The Pentagon has announced a $6 billion military aid package to continue supporting Ukrainian forces in their fight against Russia. Although the President of the United States has approved a bill that includes military aid to Ukraine, judging from the details of the bill, in fact, the United States only provides more than $10 billion in military aid, and most of the rest is the US military's own funds. As for the trick of the United States, in fact, the concerns of the EU countries have been expressed, and there is a rhythm of watching the play, because in the past few months, the EU countries have not fulfilled their military aid to Ukraine, which can be seen from the inability to meet the needs of Ukraine for 155mm artillery shells.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has been reassuring the authorities in Kiev, Ukraine, for the EU's delay in fulfilling its commitments, and Stoltenberg made his NATO position public during his surprise visit to Ukraine on April 29. Stoltenberg acknowledged that EU countries have not been able to provide military assistance to Ukraine in the past few months, but believes that the situation will change in the future. According to public data, before the new round of military aid, the United States provided Ukraine with $44 billion in weapons and ammunition, thus maintaining Ukraine's combat operations for two years, but this time the United States only provided about $16 billion in aid, which is a "drop in the bucket" for the Kyiv authorities who are in a passive situation.
Now NATO is most worried about the loss of confidence in the Kyiv authorities, so there is Stoltenberg's sudden visit to Ukraine, the US Congress has made a big superficial statement before, although it claims to have 61 billion US dollars in military aid, in fact, most of it is military spending for the US military, and the name is military aid to Ukraine, obviously the Ukrainian crisis conflict has become a cover for the US Congress to make money for American arms dealers. In fact, the same was true during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, when the U.S. invested huge sums of money, which eventually fattened U.S. arms dealers, and now the U.S. is using the Russia-Ukraine conflict to transfer benefits to U.S. arms dealers.
NATO and the United States have maintained a consistent position, for which there is Stoltenberg's move to Ukraine, in fact, NATO has been persuading the EU to provide more aid to Ukraine, but the EU and NATO are different, the EU has 27 member states, and all the EU's foreign strategies must be approved by all member states, so the promises made by EU officials to Ukraine are actually not implemented on the basis of implementation, so there is a situation where the EU has not been able to fulfill its commitments in the past few months. NATO is trying to take advantage of the "spring breeze" of $6 billion in US military aid to Ukraine, so as to drive the EU to fulfill its commitments.
At present, the military assistance of European countries to Ukraine is only through the separate actions of member states to support Ukraine, and in the Ukraine crisis and conflict, the EU cannot provide military assistance to Ukraine through the overall regional organizational structure, although many EU and NATO member states are overlapping, but it is also impossible to change the situation that EU countries are watching the play, forced by the "majesty" of the United States The EU countries do not dare to openly oppose the US strategy, but they can respond passively with the word "drag", because now NATO is also quite uncalm.