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Ukraine war: Blinken says US 'rushing' weapons to the front lines
BBC via Yahoo ^ | May 15th, 2024 | Tiffany Wertheimer - BBC News, Washington

Posted on 05/15/2024 4:31:06 PM PDT by Mariner

The US is "rushing ammunition, armoured vehicles, missiles [and] air defences" to Ukraine's front line, Anthony Blinken has said.

During a trip to Ukraine, the US secretary of state announced that $2bn would be spent to speed up delivery.

His comments came as Russian advances forced Ukrainian to retreat from several villages in the Kharkiv region.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has cancelled all his foreign trips to concentrate on the new incursion.

Speaking in Kyiv on Wednesday, Mr Blinken said weapons would be rushed to the front lines to "protect soldier, to protect citizens".

He said that the air defence systems, for which Ukraine has repeatedly pleaded for, was "a matter of both the urgency and priority".

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Ukraine
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The US taxpayer will now pay an additional $2billion "expedite" charge.

To WHOM, exactly?

1 posted on 05/15/2024 4:31:06 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

More money laundering.....


2 posted on 05/15/2024 4:33:56 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Mariner

🚨BREAKING: US ANNOUNCES $2 BILLION DEFENSE FUND FOR UKRAINE

US Secretary of State Blinken announced a $2 billion fund to bolster Ukraine's defense industrial base.

The fund will help Ukraine get weapons and strengthen its own production capacity amid a new Russian ground… pic.twitter.com/ImaTGbit4o— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 15, 2024


3 posted on 05/15/2024 4:35:42 PM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Mariner

4 posted on 05/15/2024 4:37:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mariner

So it costs $2 billion to “speed up delivery”? What?!
TWO THOUSAND MILLION DOLLARS??

Something’s really wrong here. Does the Big Guy get his 10%?


5 posted on 05/15/2024 4:38:51 PM PDT by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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Something’s really wrong here. Does the Big Guy get his 10%?

10% for his reelection campaign fund.


6 posted on 05/15/2024 4:40:04 PM PDT by DEPcom (DC is not my Capitol after Jan 6th lock downs.)
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To: Mariner

War mongers. Why is my country, the U.S. so damned pissed off that the Ukies are being attacked but couldn’t careless that the American people are being overrun by the scum of the earth?


7 posted on 05/15/2024 4:42:50 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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While sitting on money for weapons to Israel.

I guess BB didn’t send the 10% check like by demand it


8 posted on 05/15/2024 4:44:28 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Mariner

I’m gonna change my name to Ukraine...........


9 posted on 05/15/2024 4:45:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Deo volente

What’s the postage for USPS overnight on am M1 Abrams, anyway?


10 posted on 05/15/2024 4:45:20 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Because our government knows that scum will vote to reelect them and we won’t.

If Trump somehow manages to overcome the cheat one of his first things should be massed deportations of everyone who’s not here legally. The longer they are here the more likely they will drop anchor. Speaking of that that’s another thing that needs to be fixed the assumption that spitting out a baby in this country makes them a citizen.


11 posted on 05/15/2024 4:46:22 PM PDT by cableguymn
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I’ve been seeing quite a bit new equipment getting blown up while enroute to the front.


12 posted on 05/15/2024 4:53:50 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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Probably eventually gonna have our guys personally carry them there ...


13 posted on 05/15/2024 4:57:04 PM PDT by farmguy ( )
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Yup! It’s coming, if it isn’t already being done.
Russia has 500,000 troops ready to advance, Ukraine has shopkeepers & school teachers ready for slaughter.
Any money or arms we send at this point, is going right into Putin’s hands.
Not one more red U.S. taxpayer’s cent should be going toward this inevitable loss. It’s over.


14 posted on 05/15/2024 5:06:33 PM PDT by Fireone (Who killed Obama's chef?)
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15 posted on 05/15/2024 5:09:48 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Mariner

Reminder: US foreign policy is *not* helping “our guys” win. It is keeping profitable wars going.


16 posted on 05/15/2024 5:11:16 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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Put the Blinkin “thing” in a cannon and fire at the Russians. Won’t bother them a bit, but it’ll go a large way toward raising our country’s morality and intelligence. Hey Blinkin, room temp. Imagine it. Become it. STAT.


17 posted on 05/15/2024 5:15:09 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To WHOM, exactly?

Why, the Expediters, of course. Them guys.

18 posted on 05/15/2024 5:18:33 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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“one of his first things should be massed deportations of everyone who’s not here legally.”

Don’t stop there, aren’t our prisons about 1/3 illegals, something like that. Give them a parachute and air-drop them where they came from. Well we don’t to be mean, throw in a couple MREs.


19 posted on 05/15/2024 5:20:10 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute. )
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Reminder: US foreign policy is *not* helping “our guys” win. It is keeping profitable wars going.

I would have scoffed at that statement a few years ago, but not after what happened in Afghanistan.

I hope Japan, Taiwan, Israel, and any other nation that thinks they can count on us for anything has a viable Plan B in place.

20 posted on 05/15/2024 5:24:42 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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