According to a Reuters article, Joe Biden is going to send a massive $2 billion plus aid package to Ukraine with the $1.75 billion in direct purchase weapons from defense contractors. Included in the $1.75 billion package will be longer range rockets, with another $400 million in weapons coming directly from U.S. strategic military stockpiles.
This announcement from the White House is coming on the heels of several reports that Ukraine was having difficulty matching the Russian forward advanced rockets and munitions that were capable of hitting Ukraine targets from outside of Ukraine’s ability to return fire.
This weapons delivery is also coming on top of the U.S. paying for the Ukraine government to meet its financial obligations, payrolls and government worker pensions.
(Reuters) – WASHINGTON, Jan 31 – The United States is readying more than $2 billion worth of military aid for Ukraine that is expected to include longer-range rockets for the first time as well as other munitions and weapons, two U.S. officials briefed on the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
The weapons aid is expected to be announced as soon as this week, the officials said. It is also expected to include support equipment for Patriot air defense systems, precision guided munitions and Javelin anti-tank weapons, they added.
One of the officials said a portion of the package, expected to be $1.725 billion, would come from a fund known as the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which allows President Joe Biden’s administration to get weapons from industry rather than from existing U.S. weapons stocks.
The USAI funds would go toward the purchase of a new weapon, the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) made by Boeing Co (BA.N), which have a range of 94 miles (150 km). The United States has rebuffed Ukraine’s requests for the 185-mile (297-km) range ATACMS missile.
[…] GLSDB is made jointly by SAAB AB (SAABb.ST) and Boeing. It combines the GBU-39 Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) with the M26 rocket motor, both of which are common in U.S. inventories.
[…] GLSDB is GPS-guided, can defeat some electronic jamming, is usable in all weather conditions, and can be used against armored vehicles, according to SAAB’s website. The GBU-39 – which would function as the GLSDB’s warhead – has small, folding wings that allow it to glide more than 100km if dropped from an aircraft and hit targets as small as 3 feet (1 meter) in diameter.
The USAI funds would also be used to pay for more components of HAWK air defenses, counter drone systems, counter artillery and air surveillance radars, communications equipment, PUMA drones, and spare parts for major systems like Patriot and Bradley, one of the officials said. (read more)
These assholes have to end this war. But only after untold billions are spent to line the insider’s pocket. They have no choice as Europeans aren’t going to commit ground forces. And here America can’t even raise a formidable Army of volunteers anymore. It will take at least 20 years to re-educate children into growing into men again. By then our world dominance is not guaranteed anymore. If them responsible for the complete destruction of America’s armed forces had any honor they would eat a bullet for their disgraceful actions. They have handed these United States on a platter to China,Russia, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela,Islamic terrorists, and FTX, IMF, WB, and WEF. BOHICA.
Hmmm…such a small amount. What is going on?
A special fund Biden has complete say over.
Zelensky is playing Biden for a chump.
And…um….who passed this initiative and when? Because if it’s, like earlier aid, coming from various executive branch dept budgets (posted in detail on here, thank you very much), when does it stop — and when do we go back to having congress pass legislation for funding, like we did once upon a time in the good ol’ days?
Forget about congress not “declaring war” when we are obviously engaged in (another long, drawn-out, senseless) proxy war…now they don’t even have to approve funding for it anymore?
How much will be laundered back to the so called American politicians? Our money.
They’re cutting their own deals now.
Oh, that’s interesting. Because we know “Kiev will have to….” means “American taxpayers will have to…” — when did we decide on this?
Much of these US ‘packages’ aren’t weapons that are immediately going to Ukraine, but rather orders to the MIC for additional weapons to be manufactured. US stocks that are available are being depleted, we are unable to enlist a proper military force, etc. NATO is a joke, as the EU countries are becoming seriously demilitarized and have small, ineffectual armies at this point. Much of these announcements are basically propaganda to the Russians….who are currently not only demilitarizing Ukraine, but the rest of the west.
….obviously a feature, not a bug.
Warfighters….
What an extraordinary waste of taxpayer funds. I’m sure 80% at least is either laundered back to the DNC or is sold on the black market by Ukrainian “patriots.”
The Comedian is blackmailing the Prop … the Prop is paying – with enough extra added from our tax-dollars for the Props “kickback”.
I understand it’s received in goods ( weapons and ammo and support parts)and services ( training) and paying their government pay role. I carefully scrutinize the war every single day I am personally involved. I believe it’s not really waste when it comes to lives saved. Putins world is huge and he doesn’t need it any larger.
