On Wednesday, the Pentagon announced a new $1 billion arms package to fuel the proxy war in Ukraine after President Biden signed a $95 billion foreign military aid bill into law.
The huge package includes air defense munitions, artillery rounds, anti-tank weapons, HIMARS ammunition, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, small arms and ammunition, and other types of equipment. The US will be sending another batch of widely banned cluster bombs in the form of 155mm artillery shells (Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions), which are notorious for killing and maiming civilians.
The $95 billion bill Biden signed into law includes $61 billion in spending on the proxy war. The new US aid is not expected to help Ukraine’s chances of winning, but it ensures that the war will continue.
According to the Pentagon, the full contents of the package include:
- RIM-7 and AIM-9M missiles for air defense
- Stinger anti-aircraft missiles
- Small arms and additional rounds of small arms ammunition, including .50 caliber rounds to counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)
- Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS)
- 155mm artillery rounds, including High Explosive and Dual Purpose Improved Conventional Munitions rounds
- 105mm artillery rounds
- 60mm mortar rounds
- Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles
- Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicles (MRAPs)
- High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs)
- Logistics support vehicles
- Tactical vehicles to tow and haul equipment
- Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles
- Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems
- Precision aerial munitions
- Airfield support equipment
- Anti-armor mines
- Claymore anti-personnel munitions
- Demolitions munitions for obstacle clearing
- Night vision devices
- Spare parts, field equipment, training munitions, maintenance, and other ancillary equipment
The Pentagon also released a fact sheet that said since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022, the US has provided Ukraine with $44.2 billion in military equipment alone. The new $61 billion bill brings total spending on the proxy war, which includes economic aid and money for the Pentagon, to about $186 billion.
Sounds exciting, or maybe just lucrative.
Go team! “Our” side must win, because, um, freedom and democracy! The US is an “ideological nation” now just like its model the Soviet Union.
Watching 3 Bodies (Chinese version) and thinking the aliens may not get here first before we destroy ourselves, leaving the Earth for them to have.
It’s seems the congressional gridlock was necessary for mic to restock Pentagon with arms…!
Ukraine will end up the size of Switzerland if this war keeps going.
It’ll be landlocked for sure…!
… plus Transnistria.
Every time I see the list of weapons shipped with an unbelievably small price tag, I understand more and more why the Pentagon fails audits for trillions of dollars. If you thought you could buy that list of weapons above for 1 billion dollars, you might consider buying the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s on sale for the same price.
Interesting, and easily believable. I am stunned at how these thoroughly cynical these devils (they’re beyond corruption) keep topping themselves, and in every conceivable category.
Doesn’t that shit just ooze World Peace?
Ya know wars, I think it is World piss?….
I am convinced that Congress approved this money, not because they seek to help Ukraine or because anyone still believes that Ukraine can defeat Russia, but because the money pumped into their respective districts to manufacture these weapons will enhance their chances to get reelected.
Before obama and Joey Biden night vision devices could only be exported a few trusted Western allies.
If an average businessman exported night vision devices to a non-ally they would go to prison for years.
Interesting. I didn’t know they freed up that trade. ITAR supposedly still regulates it.
In an interview around 2015 a Kurdish General complained that instead of weapons all they were getting was MREs and night vision goggles.