Russia-Ukraine 4.24: The Ukraine aid bill was successfully passed in the Senate;
Original Xiaolean It is said that there are nine suns in the sky 2024-04-24 20:16
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Original Creator: Sue Fei
Dear readers and friends, this is a series of original articles on the war situation between Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan on April 24, 2024.
As we expected, the bill passed smoothly in the US Senate. And it was passed along with the other three bills, with a final result of 79 to 18.
Judging by this disparity in votes, even within the Republican Party, lawmakers who aid Ukraine and defend America's vast overseas interests are in the majority. Those who hope to use the aid to Ukraine to kidnap the Democratic Party and Biden, and hope to use issues such as immigration to build momentum for the Trump election are a minority, or even a very few. Although Trump and his lackeys tried to block the attempt to aid Ukraine, although they could succeed in a short period of time, they could not last long after all, and they could not stop the mighty tide of history.
There is some truth in the belief that the American political system is a mixed system, which has both a commoner character and a certain aristocratic character. The number of members of the House of Representatives is determined based on the number of voters, and states with more voters can have more representatives. But regardless of the number of voters in a state, there are always only two senators per state. So we can see that senators are more politically stable than congressmen, and congressmen are more likely to be coerced by the emotions of voters, such as the female congressman Green, who is extremely opposed to aid to Ukraine and claims that "no one will be given to Ukraine". I believe that she will never be so stupid as to fail to see the role of aid to Ukraine in promoting the long-term overall interests of the United States, but because she wants to cater to the extremist people who elected her to power, she has to take her opposition to Ukraine as a banner.
"I will sign the bill into law and address the American people tomorrow as soon as it arrives on my desk, so that we can begin sending weapons and equipment to Ukraine this week," Biden said in a new statement.
Therefore, it is a sure fact that the Ukraine aid bill will come into effect, but it is just a formality signed by Biden. Biden should be seen as the winner in this partisan battle. In January and February of this year, he made modest concessions on the immigration issue, and since then he has not made too many compromises, and the Republican Party finally failed to resist the mainstream public opinion in the United States and finally had to give in. Therefore, both in terms of posture and governance, Biden has won, which will greatly add points to his election.
According to the results of various polls, Biden's approval rating in the polls is very different from three months or even a month ago, and he has now basically equaled Trump's approval rating, the growth is gratifying, and he now has much more campaign support funds than his opponents. Personally, I would like to raise his re-election success rate to 65 percent from my previous forecast of 60 percent, and I think it would be a boon for the United States to choose someone who is highly certain and good at uniting allies on all lines of the needle.
The reason why the Ukraine aid bill was able to move from a huge disagreement at the beginning to a final compromise did not develop into a "split America" and a "second American Civil War" as many blind bloggers or fascist professors predicted To a large extent, the US political system is relatively transparent, and no matter what position a legislator holds, his views and actions must be carefully observed and analyzed by the media and the public under a magnifying glass. Although American public opinion is divided, and all kinds of strange events emerge one after another, and sometimes even extremely depressing, the huge self-correction and repair ability is a common sense perspective necessary for us to observe the political ecology of the United States.
Other news on assistance:
1. News from multiple information channels claim that after the passage of the Ukraine aid bill, the first batch of weapons sent to Ukraine by the United States has been prepared, and even most of them have been stored in warehouses in Germany and Poland. In other words, the bill will be signed into law by Biden as soon as tomorrow, and then these weapons can be immediately shipped to Ukraine to play their role as soon as possible.
2. Zelensky thanked the U.S. Senate for approving the Ukraine aid bill, saying:
"I thank Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for their strong leadership in pushing for this bipartisan legislation, as well as all U.S. senators from both parties who voted in favor of it."
"This vote reinforces America's role as a beacon of democracy and a leader in the free world."
"I am also grateful to all Americans who continue to support Ukraine and recognize that the historical significance of this bill transcends politics. I am equally grateful to President Biden for his support, look forward to the bill being signed soon, and look forward to the next military assistance package matching the resolve I have consistently seen in the negotiations. Ukraine's long-range capabilities, artillery and air defense systems are key tools for restoring peace as soon as possible."
Many front-line units of the Ukrainian army also expressed their gratitude to the United States:
3. Reuters quoted U.S. officials as saying that the first aid package that the United States will provide to Ukraine again will include long-range ATACMS missiles with a range of up to 310 kilometers.
Officials said the aid package includes vehicles, Stinger anti-aircraft ammunition, additional ammunition for the Hippocampus system, 155mm artillery ammunition, Tao and Javelin anti-tank ammunition and other weapons that can be immediately put into combat use.
4. There is no doubt that these weapons will immediately inflict heavy casualties on the battlefield for the Russian army. However, their role will take time to be realized.
