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Biden Authorizes $200 Million in New Military Aid for Ukraine

President Joe Biden has authorized an additional $200 million in aid for Ukraine for training and weapons.

In a March 12 memorandum to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Biden directed that up to $200 million should be designated for Ukraine’s defense, with the funds allocated through the Foreign Assistance Act.

The funds would cover weapons and other defense items, as well as military services, education, and training.

It comes days after Congress approved $13.6 billion in emergency aid for Ukraine as part of a $1.5 trillion measure to fund the U.S. government through September.

Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said this week that weapons provided to Ukrainian forces thus far have been impactful against the Russian offensive.
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Kirby said the slowed Russian advance near Kyiv and the fact that Ukrainian forces continue to contest the airspace above their country are evidence that the military aid is making a difference.

The Pentagon spokesperson also said that the much-discussed question of supplying Polish fighter jets to Ukraine was off the table as it could be mistaken as escalatory and it anyway would be unlikely to make much of a difference in the conflict.

Zelensky Ready to Negotiate, Open to High-Level Peace Talks in Jerusalem

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that he’s ready to hold high-level peace talks with Russia, flagging Jerusalem as a possible location and expressing hope that Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett could help broker a deal.

Zelensky told foreign reporters at a briefing in Kyiv that holding lower-level technical negotiations in Belarus, Russia, or Ukraine would be “unconstructive,” calling instead for a “meeting of leaders,” potentially in Jerusalem.

He took a positive view of Bennett serving as a mediator between the warring sides and called for Israel to be among the security guarantors for Ukraine.
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“There are certain positive developments there, as the negotiators from our side reported to me,” Putin said on Friday at a meeting with his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, according to Russian state news agency Tass.
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Moscow has demanded that Ukraine cease military action, pledge never to join NATO and enshrine neutrality in its constitution, acknowledge Crimea as Russian territory, and recognize the separatist-controlled regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states.

Zelensky earlier signaled openness to a compromise with Putin on some of his key demands for halting the offensive in Ukraine, including on NATO membership and the status of the contested territories, but he insisted his forces would not capitulate.
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The Russia-Ukraine conflict has driven 2.6 million from their homes, according to the U.N., with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg describing the exodus as “Europe’s fastest-growing refugee crisis since the Second World War.”

Well, we can't really say Russia's diplomatic relationship with Israel has ever been good enough as to become friends. They might have been slightly neutral for Russia and even Iran have been able to attack Israel indirectly by using Syria or Lebanon as bases for missile launches targeting Israeli lands. There is also the dispute between Israel, Syria and Russia concerning the Golan Heights, recognized by the US government as Israeli territory.

Knowing this, Jewish Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky plans to move peace talks to Jerusalem!

Diplomatically, this utter nonsense.  Even if Bennett might befriend Putin up to some point, at the end of the day they have not stopped being either rivals or enemies. Some EU member could have negotiated this process, why involving Israel now?  

Now from a Biblical perspective I can tell you something relevant.

IT IS THE WORST IDEA ZELENSKY COULD EVER COME UP WITH!!

Actually, it looks as bad as asking Gog from the land of Magog to take a survey of the land of Israel. Literally!

In a (near or distant?) future, Gog, prince of Rosh, Mesec and Tubal, will come up with a plan to get uber rich in no time... to prepare a large coalition of nations, including Persia (Iran), Phut or Put (Lybia) and Cush (Sudan + Ethiopia) plus other countries to invade, well, ISRAEL!

And do not say I mentioned Iran because of some specific (nuclear) bias, Iran was known as Persia till 1935!  Even the adjacent sea is called the Persian Gulf for a reason!

Keep in mind how the Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov wanted to let Iran get the best nuclear deal without any restrictions. Russia is fully aware of Israel's ferocious opposition to such agreement and does not care about Israel's security at all.

Are Zelensky and Bennett pushing Putin to become part of an ancient and terrible prophecy!?

Perhaps they know nothing about it or they interpret it in a different way. Even so it is weird that they seem to be working together to make it happen some day...

By the way, Gog's armies get utterly destroyed at the end.