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)
One wonders how long Empire can continue to pay other county’s bills.
Especially when we aren’t paying our own.
Well, as long as we know the money is being spent responsibly…
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-found-no-misuse-us-funds-ukraine-us-treasury-says-straight-face
…but we can always count on the good Colonel MacGregor to spell out this USSA war on Russia is already lost. Nothing like pouring our money down a filthy rat hole.
Launder (in the truest sense), rinse, repeat.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/this-time-its-different/
Agreed Betsy,
Macgregor is the only source I trust on this war for profit.
In another time what a general he would have made.
Ditto.
He refused the cannula they insert in most promotable O6s that sucks out one’s moral courage.
I’ve known generals; I’ve known admirals, None were what I would call stupid. That said, the very smartest or those with the most integrity rarely made it to the very top.
And Obama got rid of the rest. Only the dregs are left.
Our tragic loss.
Apparently Henry McMaster did the exact opposite of Col. MacGregor. McMaster was a captain in the 2nd Armored Calvary Regiment of which MacGregor was the S-3 during Gulf War 1.
10million views exposing Ukraine
More like 10 million views exposing the US …
That’s 1000% over the target
The real Occam’s razor about Ukraine and our shadow cabal
Thank you for this.
On March 17, 2022, Mr Putin stated
“I will make public the depopulation plan that the United States and Europe have prepared. It will be the scientists hidden in the bioweapons labs that have been found who will uncover everything. They are right now in Moscow.”
I’ve been reading and watching but as yet have not seen this particular bullet fired. Nevertheless, Mr Putin has great patience it appears.
I can’t remember where I saw it but recently I read a statement from a known American name who said 2023 will be the year of the Great Uncovering.
With your link, It seems that may indeed, please Dear Lord, be happening.
Good one. I was trying to load it myself couldn’t do it😀
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Meanwhile,… my electric bill is up, my water bill is up; groceries up, of course, fuel up; taxes, way up.
Democrat leaders are not Americans.
Americans look out for other fellow-Americans.
I care about fellow-Americans. I wouldn’t do this to fellow-Americans.
A real American would not do this to his fellow-Americans.
Only wicked and corrupt people do these sorts of things.
Democrats have to run against the will of the people. As Rush said before he died, this means they have to steal elections to hold onto power.
I’ve always maintained that we are two distinct entities under one flag, George.
There is the United (Soviet) States…and then there is America. That would be the people of this nation who keep her running, look after one another, stand up for what is moral and right and teach our children the same, love our families, and worship Almighty God.
The wicked and the greedy and the power mad who have sold their souls sneer at America. The idea of America. It is anathema to them.
I pray the Lord our God causes them to fall before they drag us all down into the abominable pit which they have been meticulously digging for decades.🙏🏻
Betsy Jones! In Soviet coastal enclaves of New England, it is interesting how “flyover country of Deplorables” or America is usually only a 15 minute drive, or the crossing of one town line away from their covens.
This madness has to stop!
What a waste of tax dollars and human life! And this makes it possible for Ukraine to use these missiles on Crimea. Any attack on Crimea risks nuclear war…..truly. Biden is in a bind and instead of admitting it and ending the support, he is doubling down.
A parting gift by Ron Klain.
Biden is stuck. He either keeps funding Ukraine or risk Ukrainians giving up the goods on Biden’s and other’s corruption.
Bingo! But not just Biden but the whole pantheon of criminal politicians from Con-gress.
And if that’s the case what a dumb-ass he was to let the Northstream Pipeline go in to begin with.
Pooty doesn’t need nukes. All he has to do is wreck every gas pipeline in Europe.
Is anyone able to post the picture of Gen. Smedley Butler where he describes “war is a racket”? We have moved beyond a racket, I’m not sure the racket is even visible anymore.
Thank you, cj
The treehouse is being read far and wide. PSB on Dlive is reading it aloud.
The more exposure, the more we break the mirror.
Kudoz to Sundance.
What is “PSB on Dlive”?
Dlive is a live streaming platform.
PSB = Patriots Soapbox ??
Another blogger reading from this blog.
Thank you.
CTH is on the “elite’s” daily readlist, of this I have no doubt. We just need to get it on every Freedom Loving Person’s radar.