On April 22, Ben Hodges, former commander of U.S. forces in Europe, said:
"It may be a few weeks before we see a significant impact on the battlefield of the aid to Ukraine, but the strategic impact will be felt immediately...... In the Kremlin, they (the Russian leadership) are now aware that the plan to wait for the United States to withdraw from Ukraine has failed".
Also on the 22nd, a report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a well-known think tank, concluded that:
"Due to the imminent arrival of US aid, Russian forces may use the limited time window before the arrival of aid to start a large-scale offensive ahead of schedule in the coming weeks".
5. U.S. aid has boosted the confidence of European allies to assist Ukraine. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently announced that he would provide Ukraine with the largest single military aid in history, and for the first time, Britain has transferred its defense industry to wartime mode.
Denmark said that it would pay for the countries that decided to transfer the Patriot system to Ukraine.
After Polish President Duda expressed his readiness to accept the deployment of nuclear weapons by allies in Poland, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that NATO has no plans to deploy nuclear forces in Poland.
"NATO has no plans to reconfigure its nuclear forces and no plans to station any troops in any NATO country," he said at a joint meeting with Rishi Sunak.
The European Commission today disbursed 1.5 billion euros to Ukraine under the 50 billion euros Ukraine fund established in the EU's multi-year budget.
6. Marie-Agnes Straker-Zimmermann, chairman of the defense committee of the Bundestag, once again called on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to transfer Taurus missiles to Ukraine.
7. The former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, will begin his duties as Ukraine's ambassador to the United Kingdom in the coming weeks.
Briefing on the overall situation of the war between Russia and Ukraine:
1. Overall battle situation: On the 791st day of the war, on this past day, the front of the Russian-Ukrainian war has not undergone any changes worth mentioning.
2. Russian army losses: As of yesterday, the Russian army has accumulated 461,940 casualties, and 880 new losses yesterday.
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The Ukrainian army also destroyed a total of 7,242 Russian tanks, 1 new one, 13,928 armored vehicles, 12 new ones, and 11,808 artillery pieces, 43 new ones.
3. In the early hours of this morning, Ukraine used a large number of drones to launch attacks on targets in Russia, and judging from the reports, Russia's oil refineries and oil storage points were hit.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed to have shot down 8 drones in the Belgorod, Kursk, Voronezh and Smolensk regions.
An oil depot of Rosneft in the Smolensk region began burning at night. Local media reported that drones and 4-5 explosions were heard.
The governor of the Smolensk region, Vasily Anokhin, reported that the fire broke out, possibly as a result of drone strikes on civilian fuel and energy facilities in the Smolensk and Yaltsevo regions. He hoped that the inhabitants of Russia would remain calm.
The governor of the Lipetsk region, Igor Artamonov, said that a drone crashed in the industrial zone of the city of Lipetsk. There were no victims. Unconfirmed information reported by residents of Lipetsk says that drones attacked the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant.
Russian aviation, in turn, inflicted air strikes on Zolochev and Kharkov overnight.
Russian troops also attacked a storage point for disabled vehicles in the city of Odessa. The damage caused is negligible, but the Russian missile itself could be worth $10 million.
4. The Russian Investigative Committee posted on social media on the evening of the 23rd that Russian Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was detained on suspicion of accepting bribes. Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Russian President Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu have been informed of the above situation.
Ivanov may be suspected of accepting bribes of at least 1 million rubles (78,000 yuan) and faces up to 15 years in prison, according to TASS. The criminal case against Ivanov is related to the work of contract subcontracting in the Ministry of Defense.
However, this thing is really inexplicable. One of Shoigu's right-hand men was killed, and he was only accused of embezzling 1 million rubles! This is a joke, and there are more traffic policemen on the road than this.
There must be other hidden reasons for the capture of the deputy defense minister.
The notorious Russian thugs have now been transformed into war heroes, some continue to swagger, and some continue to commit crimes. From the report of the microblogger "Isotope Hydrogen":
Alexander Glazov (Александр Глазов), one of the backbone of the notorious Russian "Blue Whale Game", has now returned to society and become a "Z hero" because of his "meritorious service" on the battlefield in Ukraine, and he also went to school to give "patriotic lectures" to teenagers!
The Blue Whale game, a "game" popular a few years ago among Russia's misanthropic youth community, encourages participants to complete various self-harm tasks within 50 days and asks participants to commit suicide on the 50th day, a "game" that once flowed into China and caused social tension.
The 34-year-old was arrested in 2019 for abetting the suicide of a minor when he tried to get a 15-year-old boy to commit suicide.
According to Glazov's own confession, he participated in the Blue Whale game in 2016, but failed to complete the last task - suicide by jumping from a tall building, so he cut off contact with the administrators of the "game group".
In 2019, he was contacted online with the hope that he would become a "game administrator" and promised him 8 million rubles if he succeeded in instigating the suicide of a 14-22-year-old.
