The United States is a “large enough, big enough, economically viable and vibrant enough country to be able to support both” Israel and Ukraine under Joe Biden, insists National Security Council strategic communications co-ordinator John Kirby.
“Both are important,” Kirby said – although whether American taxpayers really can fund the Israeli and Ukrainian militaries simultaneously appears questionable.
U.S. officials have already lamented a “mountain of steel” was built up for the Ukrainian counter-offensive this year, which has achieved very little progress and certainly no breakthrough with little time left before the Autumn rains render further operations unviable. They do not believe similar “mountain” can be found for the Ukrainians to undertake a second such counter-offensive, as “it doesn’t exist.”
Biden himself has already publicly admitted American ammunition is now running “low” – causing Donald Trump to rebuke him for undermining national security – and has had to resort to restocking Ukraine with cluster bombs, outlawed by many U.S. allies for their tendency to litter the ground with unexploded submunitions which kill and maim civilians for years.