White House says Ukraine war in jeopardy due to looming US debt default

The White House National Security Council spokesman has sounded the alarms about looming US debt default putting the Ukraine war in jeopardy.

John Kirby told CNN in an interview on Monday that Washington could only support Kiev for a “few weeks” if Congress fails to move past a funding bill.

Kirby warned that the government shutdown could have far-reaching effects on the US-led proxy war against Russia, impacting Kiev as it battles the Russian troops in Donbas.

“We’ve got a little bit more funding to go, so I think we’ll be okay for the next few weeks or so. But without the supplemental request that we asked for, it will absolutely have an effect on our ability to support Ukraine well into the fall and into the winter months,” he said.

US President Joe Biden has vowed long-term military support for Ukraine in its war against Russia.

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Also, Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Avril Haines, warned earlier that Russia and China would almost certainly take advantage of a US debt default.

“It would be almost a certainty” that both countries would “look to take advantage of the opportunity,” Haines said to Senate Armed Services Committee members in May. 

In addition, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen raised the alarm that a US debt default would trigger an economic catastrophe. 

"A default on our debt would produce an economic and financial catastrophe," Yellen said on April 25 at the Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce members' summit in Washington.

Yellen warned that failure by Congress to raise the government's debt ceiling and the resulting default on US debt would result in job losses and higher interest rates for years to come.

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The White House has confirmed that the Biden administration has spent more than $100 billion on the war in Ukraine despite repeated warnings from Russia that such moves would only prolong the conflict in the former Soviet republic.

In the meantime, the West's ongoing proxy war against Russia -- spearheaded by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, a comedian-turned-politician, who lacks any real military and diplomatic experience other than that he obtained on screen in a TV show -- is in vain, and Ukraine’s president will never succeed in bringing victory for Americans.

In this regard, last week, US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley said that Ukraine's war against Russia "will take a considerable length of time" for Kiev to achieve its objectives.

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"This offensive ... has operational and tactical objectives that are limited in the sense that they do not, even if they are fully achieved, they do not completely kick out all the Russians, which is the broader strategic objective that President Zelensky has," Milley said in an interview with an American broadcaster.

Moscow launched the military campaign in Ukraine in February 2022. Kiev launched its latest counteroffensive in early June. Three months later, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in July that the much-touted Ukrainian counteroffensive had failed, with Ukraine suffering 71,000 casualties. Western officials also admitted the effort had been in vain.

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