The Biden administration on Thursday announced a new weapons package for Ukraine worth $150 million that includes ammunition for HIMARS rockets, air defenses, artillery rounds, and other equipment.
The weapons are being provided under the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the US to send weapons straight from Pentagon stockpiles. The $150 million is being pulled from funds made available by a Pentagon “accounting error” that overvalued previous weapons sent to Ukraine.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon said it still had $5.4 billion in drawdown funds available from the money freed up by the error. Based on the weapons packages that have been announced since then, the Pentagon has about $5 billion left to ship weapons to Ukraine until Congress authorizes more.
According to the Pentagon, the equipment in the $150 million package includes:
- Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
- AIM-9M missiles for air defense
- Stinger anti-aircraft missiles
- Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS)
- 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds
- Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles
- Javelin anti-armor systems
- More than 2 million rounds of small arms ammunition
- Night vision devices
- Demolitions munitions for obstacle clearing
- Cold weather gear
- Spare parts, maintenance, and other ancillary equipment
The Pentagon also released a fact sheet on Thursday that said the US has committed $43.9 billion in military equipment for Ukraine since Russia invaded in February of last year. Congress has authorized a total of $113 billion in spending on the war, which also includes economic aid, money for the Pentagon to replenish weapons, funding for troop deployments in Eastern Europe, and other types of spending.
President Biden has requested another $61.4 billion to spend on the proxy war as part of a $105 billion spending package that includes military aid for Israel, Taiwan, and funds for border security.
The US seems to be setting itself up, formally, for a couple of potential conflicts…
Yes, But definitely not Russia. They are very nice and peaceful.
Russia wants no parts of even a small skirmish with the US military. They’ve figured out that the Western kit is WAAAAAAY too badass for them to handle (but I knew your comment was sarcasm!).
Oh yeah, the Americans are so badass that they snuck out of Afghanistan in the dark of night….So badass….. is that what you believe,,,???????
For nice & peaceful place, except for a few Ukie drones hitting orface buildings in Moscow, Russia’s quite a peaceful place. Probably not a good choice for their leaders of Ukraine & the country that could not subdue primative Afghanistan to get involved with a kinetic attack to weaken Russia. Is it true they are conscripting women for the meat grinder to trounce the Russians. How’s that werkin out for them.??
By the way, for fun I have a list of the countries “Putin will attack next” according to the media’s Experts. (It’s never “Russia will attack next.” It’s easier to make people hate a person than a whole country.)
Here is the very next target:
-Poland
-Estonia
-The rest of the Baltics
-Moldavia
-Finland
-Sweden
How they’d get to Sweden before taking Finland I don’t know, but it’s also a “next target”. Because Sweden isn’t in NATO, so there you go.
Also Azerbaijan vs Armenia would “give Putin a pretext” to invade. I’m sure someone has written that Georgia is next too.
Also:
-“Expert: Putin’s Similarities With Hitler”
-“Soviet Union or Third Reich?”
-“The Racist Backpinning of Putin’s Agenda”
-“Hitler’s Dream Come True”
-“From Trump to Kiev”
You know, Putin hacked the 2016 election, that last article said. The vast majority of Democrats believed that. Because Hillary Clinton and every single Democrat media outlet insisted it was true. So taking Kiev and Eastern Europe is somehow Plan B now that Russia is no longer controlling the U.S.
Chechnya, Georgia, now Ukraine.
You got the list right.
It’s just based on status of Russian economy and how many million of well equipped and trained troops they have. 🤷🏽♂️
Oh, And if Putin the great is still alive.
If I remember correctly, the Chechnyans were supplying Russia with troops to fight Ukraine and doing a hard job well there. As about “if Putin is still alive.” He appears to have more life vigor than his lost in space American, counterpart Bidon…!!!!!
hey man didn’t you know that Putin is actually the next incarnation of Hitler ?
yes, those evil guys have figured out how to transfer their evil consciousness from one evil guy to the next generation of evil guy. i bet that you had no idea that when “we got Saddam”, (or so we thought), he had already magically transferred his evilly self into the willing brain of Moammar Ghaddafi ?
good thing that Obama’s Hillary “we came, we saw, we killed his punk-ass” was there to eliminate Ghaddafi before he was able to transfer his punk-ass consciousness into one of the Hamas (or god help us) Iranian leaders.
what