An interesting set of details amid a few reports on Ukraine, with one very interesting White House announcement under section 621 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA).
First, as previously discussed within the year-end National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) there was a supplemental addition of $300 million more for Ukraine.
(VIA CBS) – The Biden administration Wednesday announced a $250 million military assistance package for Ukraine.
The aid package — the final of 2023 — will include arms and equipment, including air defense munitions, anti-armor munitions, ammunition for high mobility artillery rocket systems, and more than 15 million rounds of small arms ammunition, a State Department spokesperson said to CBS News.
“Our assistance has been critical to supporting our Ukrainian partners as they defend their country and their freedom against Russia’s aggression,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement, urging Congress to “swiftly” approve further aid to Ukraine. (read more)
Then, there’s something rather interesting….
Remember how we’ve talked about Ukraine being somewhat of a money laundering operation; and the entire series of events being akin to “world war Reddit” without any visible ‘boots on the ground’ war correspondent reporting; and the highly visible structure of the CIA running the operation from Foggy Bottom with the Dept of State controlling the outcomes… Remember all that?
Now, check out this little slush fund:
WHITE HOUSE – “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 621 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (FAA), I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the authority under section 614(a)(1) of the FAA to determine whether it is important to the security interests of the United States to furnish up to $20 million in assistance to Ukraine without regard to any provision of law within the purview of section 614(a)(1) of the FAA.” (link)
Who/what is that $20 million for?
Curiousor and curiousor….
POLITICO – “With U.S. and European aid to Ukraine now in serious jeopardy, the Biden administration and European officials are quietly shifting their focus from supporting Ukraine’s goal of total victory over Russia to improving its position in an eventual negotiation to end the war, according to a Biden administration official and a European diplomat based in Washington. Such a negotiation would likely mean giving up parts of Ukraine to Russia.
The White House and Pentagon publicly insist there is no official change in administration policy — that they still support Ukraine’s aim of forcing Russia’s military completely out of the country. But along with the Ukrainians themselves, U.S. and European officials are now discussing the redeployment of Kyiv’s forces away from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s mostly failed counteroffensive into a stronger defensive position against Russian forces in the east, according to the administration official and the European diplomat, and confirmed by a senior administration official.
This effort has also involved bolstering air defense systems and building fortifications, razor wire obstructions and anti-tank obstacles and ditches along Ukraine’s northern border with Belarus, these officials say. (MORE)
So, the official narrative has shifted from ‘winning‘ to ‘stalemate‘ to the more recent, ‘lose less’ and prepare for “giving up parts of Ukraine to Russia.”
Hmmm… 🤔What’s the DoS/CIA extra $20 million for, again?
Comrade Suspicious Cat remains, well, suspicious….
The Heist Continues…
Too much blood money yet to be laundered, I guess.
“……to determine whether it is important to the security interests of the United States to furnish up to $20 million in assistance to Ukraine.”
Stop right there.
The Big Guy will get his cut 🤑
In Hell, like all of his kind.
With interest no less.
Why anyone would do this is beyond my comprehension.
I think after I read your post, I sent mine. Here’s to both of us.
Ukraine warns of pension and salary delays without western aid (ft.com)
Important safety tip for everyone.
Hold your wealth in real things.
Awww, how terrible! Tie those purse-strings and stop this insane depletion of our economy! Think — they say Social Security will run out of funds to support those of us that paid into it our entire lives!
Crimea freaking river (in Russia).
Any politician who is pushing to fund foreigner pensions while we still have homeless veterans should be shot.
Hookers and blow.Fast pay-off of any of the boys who looks like they may be getting squirrelly.
Down payment to Black Rock which I believe has the concession on “rebuilding” Ukraine…
I would be happy if most of the money was for hookers. better than cia propaganda efforts.
Distinction sans difference?
Use that money to send convoy buses of illegals to Wash. Dee Cee!
Walkin’ around money.
“Using my legal authority, I hereby give state the authority to decide if they want to dispense money against the law.”
Never forget that FJB waived PDJT’s executive Rights that were there during PDJT’s presidential term.
F ing thieves.
Throwing money that does not exist down a hole that has no bottom.
you sound sore that the usg is running a racket and devaluing your life and labor.
I’m chapped about last year’s tax bill, all things considered. If they can just create trillions out of thin air, why come after a teacher for thousands assessed on unrealized phantom income?
You betcha!
Maybe there is a need for legal defense funds?
“The truth of the matter,” certainly since 2014 and probably long before, has always(!) been about exactly one thing: “MONEY.”
The “international movers and shakers” within DC have never cared in the slightest about the human cost of anything they have ever done. And this is simply one more example. If hundreds of thousands of Ukranians (and Russians) are tonight without their father, their brother, their son, they do not care. As long as the latest wire transfer cleared the bank on time.
“You belong to your father, the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.”
Oh boy, you said some words!
Love of money
&
“International(ists)” and their father, the Devil.
Touché, man!
