, allow it to go forward. do you think it will go through? i think, yeah, the biggest hurdle was the vote yesterday. with that out of the way, the democrats have made it clear that there is enough support for that to go through. that was really a small minority of republican ultra right house members who are holding this up. and they were putting pressure on speakerjohnson, who was threatened with his job. he was responding to that threat and not letting this go for the last six months. now he is being assured that he will be allowed to see out his tenure till the end of november with democrat support. and as a consequence of that, he s acquiesced and allowed this to happen. and there s clear support across
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