The Biden administration on Monday announced nearly $6 billion in new aid for Ukraine as it’s determined to escalate the proxy war as much as possible before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20, 2025.
The aid includes $3.4 billion in “direct budget support,” a form of assistance meant to pay for Ukrainian government services, salaries, pensions, and other types of spending. It has also been used to subsidize Ukrainian small businesses and farmers.
“Economic assistance from the United States and our allies is crucial for Ukraine’s ability to defend its sovereignty and achieve a just peace by maintaining the critical government services that underpin its brave fight,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.
Yellen said the $3.4 billion was the last remaining funds for budgetary aid from the 2024 Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, which was packed into the $95 billion foreign military aid bill President Biden signed into law back in April.
Ukraine is also receiving nearly $2.5 billion in military aid from the US, which includes $1.22 billion from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, a program that allows the US to purchase weapons for Ukraine. The remaining military aid is in the form of the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which enables President Biden to ship weapons directly from US military stockpiles.
The Biden administration is dumping more weapons into Ukraine even though there’s no path to a Ukrainian victory on the battlefield as Russian forces continue to make gains in the Donbas and Ukraine’s invading force in Kursk is being pushed out. Biden officials are determined to keep the war going and are even pressuring Ukraine to begin conscripting 18-year-olds.
According to the Pentagon, the new military aid includes:
- Munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS)
- HAWK air defense munitions
- Stinger missiles
- Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (c-UAS) munitions
- Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS)
- 155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition
- Air-to-ground munitions
- High-speed Anti-radiation missiles (HARMs)
- Unmanned Aerials Systems (UAS)
- Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems
- Tube-launched, Optically guided, Wire-tracked (TOW) missiles
- Small arms and ammunition and grenades
- Demolitions equipment and munitions
- Secure communications equipment
- Commercial satellite imagery services
- Medical equipment
- Clothing and individual equipment
- Spare parts, maintenance and sustainment support, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation
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 asked Congress for an additional $24 billion to spend on Ukraine, but the request was rejected by House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), who said any decisions on Ukraine aid would be up to Trump.
Disgusting.
Biden is a POS.
I hear you yet we need to be able to navigate these treacherous
parties…
Bidet is also an evil MOFU.
Shit can be useful as fertilizer. In the case of Biden….. he's just a skin filled with toxic waste.
But definitely not Putin. He invaded and annexed parts of Ukraine and he is your hero for doing that.
I'm very glad the war is going horribly for Russia.
They have the biggest country of the world with nothing but plenty of energy resources and instead, they are taking land from neighbors for more power and control.
Putin has destroyed his military and soon his country.
Putin is not my hero, asshole.
Tip toeing thru the mine fields…
No more wars, from the Dems. and the Reps. Two lethal parties…
Exactly. Both parties are war parties. They just differ a bit which war they support for their individual bases. The Left like the Ukraine war and the Right loves the Israel war against all its neighbors. They are actually pushing for Israel and the US to take out Iran.
“Economic assistance from the United States and our allies is crucial for Ukraine’s ability to defend its sovereignty and achieve a just peace by maintaining the critical government services that underpin its brave fight,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.
Thankfully she explained it for me. /s /s /s
$3.4 billion as walking-around money … quite a nice racket you got going there, Uncle Sam …
Not to worry. A sizable chunk of that cash will be laundered back to the politicians that made sure it wouldn't be accounted for. That'll stimulate the (criminal elements) of the US deep state.
What a legacy the senile, evil, old man will leave behind. Is it possible to be more evil than he already is?
Hers is President Carter, a great man, he stands for human decency and the honor of the nation.
And there is the senile, evil, genocide Joe Biden, a POS and shame for the nation.
Some say that Carter was the worst US President since WW2. I find that to be absurd. How was peace a bad thing? Also Carter inherited inflation caused by Johnson's policies.
Regardless, Carter was a genuinely good man. That puts him far ahead of the creeps, warmongers, narcissists and outright criminals we've had as POTUS.
RIP Jimmy Carter. The world was a better place with you.
With President Carter the nation was in good hands. He was a man with a big heart, brain and character. He started no war and did make unpopular decisions when he had to, it was after the lost war in Vietnam. Yes he made mistakes too, to err is human. He was a president the nation can be proud of.
Yes, I voted for him, and I am proud of it.
This article may make some folks fall out of windows in Moscow soon.
Why? It's not enough to make a difference on the battlefield. It never is. But you continue to cheer on the destruction of Ukraine.
I don't know what you think I am but I'm here showing support for Ukraine. You must be the other side.
What do you stand for? I know, nothing. Just here to hate on West and claim that we, supporters of Ukraine, don't care about Ukraine. That's dumb.
