If Congress separates aid for Ukraine from aid for Israel, Russia's President Vladimir Putin will win his war against the neighboring country it invaded in February 2022, the leaders of the Pentagon and State Department testified Tuesday.
During a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urged senators to approve the Biden administration's $106 billion supplemental request for Israel, Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific, The Hill reported.
"It's hard to put an exact timeline on how long it would take," Austin said when asked to put a timeline on how long it would take Russia to defeat Ukraine without the aid. "There is no doubt in my mind that if Putin is allowed to continue to act with impunity, that not only would he not stop at Ukraine and potentially go to a NATO country next … it would send a message to would-be aggressors everywhere in the world, that, 'If he can get away with it, so can we,' and then we're likely to have a world full of conflict," Blinken said.
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