What Will Happen If the US Stops Funding Ukraine? Nothing Good
Kyiv has fought too well to simply give up, but Russia and China will achieve their goal of splitting the West.
Hal Brands is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and the Henry Kissinger Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.
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Imagine that the US is unable, or simply unwilling, to provide much further aid for Ukraine. That may not be the likeliest outcome, given that there remains bipartisan support for aid in Washington. But it is a plausible outcome, given that Congress was able to keep the US government open only by abandoning, for the moment, efforts to replenish rapidly dwindling assistance for Kyiv.
The politics of helping Ukraine are undoubtedly getting harder, as Republican support wavers, hardline neo-isolationists oust the speaker of the House, and the leading contenders for the GOP presidential nomination stake out positions that are aid-skeptical or worse. So if President Joe Biden’s administration finds itself stymied through next year’s election, what happens then?
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What Will Happen If the US Stops Funding Ukraine? Nothing Good