On Thursday, President Biden authorized a new $450 million weapons package for Ukraine that includes more High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), patrol boats, and tactical vehicles.
The Biden administration first sent HIMARS to Ukraine as part of a previous arms package that was announced on June 1, which represented a significant escalation in US military aid to Kyiv. Ukrainian officials said Thursday that they had received the first HIMARS delivery.
According to the Pentagon, the $450 million weapons package includes:
- Four HIMARS
- 36,000 rounds of 105 mm ammunition
- 18 tactical vehicles to tow 155 mm artillery
- 1,200 grenade launchers,
- 2,000 machine guns,
- 18 coastal and riverine patrol boats
- Spare parts and other equipment.
The new bundle of weapons was funded by the $40 billion Ukraine aid bill that Biden signed into law back in May. The $450 million was authorized using presidential drawdown authority, which allows Biden to send weapons to Ukraine from the US military’s stockpiles.
Including the initial $13.6 billion aid bill for Ukraine, the US has authorized about $54 billion to spend on the war in Ukraine. The funds are meant to last through the 2022 fiscal year, which ends on September 30 for the federal government.
The majority of the funds are going toward military spending, whether through weapons packages for Ukraine or for the Pentagon to replenish its weapons stock and pay for troop deployments in Eastern Europe.
I’m sure I have said this before but…. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to buy Ukraine and make it a US state?… President Bye-Done is a busy man, working hard for the MIC!
It already has been bought, but they get even less rights than US citizens.
That’s what Russia is doing. 🙂 When it’s over, “Ukraine” – which means “Border Regions” – will resume its previous status as such. Whether it’s called “Ukraine” or not won’t matter.
More targets for Russia. Ukraine too is running out of soldiers.
It appears to me that the U.S. is wanting to destroy the Donbass region into an uninhabitable piece of real estate. That will make it a perfect buffer zone for Russia, and the Russian speaking people in the Donbass should just move into Russia. Then Russia should turn all of western Ukraine into a parking lot of glass and steel shards making it into an even bigger buffer zone for Russia.
Yep, a $450 million weapons package that will
(a) disappear on the black market, and
(b) be promptly destroyed by Russian forces.
How the hell do we recall ByeDone and call for new elections?
Afghanistan was 52 billion annually, now contractors will make that money in 8 months. It’s like getting a bonus.