The US is preparing another major escalation of military aid to Ukraine as Reuters reports the next arms package will include rockets that have a range of 94 miles, almost double the range of the munitions Ukraine was provided for the HIMARS rocket systems.
Citing two unnamed US officials, Reuters said that the US will provide Ukraine with the longer-range Boeing-made Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) for the first time as part of an over $2 billion arms package that could be announced as soon as this week.
The officials said that the GLSDB will be provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which allows the Pentagon to purchase arms for Ukraine. Weapons provided under the USAI could take months or years to deliver as they involve contracts and might need to be manufactured.
But Boeing has been preparing for months to make the GLSDBs for Ukraine. Reuters first reported in November that the US was considering sending the munitions to Kyiv and said they could be available by the spring. The system has been in development since 2019 and combines small-diameter bombs with the M26 rocket motor, which is widely available in US military inventories.
Sending the longer-range weapons risks provoking Moscow and comes after a series of new aid pledges for Ukraine that included the Bradley Fighting Vehicles and M1 Abrams tanks for the first time. Each escalation of aid brings the US and Russia closer to a direct conflict, which could quickly spiral into nuclear war.
The new weapons package is expected to include $1.725 billion in USAI funds that will go toward the GLSDB as well as HAWK air defense systems, counter-drone systems, counter artillery radars, communications equipment, PUMA surveillance drones, and spare parts for Patriot air defense systems and Bradleys.
The package might also include $400 million for the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows President Biden to send Ukraine weapons directly from US military stockpiles. The drawdown package will likely include mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles (MRAPs), guided multiple launch rocket systems (GMLRS), and other ammunition.
I keep asking myself if Biden is making me miss Trump?……………..
I don’t think the Republicans are functional enough to put together a scheme that monetizes the apocalypse like this is doing. This war makes the Democrats the greater evil in my book.
Luckily, I’ve always been a third party voter.
I believe that it has gotten to the point where voting doesn’t really matter. Trump was an anomaly. They made sure that would never happen again as they now control who counts the votes.
Sam Clemens said something like; if voting mattered it wouldn’t be allowed.
Ok, Mike Pillow. We got it.
Mike Pillow doesn’t count the votes but we would get a much better outcome if he did.
“Trump was an anomaly.”
Not when it came to US belligerence throughout the world. And he was an even bigger ass kisser of Israel.
OOOOOOOOOOooooooooo. YEAH…………………!!!!!!!!!!!!
His sexism was extra crispy but at least he didn’t want to turn humanity extra crispy.
I wouldn’t think that would require much thought.
Joe is turning out to be a reliable lying sack of sh*t.
Putin as well so that’s two in this world.
It’s like asking yourself if you miss lung cancer because you have ass cancer.
Z the black hole keeps sucking it up….
The escalation will carry on until Russia takes under control all Ukrainian borders. It is achievable.
I believe the Russian aim is to secure the four annexed oblasts, whether by force or negotiation. But who among us really knows? My great desire is simply to see the war end as soon as possible. Too many lives have already been lost or badly damaged.
The former. The original intention was never to take over all of Ukraine. A good dose of American “Shock and Awe” would have completed that scenario.
No, Putin wanted to take the entire country. The plans changed when he realized it was not achievable.
Putin and the Kremlin has said it multiple times, Ukraine is not a country and belongs to Russia because we all know Kyiv’s birthplace was Moscow and not the other way around.
Russian aim was to secure western border. In December 2021 Putin reminded about NATO-Russia security agreement 1997 which Americans repeatedly violated. Americans ignored this Putin’s concern. It became clear, if nothing done, American missiles will appear in Ukraine in near future. American military biolabs were already there.
Negotiations make sense if the agreements are respected by both sides. Otherwise the war looks unavoidable.
In December 2021 Putin reminded about NATO-Russia security agreement of 1997 but he forgot to remind himself about the Budapest Agreement of 1993.
And stop spreading Kremlin lies about Biolabs. That is open source. An initiative under Obama. Nothing sinister about it. Why go through all that when you can just develop your own nuclear bomb.
The objective changed from taking the entire country to just keep what they think they can defend.
There was no change in the objective. The Russians never wanted the entire country. The bulk of Ukraine is a basket case and the Russians are smart enough not to want to carry it .
The tough talk will escalate …
You are such a fluffer.