That's like me saying you don't care about Russians when all you do here is defend Russia through criticizing those who support the West and Ukraine.
Criticize West and you are a hero in the blog, show some support for the country getting attacked and you are a warmonger.
How dumb the bloggers here are.
Ukraine is being destroyed. And you "support" that. I support neither but since I don't cheerlead Ukraine's ongoing destruction, that must mean I'm "defending" Russia. And you continue with that bullshit even though I haven't said a thing that resembles me supporting Russia. Unless looking at things realistically qualifies as such.
Ukraine IS being destroyed, and the only way to solve that is to criticize the evil actions of Russia, instead of just being "neutral" or a "non-involved party"
Surely you're old enough to realise that being neutral is supporting the enemy
You don't understand that preventing the avoidable war was the only way to support and protect the Ukrainian people. They had the option of neutrality and prosperity like Austria. You helped USA/NATO, some 50 nations all together, to annihilate the Ukrainian nation, not Russia. USA/NATO provoked Russia and forced them to fight back, it is called self-defense, or deterrent in this case, no matter what your propaganda tells you. Use your brain if you have one.
Lol, you are delusional.
Oh, and there are absolutely no North Koreans in the frontlines. Haha.
If true, so what, NATO troops and weapons are in Ukraine, NATO is funding what is left of the Ukrainian army, but no concrete evidence of N.K. boots on the ground on the Russian side, so far it is allegations.
So you are a supporter of murdering Palestinians.
And surely, you're as stupid as your former self. How in the fuck is me criticizing Russia going to stop Ukraine from being destroyed? And I HAVE criticized Russia.
You’re right, you’ve complained that Putin hasn’t bombed enough cities or executed enough pow’s
My profile is wide open asshole. Go find something that resembles that load of bullshit and post it.
Lol, You are like the Dave Chapelle character, Clayton Bigsby.
A super racist white supremacist man and part of the KKK. But because he is blind, he doesn't know he is black.
Open your f ing eyes and read all the comments you make and to whom.
After you do that, go disappear for a while.
Maybe Siberia or Chechnya.
Like I have said, point out something that I've said that remotely praises Russia or Putin. Go ahead I'll wait.
You and your friends are the killers of Ukraine. If you would care you would have opposed the insanity before it started.
All that was needed was morals, a conscience and common sense. The Biden people, informed people knew that Ukraine could not win, that is why Biden made it a point, NO American boots on the ground to fight his war, he expected to get reelected, as long as other people's sons would do the dying. The senile old man in his lucid moments knew that much.
Russia
invaded
ukraine
The USA/NATO provoked Russia, Biden wanted the war, the goal was regime change and a weakened Russia and its natural resources. The USA was protecting hegemon power and Russia is protecting its border security against the USA/NATO aggressor. Russians did not invade USA borders, the USA wanted to cross the Russian borders, they would watch the slaughter of the Ukrainians from the other side of the Atlantic, far removed from real combat.
Can't you get that in your head?
You are unbelievable
All lies
Words are cheap, prove me wrong if you can. As I see it, you are the product of a manipulating MSM propaganda machine.
Sure, whatever you say. And Putin is the good guy too. The future noble peace prize recipient. Ha.
“And Putin is the good guy too. The future noble peace prize recipient.” I agree, finally you got it, I never thought you could. Congratulation. Someone called President Putin even a genius.
Don't you just hate it when a country expresses their free will to support a country against invasion?
The victim CANNOT fight back
Think like Putin! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
And that's what this is? Whose free will are you speaking of? Certainly not the people that are paying for the $6 billion.
We were never promised free will in where our taxes go
You don't understand how real democracy functions. The people are the sovereign in any FUNCTIONING democracy.
That doesn't even make sense. And who is "we"?
War Russia, you really like to go after Ukraine supporters.
How can we not consider you a Russian and/or Russian supporter. Lol
Explain your problem with Russia.
And you are a stupid bitch. If that $6 billion was going to Russia, I'd be bitching just the same.
It was the West that pushed Putin to invade. Frankly Biden would have been very unhappy if it did not occur. Same thing as Netanyahu in Israel would have been very unhappy if Oct. 7th 2023 did not occur.
The war mongers in the West want those wars to enrich themselves, their cronies and fatten up the Pentagon to produce more death weapons.
All in the name of "freedom and democracy" and don't forget to save the women and children in Afghanistan as Clinton uttered years ago.
It was the girlfriend that pushed the boyfriend to commit the abuse, of course, right?
The Biden was the girl friend? Who would have thought? Biden is a bully, not a girl friend or any other friend, he is a demented bully to be correct.
You answered the big WHY did Biden do this. It is Biden's war, he moved heaven and earth to get his war.
