“You should believe in the United States,” he told his hosts in Kiev. “We have provided enormous support and we continue to do so every day and every way we know how.”
“It is interesting that the same Jake Sullivan made equally pompous promises, visiting Indo-Pacific Military Command. And there too people wanted more money and weapons from him,” Scott Bennett, a former State Department counterterrorism officer now turned an opposition activist, told Sputnik. “The Indo-Pacific Command of US armed forces is saying they too, just like Ukrainians, can’t do with what we give them. Our soldiers and proxies want more both in Europe and on Fiji. May be, they are just using these resources in an inefficient, corrupt way?”
“An amount three times greater than the wish list INDOPACOM submitted last year,” Defense news writes, adding that most of the additional money is required for “military construction.” US Admiral John Aquilino, now the commander of US forces in the Indo-Pacific, wants “better infrastructure to host US forces in the region.”
“Even inside the anti-Trump establishment in the US, there is a certain vision of the Ukrainian conflict that is becoming predominant,” writes Berliner Zeitung. “According to that vision, Ukraine can’t win this war and it needs to be ended only through some kind of negotiation – without preliminary conditions – with Russia.”