This weekend I’m going in search of Sasquatch and an American Politician wanting peace talks. Wish me luck. Borrowing from the future to finance war. Makes me sick.
Sasquatch is in the Pacific NorthWest, the man you want lives in the opposite corner of the country.
No doubt, you will find Sasquatch first.
wrong
I can find a politician named Trump who is against War
before I can find Sasquatch
Yes, and then we’ll discover the love affair of the Century and the biggest surprise of all. Sasquatch (a.k.a. Sash, Q , Qanon) has got Hilary’s 10,000 emails.
They’re all to him, of course.
Very soon, knowledge of their passionate secret love will become legendary and the salacious true purpose of the bathroom closet servers will finally become known.
Mary Caitlin Mahoney tried to expose it. So did Seth Rich. And look at what happened to them.
But Democrats will understand. They always do.
I would suggest north Saskatchewan or north Alberta, near Fort McMurray, there is a lot of open country there. But carry a flamethrower for the mosquitos and horse flies, you will need it. The American politician I wish you luck, there are few of them in office that are not greedy, that do not kiss the Un’s ass.
Maxine Waters is pretty easy to find…
bwahaha
Biden alone isn’t doing this . Who is making this happen?
The neocon think tanks that gave us Blinken Nuland and others in this administration. WW3 may become a reality in 2023.
The only way any US military rocket make sense for use in Ukraine is if that sow Vicky Nuland is strapped to the nose cone
She should be joined by Norman Eisen on that missle, he is the brains behind the entire “Color Revolutions” scheme.
WW3 started in late 2019.
Obama through Susan Rice.
The Tribe of course.
Walter is just pouring our tax dollars into the abyss. Somebody’s raking in the $$$$$$.
It seems to be a massive diversion/conversion scheme. The numbers are so big they have no intention of seeing any of it paid back.
10% to the big guy.
Hilary’s friend Sasquatch Q. Qanon will explain all.
U.S. Not Prepared to take on Russia / Col Doug Macgregor – YouTube
THIS VIDEO OFFERS UP A VERY GOOD PICTURE OF THE UKRAIN SITUATION. I HOPE IT IS INFORMATIVE FOR EVERYONE
Whatever happened to all the hippies singing “All we are saying, is give Peace a chance?”
I guess that they have become war hawks who love the Deep Police State.
Whatever happened to all the hippies singing “All we are saying, is give Peace a chance?”
They are running the country.
No Ukraine War and balanced budget will be the strongest clearest platform in GOP history should PDJT get the nod. That is a BIG IF.
NO (Ukraine) WAR, has broad strong appeal to Americans who were happy to end the Afghan war. Balanced budget has appeal to answer the coming debt ceiling and full faith and credit canards.
I am simple and appreciate simple messages. No war, balanced budget. Easy to understand, easy to repeat, easy to defend and hard to refute.
PDJT is perfectly positioned outside of the beltway to defend this platform.
MAGA ’24
Some of us are still singing it, but apparently not nearly enough. I’m of that generation and am just as disgusted as you are. I remember the “advisors” in Vietnam in 1964, before all hell broke loose. I’m very sad and not feeling so tough anymore.
Yes, ToughOldBird. I remember those advisors, too. I remember watching our old black and white TV as the college campuses burned and as the POWs eventually came home, etc. Funny how those who like war are never the ones fighting it.
I was a young mother with two small sons, watching the world burn around me in those years, and I was very careful not to be caught anywhere in SoCal (where we lived at the time) in any public setting that might lend itself to this or that protest.
The mess in Vietnam went on long enough that my oldest/first nephew served there as a Marine, in the midst of the worst of it toward the end. He died about 15 years ago from cancer gifted to him by long exposure to Agent Orange.
The husband of a dear friend of mine was a crew member on one of the troop planes flying the wounded out of Vietnam. She told me one of the stories he shared with her–a young Marine was dying in her husband’s arms and the young man had only question: “Sarge, was I a good Marine?”
A high school classmate came back from Vietnam with a sizable chunk of his back/muscle mass missing. He was diving over a huge tree truck on the ground so that he wouldn’t be killed by incoming. The incoming didn’t kill him but it took a large piece of flesh.
