Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer says the US will announce a new weapons package for Ukraine this week. Kyiv is expecting more arms for hosting a meeting with high-ranking US officials.
Finer told NBC’s Meet the Press’s Kristen Welker, “We’ve been announcing deliverables, which is a fancy word for things that we are providing to the Ukrainians to enable their fight, just about every day and if not every day, every week, and we will have more to say about that in the week ahead.”
On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country finally received the weapons Kyiv requested. Finer claimed the military equipment was "having a significant effect on the ground.”
However, on Saturday, Zelensky stated he expected high-level US officials to visit Kyiv and bring weapons. "You can’t come to us empty-handed today, and we are expecting not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons,″ the Ukrainian president said.
Oleksiy Arestovych, an adviser to Zelensky, confirmed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken were in Kyiv on Sunday night. "Yes, they’re meeting with the president. Let’s hope something will be decided on further help," Arestovych said.
Since Russia invaded, the US approved the transfer of $3.4 billion in weapons to Ukraine. The latest arms packages include Howitzers and new "Phoenix Ghost" drones the Pentagon developed for Ukraine.
On Thursday, Biden claimed the US had sent ten anti-armor missiles to every one Russian tank in Ukraine. "The United States alone has provided 10 anti-armor systems for every one Russian tank that’s in Ukraine – a 10 to 1 ratio," the president said.
US allies are also supporting Kyiv with weapons. On Saturday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced a new arms transfer. "The UK is providing more defensive military aid, including protected mobility vehicles, drones and anti-tank weapons,” Johnson’s office said.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
How do they get the weapons there?
Across the polish border with Ukraine, where they are blown up by Russia.
There’s a lot of talk about how Putin wants a land corridor from Crimea to the Donbas. But I suspect his most urgent goal was to seal off the coast from resupply efforts. Now, I get the impression that he is launching air attacks against anything that might serve as an arms warehouse, and destroying transportation infrastructure that might be used to distribute weapons coming in from the western border.
Pepe Escobar covered a bit of that angle in an article over the sinking of the Moskva.
Apparently the Russian warship was the lynchpin of a Black Sea coastal surveillance network off Odessa, monitoring NATO weapons smuggling.
https://thesaker.is/the-moskva-riddle/
Sometimes, to locate the storage depot, they allow the weapons to proceed to their initial destination. (I watched drone footage following a vehicle to its arrival at a mall in Kiev where the UAF was “hiding” some heavy weapons. The mall was then targeted and obliterated.)
In any event, the Poland-Ukraine border area is flooded with reconnaissance drones. Nothing moves that the Russians don’t see.
“In my imagination, nothing moves that the Russians don’t see.”
Fixed, no charge.
You have a point, Thomas. The Russian “situational awareness” is likely not as comprehensive as I had characterized it.
Yet, for obvious reasons, “situational awareness” — knowing precisely what the enemy is doing and where all his “bits and pieces” are located — is beyond vital . And modern drone tech makes that situational awareness possible as never before. Follow that with stand-off weapons with precise terminal guidance targeting accuracy, and you have the situation on the modern battlefield. On which account, the Russians maintain and deploy a massive inventory of surveillance drones of various sizes and capabilities. Google it.
That’s exactly what I ment.
“US approved the transfer of $3.4 billion in weapons to Ukraine”
Hunter Biden gets a new crack pipe and Joe Biden gets 10%.
Biden should have kept on napping instead of jumping aboard first COVID-1984 then now another Europe Oligarchs First European war.
Europe First masquerading as an American Empire is the West’s greatest and most self-immolating self-deception.
Garbage policies like the neo-feudal WEF Reset are totally un-American, anti-Enlightenment and anti-freedom.
Yes, here it’s Nazis. In Syria it was ISIS head-choppers. In Afghanistan & the Balkans, Mujahidin, …. Us clients are, without exception, corrupt and brutally repressive reactionary regimes.
In Ukraine Washington has found another Tel Aviv.
Yeah, our friends are so nice and Putin is soooo bad.
Yet who actually thinks for Washington?
Not Americans, but Europhiles caught up in Euro oligarchal projects.
Anyone against NATO is derided as an ‘isolationist’ and America First patriotism equated with far-right extremism and even terrorism, not true love of country.
I take your point. Neocon-Neolib ideology has been ascendant since 1976 with the founding of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission and Scoop Jackson-Richard Perle’s CIA “Team B”. It is strictly a metro-coastal culture whether it be US, Europe, East Asis, or Tel Aviv and has no other identity than Power and Money, is eager to FUBAR anywhere on the globe to maintain its ability to consume on an ever more outrageous scale; and it has for cultural icons such as the now long passe’ Donald, to Jeffrey Epstein, to Elon Musk. And I put it to you, Who wouldn’t want to send his kid to die for The Donald’s right to have gold toilet fixtures?
That shot at “The Donald” kind of gives you away as a leftist crusader.
