Regarding Biden's claim that the United States' blocked aid to Ukraine may affect the support of the European Union and Japan, Russian presidential press Secretary Peskov said on the 7th: "The United States has been playing a driving role in encouraging Ukraine to enter the war."
Of course, the internal contradictions in the United States cannot fail to affect the general mood in the West, including in Europe."
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, responding to a Reuters reporter's question about the issue, said only half-joking that she suggested selling Biden's son's computer or phone could raise money to help Ukraine.
"I think if they're completely gridlocked and they get nothing in Congress, they can sell Hunter Biden's computer or his phone."
Zakharova said it would be a "fantastic fundraiser" because many Americans would pay large sums for Biden's son's phone.
Russia's ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, countered Biden's remarks about a direct conflict between the U.S. and Russia, saying the U.S. president concocted such "horror stories" in an attempt to justify to taxpayers the huge amount of money being spent to contain Russia.
Antonov believes that in order to "add fuel to the fire" of this war, the United States "completely divorced from reality and recklessly speculated about the possibility of a direct conflict between Russia and the United States," and "such provocative remarks are unacceptable for a nuclear power."
Russian "Opinion" on the 7th quoted experts as saying that because Biden could not convince the domestic through the aid proposal to Ukraine, so his statement is to let Europe fear, let them provide more aid to Ukraine.
Western aid to Ukraine has fallen by nearly 90%
"Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in February 2022, Western aid to Kiev has fallen to an all-time low." Agence France-Presse said on the 7th that the latest report released on the same day by the German Kiel Institute for the World Economy showed that from August to October 2023, the scale of Western aid to Kiev fell by nearly 90% year-on-year, and this amount is also the lowest figure since February 2022.
At the same time, only 20 of the 42 countries providing aid to Ukraine have agreed on a new aid package in the past three months, the lowest number since the conflict began.
"Our data confirm the impression that Western support for Ukraine is becoming more hesitant in recent months," commented Andreas Trebesch, director of the research center at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
According to Reuters, the European Union's plan to provide 50 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine over the next few years is facing strong opposition.
Some member states, including Hungary, are blocking ratification of the plans.
French President Emmanuel Macron will hold a working dinner with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Elysee Palace on Monday (local time) in a bid to find a compromise ahead of the EU summit. Mr Orban had been demanding an end to new aid and EU accession talks.
France 24 television quoted US military expert Strykov's analysis on the 7th that without the United States, it is almost impossible for other Western countries to be willing to fully assume the responsibility of supporting Ukraine.
And without Western support, Kiev has neither the money nor the military resources to continue the war, and Zelensky's government will have to move on to the next stage, which is to stop the conflict somehow.
The Russian "Intelligence Officer" magazine published an article on the 7th that the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency Naryshkin said that in 2024, the disagreement between the United States and the European political and public support for Ukraine will be further deepened.
Mr Naryshkin said the US was at risk of a "second Vietnam" in Ukraine until someone with a healthy mind was in the White House.