I’ve got neighbors starting hateful arguments over – $1.47! And “you owe me $3.00!” I said, what’s going to happen when the stock market crashes and there IS no money?
And we’re on digital currency and cash is illegal?
Amen, well said!
So beautifully well put Mike.
Spot on, sadly.
John 8:44 is the Scripture I was thinking of too.
Something like Satan’s horns melting into just mere glue comes to mind when I read that. All of them are BROKEN and they know it. What I don’t get is why they continue to pretend it isn’t?
Going now to find the Bob Dylan song “Everything is Broken.” I love to hear a song that is music to my inner ears. If you catch my drift…
Here are the lyrics:
https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/everything-broken/
Wow! Sure feels that way!
“You got to serve somebody. It may be the devil or it may be the Lord, but you got to serve somebody.” Bob Dylan.
I’ve always found that passage chilling.
And He was speaking to the Pharisees, the non-Levite ‘priests’ from ‘commoners’ when He said that.
After ‘they’ claimed they (and implying their forefathers) had never been in bondage.
How could ‘they’ have been of the “Sheep” if they had never been in bondage in Egypt, Assyria, or Babylon?
For those with eyes to see and ears to hear.
There are many who are both blind and deaf, BK. And shockingly to me, a great portion consider themselves earthly shepherds of His flock.
I spoke to one of those just today. I was flabbergasted at his willingness to pretend, still yet.
Eccl.10:19
You can wine me
And you can dine me
But the MONEY talks.
The truth of the matter is, the truth doesn’t matter to Biden.
Amen! So when the statue of Lucifer is unveiled and all cheer is that the good devil or bad devil? Ya know confused of the terminology and wording. Like pronouns, queer, gay or sodomite? Pedophile or minor attracted person??
woodchipper will make a huge comeback very soon.
Don’t worry. The Ukrainian nazi’s will take care of Z at the appropriate time. His life expectancy is measured in months not years.
The current mayor of Kiev, Klitschko is making noises.
Along with Zalushny and Arestovich.
20 million to secure his residence and pay around the clock bodyguards?
“Hmmm… 🤔What’s the DoS/CIA extra $20 million for, again?”
10 million to justify keeping the Great and Powerful Zelenskyy in power.
10 million to justify removing the Evil and Weak Zelenskyy from the third planet in the solar system.
Doubtful! The Zeester likely already has a billion or more stashed, a measly few million would be insulting. $20M fresh bribe or kickback cash for those seeing the end in sight
He bought two super yachts. I thought it was a joke when I read the names, but the joke is on us for funding them.
Hey! You forgot Joe’s cut!!
Fake war in Ukraine no problem but it was near impossible for Trump to get a few million to build a wall to prevent the invasion of the United States. Only one of those invasions actually happened.
Well, at least the amount of money given to Ukraine begins with an “m” instead of a “b” as in millions vs billions. That’s something right if one were wanting to look on the bright side?
The money will be for the means and wherewithal for attacks by Ukraine against Crimea and the Russia Black Sea Fleet that the CIA, MI6, and NATO have been overseeing and directing in hopes of forcing Russia into a ceasefire and/or “talks” in which the US and NATO will betray any agreements made while claiming “victory” that they have stopped Russian aggression.
It’s 10% for the Big Guy!
Interestingly, if you do the math, you are correct.
NDAA had $300 million.
White House releases $250 million
plus the mysterious $20 million.
That’s a total public record of $270 million. Out of $300 million.
The difference? $30 million. Somewhere?
Which is oddly and coincidentally, exactly 10% of the original.
What’s the likelihood this coincidence has been in every spending/budgetary measure since 2021?
Great question
You hit the nail on the head!
Suggest you check who voted yes for the 300 million. Then their voting record.
D.C. has become little more than a conspiracy of thieves.
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Install a Clown, Expect the Circus
GREAT PICTURE! Very appropriate.
I pray every day for Donald J Trump! Our Country appears to be lost in the desert…..we desperately need him!
Loot while the looting is still good, apparently.
WRING THAT LAST BIT of Squeeze out of the CASH COW
( kinda’ Looks like ‘ole Joe )
Remember that shipment of sniper rifles supposed to be sent to Ukraine but the French seized them somewhere in the Middle East? Yeah the US Government doesn’t remember it either.
How do I get in on this? I’d be happy just get my paid-revenue back.
Well, in the grand scheme of things, that $20M is a drop in the bucket to what Prigozhin stung them for.
So, now we’ve gotten it out of the way that Ukraine is a CIA operation, then that means Joe’s cut and all of that of Congres comes from ‘them.’
The extortion ‘control’ angle.
All roads lead to (Langley) ‘Foggy Bottom’ of the Swamp.
SAF???…
“Mysteroius explosion” in Iowa
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/mysterious-fireball-explosion-spotted-iowa-has-left-authorities/
Brown paper bag futures are UP!
