On Thursday, the US announced a new weapons package for Ukraine after President Biden met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the NATO summit in Washington.
The Pentagon said the new arms package was worth $225 million, but it includes one Patriot missile battery, which typically costs around $1 billion with all of its related equipment. Antiwar.com asked the Defense Department about the discrepancy but hasn’t received a response at the time this article was published.
According to the Pentagon’s press release, the full package includes:
- One Patriot battery
- Munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS)
- Stinger anti-aircraft missiles
- Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS)
- 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds
- Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) equipment and missiles
- Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems
- Small arms ammunition
- Demolitions munitions
- Spare parts, maintenance, and other ancillary equipment
The package is being provided in the form of the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the Biden administration to send weapons directly from US military stockpiles.
The Pentagon also released a fact sheet that said the US has provided Ukraine with more than $53.7 billion in military equipment alone since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022.
The announcement of the weapons package and new Patriot battery came after the US and several NATO allies announced a plan to provide dozens of new air defense systems in the coming months. The alliance also committed to giving Ukraine $43 billion in military aid in 2025.
just a little more creative accounting by the white house. Everyone knows that the moment you take a patriot missile battery off the lot it loses 9/10ths of it's value.
This will only speed up Russia exterminating the neanderthals, retake Ukraine and continue moving West to take half of Poland snd the Baltic. That’s our historical land and will kill all those Nazis out and kick remaining survivors further west. And we are not afraid to take out more hospitals.
No offense, but you sound like CIA psy-op.
I don’t understand .
why is supporting Russia openly a CIA psy up?
Really?
Reread what you wrote.
I have said it before. I am not afraid to say it like it is.
Ukraine is Russia and we are not going to be weak.
What are you doing here? Which side do you support? West?
I don’t support people offering commentary as if it is official, when Russian spokes people and Putin never threatened to hit more hospitals and roll into Poland.
Im not into politics.
I want our historical land back.
Alexander Dugin, Medvedev and Girkin agree with me.
Showing weakness is the reason we haven’t finished this war.
And i want West to disappear.
Is this CIA? Are you joking with me?
Maybe you are CIA. What are you doing here?
When you are parroting the threats of Russia as outlined by CIA operatives, you look like psy-op. Putin has repeatedly said he doesn’t have imperialistic goals to take back the Russian empire. They also claimed the childrens’ hospital hit was caused by Ukraine interception.
One way of running a psy-op is to use someone to “support” the other side ineffectually.
You don’t do a very good job of making the Russian side look competent or attractive.
So the question is whether your ineffectuality is real or whether you’re just here to make the Russian side look bad.
I come here to support russia and stand against NATO encroachment.
What are you doing here? Trolling for the West?
Nope — I don't have a dog in the Ukraine fight. Clearly you do. But it's not clear which dog.
What is it you are trying to express and further to what purpose?… Seriously, we would like to understand you better…
I understand. Wink wink.
If the Russians wanted to exterminate Neanderthals I'm afraid they're about 40.000 years too late. I don't know who exactly beat them to it, but the job was done pretty thoroughly. I suppose someone should bring the good news to the Russians so they can strike that noble task of their to-do list.
The Russians can't even take Chasiv Yar. But you keep yanking-your-crank, son!
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Sounds sarcastic???
Insanity resides in Washington!
Are “we” about peace or arms deals?…. Ahem…..
Money and power, never enough greed, is the motivator, to put it mildly. Evil is what Joe Biden and his cabal stands for.
The evil of the Biden political leadership is unbelievable. His legacy is nothing but death and destruction. A corrupt and dishonorable press corps made it all possible.
A demented old evil president and an out of office evil CLOWN and an evil Israeli Zionist rule the world? Two evil and corrupt human animals and in cahoots and controlled by the evil Israeli Netanyahu cabal are in charge?
Dear God, please have mercy on all of us.
So, no grand piano for the circus clown?
Better not let Vladie know where that chit is, he'll blow those billions UP!!!