Just wait until the rebuilding starts.
And all of it borrowed from China because, in case DC forgot— we don’t have any money. Do the hawks on Ukraine care about that? Heard today from Joe Pags that Germany and Sweden both run surpluses every year — and of course, give nowhere near what we do to “NATO” (really, the U.S.)….perhaps since this is a European affair, they might be the first, rather than the last, to be borrowing from China, if necessary, to pay for it?
When did taking care of America come AFTER taking care of Europe? Heh, rhetorical question.
Why can’t the 118th Congress order OMB to NOT pay any money out without their approval? Where’s Victoria Nuland getting the authorization to spend the money? I’m sure she’s behind it since she’s Obama’s Ukraine Czar.
At this point, I don’t hear anything but ‘we are giving ourselves’ billions when they say it’s going to the Ukraine Laundromat. I think you’d have to be pretty cut off from your spidey sense to think it’s going even to it’s officials. What’s interesting is the weapons. Are they really sending them or is it a way to throw off the laundromat vibe? Or knowing Russia will confiscate them eventually, so why not immediately, is it a goodwill gesture, while holding a public stance against them? The whole twisted mess that greed and corruption has wrought is disgusting.
There is no end to the stupidity is there?
Wait until Biden sends Ukraine tactical nukes. Then the war will really heat up.
Until some in the MSM wake up and see this for what it is, money laundering, I don’t see anything changing.
I don’t expect the head honchos at the networks to do anything differently, but there has to be at an affiliate or maybe two, where a person calling himself a reporter will wake up to what is right in front of him.
There is no excuse for the Republicans who support this. This is why we can’t have that party anymore; the leadership will not act in Americans’ interests, every single time.
Looting in plain sight.
There are no real journalists in the msm. Haven’t been for a very long time. They simply do what the Democrats tell them to do.
Salaries and pensions of a foreign government.
Then they have NO right to meddle with our social security!
rofl I almost said that with a straight face …
Digitally controlled government money and bugs to eat …
When do they ship the missiles and warheads from Montana and North Dakota?
So.. will we be sending our armed forces to operate said equipment..? Asking for a friend
WILL NO ONE STOP THIS MADNESS?!?
I certainly hope something’s left after Resident Bite Me leaves office in two years. Don’t kid yourself that he’ll leave any sooner. He’s still got two years to orchestrate more pandemics, food shortages, nuclear strikes, and one more compromised election. Meanwhile, the Democrats will pick a successor while the GOP fights like dogs for the nomination with name calling, mud slinging, and other behavior likely to reduce support. In other words, don’t expect the cavalry to come charging in the save the day. The military had the opportunity to do so after the JFK coup and DID NOTHING. Why should now be any different. My apologies for my negativism. Just trying to be realistic here.
and very possibly 6 more years
The New Atlas has YouTube posted today.
After the actual listing of arms and munitions is posted on DOD website he will probably be making another YouTube breaking it down.
Just give the Ukraine Pianoman a shopping cart and let him into the military stockpile warehouses.
You know, like a military version of Costco.
It takes money to fight a War.
Ukraine does not have any money.
The mercenaries and soldiers have to be paid, fed and supplied.
Death benefits to families.
Logistics such as fuel, munitions, transportation, medical,etc. have to be paid for.
The most important is troops. Money will not replace troops.
Mozart PMC has pulled out of Ukraine they are saying -No money.
Ukraine is grabbing men off the street, doesn’t matter if they have no hands or are blind they are getting draft notices. Saw video where they went to a city council meeting and drafted the Mayor and all male council members on the spot.
I will say it again……
Mission Creep
Vietnam 2.0
This is not about funding a war. It’s money laundering!
Why hasn’t Biden even discussed forcing Putin and Zelensky to the bargaining table to reach some sort of cease fire accord? Of course, Biden is too senile to be involved – but really – we’ve sent Ukraine billions of dollars with NO accounting of how it is being used…rumors of graft are rampant…and due to Biden’s “wonderful energy policies”, CAlifornia Gas bills tripled this month.. then connect the dots…the Classified dox found at Biden’s homes and office concern Ukraine…a country that was barely on on radar 6 years ago when the papers were produced…but from which Biden’s druggie son was trying to secure a seat on the Board of Burista, an energy company……Read Miranda Devine’s aritcles …Hunter quoted some intel of an upcoming event that would effect energy in Ukraine in an email to his (now incarcerated ) partner Devon Archer- and urged Archer to buy a “burner phone” to discuss this…the only logical conclusion is that Joe, willingly or not , facilitated (and benefitted from) Hunter’s business byt giving him access to information that was classified.
all we had to do was stay out of it and the deal would have been done by May 2022
They were at the bargaining table.
