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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that military aid to Ukraine is also a source of growth and jobs at home.
“If you look at the investments that we’ve made in Ukraine’s defense to deal with this aggression, 90% of the security assistance we’ve provided has actually been spent here in the United States with our manufacturers,” he said.
The US top diplomat was speaking in Washington following a meeting with his British counterpart, David Cameron, on Thursday.
Blinken emphasized that this “produced more American jobs, more growth in our own economy.” This is in addition to the importance of Kyiv’s support to global politics and US national security, Blinken added.
The US is Ukraine’s most important military supporter in the campaign to defend itself against Russian forces. However, the release of more aid is being blocked by a domestic political dispute between Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
During his visit, Cameron made a strong plea for further US aid for Ukraine.
He said he did not want to interfere in US domestic policy, but was putting forward arguments that he considered important “as a friend of America, as a friend of Ukraine.”
“In the 1930s we didn’t act fast enough to deal with the evil dictator who was invading European countries and redrawing borders by force,” Cameron warned. “And we know how that ended.”
dh/nm (Reuters, AFP, AP, dpa)
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