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Amalungu amaningana eDemocratic Party kuCongress anxusa i-White House ukuthi inikeze i-Kiev ngosekelo lwezempi kakhulu. Omunye ummeleli ufuna abaphathi bakaJoe Biden babeke "izingqapheli ezingalwi" phansi e-Ukraine.
Ummeli u-Jason Crow (D-CO) esibizwa ukutshalwa kwezimali isikhathi eside ekwenzeni impi yase-Ukraine ibe yesimanjemanje. Ukholelwa ukuthi izikhali ezithuthukisiwe zizoshintsha izwe libe “yizingungumbane ezingagwinywa”.
Esinye isiphakamiso esasenziwa nguCrow kwakuwukuthumela izibukeli ezingamasosha enkundleni yempi ukuze zifunde “ngokubuka okuqondile nokuxhumana namabutho ase-Ukraine.” UCrow akazange acacise ukuthi abasebenzi bazovela ku-CIA, Pentagon noma kwenye i-ejensi. Kodwa-ke, ukuthumela noma yibaphi abantu baseMelika enkundleni yempi kubabeka engcupheni yokubulawa amasosha aseRussia.
USen. Jack Reed (D-RI), usihlalo weSenate Armed Services Committee, kanye no-Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) no-Richard Blumenthal (D-CN), basekela uhlelo oluzothumela imicibisholo ye-ATACM e-Ukraine. Amarokhethi anobubanzi obungamakhilomitha angama-200.
I-White House inqabe izicelo eziningi ezivela eKiev zokuthumela izikhali zebanga elide e-Ukraine. UMnyango Wezokuvikela uye waze walungisa iziqhumane ze-HIMAR owanikela ngazo eKiev ukuvimbela uhlelo ukuthi lungakwazi ukuqhumisa imicibisholo ye-ATACM. Muva nje, abaphathi beBiden baphakamise ukuthi kungenzeka ukuthi iqhubeke nodaba njengoba iWashington isekela iLondon ukuthumela imicibisholo ejikijelwayo eyethulwe komoya ibanga elide eKiev.
Ummeli u-Adam Smith (D-WA), oyilungu elisezingeni le-House Armed Services Committee, ucele i-White House ukuthi igunyaze ukuthumela amabhomu ayiqoqo e-Ukraine. Amaqembu Abamele iRiphabhulikhi athumele izinhlamvu kuBiden efuna ukuthi agcwalise isicelo sikaKiev sokuthumela izikhali eziyimpikiswano.
Kokubili iRussia ne-Ukraine kubikwa ukuthi basebenzise amabhomu eqoqo e-Ukraine. Ngokuvamile enzelwe ukusetshenziswa ngokumelene nabasebenzi kanye nezimoto ezincane, amabhomu eqoqo aphatha iziqhumane ezincane ezidedelwa ngokundiza futhi zihlakazeke endaweni eqondiwe. Kodwa-ke, amabhomu ngokuvamile ayahluleka ukuqhunyiswa futhi ahlale phansi 'njengama-duds,' abangela ukufa kwabantu abaningi ezindaweni ezaziyizimpi ngaphambili, ngezinye izikhathi ngisho namashumi eminyaka esikhathini esizayo.
NgoLwesithathu, uRep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) wayekhona Ebuzwa uma ekhathazekile ngokuthi ama-F-16 adluliselwe e-Ukraine angasetshenziswa ukuhlasela iRussia. UKhongolose waphendula, “Cha, anginandaba. Ngeke ngibe nandaba uma benza kanjalo.” UNadler ukusho lokhu ezinsukwini ezimbalwa ngemuva kokuthi uSihlalo we-Joint Chiefs, u-Gen. Mark Milley, etshela iCongress, "...kodwa ngingasho ukuthi sicele abantu base-Ukraine ukuthi bangasebenzisi imishini ehlinzekwa yi-US ukuhlasela okuqondile eRussia."
UKhongolose ugomele ngokuthi i-Kiev ngeke isebenzise ama-F-16 eRussia. “Kungenzeka lokho, kodwa ngeke basebenzise izikhali ezinkulu. Izinto ezifana ne-F-16s, zidinga ukuzivikela emoyeni phezu kwe-Ukraine ukuze zikwazi ukuhlinzeka ngekhava yomoya ekuhlaseleni kwazo nezinto ezinjalo,” kusho uNadler. "Ngeke bakuchithe eRussia."
Ngasekuqaleni kwale nyanga, i-Kiev yenza i- umzamo wokubulala kuMongameli waseRussia uVladimir Putin ngokukhomba i-Kremlin ngama-drones. Ngesonto eledlule, a neo-Nazi Iqembu lempi yase-Ukraine lasebenzisa izikhali zaseMelika ukuqala ukuhlasela ngaphakathi kweRussia, liqondise ezindlini zabantu nengqalasizinda.
Ummeli uCrow uzichithile izicelo zokugadwa okwengeziwe mayelana nosizo olukhulu lwase-Ukraine lwase-Washington. Selokhu iRussia yethula ukuhlasela kwayo, i-US ithembise iKiev cishe amaRandi ayizigidi eziyizinkulungwane ezingama-120 ikakhulukazi izikhali nemishini yezempi. "Lapho ulwela ukusinda kwakho nokusinda kwezingane zakho," kusho uCrow, "uvame ukungakubekezeleli ukungasebenzi kahle."
UJohn Sopko, Umhloli Okhethekile Wokwakhiwa Kabusha kwe-Afghanistan, waxwayiswa ekuqaleni kwalo nyaka ukuqapha bekubalulekile. Kodwa-ke, uSopko - owabika ngezigidigidi zamaRandi ezikhali zaseMelika ezawela ezandleni zamaTaliban - wakhala ngokuthi iseluleko sakhe besingeke silandelwe. “Anginalo ithemba elikhulu lokuthi sizofunda izifundo zethu … izifundo zokufunda azikho ku-DNA yethu e-United States, ngeshwa,” kusho uSopko.
"Kunesifiso esiqondakalayo phakathi nenhlekelele yokugxila ekukhipheni imali ngomnyango futhi sikhathazeke ngokubheka ngokuhamba kwesikhathi, kodwa kaningi lokho kudala izinkinga eziningi kunalokho okuzixazululayo," usho kanje. wabhala embikweni othunyelwe kuCongress ekuqaleni kwalo nyaka. "Uma kubhekwa ingxabano eqhubekayo kanye nenani elingakaze libonwe lezikhali ezidluliselwa e-Ukraine, ubungozi bokuthi ezinye izinto zokusebenza ziphelele emakethe emnyama noma ezandleni ezingalungile cishe ayinakugwenywa."