Our Derps squashed that, aided also by Boris Johnson of the UK.
It appears they are going to push it until we get nuked. That there is no seriousness about literally the worst thing that can possibly happen is very troubling. Over staggeringly corrupt and nazi-esque ukraine.
I wonder how many of these “weapons” are virtual weapon tokens that are recycled via Vatican ratline banks and scam crypto exchanges back into Congressional and deep state pockets?
Too many bioweapon labs all over Ukraine that the Biden family & others are invested in. Any bets?
First thing Z-Bag did was destroy all records related to the lab Hunter “funded.”
How much did Zelensky blackmail Dirty Biden? Give me money give me tanks, give me missiles give me jets. What next? Troops on the ground?
Gen Z should be ready for the draft.
The fundamental problem with the Small Diameter Bomb, whether it be released from an aircraft or the new method on the top of a rocket is its slow speed in flight.
This is not a problem when fighting terrorists or defences that have little air defence, AD. But this is not the case in Ukraine. Russia has a wide range of medium and short range AD capable of shooting almost anything out of the sky.
Sadly this is yet another wonderweapon that, after a short burst of publicity, remember the M-777, will just fade away.
But we are providing China the opportunity to get a good look at our capabilities and vulnerabilities.
So there’s that.
I am deeply steeped in the Ukraine war and all its details. I mean, I watch every battle line and retreat and results. I have new Knowledge of weapons I never dreamed of. All because 1/2 my relatives are from Belarus, with Ukrainian and Russian friends. They are a community, all three in Midwest USA. I get that this is a chosen controlled war. Yet all the Slav people I know support it, want it, they hate Putin and want nothing to do with Putin. Many of them left Russia and Belarus in late 90s and early 2000s now, we now have a recent bunch arrived due to the war. Most of them voted for DJT if they were now citizens. I don’t care how much goes to war, I invest in war stocks to make up my own personal difference. I struggle to be convinced that Putin is the reasonable dictator presented by some Republicans. Convince me. I’m a Trump supporter, and a Ukraine war supporter. I feel totally lost for 2024. I feel like ALL the governments of the world are all too big to fight and argue with. We’re all sunk, we’re basically back to being serfs and votes don’t matter. I have followed Treehouse from nearly day one when Trump was elected. I get how crooked our government is. Who can fix it? How can I be for a war and be for Trump. If he ran, I would trust him, even with the war, but I doubt he’ll be elected.
Nobody wants to become controlled by the Russians. Neighbors who have had the experience are virulently opposed to repeating the experience. The endless conflation of the Biden agenda with Ukranian will to be free on CTH is reminiscent of the left’s pretense not to “know” things so often discussed by Sundance. CK is spot on. Non-Russian Slavs want nothing to do with Putin’s vision. The argument that Russia must control everything from the Don to the Elbe “for security” was a lie in 1945 and remains a lie today.
Ukraine: the junkyard for used military equipment.
The email discovered on Hunter Biden’s laptop was sent from Blue Star Strategies, a firm that has reportedly been under investigation by the DOJ since 2021. The email that was sent in December 2015 had an attachment that included classified information from a White House conference call on Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to Ukraine. This email was also sent to Burisma and it implicates Joe Biden.
I have been doing a lot of reading regarding the history of CORRUPTION in the Ukraine and the involvement of the Mao Xiden Crime Family Inc connections specifically with reference to 10% Joe, Hunter Lap Dog and his “business” associates, banks, billionaires, companies, bio-labs etc. You would probably need 2-300 HONEST & COMPETENT FBI agents and prosecutors to properly investigate all the criminal activity dating back to 2015 ( perhaps even later). This should be called the Ukraine Biden COVER-UP War, for that is what it is. Sad part it will NEVER happen.
Ukraine is our 51st state supplanting Puerto Rico. IMO.
Just wait till chyna moves on Taiwan. They’re f’cked cause we’ll have no munitions left to defend them with. Oh well. Back to my frosted crickets cereal.
i think the only way to stop them from sending our tax dollars is not NOT send our tax dollars.. 4/15/23. no more.