The US is giving Ukraine an additional $200 million in military aid that was approved by the Biden administration in December, a senior State Department official confirmed with reporters on Wednesday. The additional military aid was announced while Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Kyiv.
The official didn’t detail what military equipment would make up the new aid package. Since 2014, the US has provided Ukraine with over $2.5 billion in military aid. Under the Trump administration, the US started giving Ukraine lethal weapons, including Javelin anti-tank missiles and armed patrol boats.
Earlier reports said the Biden administration was considering giving Ukraine more stinger missiles, mortars, and more Javelin missiles. Another plan under consideration is giving Ukraine military aid that was meant for the now-defunct US-backed Afghan government that would include Russian-made Mi-17 helicopters.
With the constant US claims of a Russian invasion, Washington is eager to give Ukraine weapons. On top of the $200 million, the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act authorizes another $300 million for military aid to Ukraine. A group of Senate Democrats recently introduced a bill that would authorize an additional $500 million for Ukraine if the president determines Russia is being hostile towards its neighbor.
Easy way to get rid of surplus US weapons – give them to Ukraine, then watch them blown up by Russia. Saves on the cost of disposing of them. LOL
More taxpayer $$$$$ down the drain.
HERE’S A GOOD SOLUTION TO AMERICAN INTERVENTION INTO FOREIGN WARS: Allow Americans who want to go to war with other countries start their own Brigades and donate their own money for the causes they value and leave
the rest of us in peace so our money can be used to fix America, since
it is our money and we live in America.
Russia does not have the same resources to defend itself from the global
warfare being waged by the US. Russia could not threaten the US with
the same retaliatory tactics now being discussed by the president when
the US invaded Iraq but still has to respond to the encirclement of Nato
forces on all its Western borders after the promises of the HW Bush
administration were broken. Through the efforts of American propaganda,
coordinated between the security orgs and corporate mass media, subjects
of America have been led to believe Russia wants to restore the Union
of Soviets, when Russia had past invasions from the West to inform its
defenses. For Russians, allowing the Warsaw Pact to dissolve through a
remarkable acknowledgement of nationalist desire of defensive colonized
territories to be free from from military domination, something the US
would never do, must appear misguided now. That exhibition of goodwill
has become a knife in the back. Russia had to defend itself from Nazi
invasion. A geopolitical analysis would conclude Russia has to prepare
for defense from Nato invasion.