This betrayal of the spirit of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, an international agreement signed by the United States promising to protect Ukraine’s sovereignty in exchange for nuclear disarmament, was taken as a green light by the Kremlin to proceed with the full scale invasion.

The path to this betrayal was first paved by the Obama administration in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea and Donbas in Ukraine, undoubtedly with an implicit green light from the White House, borne out of fear of confronting Russia.

2. Refusal to send so-called “offensive” weapons during the critical initial stages of the war. Recall all the nonsense talk of only supplying Ukraine with “defensive” weapons because of an irrational fear of provoking Russia. Germany literally offered to send some helmets.

Had we simply unloaded the necessary weapons on Ukraine, Russia may have failed to capture Mariupol in 2022, which resulted in the murder of at least 100,000 Ukrainian civilians by Russians. Mariupol is now full of mass graves. https://www.ukrinform.net/rubr...

In 2022, because of our forceful imposition of arbitrary redlines prohibiting the supply of “offensive weapons” to Ukraine even by our allies, Poland had to literally disassemble fully-functional Mig-29 fighter jets and secretly tell Ukraine where the aircraft parts are hidden

in the forest on the border, so the Ukrainians could pick up the parts and reassemble the aircraft behind America’s back. Imagine the ridicule in the halls of the Kremlin. https://www.eurasiantimes.com/...

3. Prohibition to use US weapons to strike military targets inside Russia, another absurd red line that only emboldened Russia. Recently, Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief, General Syrskyi stated that Ukraine cannot win the war so long as it remains on the defensive.

The Biden administration finally allowed strikes on Kursk region only because the delusion of “consequences” for striking inside Russia was shattered by Ukraine’s heroic offensive to capture large territory in Russia’s Kursk region.

Not only did Russia not use nukes in response, they still can’t even take back the Russian territory now occupied by Ukraine.

4. Ukraine was able to wage a successful counteroffensive into Russia in Kursk region only because the plan was kept secret from the United States. https://www.businessinsider.co...

There is indication the Biden administration acted in concert with the Kremlin to halt certain Ukrainian military operations when they were disclosed to the United States in advance. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/0...

On June 25 2024, Russian Defence Minister Belousov called US Defense Secretary Austin to complain about an impending Ukrainian operation against Russia. Result? “Americans contacted the Ukrainians and said, essentially, if you’re thinking about doing something like this, don’t.”

In the summer of 2024, Russians parked dozens of Su-34 striker-bomber aircraft, used for bombardment of Ukraine, out in the open just 100 miles from the border at Voronezh Malshevo air base.

When the White House learned of a planned Ukrainian operation to destroy these aircraft, Ukraine was prohibited from proceeding by the United States. https://www.forbes.com/sites/d...

It is unclear if the phone call between Belousov and Austin concerned this particular Ukrainian operation that was blocked by the White House.

5. The US pressured Ukraine not to strike Russian oil and gas infrastructure even with weapons produced domestically in Ukraine. The Biden administration’s willful protection of Russia’s war machine, enabling Putin to continue to destroy Ukraine was absurd.

Because no coherent plan with a defined outcome was ever developed by the administration, despite being required in the funding law passed by Congress, bureaucrats occupying seats on the National Security Council and elsewhere in the administration,

representing the interests of their own industries, often in conflict with each other and the big picture, were able to infect the decisions made on Russia and Ukraine.

That is the only way you end up with an Assistant Defense Secretary testifying in April 2024 in front of Congress that Ukraine must not target Russian oil & gas industry.

US Assistant Secretary of Defense Wallander, a civilian with no military experience, whose prior career involved lobbying for US investment in Russia, went as far as implying that Ukraine, a nation being invaded by Russia, was somehow committing “war crimes”

by striking Russia’s oil & gas infrastructure. Imagine the pleasure and relief of Putin and Xi Jinping watching this testimony.

You can read about this and the correct path the United States must now take to avoid WW3 that could result from all this appeasement here: https://files.igorsushko.com/m...

The Biden admin propagated false claims of "$200B to Ukraine" by deceptively classifying our own military expenditures as "Ukraine aid." State Department has now confirmed that we only sent $65.9B ($22B/year) in military assistance to Ukraine. https://www.state.gov/bureau-o...

@igorsushko You can tell that he just read that off a script and did not consider what it meant until the reporter asked the question. Then he did not answer the question she posed to him.

@igorsushko Ouch. Trump wouldn’t have defended Ukraine either. We have this thing about not having troops on the ground in Ukraine. But we’re supposed to supply them with weapons per Budapest memorandum because they gave up nuclear arms.

@igorsushko America in bed with Russia throughout. Sickening

@igorsushko This makes a lot of sense, I was left scratching my head at so many of the limitations the US was putting on Ukraine.

@igorsushko THIS IS A LIE … pieces of a fabric you have sown together without any thread ! There is so many layers that could debunk this

@igorsushko Take everything said by this man with the biggest grain of salt. Mr wind of change “Russia has only enough ammo for 2 weeks” -2022 I support Ukraine to the end but misinformation doesn’t help.

@igorsushko ANY "incursion" is an invasion. There's no such thing as a "minor incursion" into someone else's country.

@igorsushko And when he said this, russia had already invaded Ukraine and illegally occupied Ukrainian territory, seven years before.

@igorsushko Are you just speculating? Didn't US provide >$200B?

@CFL68 No, we did not provide Ukraine anywhere close to $200B...

@igorsushko Thanks for spelling all this out clearly. We have all seen this happen and put together I would say that something really smells bad.