The Biden administration on Friday announced a new $400 million weapons package for Ukraine that includes ammunition for the HIMARS rocket systems, artillery rounds, and 25mm ammunition for Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
The package is being provided through the presidential drawdown authority, which allows President Biden to arm Ukraine with weapons and ammunition sitting in US military stockpiles. The new equipment comes as the US is helping Ukraine prepare for a potential counteroffensive against Russian forces.
According to the Pentagon, the full package includes:
- Additional ammunition for HIMARS
- Additional 155mm artillery rounds
- Additional 105mm artillery rounds
- Additional 25mm ammunition
- Armored Vehicle Launched Bridges
- Demolition munitions and equipment for obstacle clearing
- Testing and diagnostic equipment to support vehicle maintenance and repair
- Spare parts and other field equipment
According to a fact sheet released by the Pentagon the same day, the US has pledged $32.2 billion in military equipment for Ukraine since the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.
The funds for the weapons package are being pulled from the $45 billion in Ukraine aid that was made available by Congress in December. So far, the US has authorized about $113 billion in spending on the war, which includes military aid, money to replenish US stockpiles, funding for additional US troops deployments in eastern Europe, economic assistance, and humanitarian aid.
The $45 billion is expected to be exhausted by the summer, and some Biden administration officials have conveyed to Ukraine that they might not be able to get such massive aid packages in the future even though Congress still overwhelmingly supports the policy.
The Pentagon and the President need to reel themselves in. The way this is looking, we’ll be in a war before you know it.
I need to make a list: The things to do before I get my ass nuked…
Don’t fuss too much over the list, Donna. If you make a few mistakes . . . it won’t matter much. 🙁
“The package is being provided through the presidential drawdown authority, which allows President Biden to arm Ukraine” — total crap. This is a proxy war, a war in which many humans are being slaughtered while US milindcomplex participants get richer. Surely this is illegal; certainly immoral.
They get richer because millions of idiots pay taxes.
Slava Raytheon ! Slava Northrop Grumman ! Slava Lockheed Martin ! Slava General Dynamics !
Ukraine ? Where is this place ?
Awful while America is crumbling 😡
These lists of provided weapons are getting shorter with every announcement, and they’re telling us nothing about quantities.
We know, from various open sources and simple reasoning and arithmetic, that the US and its minions are simply unable to provide, quickly enough to be effective, the arms and ammo Ukraine would need to have any realistic chance of prevailing in this war against a much larger neighbor with a massive, state-controlled military production capacity. That would be true even if it had enough troops, which it clearly does not, now. This is theater, or desperation, or both.
Meanwhile, in the West, we have yet another flurry of stories claiming that Russia is running out of ammunition, which, along with a supposed missile shortage, we’ve been hearing about every few weeks for a year. In a particularly preposterous twist, the UK MoD claims that the situation is so dire that Wagner troops are attacking fortified Ukrainian positions in Bakhmut with shovels.
The US leaders thought Russia would be quickly crippled by sanctions, and they convinced themselves, based on the inadequacy of Russia’s early efforts, that Moscow was weak. Relying on those misjudgments, they blocked Zelensky’s government from seeking a negotiated peace. And here we are, in another fine mess they’ve gotten us into.
“I honestly beleave it iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain’t so.” — Josh Billings
Here lies the problem. The absolute fanatical pushers of the war against Russia know all the weaknesses of the Ukraine project, They are lying through their expensive teeth about weakness of Russia’s forcess. Why? Because they want us to believe in Ukrainian fairy tale in order to be trapped and be forced to OWN the war against Russia, In the end directly. At the same time, they are religiously spreading false information about Russia’s weaknesses. This is to prevent population ftom being afraid as we are systematically dragged into the war.
How to have warmingers called to an accout before they push us into the corner. At that point no politician could pull back from the brink.
These obsessed laptop warriors need to be curbed. But they are clever. They nudge us inch by inch. We have no red lines in this mess. Shocking.
These acts are in essence “letters of marque” which have been approved by Congress as demanded by our constitution. I am not supporting it but am commenting on the vehicle.
Earlier presidents issued such letters to combat the British Navy. Biden issues them to combat Putin.
Millions for death and destruction but not one red cent for the citizens of the US who are crying for help in these dangerous.times.At last we see what America is all about,not welfare of the people but warfare for profit and against Russia.Same old story,it never changes.China and Iran are next in line for our benevelence.Will the World survive?