Should the US Aid Ukraine Indefinitely Or Push For Peace Talks?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, meeting with President Biden and addressing Congress on Capitol Hill. During his visit, he reiterated calls for continued aid to the Ukrainian military in their resistance against the invading Russian army. The visit sparked discussions on the Ukraine war and reflections on the United States’ financial involvement in the European conflict.

Frida Ghitis (Lean Left Bias) tied the Ukrainian conflict to a broader, global struggle between democracy and autocracy, with the Ukrainian military defending the front line of liberty, writing, “[Zelensky] may be saying thank you, but it is the free world that should be thanking Ukraine.” David Rothkopf praised the security and diplomatic risks taken by Zelensky in traveling outside Ukraine for the first time since the war began, and called the United States’ support for Ukraine “one of the great U.S. foreign policy triumphs in recent decades.”

In Fox News Opinion (Right Bias), a former U.S. Defense Intel Officer questioned the characterization of Ukraine as a bastion for democracy, determining it to be “one of the most corrupt places in the world,” and cast doubt on the narrative that should Ukraine fall, Putin would seek a larger conflict with NATO. A writer in the Daily Wire called Zelensky’s visit a “shameless fund raiser” and asserted that additional aid only delayed the inevitable conclusion of the war, prolonging the suffering of the Ukrainian people and costing American taxpayers.