The US is expected to announce a new $3 billion weapons package for Ukraine on Wednesday as Washington is shifting to a longer-term campaign to support Kyiv in its war against Russia, US officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The new military aid will be the single largest weapons package that the US will be providing Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24, and it will bring the total of direct military aid for Kyiv since the war started to about $13.6 billion. The $3 billion is being pulled from the $40 billion Ukraine aid bill that President Biden signed into law in May.
The $3 billion weapons package will be given to Ukraine under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which enables the US government to buy weapons from arms makers and send them to Ukraine. The US officials told AP that the money will fund contracts for drones and other weapons that may not see the battlefront for a year or two.
The majority of the US military aid for Kyiv has been authorized by the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows President Biden to send weapons to Ukraine directly from US military stockpiles, enabling the US to ship the arms to Ukraine almost immediately. Since the USAI involves purchases and contracts, the process of getting the arms to Ukraine takes longer than the Drawdown Authority.
Unlike previous arms packages, the new $3 billion one will focus on Ukraine’s medium to long-term needs as opposed to their immediate needs on the battlefield. As the US and NATO have made clear that they want to support Ukraine in its war against Russia for years to come, there are no signs that the conflict will end anytime soon.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that the Western military alliance “must sustain our support for Ukraine for the long term, so that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent nation.”
The announcement of the new weapons package on Wednesday will coincide with the day Ukraine celebrates its independence and also marks six months since Russia launched its invasion.
Sorry, homeless Americans, no shelter for YOU.
Sorry, seniors deciding whether to pay their bills or purchase their heart meds, no health care for YOU.
Sorry, families working for minimum wage, no pay increases for YOU.
Sorry, parents struggling to feed their families, no more food assistance for YOU.
Sorry, every single American who is struggling to make ends meet due to runaway inflation, no relief in sight for YOU.
You see, our brain-addled Fearless Leader has alternative plans for your tax dollars. And sorry to say, none of YOU are going to benefit, because our Highly Moral Government prefers to send your hard-earned dollars to a Nazi regime that wants to be “a big Israel” and is led by a coke-snorting clown who plays piano with his johnson.
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Thanks for the chuckle too!
I’m here for ya Donna 😁
“The $3 billion is being pulled from the $40 billion Ukraine aid bill that President Biden signed into law in May.” So it’s not “new” money.
“The US officials told AP that the money will fund contracts for drones and other weapons that may not see the battlefront for a year or two.”
This war will be over long before them. So analysts are correct when they say Western support for Ukraine is dwindling rather than increasing. The West is showing signs of having written Ukraine off.
True, I strongly doubt this will last through the winter.
I read about Ukrainian soldiers in a “bunker” that was a ditch they dug on their own, covered by wood. It’s called a bunker on the maps. They are five men with two AK-47s. You can’t stay in positions like that in the winter.
Yeah, each dollar is squeezed for maximum PR effect. And “announced” and “counted” over and over again. First, the President “recommends” the appropration. Then, Congress approves it. Then the money is actually “authorized” by Congress. Then there are these periodic “announcements” of what are, like here, if you read the fine print, simply draw downs of what was already approved and appropriated. Then the delivery of the aid, whatever it is, is also “announced” in breathless, “wonder weapon” terms. And, finally, the overwhelmingly successful use of the wonder weapons by the oh so clever and brave Kiev regime forces is also “announced.”
Very soon Ukraine will have received more cash from America than any state in the union.
Sick sad America!
All because we won’t negotiate what will be the inevitable anyway.
An example of Democrat media lying by omission. Here’s from a story in Politico that Antiwar is linking to now: “The Biggest Movement in the History’: Ukraine Evacuates the Front Line”.
From what? Russian soldiers would not hurt them. People are walking around freely in villages and towns held by Russia. The only explanation is that they were hiding from Ukrainian artillery.
So NOW the hiding is because of artillery. Except Russia only attacks sites where the Ukrainians keep soldiers and artillery. Plenty of foreigners in Ukraine, such as volunteer fighters, have confirmed that the Ukrainians put soldiers even in schools and hospitals. They put artillery on city streets. Buildings turned into military bases are legitimate targets.
Zelensky is a de facto dictator after banning opposition parties and opposition media. He orders the military to use civilians as human shields. This is what the $3 billion will be used for.
