As the war entered its fourth week, the United States did not send troops to Ukraine, but sought indirect confrontation with Russia through a variety of available means outside the traditional field of military confrontation.
Since Russia launched its war on Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden has repeatedly made double promises, saying: "The United States will not be at war with Russia in Ukraine because it means a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia, which will lead to the outbreak of World War III, and we must work to stop this confrontation." However, he reiterated that his country and its allies would go all out to inflict a "strategic defeat" on Russia.
Washington is following several approaches, some of which are traditional practices, such as providing weapons and aid to the Ukrainian side, and others are innovative, whether through intelligence support or spiritual support, or through overt methods on social media to defeat Russia.
Early confrontation
The United States began unconventional confrontations before Russian troops crossed the Ukrainian border, and Washington revealed early intelligence about the imminent war, publishing data on the number of Russian troops and the areas where they were deployed, which was updated almost daily.
The Biden administration has also repeatedly confirmed publicly that unprecedented sanctions will be imposed on Russia if it "attacks Ukraine," which has been achieved because Washington and Western governments have imposed painful financial sanctions on Russia and banned many Russian banks from making cash transfers with the SWIFT system.
Washington has also imposed sanctions on the Russian central bank, slashing billions of dollars in Russian deposits and imposing sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin, his top aides and hundreds of Russian elites with close ties to the Kremlin.
Washington also coordinated in advance with its NATO allies to provide military trainers in the months leading up to the start of the war to raise the level of combat of Ukrainian troops, and then Washington ordered all U.S. soldiers to leave Ukraine in the days leading up to Russia's "special military operation."
Social media
Washington attaches great importance to the propaganda of views against Russia's war, and it publishes every detail of its political and diplomatic activities on all social media in multiple languages, including Russian, Ukrainian, Arabic and Chinese.
The White House Office of Strategic Communications held a virtual meeting with 30 of the most important influencers in the "TikTok" app through the Zoom app, providing them with basic information about the war and outlining them about U.S. strategic goals in the region.
The U.S. media contributed to influencing world public opinion by publicizing Ukraine's narrative of the conflict, which succeeded in creating an unprecedented global pressure campaign against Russia, and the U.S. news network did not accept any experts or commentators who took a position close to or sympathetic to Russia.
On the other hand, some former U.S. troops with combat experience have taken the initiative to use social media to help Ukrainians.
Retired military commander John Spencer, one of the foremost experts in urban warfare and related military tactics and strategic balances, wrote in Both Ukrainian and English explaining to Ukrainian civilians how to use water in a healthy way during conditions of war and siege, and he also explained on social media innovative ways to take refuge in residential areas during aerial bombardments.
"In war situations, access to safe water is a matter of life and death, and in Ukrainian cities, drinking contaminated water can lead to vomiting and diarrhea, which can lead to severe dehydration and death, if you have questions about purified water, please pay attention to the annexed instructions," Spencer said. ”
Spencer suggested in a tweet in the local language that Ukrainians say, "You should use concrete as an insulating material and cover behind it, which is a good material to protect yourself, ten times better than sandbags with reinforced (reinforced) concrete, and you can also use gravel and stone." ”
Weapon Supplies
Two days ago, Biden signed a $1.5 trillion federal spending program that includes more than $13 billion to support Ukraine's war efforts, as well as humanitarian and economic aid.
The White House is under intense pressure from Congress to find new ways to help Ukraine militarily, especially when Ukrainian President Zelenskiy addressed Congress via videoconference, calling for the use of fighter-bombers and the creation of a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
After Zelenskiy's remarks, Biden on Wednesday detailed how the U.S. would spend the $800 million approved this week on military aid and humanitarian assistance, pledging to "do more in the coming days and weeks."
The appropriation will provide 800 Stinger air defense systems, 9,000 anti-armor systems, including hundreds of Javelin anti-tank missiles, 7,000 small and medium-sized machine guns, and thousands of grenade launchers and shotguns.
U.S. media reported that the United States will provide a "spring knife" drone, a small advanced drone known as a "kamikaze", that is, a suicide aircraft that carries a warhead and explodes on impact.
These small aircraft can hit targets up to 6 miles away, while larger aircraft have a range of more than 20 miles, and the use of these aircraft by the Ukrainian army will affect the losses of the Russian side, and if these aircraft are used, russian losses are expected to increase significantly.
As a sign of U.S. officials' commitment to quickly support Ukraine, about $300 million of the $350 million allocated by the Biden administration to Ukraine arrived in about two weeks.
On the other hand, a growing number of members of Congress (Both Democratic and Republican) are asking U.S. intelligence to provide all the information, assessments, and resources they have to help Ukraine fight Russia.