US Senator J.D. Vance said on Friday that Kiev can not beat Moscow because it is out of soldiers and needs more guns and ammo than Washington could give it.
This week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said, "The hard-right in Congress has stopped the US from acting, which is the main reason Ukraine is losing the war." Democrat from New York said that a small group of Republicans are stopping an important $60 billion aid plan for Kiev.
Vance wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times in response to Schumer's claim. He said that President Joe Biden had "failed to articulate even basic facts" about what Ukraine needs and what is happening there.
"There is no good plan for the Ukrainians to win this war from the Biden administration," Vance said.
The Ohio Republican wrote, "Ukraine's problem is not the GOP; it is math." "Ukraine needs more soldiers than it can get, even with strict rules on conscription." It also needs more equipment than the US can give it.
America "lacks the capacity to manufacture the amount of weapons Ukraine needs us to supply to win the war," Vance said, adding that $60 billion is a small part of what Ukraine would need to turn the tide of the war.
His reason was that the US can only make 360,000 155mm howitzer shells a year, which is "less than a tenth of what Ukraine says it needs," even though production had doubled before the war.
Vance also said that the White House's claim that helping Ukraine is good for US defense industry was false.
"It is awful to think that we should keep a horrible war going because it has been good for American business." He wrote, "We can and should rebuild our industrial base without sending its goods to a foreign war."
Vance said that the US's stance that it will not negotiate with Russia is "absurd," and that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's goal of returning Ukraine's lines to how they were in 1991 is "fantastical." He told the people of Kiev to hold strong until Washington can help make peace.
But earlier this week, Zelensky said that Ukraine was planning yet another counteroffensive, but they needed even more guns and ammo from the West because the last one failed so badly.
This week, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said, "The hard-right in Congress has stopped the US from acting, which is the main reason Ukraine is losing the war." Democrat from New York said that a small group of Republicans are stopping an important $60 billion aid plan for Kiev.
Vance wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times in response to Schumer's claim. He said that President Joe Biden had "failed to articulate even basic facts" about what Ukraine needs and what is happening there.
"There is no good plan for the Ukrainians to win this war from the Biden administration," Vance said.
The Ohio Republican wrote, "Ukraine's problem is not the GOP; it is math." "Ukraine needs more soldiers than it can get, even with strict rules on conscription." It also needs more equipment than the US can give it.
America "lacks the capacity to manufacture the amount of weapons Ukraine needs us to supply to win the war," Vance said, adding that $60 billion is a small part of what Ukraine would need to turn the tide of the war.
His reason was that the US can only make 360,000 155mm howitzer shells a year, which is "less than a tenth of what Ukraine says it needs," even though production had doubled before the war.
Vance also said that the White House's claim that helping Ukraine is good for US defense industry was false.
"It is awful to think that we should keep a horrible war going because it has been good for American business." He wrote, "We can and should rebuild our industrial base without sending its goods to a foreign war."
Vance said that the US's stance that it will not negotiate with Russia is "absurd," and that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky's goal of returning Ukraine's lines to how they were in 1991 is "fantastical." He told the people of Kiev to hold strong until Washington can help make peace.
But earlier this week, Zelensky said that Ukraine was planning yet another counteroffensive, but they needed even more guns and ammo from the West because the last one failed so badly.
