The US Congress’ passage of the Ukraine military aid bill – which would see the US spending US$ 60 billion to directly or indirectly arm the Ukrainian military to fight Russia – has apparently provided a lot of relief to the anti-Russia elements, both in the West and elsewhere. For months, political elites in the US negotiated this bill, but it remains uncertain whether or not this funding will ultimately make much difference at all. Questions about the efficiency and the effectiveness remain unanswered – not only because there are serious bottlenecks in the West itself, but also because, as it stands, this aid might still be far from enough to match the extent of resources Russia has mobilized and will continue to utilize in its efforts to resist Washington’s agenda of NATO’s expansion. More importantly, will this aid help Ukraine reclaim the losses it has suffered in recent months?

While these questions remain, let’s first see what the US is doing in Ukraine. Surely, Washington is fighting Russia in order to advance NATO’s reach to Ukraine. This would help Washington ‘encircle’ Russia permanently. At the same time, however, Washington is also using Ukraine as a testing ground for its new military technologies, i.e., it is sending technologies that are far from fully developed that the Russian military forces have been able to overcome without much difficulty. Washington, in other words, has, directly and indirectly, contributed to Ukraine’s losses more than it may have contributed to any potential successes. A New York Times report notes:

“The war in Ukraine has, in the minds of many American........

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