After holding a call Tuesday with US allies on the war in Ukraine, President Biden told reporters that the US will send more artillery to Ukrainian forces.
The Biden administration is providing Ukraine with heavy artillery for the first time as part of a new $800 million military aid package that was announced last week. The package includes howitzers, which the US will train Ukrainian forces to use in an undisclosed location outside of Ukraine.
According to the White House, Biden held a call with EU officials, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, and the leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Poland, Japan, and Romania. The White House said the leaders discussed their “coordinated efforts to impose severe economic costs to hold Russia accountable.”
After the call, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz also announced a plan to get more arms in the hands of Ukrainians. The German military has exhausted its weapons stockpiles, so Scholz is turning to private arms makers for new deliveries.
“We asked the German defense industry to tell us what equipment it can deliver quickly,” Scholz said. “Ukraine made a selection from this list and we’ll make the necessary money available to pay for it.”
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday that London was looking at ways to provide Ukraine with anti-ship missiles. One idea Johnson floated involves Brimstone missiles, which the UK has used in its wars in Libya and Syria.
Britain has been one of the most eager NATO members when it comes to arming and assisting Ukraine in its war against Russia. The Times reported that British Special Air Service (SAS) troops have been in Kyiv for about two weeks, where they are training Ukrainian forces to use anti-tank missiles London provided. The presence of British troops in Ukraine risks provoking Moscow, which has formally warned the US and NATO to stop pouring weapons into the country.
It seems with each passing day, the window for diplomacy shrinks and our leaders lost interest in any attempt. The reelection campaigns coincide in Russia, France, and the UK, with election season for Bidens party just months away. I hope one day, when we reflect upon this moment in history, each leader can look themselves in the mirror, and tell themselves: I did everything I could to bring the world peace, and save us all, from tyranny.
Well, peace is impossible, without diplomacy. I beg of every leader in the world, to imagine the greatest possibilities for mankind if we find peace, and also the horrors of mankind if we fail to do so. Make your mark on history by being one who brought sense to the senseless. Love to the hate, and peace, to the war.
Your legacy will be greater than any political or financial gains lost in the ruins of war.
What diplomacy? Russia invaded the border was decided by treaty in the 90’s. The Russians need to go stand on that side of the line. Now maybe Ukraine can redo its constitution a little bit to give regions relatively more autonomy but that is an internal Ukrainian matter once the war is won.
Simply amazing that this comment could get a down vote on antiwar.com.
Who knew Putin and Biden subscribed?
You were talking about diplomacy. I don’t think Putin rejected that.
According to Zelinsky he invaded when they told him we would not be willing to give him Crimea and Donbas. That’s when diplomacy failed and things escalated. Of course, if the Obama administration didn’t help with a coup that over threw the government in 2014, we might not be talking a bout this today. So….as far a diplomacy failures, they started long long ago.
The real diplomacy should be occurring between the United States and Russia and between the United States and Ukraine. But the United States has other ideas.
Umm..yes, WWWIII is our idea. We planted that seed in 2014 when we over threw the elected Ukrainian government and helped stage a coupe. That led to this….and yet, I don’t see it on any US News channels. Amazing selective memory they have…
Mr. Kinzhal will love those targets. With a maximum speed: Mach 10 – Mach 12 Zelensky can only bend over and kiss his A$$ goodbye!
All 5 of them?
Yep!
Artillery! Why not? Add that to the mountain of hardware that will never actually reach Ukraine and if it does will be promptly wiped out in air strikes. But hey just keep those armaments industries’ invoices rolling into the Pentagon and State Department. It is, after all, a bottomless pit, at least while the dollar holds up on global exchanges. Who knows how long that will be? Best to cash in now with a stockroom clearance of obsolete product.
Half of whatever gets over the border, guns, ammo, MANPADS and whatnot, to this infamous Nazi black hole goes to the black market and will eventually come back to bite EU’s arse and end up with Muslim terrorists, white extremists and different fascist groups. The consequences are unimaginable, civil wars, race wars you name it.
The other half gets bombed very successfully i must say, at this rate, by Russia and very little actually make it to the front lines. The performance of Javelins f.ex are so bad that Russia finds tons of them untouched in their boxes.
Well I guess we know it works better than the stolen Russian stuff.
I think that we are being foolish to push this business too far, with regard to the Russian position.
Me too, Donna. NATO is pushing the envelope. Russia has warned them, and I don’t think Russia is bluffing. I see a real possibility of a Russian strike on NATO if this continues.
The Big Fiction, ‘Russia v Ukraine’, is the only straw between us and all-out WW III. For the 3rd time in modern history Russia is called upon to save civilization, …and not just “western” this time.
Sure by deNazifying old ladies with a 9mm pill to the back of the head.
And that would be it for the black sea fleet, and that would be it for Russian troops in Ukraine a dozen stealth bombers can take out about 1000 targets a night. Russia has to develop an appreciation for who the big dog is.
If by the big dog you mean the United States then I doubt that what you say would actually come to pass. The United States is likely to let Europe pay the price and not directly engage Russia.
Truly, Washington is the aggressor. Russia’s peace efforts, especially since the Maiden coup, are all on record, and they are way “above & beyond” -as the saying has it. This all is the final realization of the 50 yr NeoCon dream.