• Moldova Transnistria, the model that Putin tries to export to Ukraine

The Russian invasion of the Ukraine will continue.

Vladimir Putin is preparing for a long and hard conflict, and will probably try to connect the strip of southern Ukraine that he controls with Transnistria, a territory of Moldova that Russia has occupied since 1992. There is no sign of a diplomatic solution in the short term, although it seems Moscow is highly unlikely to employ atomic weapons unless Putin fears that the regime is in danger.

That is the opinion of Avril Haines, the national director and Intelligence of the United States, presented today before the Senate of that country.

The estimation of the head of espionage in that country is that Putin continues to think that time is on his side and that, furthermore, the economic war is going to make Russia prevail.

"Very likely, Putin believes he has more skill and will than his adversaries to withstand challenges, and he likely

expects US and EU resolve to weaken

as food shortages, inflation, and food prices energy get worse," Haines said.

While Haines was speaking, the United States House of Representatives has begun the debate to approve the delivery of 40,000 million dollars (37,900 million euros) of aid to Ukraine and other countries.

Most of that amount is military material, in what constitutes, adjusted for inflation, the largest aid to a country at war made by the United States since the Vietnam War.

Biden had requested 33,000 million

, but, in a show of the support of the House to Ukraine, the legislators have decided to increase the aid in 7,000 million more.

Washington has exhausted almost all the resources authorized by Congress to help Ukraine.

At that point, the White House only has an extra $100 million left.

Meanwhile, on Monday, Biden signed the Lend-Lease Act, which gives him tremendous autonomy to deliver virtually any type of military material to Ukraine, with the sole exception of weapons of mass destruction.

This legal formula had only been used in World War II, mainly with Great Britain and the USSR.

Soviet dictator Josef Stalin said that without US help through the Lend-Lease Law, the USSR would have lost the war against Hitler.

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