On Wednesday, President Biden authorized a new $800 million weapons package for Ukraine that includes howitzers and helicopters. The announcement was made after Biden spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who continues to plead for more arms.
The weapons package includes 18 155mm howitzers and 40,000 artillery rounds, marking the first transfer of US artillery systems to Ukraine. The Ukrainians will receive 11 Mi-17 helicopters that were originally earmarked for the now-defunct US-backed Afghan government.
The new package brings the total US military aid pledged to Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24 to over $2.5 billion. The announcement came after the US and its NATO allies agreed to start providing the Ukrainians with heavier equipment.
The weapons package also includes 500 Javelin anti-tank missiles, 300 armed Switchblade drones, 200 armored personnel carriers, 10 counter-artillery radars, and two surveillance radars. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Ukraine’s forces will need to be trained to use some of the equipment.
It’s not clear where the US training of Ukrainian forces will happen. President Biden recently said US troops would be training Ukrainian forces in Poland, but the Pentagon later downplayed the comments, saying the US was only “liaising” with Ukrainian troops while giving them weapons.
Lithuania is a possible venue for the training as the Baltic state announced this week that it plans to train Ukrainian troops on its territory. The Pentagon revealed on Sunday that it has been training Ukrainian troops that were inside the US before Russia launched its invasion.
The Ukrainian forces were taking a naval course at the Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training School in Biloxi, Mississippi. After the class concluded at the end of March, the Ukrainian soldiers received some training on weapons the US has provided Ukraine, including armed Switchblade drones. According to the Pentagon, the Ukrainians are now headed back to Ukraine.
In the meantime a tired and cold homeless Vet with no legs in a wheelchair lives in underpass somewhere in a big American city.
My thoughts exactly Darren.
One of the kids who works at my local grocery told me that theft is up. People cannot even afford to feed themselves.
Is it really so bad? I mean, if he is not a drug addict or alcoholic.
People with no insurance, not old enough for Medicare, ration their medications, such as insulin, hoping to stay alive another day. On and on. We need a third party and we need enough people to have a “tax holiday”. Refuse to file a return or pay.
We have “third” parties, we just need people to vote for them. But all you hear is that we never have a viable third-party candidate although neither Trump or Biden would have sniffed the white house without an “R” or “D” next to their name.
The left is so weak here. This will probably be disastrous if an economic collapse comes when the Fed triggers massive demand destruction over the next few months. Will working people then turn to the right?
we need a revolution. not more corrupt voting scams.
Non-Vets too.
Let Russia buy their own targets.
I wonder how many military budgets US wage slaves can afford. Consider boycotting elections in western representative democracies.
Garrett…you mean “democracies” 😉
No, democracy does not need adjectives. Representative democracy is a tool to manage populations, it was and is designed to represent capital and confuse people who think of it as “our” democracy.
When the direct military budget go above one trillion, it could break the back of the camel.
On April 12th it was reported that Biden would give $750 million more in “aide”.
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-04-12/card/biden-to-give-ukraine-750-million-more-in-aid-including-helicopters-and-sea-drones-dBgVKCwDZkI8luFpiRnQ
On April 13th it’s up to $800 million. Or is that $750 million on Tuesday and an additional $800 million on Wednesday. Hard to keep up with.
so ukrain will need $800 billion in military aid for their war over there.
meanwhile uncle sam gives the pentagon $800 BILLION every year and we aren’t even fighting a war.
$800 million down the drain.
Who knows who is getting money. And whether any of it can make it to Ukrainian army — is entitely
another story. Unless they are rsidsing an all-catholic army in Galicia. Religion is THE issue in Ukrsine’s tragedy, something Victoria Nuland weaponized in 2014. But we are still tallking of “Ukrainians”! Still not figuring out the drama of who is going to be evacuated where. We are all accomplices in this deceptiion. Zelenski is talkinng of mythical Ukrainians — by forcing people who escaped Mariupol terror under Azov battalions to be evacuated back into anither Nazi cintrolled territory, They prefer going to Rusdian control.
There you go – forget our domestic needs – just go all in for military spending.
Zelensky keeps begging US for weapons spreading lies that they are winning the war and brainless Biden complies…! Russia needs to capture Zelensky to stop or reduce this exchange for the sake of both Ukraine and Russia…!
The latest from the very informed M. Bhadrakumar on Russian operation, is suorisingly detailed about Western military personnel currently trapped in Mariupol, including a posdibly higher rank US military. Appears that Austrisn Channcir’s visit to Moscow has been for the purposes of evacuating those Westerners stuck at Mariupol Azivstal Steel pllant.
Who is being trained? They cannot be regular Ukrainian army, as their generals have been dismissed by Zelenski as “traitors”, so it is possible that inly Nazi Units are now being armed and trained, Being predominantly from West Ukraine, ior by origin West Ukrainians — this is a cause for a complete brakedown of moral in army and population. These Nazis see 75% of populatiin, Christian Orthodox, as potential traitors — and think of themselves as the ONLY real Ukrainians. Their version of Ukrainian — a dialect of Polish, has been pushed theough state apparatus as the “real” uncorrupted Ukrainian.
Not only our mainstream media, but even many well informed are loathe to touch the subject. Even though this is at the core of everything — from military to oolitics to refugee manipulation.
One can just get sick at the hypocrisy, cruelty and ugliness when talking about Mariupol. Azov jailers holding majority Russian populatiin hostage, and would let them be evacuated iinly into another Nazi held territory.
