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War experts are advising Ukraine to use its latest $61 billion U.S. aid package cautiously as there is always the possibility that American aid could again be derailed by politics.
“Every fight over every next increment has gotten increasingly contentious and increasingly long,” said Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, referring to the months-long deliberation of the most recent package for Ukraine that passed in the Senate on Wednesday and past assistance debates. “I think that the plan should be what if there is no more money.”
During a Defense Priorities Wednesday discussion panel, experts such as Kelly Grieco, a Stimson Center senior fellow, weighed in, saying that “everyone involved in this conflict should treat this aid package as though it's the last one and plan accordingly, because that could be.”
The upcoming U.S. presidential election, in which the presumed Republican candidate is far less supportive of Ukraine, as well as the continued divisiveness of the Ukraine security assistance discussion between the political parties in Congress, could complicate the passage of future aid for Ukraine, which has not been brought up yet but almost certainly will as the war drags on.
“It's uncertain who's going to be in office in January,” Kavanagh said, further remarking that there is “certainly no appetite for starting the fight over…
