The Biden administration is preparing to rush over $6 billion in military aid to Ukraine before Inauguration Day, POLITICO reported on Wednesday.
The report said the Biden team expects the incoming administration to end the weapons flow, as President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on ending the proxy war.
The Biden administration has $4.3 billion in military aid that can be pulled from existing US stockpiles, known as the Presidential Drawdown Authority. There is also $2.1 billion available in the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which provides money to put weapons under contract, meaning it takes longer to deliver.
Biden officials are unsure if they’ll be able to rush all the aid to Ukraine before January 20 since any military equipment they send must be replaced, and it’s unclear if production levels are high enough to ship so many weapons in such a short period of time.
“We have been sending whatever industry can produce each month, but the problem is you can only send these things as they are produced,” Mark Cancian, a former Pentagon budget official, told POLITICO. “The administration could dip into the stockpiles and send equipment more quickly, but it’s unclear the Pentagon would want to do that since it would affect its own readiness.”
Even if the weapons are sent from US military stockpiles, the actual delivery time could still take months, and Biden officials are worried the next administration could cancel them before they arrive in Ukraine.
Zelensky better pick up the phone and figure out who he can sell these to quickly. This will most likely be the last 'injection' he'll be receiving before the collapse of Ukraine and/or his dispatch.
Doesn't look like Germany will be helping much any more, nor France, nor <<insert any EU member here>>.
Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock……
And what will Putin's next target be?
Putin and the team he has are level headed common sense people, they want to clean up and take care of their country and the people. Russian people have lived through wars and they know the costs of war.
It is the Americans who pick wars with other smaller nations, as little as Grenada, and on other continents, they are the war mongers and wrecking crews, and they use NATO members to claim moral support.
No matter what, the USA is a real bully beating up the little guy.
Nothing. Oboma, soros and Victoria Nuland pulled a coup back in 2013 of Ukraine to start a war with Russia. And they are not in power anymore with Trumps win. They should be arrested.
Look at a map. Russia hardly needs "lebensraum".
Look at a map. Russia hardly needs "lebensraum".
Pepe Escobar
@RealPepeEscobar
TAKE IT TO THE PAPER SHREDDER
From a top source in Brussels, who never failed me:
"American officers across NATO centers – especially Poland – are now shredding and deleting EVERY VITAL DOCUMENT they can put their hands on in order to leave no traces ahead of Trump's January inauguration."
What about the American officers who keep paper copies of all their incoming and outgoing correspondence or put them on thumb drives?
Washington may sever its NATO ties, but for now, it appears remote.
It's simple to understand the Kremlin's decision to minimize verbal or diplomatic engagement with NATO and Washington while the latter two are destroying themselves.
Neither side can determine if and when Russia's extensive demands will be met. The Russians don't trust Westerners.
There's your answer. Between now and then, economic destruction throughout Ukraine, Europe, the US, and Israel.
So then, this is one of the actions I asked about previously, and a good many of us expected. Not quite the "poisoning the well" I figured a zombie Administration would pull (yet) but certainly telegraphs their expectations of Final President Trump.
MOST telling will be if Biden's team does NOT change the volume or flow of $$$ and weapons to the Apartheid State of Israel before America's Last Democratically Elected President assumes office in January.
No sudden surge in the interim means Business As Usual for GenocideCorp LLC ("an ASI Brand Company Since October 7th")
James O'Keefe
@JamesOKeefeIII
The FBI still has my devices from when they raided my home and the homes of journalists in my newsroom in 2021.
Raiding journalists homes. Never again.
I want my stuff back.
There will be justice.
11:50 AM · Nov 6, 2024
Biden will kill as many Ukrainians as possible before he leaves office. How evil can an old monster like him be?
Mostly white male orthodox Christians.
President-elect Trump releases plan to dismantle the Deep State:
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1854717077837562314
It wouldn't be the first time Trump stopped a weapons shipment to Ukraine. The first time got him impeached.