Now that Rusdian army controlls the city, they ciuld finally leavr to locatio n if their choice. As hindreds of thoudands chose Russia — Zelenski had to come up with a new gig — Russians are forcing them!
By not getting into the the religious split in Ukraine — we cannot understand it. To just reduce it to ethnicity — Russians and Ukrainians — we are failung to understand that Orthodox Ukrainians are just as much despised by Nazi brigades as ethnic Rusdians.
“The latest from the very informed M. Bhadrakumar on Russian operation, is suorisingly detailed about Western military personnel currently trapped in Mariupol”
Actually, it’s not very detailed at all.
It claims that “NATO forces are de facto deployed in Ukraine, as foreign volunteers or as military instructors, and, equipped with heavy military equipment, they are fighting the Russian Army.”
The only source cited for the claim — with no link or embed — is a supposed video from a French journalist.
And Bhadrakumar doesn’t claim that it “appears” that Nehammer’s meeting with Putin was about that, he jut says it’s “entirely conceivable” that the meeting was “in coordination with Washington.”
It would be a stretch to call the piece “fiction,” but it’s at best “opinion” which doesn’t seem to be so much “very informed” as “playfully speculative.”
I disagree, I follow his blogs for over a decade, and his track recird is more than good.
He would have never speculated on such a matter.
He has to publish it in the only manner possible. Sure — do we expect him to give us a direct line to his sources?
His long diplomatic careerr accross Eurasian space allowed him to build contacts. All Russia is saying that it is sharing information with “allies”.
Yes, he is very careful with language, and for a good reason. His sources are assured confidentiality.
From my post above……….In summary the Ukrainian forces have surrendered, what is left in Mariupol is the hard core NATO, foreign mercenaries and Azov Nazi’s. Obviously it is external powers and Ukrainian traitors that are keeping this war going. No citation needed just the reality on the ground. Citations create a narrative NOT a reality.
It is time for these Western leaders to be arrested and presented to the Hague to answer for their many many crimes against humanity. We are continually being asked to pick sides, even though i am a westerner i support the people of the Donbass so they can be free of the Nazi’s that our governments send to ethnically cleanse them.
“No citation needed just the reality on the ground. ”
Are you on the ground?
If not, you’re either getting your supposed information from elsewhere, or are just making shit up.
Which is it?
800M in military aid? Well, Russia has been providing Tanks, vehicles, and ammunitions to Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
On different news, the Captain of the Moscow Missile Cruiser just stated that getting destroyed was part of their plan.
On serious news: The fate of all these sailors has not been confirmed, and you cannot believe everything coming from the Kremlin. Hope they made it and that it was not carrying nuclear warhead missiles.
Dementia Joe Biden has no idea where inflation comes from. Does he realize that printing money to give Zelensky more weapons adds to inflation that hurts American citizens?
Was sent a letter from the W.H. last year that $1,400 was going to be deposited. I now have a 1099 that says it was sent to my account.
I never recieved it. I did get the $600.00 from December 2020 on November of 2021, but no $1,400 .
-over-
Going to brick the Entire D.O.D.
if you don’t get this malware off my equipment and continue to screw with my online time.
I want my admin back too.
This would be such a joke except that it illustrates what Alexander Mercouris said in his video yesterday – that Biden is becoming as obsessed with this war as Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam – resulting in the US becoming embroiled in Vietnam. Mercouris thinks Biden may eventually drag the US into Ukraine.
Personally I’m beginning to have no doubt that this is the goal – a direct war between the US and Russia. This is because the alleged “sanctions from hell” have failed completely and the neocons are in a hysteric rage. The only faction in the US fighting against this is the Pentagon, where at least some people know the US can’t win a war against Russia in Europe.
…assuming Russia doesn’t destroy them first
From April 3 to April 13 a minimum 1,600 Ukrainian fighters surrendered to Russian and DPR forces.
267 Ukrainian service members from 503rd Battalion of the 36th Marine Brigade surrendered at the district of Kalmiyusky.
30 Ukrainian service members of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) surrendered at the district of Levoberezhny.
160 Ukrainian service members of the 36th Marine Brigade surrendered at Kalmiyuskiy.
1,026 Ukrainian service members of the 36th Marine Brigade, including 162 officers, surrendered at Kalmiyuskiy.
134 Ukrainian service members of the 36th Marine Brigade, including 14 officers, surrendered at Kalmiyuskiy.
In summary the Ukrainian forces have surrendered, what is left in Mariupol is the hard core NATO, foreign mercenaries and Azov Nazi’s. Obviously it is external powers and Ukrainian traitors that are keeping this war going.
In the Donbass there are 60,000 to 100,000 forces trapped in a massive cauldron where again the Ukrainian troops will surrender and the NATO, foreign traitors and neo Nazi’s will keep the war going. Neo Nazi battalions are spread throughout the Ukrainian forces this is to ensure the war goes on and to shoot any deserters.
This conflict is US/NATO vs. Russia, and US/NATO is losing badly. Russia is well aware that there are NATO Generals on the ground directing the battles. Approx. 90% of the Russian forces has not been activated they are waiting for NATO to do something stupid, which they will.
Here is the ugly truth nobody wants to openly admit: the Empire of Hate and Lies is attempting to genocide Russia and the Empire of Hate and Lies is ALREADY genociding the people of the Ukraine.
It is time for these Western leaders to be arrested and presented to the Hague to answer for their many many crimes against humanity.
where is the “aid” for americans/