The US State Department has reiterated its demand that Russia
unconditionally return three Ukrainian boats seized during a November
maritime incident. They also announced an increase in direct US financing for the Ukrainian Navy in response to the “dangerous escalation.”
The “escalation” saw three Ukrainian boats entering Russian waters in
the Sea of Azov despite warnings they were closed for security reasons.
Russia seized the boats pending an investigation into the matter, and
has said they will be returned.
The State Department statement seems to mostly be another opportunity to
endorse Ukraine’s position and to condemn Russia. In practice, an
additional $10 million isn’t likely to make dramatic changes to
Ukraine’s tiny navy.
Ukraine has made the incident in the Sea of Azov into a sign of an
imminent war with Russia, and has urged NATO to send all the ships it
can. British officials noted a British survey ship, the HMS Echo, has
arrived in the area recently, to “send a message.” The survey ship is
barely armed, and its presence is unlikely to be perceived as any
serious threat to regional stability.
Maybe Russia should insert a puppet government in Mexico and start arming them? That, in effect, is what we did and are doing in Ukraine.
Just another investment in fear of world war, which they intend to cash-in as increased arms sales to [relatively] peace-loving Europe. That’s the one thing the US is really good at: stoking fear and peddling arms. Like how gun sales in the US peak right after every mass shooting in fear of more gun control, the feedback loop / downward spiral continues.
That’s how PR and propaganda work. Instead of finding a need and creating a product, you create a need and sell them a product.
We’ve commoditized both reality and virtue in order to preserve our capitalist caste system.
Send ’em some US tax money so they’ll spend it with Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin and the rest of the “family”.
It’s Ukraine. I doubt anything like $10 million will get to its Navy. Various corrupt officials will enjoy it.
Maybe it covers a trump tower floor lease somewhere….
They’ll get that war with Russia ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.
They will find it not the easy win they claim it will be.
How can anyone in his right mind find Ukraine a decent, reliable ally!??
If we find Kosovo Albanian leadership and their thugs decent and reliable ally — we can handle anything. We have not been squeamish about Croatian Nazis, or the diehards of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. For some reason our globetrotting globalists love such people with a grudge. If you play your cards right, you will have them eating out of your hands — just hint that they were not REALLY Nazis, but anti-communists, and anti-Russian comes bundled in one. And if you can get right people to run those “democracies”, you are set.
$10 million isn’t going to buy them a damn thing.