In about 1986, we visited Washington and Philadelphia, driving across the country from California. We went to the Vietnam Wall. and spent some time there, locating the name of a friend on The Wall. While we were there, three veterans in their old fatigues walked up from some distance away. Quiet. Worn. Tired. Walked to what was obviously a familiar spot, exactly where they would see the names they had seen before. My heart about broke in seeing them. The ground their feet stood on was holy ground. Thankfully, everyone we saw left them alone to do what they were there to do, obviously not for the first time.
Then our son’s high school classmate, a young Marine, died in the attack in Beirut. We didn’t know until some time after the fact that our son signed up for the Marines on his 18th birthday because he wanted to honor his friend and “replace” him (???).
Now HIS son is a Staff Sgt responsible for a tank (Abrams) platoon in Texas. When I talked with that grandson a few days ago, he explained that he was hoping to go back to the Patriot Missile Group that he was with a couple years ago in Qatar. That group is scheduled to deploy to Poland some time next year.
Ain’t it wonderful. (not)
Even though you may feel sad, may this sister/mother/aunt/grandmother of those who fought and who still train with honor tell you that you are the classic Tough Old Bird. The best Tough Old Birds are reality-based and capable of feeling sadness.
Thank you, and God bless you and your family, Sharon.
Their ivy schooled prevaricating rhetoric being what it is, the word “peace” has become “piece” and they want theirs.
No, the same monsters are still running the country.
Oh that ended when they got past Vietnam.
Now they’re the biggest war-mongers ever.
The selfishness has remained the same though.
War hawks or warlocks….
No, they have not.
You know, I think we’re going to have to turn to the friends and strangers we meet out in public with “Are you AOK with the amount of worthless US $$ being thrown in a race to possible confrontation?” Of course this will, in the short run enrich the political Uni-Party but decimate, along with other factors, our Country.
The look on Mr. Zed’s face when joketato gives his cornhole the ol’ two finger cul-de-sac makes me laugh every time.
Of Cornhole Knowledge.
The sequel.
What do Biden and his abhorrent son know of this?
What do those in Congress who bowed at the feet of the tyrant Zelenskyy know of this?
What does the Deep State Hydra know of this??
Lara Logan, a journalist worthy of the name, is investigating.
https://nationalfile.com/video-ukraine-accused-of-slaughtering-harvesting-childrens-organs-disposing-of-dismembered-children-like-discarded-waste-russian-soldier-says/
I remember when the MSM and leftists insisted we “couldn’t afford” $3 billion to build a wall and secure the southern border. 3-4 million illegals later and apparently that was chump change
I would rather believe this is propaganda.
Uncomfortable truth is that this occurred in the 1990s in Kosovo:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-kosovo-investigation/inquiry-finds-indications-of-organ-harvesting-in-kosovo-conflict-idUSKBN0FY1FK20140729
Also have heard reports that these crimes occurred at US Mexican border near Juarez, some of the murdered girls were missing body parts.
Verify ….and hope and pray that this is not true
juarez
https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2003/05/02/organ-harvesting-claimed-in-killings/31278388007/
I would as well, Wondering. History would say otherwise.
I bet Mr Putin knows.
Didn’t I read somewhere that they were selling the weapons on the black market and pocketing the cash? This is a complete waste of money and only adds to the suffering on the Ukrainians who aren’t getting filthy rich from all the USA Tax dollars. They just want all this to stop. What the puppeteers and the Puppet in the White House are doing is a crime against humanity. They know damn well the Ukraine can not win this and they are drawing this out . I bet that these Washington DC thieves are get huge kick backs from all this aid money.
This just in,
Jill, Joe and Hunter declare Ukrainian citizenship. When asked why, they say open borders and crime are ruining USA. And Ukraine is where the money is.
Relentless escalation.
Time and again saying we won’t do X because that is an act of war. Then doing X.
Call me stupid, but is any of this spending in Ukraine having to get congressional approval? If Republicans have the purse strings, are they allowing this to continue.
The idea of having some committee look into spending in Ukraine is beyond helpful, it needs to stop now.
The money was already allocated in the Defense spending budget Congress passed in December before the new Congress could gather and stop it.
Our great GOP leaders were excited to approve of this insane spending last year to help their friends in the defense industry.
Mitch McConnell. The Turtle has lost his phony shell.
