The Pentagon has informally informed Congress that another $125 million in military aid is agreed upon for Ukraine. This will include new anti-artillery radars, and Mark VI patrol boats.
First introduced to the US Navy in 2015, the Mark VI patrol boat is intended for coastal and riverine operations. It has modern weapons and is meant to operate mostly in shallow waters.
US officials view these new boats as critical to Ukraine’s contesting of the Sea of Azov with Russia. Though that is clearly the justification for giving them the boats, Ukraine scarcely has a navy as it is, and a handful of new boats, while clearly an upgrade from Coast Guard hand-me downs Ukraine is currently using, still don’t make them a naval power equipped to fight Russia.
At times this has been by design for US military aid, providing weapons that clearly won’t achieve their goal, and when they don’t using that as an excuse for more aid and bigger weapons.
Maybe someone at the State Department messed up the file; Ukrainian extremists don’t do martyrdom like the Sunni Islamic extremists do.
Or for that matter the Iranian IRGC, which at least uses smaller, zippier faster speed boats that are harder to pick off.
Taxpayers take the hit…again.
More ridiculous unnecessary overreach on the fiat money debt card. Wish Trump would’ve lived up to his own advanced hype and slammed the door shut on aid to Ukraine and a bunch of other countries.
Well most of us knew it was only hype and that he had no intention of depriving the military-industrial complex of a single penny.
How pathetic. Us the money to help the “ordinary” US people who cannot afford to be protected or tested fro the COVID-19 and stop the ridiculous anti-Russian useless actions pretending you care about Ukraine or anyone else but Trump and the rich.
$125 million to Ukraine while millions of Americans have no health care and have to eat from food banks. The priorities of this government are appalling. But of course they have to keep the money rolling in to the military-industrial complex. And they need to keep trying to stir up conflict with Russia because without an enemy people might question all this ridiculous spending.