As a result, Glazov opened several accounts on social media and began to recruit "brave game participants". According to the verdict, he chatted with the minors and gave them tasks to hurt themselves, climb to the top of a high-rise building or a crane and take pictures there, cross the tracks when the train approached, cut their wrists, etc. He also sent audio and video clips of violence and suicide scenes to the victims.
is such a scumbag, in fact, he should be sentenced heavily. However, the court found that Grazov, who had two minor children, parents with disabilities, and that his wife was ill, and sentenced him to six years in prison.
In August 2022, Glazov joined the "Wagner" mercenary army in prison, becoming a soldier of the "special military operation" from a prisoner. In Ukraine, he lost several fingers on each hand and was blind in one eye, so he was "honorably discharged" and became a "hero of the special military operation" worthy of learning from teenagers.
Students of the No. 1 school in Koterniki of the Moscow region recently listened to his "patriotic speech" and some female students presented him with flowers.
It is believed that after returning to society, Glazov will continue to shine in the cause of "caring for the growth of Russian youth".
The Leningrad Regional Police recently found a suitcase containing severed human limbs belonging to a 47-year-old woman in an apartment, and then Alexei Serov (Алексей Серов), a retired soldier of the "special military operation", was arrested.
Serov, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2018 for killing and mutilating women, went from being a prisoner to a glorious "Z hero" after the outbreak of the war, signing a contract with Wagner mercenaries in prison, and in July 2023, he survived the battlefield and retired from the army, successfully reintegrating into society.
Serov continued to shine after returning to society. With nothing serious to do, he often drinks and wanders around the city with nothing to do until he meets the victim's sister and starts dating.
On April 16 of this year, he strangled the victim when he and his girlfriend were drinking at home, bought a saw in the hardware store, dismembered the victim in the bathroom and put it in two suitcases. Miraculously, Serov did not throw away the body immediately after doing all this, but went to drink again.
On April 20, the victim's daughter called the police to say that her mother had not been contacted, and the police came to the apartment building and found a suitcase containing a human stump wrapped in a black plastic bag. It was only when the police knocked on the door of the apartment that Serov began to get anxious and wanted to throw the second suitcase out the window.
Serov claimed that his girlfriend asked him to kill the victim, and both are currently arrested. But it doesn't matter much, he goes to Ukraine again, and when he comes back, he can dismember another one.
At the end of today's content, there is no too specific content, just to express my feelings.
Before it was written, seeing a new message, the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrei Yermak said that soon there would be good news about the supply of "Patriot" air defense systems to Ukraine.
Speaking on the air of the United Press TV, the head of the president's office said:
"I can tell you for sure that there will be new 'patriots'. For us, the secondary question is where they come from, the main thing is that they should be there and that they should arrive as soon as possible, because this is the protection of our city, the protection of our people".
Asked from which countries the Patriot is expected to deliver, Yermak replied: "We are negotiating with a number of partners, primarily the United States, because this is their weapon, and of course, a lot depends on it." But we also know the position of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and others. I'm sure we'll have good news soon."
It seems that the Ukrainians are not far from getting the much-needed 7 "Patriot" systems!
Since the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Ukraine aid bill, we have been overwhelmed with a lot of good news in the past few days. Not only have the aid from the United States been shipped to Europe and will soon be delivered to Ukraine, but European allies, especially the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and other countries, are actively increasing aid to Ukraine.
In fact, before the passage of the aid bill, European allies had already begun to mobilize and began to increase aid to Ukraine. It can be said that the passage of the bill by the House of Representatives to aid Ukraine has only set off a climax, and what Ukraine can count on is by no means only the United States, but many countries that can be relied on.
On the other hand, on the Russian side, although in recent days they have been able to seize the opportunity of US aid to seize the land of several hundred meters here or there, in general, they are already grasshoppers after the autumn and will not be able to jump for a few days.
For Ukrainians, a great era of dragons and tigers and thousands of weather is slowly begins. Behind the Ukrainians, many allies are supporting them and forging a new ground.
In the face of this situation, I just want to say that I hope that Ukrainians will seize the opportunity and not let down this era. This is a once-in-a-century war, and it is also a great opportunity for Ukrainians to "change their lives against the sky"!
And on the Russian side, they are already in decline. Two years ago, their "ten-way advance" failed to intimidate the Ukrainians, they have long since decisively lost the opportunity to win this war, and the days that follow will only be a matter of prolonging and delaying the inevitable defeat. Although they have a vast territory and a large population, and although they harbor violent beliefs and authoritarian myths, they have underestimated Ukraine and misjudged this era. The more ridiculous they were before, the worse they would lose in the end, and this is no longer an era in which reckless behavior can still be connived up, Russia will lose! Ukraine will win!
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