He’s looking more like Richard Gere’s gerbil every day.
The Gerbil. Turtle no more.
Hell, what’s a couple of billion between friends? 😉
If there is money to made in the world off a conflict, our defense industry is going to be there.
I know full well that the only reason sloe Joe is at the helm was pure fraud, but there were many folks that voted for him. Sweet Jesus help me here…I’m so angry with those folks right now. Some were my friends. I thought highly of them! They are intelligent people! I’m sorry! I know I’m venting.
🤔It is the case with many of us in this country that family and friends are so susceptible to such manipulation.
✅️Be diligent and faithful where you can be with anyone who may receive such eye 👁 opening truth as delivered here.
😉I am also thankful for the many comments to Sundance’s posts 📫
It has been quite encouraging.
“They are intelligent people!”
Do you really consider them intelligent? Sounds like they were easily manipulated and willing to go along with the hate Trump crowd (that would be the anti-USA crowd).
I don’t intend rudeness toward them or you, but words need to mean something. I don’t not consider anyone who helped “elect” Joe Biden intelligent.
The Uniparty.
Politics conducted as an ongoing criminal enterprise. It’s not just for Democrats anymore.
We must arrest The Gerbil King. I know where he’s hiding.
I can see it in Adam Schiff’s eyes.
Deep state true believers are a cohort that has been created/weaponized against those who still believe in the Constitution. Theoretically, we should be tolerant of their opposing political beliefs. Sorry … they may be victims of their own inability to recognize propaganda and their natural inclinations to herd mentality, but they are sleeping with the enemy and aiding and abetting the destruction of this country. I blame them and shame them for allowing themselves to be unwitting instruments of political darkness.
If they voted for Biden then they are not intelligent. I know people who actually voted for him too, and I have lost all respect for them. Even now, they still won’t admit they were wrong. These are the same people who are triple vaxxed and laugh at me when I say that people are dying from the jab.
He can do this with no authorization from Congress?
Who needs Congress when you have Executive Orders and can issue Dictatorial Diktats?
Who needs spending limits when you have an infinite supply of “money” that can be conjured as digital bits out of thin air?
Impeachable by Death!!
That threesome picture reminds me of a scene from the movie “50 First Dates”….The Marine on the left seems to have his gaze focused…head turned just a fraction…
Whatever dirt Zman has on the bribem family, must be good.
When is CONgress going to put a stop to this?
Their hands are elbow deep in the money jar, there may be a lot of bluster but this will not stop without some brutal event that will eclipse the atomic bombs in WW2 Japan.
No!No! The US should not give anymore money planes missiles etc to Zelensky & Ukraine. I am very sad to say that as my heritage is half Ukrainian on my Mom’s side. We are heading for WW3
Sadly, I fear you’re right. They are behaving stupidly. The stupidity is further corrupted by the desperate vigor of self-serving motives. It’s worse than hubris. It’s hubris in a hurry.
They are not smart enough to play this game. The Dunning Kruger effect among the Bidenoids is real and endangers us all. The likelihood some errant thing as insignificant as an untimely and crucial autocorrect error will set a cascade in motion is getting more likely with each escalation in rhetoric and agonism.
We’re locked in their vortex of stupidity. They are too vain and too guilty to do anything but play it through.
That’s what frightens me.
From stupidity to fission in 12 minutes or less.
This madness must stop now. How do we sit back and let this crap go on day in and day out. We are sheep being led to the slaughter.
It’s just more wasted money
Daily Report from Ukraine War
So, another $220 million for The Big Guy?
The amount is so small, the people behind this are pretty much screwed. IMHO.
FJB Fixing Hunters problems with taxpayer laundry money sent to Ukraine, thief’s do what thieves do.
I know this has been reported for some time now, but this is wrong…….
https://visitukraine.today/blog/1345/ukrainian-refugees-in-the-us-will-receive-a-pension-and-health-insurance-details
Ain’t that special.
If you were to watch a video of organized street thugs looting a jewelry store in a classic smash and grab operation and suddenly close your eyes and picture a bunch Of Ivy League guys in business suits instead of guys in hoodies and you would would get the picture of what is happening To our country.
The more you look into the comparative analogy the more similarities you would see.