“The Donald’ started no new wars, and spent most of his presidency paying for trying to end the existing Forever Wars and trying to really dialogue with Russia and China.
People are upset The Donald failed to do what he said he’d do, not with the general idea of an America First capitalist program for working people.
US political elites are not one big happy family. As Trump said, “They are after you, I’m just in the way”.
As usual Trump’s stated an incomplete truism; people like Trump are on the chopping block along with the middle class and they know it.
The hatred for Trump reflects a deeper hatred for anyone like him; rich, potentially powerful and influential, but not really into war and empire. And even if they were, there’s no room at the top for them.
Leftist pawns play into this. Leftist hatred of the ‘bourgeois’ middle class and ‘rich’ dovetails with political elite hatred of those who aspire to conventional social and economic success through non-warmongering activities (though, much of US culture has become somewhat weaponized).
Normally people like Trump – who is into entertainment and real estate not the MIC – are expected to donate money to the tweedle of their choice but not participate in real power. They are also expected to clap like trained seals on cue like everybody else in support of ‘in group’ warmonger oligarchs.
However, as the politically connected warmonger elites try to consolidate a forever ascendancy for themselves, they by necessity need to remove the ‘useless eaters’. Which at their level would be the ‘dovish’ wealthy not into warmongering, just as to middle class leftist and green sellouts the enemy is the hated ‘bourgeois’ middle class not into their ignorant sell-out utopian crusades.
Many people despise the ‘left’ now, for good reason. For example, we finally approached information parity with the most rich and powerful through the freedom of the internet. Then it was sell-out leftists who introduced cancel culture and fake news.
Every time ordinary people get to far ahead, the so-called left pulls a ‘revolution’ that sets everyone back.
Most of us who know history, know how the Reset will go – like the Marxist commie Soviets. A two-stage wealth-and-power grab.
A couple of generations of politically privileged oligarchs will pillage disconnected oligarchs, middle class, and poor in the name of government. Their stolen wealth and power will be mostly hidden as government power and perks.
In the WEF’ Reset case, one world government pretexted on leftist delusions of save-the-world utopia.
Then the connected insiderist oligarchal lineages will cash in again when the unworkable commie system inevitably collapses again.
Hate The Donald all you want. Most of us are figuring out, leftist types really hate us ordinary people trying to get by without crusades and social power mongering.
Realty is, Trump has more in common with normal people who want to make a decent living in peace, minding their own business, than any leftist greenie activist pursuing ‘utopia’ no matter the human cost.
I don’t hate The Donald.
I just realize that The Donald is a life-long Democrat who cosplayed as a Republican to get that party’s nomination, then served Obama’s third term.
At this point an Obama third term doesn’t look that bad as long as it remained minus Hiliarity Clinton. And Nuland, although un-fireable, left to a window seat.
Trump was no Obama. Trump, fumbled the ball more than a few times.
Political fumbling is not a mistake Clinton or Obama would make. What |made Obama valuable to the inherently stupid neocon globalist cause was the ability to make stupid work for a time.
The Bill Clinton era was also marred by Hiliarity’s neocon ties.
Relative to what US Presidents are and do, Obama and Clinton had the potential for real greatness had they been able to resist letting in the side door, the dumbest faction of hawks, the Neocons/Humanitarian interventionists.
The world sure could use a few peace makers , all these jokers know is weapons weapons and more weapons.
Very true, and not just in Ukraine.
Although I know what Biden says, I have never believed that the US intervened in Ukraine for altruistic reasons. Powerful people want something. They want it badly enough to start a war. They know that Americans would not support the effort if they knew the truth. So they generate a false narrative.
Naturally, US Weapons manufacturers love the idea. But US determination to control the world’s energy supplies seems to be the most common driving force. Powerful people here have probably decided that the deep water oil around Crimea and the natural gas reserves in eastern Ukraine are “ours”. They may even see Ukraine as a springboard for taking Russia’s energy. If starting a civil war, provoking an invasion, and financing an escalation are needed to control what is “ours”, so be it. (But make no mistake. “Ours” is “Ours”. If my theory is correct, we don’t plan to let Zelensky control it any more than we would let Putin control it.)
Does anyone know how to block the Ukrainian troll on here. If you do let me know. I am tired of looking at the Nazi hero of Ukraine in Bandera.
Move your cursor immediately to the right of the posters name. There you will find a down-facing triangle indicating a menu. That menu will have two options: “block user” and “flag as inappropriate”. Self-explanatory from there.
Thanks
Another day another arms shipment to country 404 and subsequently another blow up of said arms in a Russian strike, often accompanied by a number of western “instructors” and mercenaries.
Another interesting thing today is that Russia finally bombed the eastern ukie railways in such a devastating way that NATO won’t be able to send in arms, tanks and howitzer and such over the border, or for that matter to the Donbass and Odessa. That’s because they also effectively cut the “country” in half by taking out railway bridges. This means no nice excursions by train for Western leaders to Kiev (let’s not kid ourselves, what they have been visiting is Zelensky’s bunker in Poland).
