Biden said early on Friday in his speech on Finnish time that both Hamas and Russian President Putin want to destroy the democracy of their neighbors.
President of the United States Joe Biden says support for Israel and Ukraine is “vital to US national security”.
Biden gave a speech early Friday morning in which he justified why the United States should continue to support both Israel and Ukraine.
According to Biden, both Hamas and Russia want to destroy the democracy of their neighbors.
– Hamas and (President of Russia) Putin represent different threats, but they have this in common: They both want to destroy the democracy of their neighbors, Biden said in his speech from the presidential office.
Aid package request to Congress
Biden said he would send an urgent request to the country’s Congress on Friday for an aid package for Israel and Ukraine. The package is expected to be worth around USD 105 billion in total. The package also includes humanitarian aid and support for US border control and Taiwan.
– It is a wise investment, the dividends of which will benefit US security for several generations to come, Biden said.
Officially, the more detailed content of the package will be announced local time on Friday.
The House of Representatives of the US Congress has been in a chaotic state for about two weeks now, as a new representative of the Republican who was dismissed from the House of Representatives has not been elected to the House of Representatives by Kevin McCarthy in place of.
Sources: the majority of the package for Ukraine
According to the sources interviewed by the news agency AP, the majority of the package’s support would go to Ukraine, which would be given new support worth about 60 billion dollars. A large part of this support would be aimed at supplementing the US weapons stockpiles with the material that the US had already given to Ukraine.
About 14 billion dollars of the package would go to Israel, the sources said.
About 10 billion dollars of the package would go to humanitarian projects. On the other hand, 14 billion dollars should be spent on enhancing border control between the United States and Mexico. It is planned to give support to Asia and Taiwan in the amount of about seven million dollars.
Sources: AP, AFP, Reuters