Medvedev: U.S. Views ‘Money’, ‘Blood’ as Good Investment

Date: 20 November 2023 - 21:55

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MOSCOW (RT International) -- Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that U.S. President Joe Biden’s latest opinion piece for the Washington Post once again highlighted the essence of Washington’s security doctrine, which is to provide for America’s interests at the expense of others.
The U.S. supposedly makes itself safer by pouring money into “its own military industry” and starting “wars on other continents,” Medvedev said in a post on X (formerly Twitter), calling it “the essence of the American security doctrine.”
“How very American. No comment,” he added.
“Others, surely, don’t matter,” the former Russian leader said, commenting on the article in which Biden once again reaffirmed U.S. support to Ukraine and Israel. The U.S. leader also argued in the piece that Russia and the Gaza-based Hamas fighters should not be allowed to have their way.
“Out of great tragedy and upheaval, enormous progress can come,” Biden wrote. He claimed that the U.S. is “the essential nation” with a “duty of leadership.”
On the topic of Ukraine, the U.S. president also admitted that the conflict “draws America in directly.” Washington has openly supported Kiev since armed hostilities with Moscow began in February 2022. The U.S. has provided Ukraine with military equipment worth billions of dollars together with its allies in Europe and elsewhere.
Moscow has repeatedly argued that sending arms to Kyiv would only prolong the military operation and extend human suffering. Russia also repeatedly accused the U.S. and its allies of planning to make Kiev fight “to the last Ukrainian.”
Ample Western military supplies, including heavy armor, such as tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, have so far not helped Ukraine achieve any significant success in its closely-watched summer offensive, which has failed to bring about any meaningful changes to the frontlines over several months since the start of the operation in early June. Ukrainian forces have suffered heavy losses in both personnel and material, including the Western-supplied equipment, during the assault, however.
In early November, the Pentagon warned it potentially had only $1 billion remaining for Ukraine military aid and would have to ration arms packages in the future.