Posted on 04/22/2022 6:00:05 AM PDT by GonzoII
WASHINGTON – The first U.S. 155mm howitzers from the latest $800 million military aid package for Ukraine have arrived in Europe as American troops there begin training Ukrainian forces on the artillery, a senior U.S. defense official said Wednesday.Some – but not all – of the 18 howitzers and 40,000 artillery rounds that the U.S. is sending Ukraine as part of the aid authorized April 13 by President Joe Biden have arrived in Europe as the U.S. delivered another four flights of military aid during the past 24 hours, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
In that time, U.S. troops have begun training some Ukrainian forces on how to use the American howitzers, the official said. The training is expected to last “about a week."
The official declined to say where in Europe the training is happening, but said it is not occurring inside Ukraine. After completing the instruction, the Ukrainian troops will return to the fighting and teach other troops how to use the American howitzers.…
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We have no obligation to get involved
***We have a gigantic MORAL obligation, written right into the treaty we signed: in order to get nuclear nonproliferation right. Otherwise every tinhorn dictator in Africa will acquire nukes. It was the right thing to take those nukes off their hands, so it’s the right thing to honor that agreement. Don’t you CARE about nuclear nonproliferation?
in this fracas between Cyrillic speaking cousins.
***We signed the agreement. We are obligated to “respect” borders and sovereignty as they were in 1994. You don’t mind being a country that no one else can trust, a country of betrayal. You’re the one who’s a hooot here.
Oh, can I mention that I had a TS/SCI clearance too?
***Then you would know how important nuclear nonproliferation is. That’s how I know that this kind of assertion of yours is pure bullshiite.
Cyrillic is the alphabet letters and not the spoken language so it is not kosher to call them “Cyrillic speakers”. My wife is a Ukranian Russian speaker and her accent when speaking English is “thick enough to cut with a knife” (as Jack Benny described his Dad’s Yiddish accent).
Well our guys are being inched closer.
There’s gonna be some really p*ssed off people if DC manages to involve Americans in a direct conflict with Russia, among them me.
Meanwhile, what are other NATO countries doing?
Little Slovakia is sending Migs, the Czechs are sending and repairing tanks, Brits are sending weapons (I don’t remember the specifics!) as are others, even Turkey is selling them armed drones. Easy for the ex-Warsaw Pact nations to get rid of old inventories, now they can buy western made arms.
By which you mean you don't like it but it's the truth.
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