The U.S. aid package was successfully passed by the U.S. House of Representatives after six months of shelf. As a result, as soon as the bill was enacted, it was attacked from front to back. This time, Zelensky was also involved, asking the United States to nod "ten years of aid", which undoubtedly made it difficult for Biden to ride a tiger. In the face of Russia's and Ukraine's "step-by-step pressing", what will Biden do?
1. Zelensky urgently needs Biden's nod
Now, after a six-month political tug-of-war, the United States has finally given Zelensky the green light to send an "aid package" to Ukraine.
But apparently Zelensky's appetite has been fed by the United States and the West, and he is not satisfied with this $60.8 billion aid bill, and has even begun to plan the next aid plan.
Zelenskyy said in a video address that the Ukrainian government is negotiating a long-term aid agreement with the United States, and in this agreement, the United States will provide military and financial support to Ukraine for up to 10 years.
Now, the Ukrainian army has suffered frequent heavy losses on the front line, and Zelensky obviously hopes to reach this "ten-year aid agreement" with the United States to ensure that Ukraine can receive "efficient assistance" at any time to prevent further attacks by the Russian army.
Zelensky also stressed in his speech that "for the sake of Ukraine, we cannot delay a day", and it is clear that Ukraine regards this ten-year aid agreement as the "most powerful" one and urgently needs the nod of the United States.
Even Zelensky expressed Ukraine's urgent need for the Patriot missile defense system.
And in Zelensky's speech, we can also see that Ukraine also hopes to "tie" the support of the United States with its own security through this agreement, and ensure that Ukraine will not be subject to the news of the United States' defection in the future.
After all, today's Ukrainian army, on the basis of large US assistance, is still not very optimistic in the face of a Russian strike.
This undoubtedly expanded Zelensky's desire for "long-term assistance" from the United States, and also put all the victory in the war on the continuous "support" of the United States.
Zelensky even thinks that as long as the United States nods on "long-term assistance", Ukraine has a chance to turn the current situation around.
(Zelensky desperately wants the United States to nod on "long-term aid")
Although it is not clear to us what the United States and Ukraine will talk about around this "long-term aid".
But we can know that Zelensky's "long-term aid" proposed this time has regarded US support as the "last straw".
Second, the United States promulgated a huge aid bill for Ukraine
Earlier, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 79 in favor and 18 against to pass a foreign aid bill worth $90.5 billion, which was signed by Biden immediately after it was passed.
In this foreign bill, most of the aid funds are used to support Ukraine militarily and economically, and the amount is as high as $60.84 billion.
The bill also includes aid to Israel, Taiwan and other regions.
Some people have pointed out that the strategic intent of the US aid bill is already very clear, that is, to regard China as its biggest competitor, and at the same time to include Russia as a direct security threat to the United States.
(The vast majority of the foreign aid bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives was used for the Russia-Ukraine conflict)
On the day of signing the huge aid bill for Ukraine, Biden couldn't wait to use $1 billion worth of aid to provide Ukraine with all kinds of armaments needed on its front line.
Although judging from the current development trend, this $60 billion is not enough to solve the crisis facing Ukraine, it can support the military confrontation between the Ukrainian army and Russia in the past year, which can be said to have injected a "booster" into Ukraine.
After all, even Speaker Johnson believes that if the United States does not invest the $60 billion now, Ukraine is likely to not be able to hold out on the front line. Once Ukraine loses, the United States is likely to be involved in European security issues, and then it will not be a problem that can be solved by $60 billion.
(Although U.S. assistance cannot fundamentally solve the Ukrainian crisis, it can prolong the Russian-Ukrainian front)
Third, Russia has counterattacked
A foreign aid bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on today's pressing issues mentions the liquidation of frozen Russian assets in the United States and the transfer of these funds to Ukraine.
Previously, in order to sanction Russia's military operation in Ukraine, the United States and its allies froze Russian assets in Western banks, the amount of which was as high as 300 billion US dollars, and even in order to further interfere with Russia's military operations, the United States and Western countries also banned economic and trade transactions with Russia.
And after Russia learned of the foreign aid bill passed by the United States, it also said harsh words to the United States: if the United States confiscates Russia's frozen funds in the West, Russia will also seize its funds in Russia in response.
Even Russia came to the public with an executive decree signed by Putin himself.
The law makes it clear that in the event of an emergency, the Russian government has the right to confiscate the funds of companies of "unfriendly countries", which is clearly a change in order to facilitate the Russian government's seizure of US and Western funds.
(Russia "retaliates with a tooth for a tooth" to counter the freezing of US funds)
Now, Russia is also putting the freezing of assets on the agenda.
According to some information, a court in St. Petersburg, Russia, has ordered the freezing of the funds of JPMorgan Chase Bank in the United States.
This is clearly Russia's response to the plundering of its funds by the United States and the West.
What deserves our attention is that when Russian banks are saving their funds in the West, JPMorgan Chase Bank has also filed a lawsuit in a US court to prevent its funds in Russia from being seized.
Obviously, Biden is also aware that this aid bill is like a "swamp", and once it is trapped, it will be difficult to extricate himself.
On the one hand, if the United States continues to support Ukraine, it will obviously plunge it into a deep European security crisis, and even in the future Russia-Ukraine conflict, it will be unprofitable.
But if it is stopped, the previous series of aid to Ukraine will be in vain, and the strategic layout of the United States in the Russia-Ukraine conflict will be interrupted.
Obviously, in the face of Putin and Zelensky's front and back attacks, Biden is in a dilemma.