It is reported that the current Ukrainian President Zelensky is still asking countries around the world for more military and financial assistance, including their "post-war reconstruction costs", but has not received much response. As of the end of last month, the United States had provided Ukraine with about $20 billion in aid, and was their "number one"; US media revealed that Biden basically responded to Zelensky's request, not only providing them with a large amount of conventional weapons, , military aid, and humanitarian supplies, but even disregarding the Russian warning to provide Ukraine with advanced weapons such as " Himas " and other advanced weapons, but also allocated them the fees required for government basic expenses. US media also believe that if the Biden administration's aid is aside, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict "may have ended long ago."
31 NBC exposed an unknown past story between Biden and Zelensky: the former was furious on the phone, which made the Ukrainian president tremble and immediately "confessed". The incident happened in June. Before this call, the US had approved a $1 billion military aid to Ukraine. This aid (the second quarter funding plan for Ukraine) was won by Biden under huge pressure. Because the expenditure on Ukraine was "excessive" in the first half of the year, four Republicans criticized Biden for abuse of funding authority, and the aid to Ukraine was allocated to tens of billions of dollars at one time, and the people were still living in the crisis of rising prices and inflation. However, after some debate, the second quarter plan was finally approved.
Then when the Biden administration informed Zelensky of the good news on the phone, the other party acted very coldly. Sources said that instead of thanking the United States on the phone, Zelensky began to list the additional help that Ukraine needs but did not provide, intending to accuse the United States of "not being done yet." Finally, these remarks made Biden lose control and raised his voice on the phone to yell Zelensky, reminding him to "express his gratitude." The person who provided the news did not disclose what Biden said specifically, and there might be other more irritable remarks.
As a result, after hanging up the phone, Zelensky immediately "pleaded guilty" and immediately issued a statement praising the generous assistance of the United States. The matter came to an end here, and the United States later still provided assistance to Ukraine and seemed not affected by the incident. US media also speculated that Zelensky had a high probability of apologizing on the phone, and he did not dare to continue to complain about the US's "deficiency" - he has posted "thank you letters" to the United States on his personal social accounts many times since June, which was obviously affected by the telephone incident.
There is a view that one of the key reasons why Biden got angry with Zelensky is that the Ukrainian president himself regards his "status" too high. It seems that he is not a person asking for help but a payer of the contract, and is very dissatisfied with the goods delivered by the United States and is picky. Before the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Zelensky reminded Europe more than once in public that the Ukrainians were their "shield" and deserved more attention, which shows that to some extent Zelensky believes that they have a higher status than European countries. There are also comments on this: "In Biden's eyes, Zelensky is just a tool to use. He needs to use this tool like an axe or pliers to cut down a big tree called 'Russia'. When the axe complained to him one day, 'You want me to rest more', it is conceivable that it is normal for him to get angry."
