The US is stepping up its efforts to train Ukrainian troops in Europe on weapons systems Washington is pouring into Ukraine. Pentagon officials detailed the training to reporters on Wednesday.
The US first started training Ukrainian forces after the 2014 US-backed coup in Kyiv that ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych. Brig. Gen. Joseph Hilbert, the head of the 7th Army Training Command in Germany, told reporters that the US invested $126 million to train more than 23,000 Ukrainian troops at the Yavoriv military base in western Ukraine since 2015.
In 2014, the US also sent CIA paramilitaries to train Ukrainians on the frontline of the Donbas war, a mission that was recently revealed by Yahoo News. Before Russia invaded on February 24, the US withdrew the CIA paramilitaries and National Guard troops that were training Ukrainian soldiers.
The US restarted its training of Ukrainian forces in recent weeks after sending howitzers to Ukraine for the first time. The training is taking place in Germany and in two other locations in Europe outside of Ukraine. Now, more than 220 Ukrainians have been trained on howitzers. Ukrainian soldiers are also being trained to use new Phoenix Ghost drones the US designed for Kyiv, radar systems, and armored vehicles.
Hilbert boasted of the US training relationship with Ukraine and said the “worst thing Russia did is give us eight years to prepare.” During those eight years, while the US was arming Kyiv, Moscow had been pushing Ukraine to fulfill the Minsk agreements, which if implemented, could have brought peace to the Donbas.
German Press hints that Pentagon training of Kiev militarists at Grafenwöhr NATO base in Bavaria makes Grafenwöhr a legitimate target.
https://www.merkur.de/bayern/bayern-ukraine-militaer-grafenwoehr-usa-soldaten-ausbildung-truppen-russland-krieg-news-91522938.html
which, if you go by US rhetoric, it absolutely does, we were threatening to attack Iran for years because we alleged that the IRG was supplying weapons to the iraqi resistance who were fighting an illegal invader and occupier (us). Because that’s not right. It’s only “ok” when we do it. The US and NATO hypocrisy is enough to choke a sane person.
Plus, we labeled the IRG as “terrorists” for doing so.
My problem is that Bush and Obama were too cowardly to make Iran pay for all the US soldiers they killed and maimed.
They didn’t kill any directly. And if they furnished Iraq with IEDs it’s no different than the US furnishing weaponry to half the planet. Is the US held responsible for all the deaths their war toys cause? And being on the other side of the planet conducting an illegal invasion based on bullsh*t puts the blame of those deaths squarely on the US government.
ALL targets are locked in. I live on the West Coast in the U.S. Google: All the major firms and primes in aerospace have offices or headquarters in L.A. County, including Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon SpaceX, Aerojet Rocketdyne, Virgin Galactic, as well as leading service and analysis companies like Aerospace Corp. I feel SO comfortable.
Add in a few dozen SoCal military bases – in some surprising locations – take a perusal of the area around Seal Beach – Los Alamitos for example.
Who knew there is a rather large airbase in Los Alamitos plus what appears to be a huge nuke weapons storage depot in Seal Beach ?
SFV also has some surprises too.
Potential Targets all.
None of it will do any good, it will just postpone the inevitable at this point, and get a lot of people killed. But then, that’s what the demented NATO alliance wants.
well, if our “efforts” at training the ukrainians are as “effective” as our “training” the afghan and iraqi national armies were. the russians should be sending us a thank you note.
Yup just ask Georgians how good the training performed by the woke joke US military is. It’s so good that Shakaashvili was devouring his tie in panic lmfao
Reading this Russians will surely say this proves the attack was self defense.