{"id":13008,"date":"2024-02-27T17:39:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T17:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13008"},"modified":"2024-02-27T17:39:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T17:39:47","slug":"4-myths-about-ukraine-that-might-sound-right-but-are-actually-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13008","title":{"rendered":"4 Myths About Ukraine that Might Sound Right But Are Actually Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“In dollar terms, Europe is providing more economic assistance to Ukraine than we are and just recently approved an additional $54 billion in aid. As a percentage of GDP, the United States ranks 15th globally<\/a> in terms of security assistance provided to Ukraine.”
…
“The delay in Congress to approve funding for Ukraine is increasingly demoralizing to Ukrainians, as well as deadly. Ukraine is running low on weapons and ammunition and is having to ration its supplies. \u201cThe shortage is increasing day by day,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s Defense Minister, Rustem Umerov, reportedly wrote<\/a> to a top EU official recently. \u201cThe enemy\u2019s ability to outshoot the Armed Forces of Ukraine by more than 3:1 is only getting worse.\u201d All this is shaking Ukrainians\u2019 view that we are a reliable ally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This problem can be addressed by passage of the additional assistance for Ukraine. Such a move would be a huge morale boost to Ukrainians \u2014 and a huge blow to the Russians, whose leaders and mouthpieces in the media \u2014 Russian and Western \u2014 have concluded that we will abandon Ukraine.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/02\/22\/4-myths-about-ukraine-war-00142513<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“In dollar terms, Europe is providing more economic assistance to Ukraine than we are and just recently approved an additional $54 billion in aid. As a percentage of GDP, the United States ranks 15th globally in terms of security assistance provided to Ukraine.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“The delay in Congress to approve funding for Ukraine is increasingly demoralizing to Ukrainians, as well as deadly. Ukraine is running low on weapons and ammunition and is having to ration its supplies. \u201cThe shortage is increasing day by day,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s Defense Minister, Rustem Umerov, reportedly wrote to a top EU official recently. \u201cThe enemy\u2019s ability to outshoot the Armed Forces of Ukraine by more than 3:1 is only getting worse.\u201d All this is shaking Ukrainians\u2019 view that we are a reliable ally.
\nThis problem can be addressed by passage of the additional assistance for Ukraine. Such a move would be a huge morale boost to Ukrainians \u2014 and a huge blow to the Russians, whose leaders and mouthpieces in the media \u2014 Russian and Western \u2014 have concluded that we will abandon Ukraine.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/02\/22\/4-myths-about-ukraine-war-00142513<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,924,728,1545,315,311,158],"class_list":["post-13008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-eastern-europe","tag-europe","tag-invasion","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13009,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13008\/revisions\/13009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}