UniParty sending another 2.2 billion in weapons to Ukraine.
There, I fixed it for you.
The vast majority of Republicans in Congress are fully on board.
Found in the bin… 🙁
Had an issue with one of the words, but I edited.
I did not vote for my tax dollars to be spent for this.
Anyone else?
Why doesn’t FVZ print his own funny money instead FJB doing it for him?
They must continue to protect their Bioweapons Labs. Criminals, all of them, murderers, theives, Cons, the worst of the worst.
The pedo in charge desperate for WW3 to commence.
With the news of Yelensky sending document destruction letters maybe another reason Biden is compromised by China and Ukraine
They know their gig is just about up so their speeding thing up.this is money laundering at the highest level.
Metin2
The bioweapon scam allows zelensky to print money and get free munitions.
Thanks, obama.
Ya’ll realize why the Ukrainian flag is yellow and blue don’t you?? Because yellow and blue make green $$$. Just like taking a piss in grandma’s toilet after she puts in the blue puck. Our dollar is flushing down as well.
But let me cheer you all up, my calendar just popped up informing me tomorrow is the first day of Black History Month!
Published last week …
https://asiatimes.com/2023/01/all-is-not-well-for-ukraine/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
“All is not well for Ukraine
The delivery of tanks, advanced air defense systems and potentially long-range ground-launched bombs may be a response to Ukraine’s dire requests, but it also brings with it a new load of problems.
These hastily and urgently provided supplies indicate that all is not well in Kiev and that it is closer than ever to losing the war with Russia. These are not one-to-one replacements for equipment lost: Most of the delivered supplies aim to shift the fortunes of the war in favor of Ukraine.
… snip …
President Volodymyr Zelensky knows full well he has arrested most of his political opponents and silenced the media he dislikes, including some instances where his opponents have allegedly been liquidated by Ukraine’s secret police, the SBU.
But that won’t protect him or his colleagues if people in Kiev start to understand that Ukrainian defenses are folding.
… snip …
the administration and its allies keep claiming they are close to driving the Russians out of Ukraine – the latest such claim having come from Ukraine war supporter Boris Johnson.
If this claim were true, then all of the additional weapons slated for delivery to Ukraine would not be such an urgent need.”
Note that the above was written by Stephen Bryen. For a defense establishment insider like him writes an article like this does indeed suggest that all is not well in the Ukraine … and no amount of bandage aid is going to fix it.
Call in foreign troops and blame the failure on them. $2.2 billion for a bag of flaming doo doo. “Close to driving the Russians out of Ukraine” well then define Ukraine. Victory in war is safe and effective in a vaccine.
This feces-head comes over here to grift for huge sums of money that no way in Hell we should be giving to his country, and he wears his designer fatigues….
Just another slap in the face to pResident *Biden & Doctor Jill
This is insane.
How many senior and key people in the Biden Administration and Democrat Party are 1st are 2nd generation Ukrainian-Americans?
What is actually being purchased here? What is being covered up that they are fighting to hard to keep hidden?
I keep thinking about Alexander Vindman. How many of them are there?
😆 Before the conflict Zelinsky was only a millionaire. To-date, he is a multibillionaire. Hmm.
War is good.
The latest influx won’t make a difference. What’s heartbreaking is the US, EU and NATO will keep it going until every last Ukrainian is dead and Ukraine destroyed in its entirely. 💔🙏
The positive is Ukrainian nazis won’t be able to keep shelling citizens in Donbass, Donetsk, etc. Evil, corrupt neocons.
We are coming upon April 15th, should I just forward my *tax due* directly to Ukraine??!! This retired geezer is sick of paying taxes and this effed up g o v’ t. pissing it away.
Here’s the problems:
(1) Most of Ukraine’s GDP comes from the regions now occupied by Russians. Western Ukraine was broke before the SMO.
(2) They are conscripting every moving body in western Ukraine, so, their payroll obligations and pensions keep going off the books every day.
Fortunately, it might not be long now. But, they’ll find some way to launder money over there.
my new bumper sticker
Stop all War
Trump ’24
Can think of no better reason for Republicans to shut the whole damn US government down. Let the Billionaires at the Fed pay down our debt!
Pied Piper Zelensky and his followers will lead the world into a war that will end all wars, a nuclear war.