The era of Ukraine’s blank check from Congress is over

The era of Ukraine’s blank check from Congress is over because America has given more military support than all of Europe. NATO must step up. The US has its own border to defend.

In the near term, U.S. military aid must be contingent on European burden sharing and equal European assistance going forward. The U.S. has provided nearly as much military aid to Ukraine – a reported $46.6 billion – as every other nation combined.   Republican Michael Waltz represents Florida's 6th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committee. He is also a Green Beret veteran of the war on terror in Afghanistan, a former White House counterterrorism policy adviser and author of the book "Warrior Diplomat: a Green Beret's Battles from Washington to Afghanistan."

The Biden administration has neither explained the American objective in Ukraine nor his strategy to achieve it. Will American military spending continue until Ukraine has pushed Russia back to its prewar boundaries? Its pre-2014 boundaries? Or until the Putin regime collapse? We don’t know because Biden refuses to tell us. "As long as it takes" is a slogan, not a strategy.