Waiting this long allowed for the Nazi’s and other nationalistic ethnic western-ukies and whatnot to flee out of the southern part back west.
But Blinken said today that Ukraine was winning against Russia!
😂
It seems to me that the US is fighting Russia visa-vi Ukraine… It makes me a bit nervous as this situation can easily escalate…
We have wanted this war for 76 years. At the end of WWII, Churchill put forth the notion to attack Russia at its weakest time, and after Russia lost 27 million military personnel and civilians fighting the German forces, using remaining German forces ( !) to hook up with U.S. and U.K. forces. Cooler heads shot that idea down. (Patton was all for it, which may be why he was murdered).
Can’t be that comprehensive a ‘we’ if an uber-hawkish US general might well have been assassinated for excessive warmongering. That would seem to cross a line, too.
Doves today have never been more endangered and line-crossing, once again becoming too easy.
Not enough people are nervous about the possibility of escalation.
During Cold War One, fear of nukes meant moderating aggressive behaviors and being somewhat civilized.
In our present Neo Cold War, apparently any aggression and microaggression goes… because no-one dares use nukes.
Its a dangerous, decadent reversal of attitude and cultural lobotomy of common sense.
The Russia-Ukraine war is a war of choice for the Biden administration.
That administration is throwing gazoline on the fire.
Maybe Joe Biden will receive the Nobel Peace Prize!
He is a fireman, as in Fahrenheit 451.
But it is Biden’s war to lose.
Today Headline: “White House Will Announce a New Arms Transfer to Ukraine This Week”
Near Future Headline: “Russia Will Announce the Destruction of the New US Arms Transfer to Ukraine”…!
It is so obvious that the U.S. wants World War III. Gotta smack down Russia before they become a real threat to the U.S. just like England and France had to smack down Germany causing WW I.
“However, on Saturday, Zelensky stated he expected high-level US officials to visit Kyiv and bring weapons. “You can’t come to us empty-handed today, and we are expecting not just presents or some kind of cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons,″ the Ukrainian president said.”
Taking orders from a coke fiend who plays piano with his dick. USA! USA!
He sounds like a spoiled child. The problem is, an older child (Biden) is giving him what he wants. Russia needs to take Z’s money he has stashed away in Costa Rica. It would be no worse than what we did to the poor people in Afghanistan, after ravaging that nation for 20 years.
You get the award for best comment of the day Wars! 😁
I have resisted to say this: in 2020 I voted for a dumb f*ck, because I wanted the other dumb f*ck not to have a repeat. I guess that makes me a dumb f*ck.
I’m right there with ya, VLP.
I hang my head in shame. Never again.
Me too. It makes me want to puke to think about it.
We’ll know better next time, Renate!
What is unbelievable is that it could happen again in 2024. What is wrong with us?
Wars…it can and it WILL.
If it has a D or an R, ragingly stupid Amerikkkans will vote for it.
I know you don’t believe in God, but he really has given us over to a base and stupid mind.
The oligarchs with the help of MSM did it, I think.
You have lots of company, this old guy is more viscous and evil than the other one. Who would have guessed how mean and limited the old creature is?
Lt. Col. Doug Macgregor for President with Scott Ritter as his running mate in 2024!
And Professor John Mearsheimer for Secretary of State.
Scott Ritter is a pedo. That’s a fact, maybe you want him to watch your children/grandchildren?
In what way does that affect whether his geopolitical analyses are correct or not? A guy could be a rapist, but still a very competent car mechanic, or a burglar but still a real whiz at programming in C++. That’s why ad hominem is fallacy rather than sound argument.
Indeed, a rapist could be good at whatever in addition to rape people.
The problem with Scott Ritter is that it’s not his ability to perform a regular job as a mechanic or advanced programming in C++ that’s evaluated, it’s his opinions.
As we all know they are highly subjective and often personally motivated.
In Mr Ritter’s case extra caution is warranted because it’s reasonable to expect that he has a certain animosity against the US.
He has been caught pursuing underage girls not once, but twice. In the US that’s considered an enormous stigma. The first time around he even said he was framed because of his opinions. That was very convenient for him, but it really didn’t work the second time around.
But it’s only reasonable to expect that he doubles down on his position, hence, taking his word at face value can be considered naive at best.
And to all of you out there who loves to believe in conspiracies, I would like to add that Edward Snowden who caused real damage to the US (unlike Scott Ritter, who really is a nobody) was never framed by the CIA/FBI etc for being a pedophile. I guess Snowden just doesn’t get sexually aroused by little girls…
He was framed. The CIA was out to get him for crossing them on their lies of weapons of mass destruction being in Iraq.
That might have been plausibe the first time around, but he was caught again 🙂
And at the point in time most Americans were already against the war in Iraq, so no incentive for CIA to go after him. They have more important things to do than chasing pedophiles.
Funny that Edward Snowden hasn’t been framed as a pedophile, I guess he doesn’t like little girls like Scott Ritter.