And in July, the Ukrainian parliament – those who remain in it – voted to give themselves a 70% pay raise. The money used comes from Western taxpayers. While even donated first aid kits meant for the front are stolen by soldiers, officers, hospital staff and local politicians, then sold on local markets.
Another example of lying by omission, from Democrat site U.S. News, making it sound like the Russians firing BACK is what endangers the nuclear power plant:
U.S. News also claims Ukraine is right now doing a counter-offensive:
Another example of lying by omission, from Democrat site U.S. News, making it sound like the Russians firing BACK is what endangers the nuclear power plant:
U.S. News also claims Ukraine is right now doing a counter-offensive:
Should’ve been in the defense industry. It’s unlimited cash cow with zero consequences.
One of the main motivations for sending American budget money to Kiev regime is the corruption. Most of those money are stolen. Geopolitically there are no benefit in supporting Kiev and making the war as long as possible. Longer it lasts, more Ukrainian territories will be incorporated in Russian Federation. If it lasts too long, Ukraine would stop exist as an independent state. The same story about the economic crusade against Russia. Longer it lasts, worse the economic situation in EU and weaker the position of USA in the world. Now it is not only Russia moved much closer to China than ever before, but the other important countries, like India, Iran and Turkey also moved closer to Russia. American influence in the world declines because of American corrupted elite. Instead of promoting ideas of free trade, democracy and human rights, USA are pumping money from their tax payers to the corrupted elite.
Don’t forget too that even the money that is not outright stolen is part of a corrupt process. US military contractors supply the weapons, ammo, gizmos, whatever, that are “given” to the Neo Nazi Kiev regime. Well, the USA and its taxpayers may be “giving” away the means of war, but the “defense” corporations certainly are not! They are paid in full, and then some, as the prices for these items are not based on FMV but on what they can get away with. And they can get away with quite a lot, because, ultimately, the prices are set by the Congress, which is awash in “defense” corporation campaign funds. In addition, the revolving door between the Pentagon (and the Cabinet and the Congress) and the lobbyists for the “defense” contractors ensures that no one has an interest in anything but maximum gold plating. A viscious circle from the standpoint of the taxpayers, but a gravy train for the corporations, the bought and paid for ex generals and other lobbyists, and the Congressmen.
That is correct. The corrupted elite knows how to protect itself. Anyone who dares to expose their criminal activity is persecuted and the people can do nothing about that.
Darya Dugina Killer Identified. Natalya Vovk. She is associated with the Azov Nazis in Ukraine. She fled back to Ukraine via Estonia.
The bomb was set by remote control. This detail has huge ramifications. The person who pressed the remote-control button would have been in visual contact with the car and its occupant.
In other words, the terrorists were NOT specifically out to get Dugin. Lets be quite clear: AZOV NAZI paramilitary organisation in Ukraine armed funded and trained by NATO are terrorists. Western state sponsored terrorists.
Both Dugin and his daughter are on American/British “sanctions” lists. Dugin has been the recipient of non-stop racist bigoted western hate-speech. Dugin, is hated by the West and their proxies.
Arrest Biden et al. and present them to the Hague. We are all complicit in this atrocity.
Rumors suggest that Russia may declare Ukraine to be a terrorist state tomorrow, 8/25/22. While that sounds innocuous, it would provide legal justification to apply sanctions against any country that supports the terrorist state. It would probably mean that Nord Stream 1 will remain shut down after 8/31. It might also provide justification to shut down the reactor at Zaporizhzhia.
Tidbit: 53% of the electricity produced in Ukraine before the invasion came from Zaporizhzhia.
My estimate (yesterday) of a cost of 1 billion per month for our taxpayers was too low. It appears to be closer to 2 billion per month. Still, Ukrainians are our cheapest soldiers to fight Russia.
Good to know that the Ukrainian oligarchs will be able to continue to benefit from the black market they control for years to come. Keep the “aid” coming.
Zalensky dosen`t realize yet that in return for all this aid he is going to have to hand over his country and the people to become slaves to the US corporations , he dosen`t know yet the IMF / WB are criminal enterprises
Oh, I suspect he knows. And that he expects to make out quite well on the deal.
“No Matter Who Wins Ukraine, America Has Already Lost.”
War creates cripples. This stupid war is because of geopolitics. It has been all downhill since the English language media celebrated banning Belarus & Russian Paralympians. Daily reminder.