<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><a href="https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-iron-clad-pinata" class="">https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-iron-clad-pinata</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>"President Biden’s foreign policy problems in the Middle East and Ukraine are daunting, especially in an election year, but the war between Russia and Ukraine could be nearing a military endgame, and not via negotiations. Vladimir Putin’s military is more entrenched inside Ukraine than ever, and the undermanned and under-equipped Ukraine military is facing a stalemate at best and the permanent loss of four oblasts. In essence, it is a defeat.”<div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/oliverboydbarrett/p/for-every-action-there-is-a-reaction?r=9zg41&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web" class="">https://open.substack.com/pub/oliverboydbarrett/p/for-every-action-there-is-a-reaction?r=9zg41&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web</a></div><div class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div class="">"National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Redpublican Senator Lindsey Graham have visited Kiev in recent days. The upshot of their visits is that the Biden Administration’s proposed $95 billion aid package for Ukraine and Israel (primarily) remains stalled in the House of Representatives.</div><div class="">… Lindsey Graham has been telling Ukraine that a different route to aid, one proposed some time ago by President Trump, would be to offer a loan, not an appropriation, but one offered on very generous terms (no interest, no closing date). Numbers I have heard so far suggest that this would come in at a point significantly less than Biden’s aid package. Just like Biden’s aid package, a very large proportion of all the money would presumably be spent on the US armaments industry in a process that resembles initiatives to promote jobs, development and spending in any state of the USA that happens to host components of weapons manufacture.”</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-troops-deserting-russias-artillery-onslaught-takes-toll-report-says-2022-6?international=true&r=US&IR=T" class="">https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-troops-deserting-russias-artillery-onslaught-takes-toll-report-says-2022-6?international=true&r=US&IR=T</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.consilium.europa.eu/nl/meetings/european-council/2024/03/21-22/" class="">https://www.consilium.europa.eu/nl/meetings/european-council/2024/03/21-22/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"De EU zal Oekraïne zolang dat nodig is blijven ondersteunen op politiek, financieel, economisch, humanitair, militair en diplomatiek gebied. Tot dusver hebben de EU en haar lidstaten meer dan <b class="">€ 138 miljard</b> uitgetrokken.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hetty</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>