US may send additional military advisors to Ukraine

RBC Ukraine ^ | 4/20/24 | Kateryna Serohina

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The US believes that Russia appears to be gaining momentum in the two-year conflict. They are considering the possibility of sending additional military advisers to the embassy in Kyiv, reports Politico.

Pentagon spokesperson Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder stated that advisers would not have a combat role but would advise and support the Ukrainian government and armed forces.

"Throughout this conflict, the Department of Defense has reviewed and adjusted the U.S. presence in Ukraine as security conditions change. We are currently considering the possibility of sending several additional advisers to enhance the Defense Cooperation Office (ODC) at the embassy," Ryder said in a statement to Politico.

[Karl Spooner]

[Alberta's Child]

Add the draft (simple majority vote by our warmongering Congress) and it’s off to the races.

Uh, no. LOL.

[Reverend Wright]

Lots have tried. Going way back.

Russian start to their wars is always a mess, but they finish strong.

[lightman]

It’s Dejong-vu all over again.

[MinorityRepublican]

Russian start to their wars is always a mess, but they finish strong.

That's the Russian way. They always have to relearn how to fight wars. Every time.

[dfwgator]

It’s that cursed Russian capacity for suffering.

[linMcHlp]

Correct

[Texan5]

MrT5 was there-so was the friend I work for and several of my friends, 3 cousins, etc. I don’t think any of us who remember Vietnam want to see this movie again...

[Bob Wills is still the king]

War with Russia would more likely trigger some kind of undesirable exchange of big weapons. A civil war would be the last thing on anyone’s mind.

[dfwgator]

I think there would be a considerable part of the military and civilian population that will not fight, so what happens when the government comes to try to force them?

[M Kehoe]

Good Morning Vietnam!!!

5.56mm

[Kazan]

The US believes that Russia appears to be gaining momentum in the two-year conflict.

Duh! Bring back Captain Obvious.

[Texan5]

I’d actually be pleased if instead of military type advisors, a contingent of accountants/CPAs were being sent to monitor and manage where OUR money is being spent-and on what, by whom, etc...

[Mouton]

Been there, done that and not again. FJB.

[dfwgator]

Or IKEA.

[GOPJ]

You’re helping to buy villas in Provence. But, unfortunately, you won’t be living in any of the villas you helped pay for.

And Christmas shopping sprees in Europe for 'the wives' and cash for Ukrainian 'public servants' and housing for many.. . etc etc etc and I'm guessing a little money for kickbacks. Happens in places like that.

[Zhang Fei]

Ukraine ping

GOPJ: [And Christmas shopping sprees in Europe for ‘the wives’ and cash for Ukrainian ‘public servants’ and housing for many.. . etc etc etc and I’m guessing a little money for kickbacks. Happens in places like that.]

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Has corruption hived off a chunk of aid? Sure. But that’s true of *any* government program, and even more true of *any* foreign aid program. The main question isn’t whether 100% of the aid has been spent appropriately but whether it has been effectively spent, overall. The goal of the aid is to have Ukraine hold the Russians back. So far, they have not only held the line, they have retaken territory the Russians overran in the first months of the war. In that respect, they have spent the money well, whatever leakage has occurred through corruption.

Note that annual aid to Ukraine is about the same as annual aid to Iraq and Afghanistan individually. And the War on Terror involved desultory small-scale guerrilla engagements in which equipment did not undergo the kind of punishment it has absorbed in Ukraine’s high-intensity war. That it is holding a far tougher enemy, the Russians, back with the same amount of funding, whereas Iraqis and Afghans needed direct US participation to keep a bunch of part time guerrillas at bay is testament to Ukrainian grit and ingenuity.

[PGR88]

The US believes that Russia appears to be gaining momentum in the two-year conflict.

This can't be true. Two FR Zeepers just this morning told me, in no uncertain terms, that Russia was bogged down in Donbas, and losing the war.

[PGR88]

Putin is reestablishing the Russian Empire.

Whatever.

We've got the neo-Marxist global comintern right here in Washington DC.

[TheBattman]

That was exactly what I thought when I saw the headline...