The US Biden administration, the big dog, provoked the victim, the little dog, to act as proxy and provoke another big dog. Small dogs on their own know better than to pick a fight with a big dog. But the cowardly big dog promised the little dog the sky to fight the other big dog.
As expected, the little one lost and is dying and the instigator will walk away looking for another dog to fight for him, like the stupid little NATO dog.
More goodies for the monsters here and the mobsters in Kiev to attempt to shore up Ukraine's chances ???? Nooooooooooo, not at all. Nope.
More goodies to try to shore up the demented plans and downstream histories and morning-after apologia hatched by the inmates of the deep state? Yup.
Every day that goes by increases my understanding of the intimate characteristics shared by war criminals.
re Ukrainian "Budget Support" – a form of masked financial transfers carried out between and among war criminals engaged in acts to "save democracy" (emphasis added).
Like Israel, and Syria, another parasite-in-perpetuity sucking the life-blood out of our education, healthcare, infrastructure, climate measures, …
Don't you live in Moscow?
As usual, all you have is ad hominem.
As usual, you are here supporting dictators.
he DOES?
Sure, just like you're Polish.
What do you want kid?
Sounded like his comment was criticism about taking American taxpayer's money away from America's needs. So, it sounds like he lives in the US.
Yes, that's every toll here. They all claim to be american when in reality, they are all bots hating on the West, going from one site to another spreading the Kremlin propaganda, the ones you like to hear and never try to shut down like you do with the few Ukrainian supporters commenting here so STFU, War Russia.
So are you a Ukrainian bot, an American bot, or what?
All of the above.
So, as an American, you're ok with our government spending billions for other country's “direct budget support” while millions of Americans suffer? And you call me anti-US?
Bots are stupid.
We do believe in democracy and a functioning democracy depends on informed and critical voters and that is what most of us are, we can think and judge. And we do speak up and demonstrate and let the officials know what we think of them and why we will not vote for them. At this time we are governed by war criminal and deranged sh*theads to put it mildly.
The only ones I shutdown are those who pretend to "support" Ukraine by wanting them to continue to be used as fodder by the US. That would be you. I want a diplomatic settlement. That wouldn't be you.
Russia, yes!
Biden solidifying his reputation as one of the worst warmongers in American history in his last days, getting to W Bush's levels.
Biden makes Dubya look like a dove.
compare President Carter, the great humanitarian with Biden, the war criminal.
He will beat even Bush/Cheney.
insanity in Universe 25
How quickly Biden's faculties have improved again. No longer the bumbling idiot the Washington Post described him recently. Now he knows full well that he would have beaten Trump and he is saving the Ukraine just before walking into the sunset by emptying America's treasure chest. And he will deliver a wonderful, compassionate, intelligent speech at Carter's funeral.
And almost everyone will go along with it all and see it perfectly normal.
In fairytales everything is possible. This fairytale is a nightmare.
I wonder if US taxpayers pay attention to this when they see Treasury delays and takes longer tax processing time on their Tax Refunds for 2024 tax year distributed after February 2025…!
Just compare President Carter, a great president and humanitarian, he started no war, and compare that with the evil, demented man in the WH now. President Carter would never claim to have seen nonexistent pictures of 40 decapitated babies, all for war propaganda, he would not have funded genocide the way the genocide Joe does. President Carter was an outstanding president we can be proud of.
What a difference between the two men. President Carter was a great man, a humanitarian while Biden is a deranged war criminal.
Biden is too old to be demented
The only negative event under Carter that I can remember was the US failed mission to rescue the US hostages from Iran… A Hollywood Resemblance…!
True, but that was initiated by the Reagan campaign. Carter took care of it diplomatically until the end of his presidency, and every single hostage came home the day Reagan was inaugurated.
Reagan was a cowboy…! What else do you expect from him…!?
Carter also kept Israeli nuclear weapon program secret like any other US president…!
So true, but we know that there are limits for presidents too, the same goes for Trump, he may mean well but it may not come true.
The rescue mission was ordered by Carter and took place three months before Reagan even became the Republican nominee.
But Carter was the president for three more month too, and he finished the job before the Reagan inauguration. He followed some bad advise from a Polish Russophobe.
I think you meant the rescue mission. I understand Cyrus Vance opposed it, but Carter followed Mr. Brzezinski's advise, and that is when Vance resigned. I am not sure about the details.
But he did finish the job, All hostages were released, no life lost, and he handed Reagan a clean slate, job accomplished.
Cash handouts to Ukraine blur the line the rest of the way towards direct war between the US and Russia. We didn't bomb inside Russia, we merely gave Ukraine cash to build drones and provide long range targeting support so Ukraine can pointlessly strike deep into Russia.