The State Department announced on Tuesday an “emergency foreign military sale” to Ukraine for $138 million worth of equipment to maintain and upgrade its HAWK air defense systems.
The deal is being paid for by US military aid for Ukraine that was included in the US’s annual military spending bill, which President Biden signed into law last month. The bill gave Ukraine $300 million in Foreign Military Financing, a State Department program that gives foreign governments money to buy US-made weapons.
The deal for the HAWK air defense systems comes as Russia is stepping up its missile and drone strikes against infrastructure across Ukraine. Russia’s strikes have been much more effective as Moscow has better intelligence and is finding gaps in Ukraine’s air defense systems, which have been significantly depleted.
President Biden is still struggling to secure the $60 billion he is seeking to fund the proxy war in Ukraine for another year. The Senate has passed a $95 billion foreign military aid bill that includes funding for Ukraine, but it’s been held up in the House.
In a desperate move to get more weapons to Ukraine, the Biden administration announced a new $300 million weapons package last month that was taken directly from US stockpiles. The administration had previously said it was out of money for such transfers but claimed it found the money in US Army budget savings.
The $300 million package includes more cluster bombs, which are notorious for killing and maiming civilians. Due to their indiscriminate nature, cluster bombs are banned by more than 100 countries, but President Biden began pouring them into Ukraine last year.
$300 million is chump change: they’re gonna pass that $billions, no doubt. But it’s now just a game of Monopoly backstage, behind the current big show: Israel Becomes the Monster.
FJB and POS obama!!!!
They are merely the latest. Clinton started this. Bush (Shrub) escalated it. I don’t think that their puppet masters are elected.
Grand puppet master Soros controlling all. Almost like “One ring to control them all”
Millions is a lot better than BILLIONS I suppose.
Yes, but not by that much.
Everyone knows, if they give billions, much of those money will be redirected to Biden’s election campaign. So, of course, for those who don’t want see Biden as their president, millions is better than billions.
I was thinking the same. I kept searching for the “b.”
It is important to Biden’s team to keep Kiev pro-American neo-Nazi regime functioning, at least, until the elections are over. They need not worry too much about that. When they asked Putin who is preferable for Russia, Biden or Tramp, Putin answered without any hesitation – Biden is better. Still there is a possibility that current Kiev regime will collapse because of shortage of money. Maybe $100 millions per month is enough for paying the salaries to those without whom the state can’t function. Don’t forget that Ukraine still has some remnants of it’s own economy. Probably Ukrainian army will retreat a couple of hundreds km further to the west but it is not crucial; mass media can ignore it.
Putin said Biden is better because Trump backed the U.S. out of two significant treaties. Mr. Trump also provided Kiev with javelin anti-tank missiles.
And thanks to those Javelins, Putin couldn’t take Kyiv, he got his ass kicked pretty bad.
Glory to Ukraine.
Putin didn’t take Kiev because he didn’t want it. Putin is only interested in those parts of Eastern Ukraine that are historically Russian.
The real Neo Nazis are in Russia and or invading and annexing Ukraine, you should know that, you are one of their sick supporters.
Ukrainian haters are desperate.
Glory to Ukraine.
Actual Americans want a full exit.
Glory to America
F yeah. F Putin and his supporters.
Great news.
Glory to Ukraine.
Congress and our Government, no longer respects our Constitution and does NOT serve our Republic. We need to vote OUT all the Reps and Dems, to stop the COUP that is talking place in front of our eyes, by the Global Zionist.
This is democracy for ya.
Thank God for cluster bombs. The US must resume production ASAP.
The effectiveness of cluster munitions against an armored Russian convoy.
https://ukrainetoday.org/the-effectiveness-of-cluster-munitions-against-an-armored-russian-convoy/
Meanwhile in Russia’s state controlled media, the Kremlin terrorists continue to look for the non existing links to the terrorists attack of Moscow. Lol.
You cannot make this sh!t up… unless you belong to the Kremlin circus.
What a bunch of clowns.
Posted here in antiwar.
https://tass.com/politics/1772727
There won’t be any meaningful change in US foreign policy until the State Department rids itself of the PNAC goons that push war and conflict as means of accumulating power and resources.
In other words our so-called government bypasses the laws whenever it’s convenient.
We no longer have a government whose actions are in any way accountable. This is all any citizen has to know. No need to fear the Russians or the Chinese or the Iranians or the Syrians, or the Lebanese. Now we need to fear our own unaccountable government which makes up the rules as it goes along.
The true irony is that the Democratic party is in no a way different than any Republican one. Tweedle Dumb Tweedle Dem.