Since the start of the invasion, the Republican candidate has repeatedly criticized the amount of economic and military aid sent by the United States to Ukraine. At the end of September, Donald Trump described the country as “demolished” and claimed that kyiv should have made concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the months leading up to Russia’s February 2022 invasion, saying at the time that even “the worst deal would have been better than what we have now.”
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin more inseparable than ever
Trump’s “solution”
According to an article in the Financial Times published at the end of October, Donald Trump intends to end the conflict by “landed” the current front line, abandoning 18% of Ukraine’s territory to Moscow without offering security guarantees such as Ukrainian membership in NATO. For his part, Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance has stepped up his stance against sending aid to Ukraine, declaring on several occasions that he “didn’t care what would happen to Ukraine”even reiterating this position just a few days after the start of the invasion.
However, if the choice of many Ukrainians would naturally fall on the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, the policy pursued so far by the administration of Joe Biden, of which she is vice-president, hardly inspires confidence : in the name of a fear of “climbing” with Russia, the United States has procrastinated for a long time on the question of arms deliveries, and still refuses Ukraine authorization to use American long-range missiles to strike military targets in Russia, such as airfields used to bomb the country’s energy infrastructure. “In my household, none of us have much confidence in either American political partyexplains Kevin, a Canadian volunteer living in Ukraine for a long time and married to a Ukrainian citizen. Yes, Democrats have great rhetoric and many of their supporters care about Ukraine, but that second part is also true for many Republicans. There are tons of Republicans here, for example.” According to him, the “background” Democrats would hardly be encouraging: “Recently we discovered that only 10% of aid has been deliveredhe sighs. Neither side seems to have a realistic idea of how to approach things here, which is weird because it’s pretty simple to understand.”
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Sentiment d’abandon
During a press conference organized on Wednesday October 30, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky indicated that only 10% of the military aid approved by the American Congress in April 2024 had so far been sent to Ukraine . The next day, the Ukrainian president also denounced the lack of response from Ukraine’s allies to the sending of several thousand soldiers by North Korea to lend a hand to Russia. A statement testifying to the growing frustration of Ukrainians with the passivity of Western countries: “I think the reaction to this is zero. She was zero”he declared during an interview with South Korean media. “To sum up, we are not at all optimistic about the elections and we doubt that the results will be useful to us”concludes Kevin. A feeling shared by Vitalii, 47, employee of the Ministry of Defense in kyiv: “The United States has abandoned ushe believes. We just don’t have enough men to hold the defense, and now we’ll have to fight the North Koreans alone. There won’t be a big difference between Harris and Biden if she wins. And if it’s Trump, it’s even worse, he’s friends with Putin.”