Doesn’t sound good or legit to me , I think they are all crooks, stealing the taxpayers money!! How much of the past millions have helped ? it just goes on and on and they need to prove it to the American taxpayers that this is legit otherwise NO WAY!!! Biden is corrupt and so is Ukraine what else do we need to know , JUST SAY NO!!!
But the feds want to know everyone of YOUR deposits over $600!
To them, a million dollars is a rounding error. For us, they want to know about deposits AND SALES over $600. If you sell something/s on eBAY, FB Marketplace, Etsy, Poshmark etc then they had to report your sales to the IRS. In the meantime, you need to gather up proof that the $600 was not your profit.
0hedge is reporting Patriot missile systems being sent to Ukraine from Japan. Japan had previously refused, but recently “changed their minds”. Ike must be dizzy by now in his grave
More war for Zelensky. More bribes for Biden.
A very nice pad in Bermuda?
Ten percent.
Amen, well said!
Suspicious cat looks like a Russian Blue.
thats SD’s big boy.
That’s Rado Thomas, who chose his family very very well.
The white house embarrassment and always still an imbecile, is so criminally corrupt, that he openly keeps sending taxpayer money to ukraine, as part of his money laundering and political payoff operations.
the 20 mil is boomerang money back into the ccp-democrat/rino uniparty coffers to over throw the next election…
Extreme shysters Ruby Freeman and her daughter Shae Moss need the 20 million to pay the 9 lawyers for prosecuting President Trump. Who says the 20 million will be used the way THEY say it will?!!??? I don’t believe their lying tongues. 300 milliion could be used for whatever these deep state crooks need, couldn’t it? Who knows if Ukraine will ever see a penny of it!! And if they know what’s good for them they’ll never complain!
We are talking complete and utter crooks here. That’s how debauched things have gotten.
I think they like that kind of irony. Using Giuliani’s money to cheat more!
Which is why postage is GOING UP again in January! Those ballots don’t print and ship themselves, ya’know!
2024 election is in need of additional funding, or maybe that’s the price Biden demands for dropping out of the race.
Since when does the so called “US President” give authority to “someone” else the “choice” to send money to anyone? So he is NOT the DECIDER(DICTATOR) IN CHARGE ANYMORE? Well, dumb question actually, because Brandon never has been. Praying that in 2024 I will be very entertained. Already reading portents that oh, this is MAL-GOVERNMENT is so over already. As the character “Chancy Gardener’ says in the book and movie “Being There” by Jerzy Kosinski, “I like to watch.” Figure we are only seeing the previews of what’s to come.
And I live with two cats.
Another 15 million rounds of small arms ammunition means a severe shortage coming to the U.S., and just last week it was announced that there will be a critical shortage of gun powder next year. How convenient.
The Russian Blue is most appropriate. Nice touch.
I think that is SD’S kitty that is waiting for him.
Comrade Suspicious Cat is Russian Blue.
Da.
Where is the $20M going to? When will any honest reporter start ask the right f…king questions? I know …Rhetorical.
the usg’s abulity to counterfeit money is the root source of all kinds of evil.
shut up and be happy you are paying double for groceries so biden and obama inc can keep lining their vaults and build extra bunkers and safehouses.
Not only that, they keep forcing us to slave and pay 100% against our will. We’re paying to keep trash in charge in DC and our metropolitan areas, destroy our schools, allowing borders to be overrun, crumbling our infrastructure and conspire against us to limit our speech, our right to assemble freely, etc etc etc. I could go on but will say things I shouldn’t.
The day is coming to figure out how to quit paying these charlatans and grifters.
If the entrance to the tunnel in Delaware goes out to the sea, you know they have submarines to deliver drugs.
“Hmmm… What’s the DoS/CIA extra $20 million for, again?”
To assassinate Putin?
Or maybe to assassinate Zelensky? Dead men tell no tales after all.
Golden Parachutes from helicopters. Let’s get it televised
They need the Augusto Pinochet version of helicopter rides.
They can send $20m to me and I will also do absolutely nothing to resolve the situation. I’d do it for half that.
A final installment to the payoffs made to Ukrainian oligarchs during the course of this “war for freedom” … ???
They need the money to cheat in 2024! Amazing how they get away with it all!
The racketeering operation never stops.
The zelensky $$$ laundromat and pedo playground are back in business!
Bribem Biden
Remember White House criticizing anyone who suggested negotiations. What’s changed?
Money talks?
Biden now looks to “Negotiated Settlement” to end to the Ukraine war. The lame stream media touts it as “Sanity in the White House”
They need the “humus” of Ukraine so when they plunder the food supply and usher depopulation Ukr can still feed the elites. There is also Iron and Lithium deposits in the Donbass. MNCs already have contractors on the ground.
I guess they are finally running out of innocent Ukrainians to throw into the meat grinder.
I’m pissed our corrupt gov’t stole our money (again) but outraged they got so many people killed doing so.
Hmm…I could accept a stalemate for a few $$$$$$$$$$$$$.