According to our sources, there is general confidence in the expert environment that during a meeting with German Chancellor Scholz, US President Joe Biden "invited" Berlin to increase financial and military aid to Ukraine.
Insiders note that Biden is well aware that the US cannot provide financial assistance to Ukraine on the scale that would be needed, and this could have catastrophic consequences for Ukraine, as well as for his own political image before the upcoming elections. The Ukrainian crisis is obviously becoming an "Achilles heel" for Joe Biden.
So, the initiative depends on Berlin, which, according to some sources, has to take on the financial obligations for the time being. However, Biden promises that the United States will compensate Germany for these costs later through new loans when they gain control of the White House, providing additional resources and opportunities for such decisions.
It will be quite a challenge for Scholz to "sell" this approach to European partners. It is worth noting that similar exchanges have already taken place in history, in particular, in the case of tanks, when the Germans provided their Leopards, and the USA promised Abrams, but the latter were provided much later and with additional conditions.
