On Saturday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the US would be providing Ukraine with a new weapons package worth nearly $1 billion.
The package, which is worth $988 million, is being provided through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the US to purchase weapons for Ukraine.
According to the Pentagon, the weapons package includes ammunition for the HIMARS rocket systems, drones, and “equipment, components, and spare parts to maintain, repair, and overhaul artillery systems, tanks, and armored vehicles.”
Austin announced the new military aid in remarks at the Reagan National Defense Forum, where he called for the incoming administration to “build” on what the Biden administration had done.
“So the baton will soon be passed. And others will decide the course ahead. And I hope that they will build on the strength that we have forged over the past four years,” Austin said.
The Biden administration has been working to ship as many weapons as possible to Ukraine before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated.
In recent months, President Biden signed off on several significant escalations in the proxy war, including supporting long-range strikes on Russian territory and the provision of widely banned anti-personnel mines to Ukraine. Biden officials have also been calling for Ukraine to lower the conscription age from 18 to 25 so younger Ukrainians are sent to fight.
Biden asked Congress for an additional $24 billion to spend on the proxy war, but the request was rejected by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who said any decisions on Ukraine aid would be up to Trump.
Stick 'em where the sun don't shine, Doofus.
Never mentioned in western coverage, Ukraine's occupation of Kursk in Russia has been cut in half again. How many will die for a tiny bargaining chip..?
Who cares, to weaken Russia is the goal in order to invade Iran. That was the goal on day one and why Biden refused any diplomatic contact, the Ukraine was used to provoke and to be thrown under the bus to the last young man. It was never about NATO membership, that was to cover up the real purpose, to eliminate Russia and to preserve unilateral American hegemony, come hell or high water.
You mean America’s government wasn’t devoted to Ukrainian nationalism? I was tricked! What happened to, “They look like us! (Unlike those Arabs)?”
Home in Russia | Jozef Schutzman
@HomeinRussia
Russians don't believe me when I tell them what rude and disgusting things complete strangers used to say to my wife in America when they saw our then 6 children with her.
Now we live in Russia with our 7 children and you watch people everywhere show us such kindness and excitement to see so many children. Waitresses welcome us and pay special attention to us at restaurants. People stand up and offer their seats to my wife and children. When my children accidentally bump into people on the sidewalk, they look at me strangely when I apologize… "They are children" they say… " Молодец! ( or Well done) "
Russians love children.
The Russians I know are wonderful people.
Americans tend to be rude and violent, but there are also wonderful Americans and they come in many different colors too.
Part of our mutual problem is that hardly any Americans even know any Russians. If they did, they'd notice how alike we actually are. 'And our government would like to keep it that way (so would theirs, apparently.)
It's a bloody shame that war has become an industry where wars ARE fomented, like a master chess game. Wars are the ENDS now, instead of the means! It's not just about war profits, but also "herding the sheep", so to speak, so the powerful and wealthy can remain comfortable and confident of their place on this planet!
Russia's on a roll and not about to quit now, Trump & Austin
from ISW
Russian forces have resumed their offensive operations directly aimed at seizing Pokrovsk through a turning maneuver from the south after successfully widening their salient south and southeast of the town. Russian forces, including elements of the 15th Motorized Rifle Brigade (2nd Combined Arms Army [CAA], Central Military District [CMD]), began advancing further west and northwest of Selydove (southeast of Pokrovsk) along the Petrivka-Pustynka-Zhovte line south of Pokrovsk in late November 2024 after mainly focusing their offensive efforts on widening the salient south of Selydove and eliminating the Ukrainian pockets north and south of Kurakhove.
They will use the last Ukrainian to be killed to weaken Russia so they can start the Iran invasion and then claim "Putin made us do it".
"Billions more" has become a broken record it's happened so many times. People somewhere are getting fat with laundered money no doubt. Hitler himself would scoff at Zelensky for allowing NATO and the USA to rape and plunder "his" people! "Drugstore Nazi" he would probably call him, wondering why the Ukraine and Big Z committed to a war that the Ukraine was materially incapable of fighting! If Congress does not audit the money sent to the Ukraine, it solidly indicates the corruptive underlying "motivations" for this meat grinder war!
Difficult to work on any kind of peace, with so many weapons deals going on all the time….