A year later, with the best Russia had and they couldn’t even secure Donbas. But I get it, it’s all been a well thought out plan by the Kremlin. They could’ve taken Ukraine last Feb but they decided not to because it was best to regroup and get ready for the big take over on a yet to be announced secret special military date.
All big bangs have small beginnings.
It does make wonder how this madness will end ?
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You are here.
I wonder if the sudden call for tanks, vehicles, and long range artillery suggests that Ukraine intends to use a hit and run strategy to replace trench warfare.
I have heard mention of shifting the Ukraine army toward maneuver tactics.
That’s all this conflict needs, more US “wonder weapons.” Of course they won’t arrive for months if not years, and no one in Ukraine knows what to do with them, but who cares? All of his is posturing by NATO and the USA as they are slowly being brought down by the Straussian neocons and neoliberals who actually run US foreign policy. That was indeed their plan all along.
ukraine forces will just use them to bomb crimea in their effort to convince crimea to return willingly
Oh thank you. I’ll look out for the bill in the mail morons.
Maybe US Prepares to suicide the entire population of the country?
Except for elites of corse?
No, they will have to keep some serfs around to do the actual physical dirty work, and of course they will have their underage sex slaves.
Simple solution give the Donbass about 1000 hypersonic missiles to hit America, supply the target data and the launchers…..and say its not us its them.
Two problems with your ‘solution’:
1) Hypersonic missiles do not currently have the range to reach the US from Russia Alaska from Siberia but no part of the US from the Donbas.
2) Saying it it’s not us it’s them, will not work as counter strike missiles will be flying before the first hypersonic missile would hit the US. Once incoming missiles are registered the US will be firing its own missiles – that is part of why hypersonic missiles are more a problem than a solution as they leave no time to explain or avoid a counter strike.
i’m pretty sure that was a rhetorical simple solution from DS
Alaska is 55 miles from Russia, at its closest point.
A bit hard to claim that it was from the Donbas then moreover a 1000 nukes for Alaska with the only city within range of any size being Anchorage – seems like ‘overkill’.
Submarines?
Does the Donetsk republic have submarines? Even if they had leaving the black sea would require Turkey’s permision.
No, but I’m sure Russia has the ability to find the East Coast via the Atlantic Ocean.
Sure Russia has the ability to attack the US that was never in doubt – this is about the ability of the Donetsk to hit the US if given hypersonic missiles.
On 30th September 2022 Russia annexed Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts consequently any missile launch from their territories will be regarded as a launch from Russian soil.
Yes, that would be the third problem!
Supplying a dozen of Satans to North Korea might be a more practical idea.
That would likely tighten up some sphincters.
(Or to Iran.)
Sadly, the only realistic solution to the issue of tightened sphincters is to turn them into ashes.
Well apart from the 1000 part
At what point will Russia shoot back at NATO?
The US seems determined to push that limit until it gets that attack it seems to desire.
At the point when they feel that not being able to beat the ill trained Ukrainians with some NATO weapons is not hard enough and they need to not be able to beat well trained NATO forces fighting with almost all NATO weapons. Or when they feel that losing in Ukraine means that they must destroy the northern hemisphere in a nuclear war.
“US Prepares to Send Ukraine Longer-Range Rockets in Next Arms Package Sources told Reuters the package will include Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs, which have a range of 94 miles”
Another escalation that could lead to an attack on Crimea or Russian cities adjacent to the Ukraine Russia boarder.
This will require Russia to take more of Ukraine to move any launch point for the new rockets back 96 miles from Eastern Ukraine and Russia.
Keep poking the bear and the bear might just drop tactical nukes or bigger.
In the last seven days Russia has destroyed a total of 40 truck pulled howitzers, 32 self propelled howitzers, 8 Multiple Rocked Launcher Systems (MRLS), 15 counter artillery radars and 23 local artillery ammunition depots.
Also 55 MLRS rockets and HARM anti-radar missiles were intercepted by Russian air defenses. Russia also engaged Ukrainian artillery positions with normal counter fire on 651 occasions.
NATO is in the process of disarming its own ground forces and is no longer combat capable.
US Prepares to Send Ukraine More Rope to Hang Itself
Russia will not lose to NATO on any war front. NATO is a mess and a paper tiger who does not have the smarts or will to defeat a power like Russia. The US is another “keystone cop” who was thrown out of Afghanistan..and does not win wars. Russia will destroy all entry points into Ukraine, and if the NATO persists it will be destroyed also. If the US and NATO thought they had any chance they would have been all in from the get go. They are both pathetic and unjust in every regard.