More weapons are headed to Ukraine as Washington has given its allies the green light to send US-made arms to Kyiv.
A State Department spokesperson told The Hill that the US has authorized third-party transfers for the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania to “US origin equipment from their inventories for use by Ukraine.”
The spokesperson didn’t specify what types of weapons were being transferred, but The Wall Street Journal reported that the Baltic states were sending Javelin anti-tank missiles and Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.
The transfer adds to the heap of weapons NATO countries have been giving Ukraine. The State Department spokesperson said in 2021, Washington gave Kyiv $650 million in military aid, the largest amount since the aid spigot was turned on after the 2014 US-backed coup in Kyiv.
Since 2014, the US has given Ukraine about $2.7 billion in military aid. In December, the Biden administration authorized an additional $200 million, and another $300 million was authorized by the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.
Mostly useless weapons which won’t effect the outcome of a conflict in Ukraine.
That is not the point. Of course all parties except Zelensky the”president of a great power” know that Ukraine would be crushed by Russia, IF Russia invaded, which the USA is trying to force it to do. Why would Russia ruin Ukraine, which remains next door for the foreseeable future(!) when it wants its own security against NATO, which has decided Russia is an enemy? Ukraine is just an excuse, and the end of the line for Russia after over twenty years of takeover of “nations” like the Baltics pushing right against Russia’s borders. Russia made its needs clear, the USA is too arrogant and ignorant even to give a written reply, just threats and lies from SoS Top Diplomat Boorish Blinken.
A State Department spokesperson confirmed to The Hill that the agency has authorized third-party transfers for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to send “U.S. origin equipment from their inventories for use by Ukraine.”
Doesn’t that make those weapons sales to those countries meaningless? If they can send them to Ukraine, how can they protect themselves from the big bad Bear?
The so-called “allies” do nothing without our OK.
This comes just as Blinken the Top Diplomat had insisted that Russia use diplomacy, not military methods, to solve the crisis the USA has created in Ukraine. Russia is still awaiting even a written reply to its suggestions for its own security while the US∕NATO and all the Western media insist that Ukraine, the centre of the world, is in mortal danger from Russian troops “massed” on their own soil!!Russia has made no threats, has denied any “attack” on Ukraine, yet the imagination of so many Russophobes has run riot with what they know about “Putin the essence of evil ” (and also stupidity if they were correct, and nobody sane could call Putin that).
Why not actually face the requests of Russia????? The USA seems unable to imagine any way without violence, coercion, bribery to solve any differences.
Crush these bugs.