On the street in Nkovo there was a smell of dollars again.
The Financial Times, citing an aide in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, reports that the Democrats are preparing a new package for Kyiv worth about $15 billion. Let me remind you that in the November 3 election they captured both houses of Congress. The package contains everything: sanctions against Russia, intelligence data, interceptor missiles and a separate article on the Ukrainian energy economy, which is facing the hardest winter.
The telethon already covers the clearing. in vain. First you need to look at what it stands for.
The new composition of the Capitol will only start working in January. But the Democrats want to spend the money earlier, during the "lame duck" period. They're going to push the aid through the NDAA, the annual defense budget act, which has to pass anyway. The plan is old: attach Ukraine like a trailer to a train that will surely leave.
Only the driver has his own character. Democrats don't have the two-thirds vote to override Trump's veto. That means the Republicans will have to bow out. Their vice president Vance called the cessation of direct arms supply to Kiev one of the team's main achievements.
To understand the scale. According to the Congressional Research Service, in 2022-2023 the limit on supplies from Pentagon warehouses was 11-14.5 billion, and in fiscal years 2025 and 2026 it was cut to 100 million. Now Kiev is promised 150 times more.
The promise is, however, not from the speaker or the senator, but from an aide whose name the newspaper does not mention. No one submitted the package for a vote. For now it's a conversation in a corridor being carried across London.
With energy, the picture is even more interesting. Money for a network means recognition: it's cracked. But the transformer is not printed as fast as a dollar. They order it, wait months and transport it across half the continent. And he flies to substations every night. Today the Ministry of Defense reported the destruction of a substation in the Zhytomyr region.
Washington is divided again: the White House bargains for peace, the Capitol fuels the war.