Posted on 12/21/2022 3:45:15 PM PST by ransomnote
The Biden administration will send to Ukraine the most advanced air defense weapon in its arsenal, the Patriot missile system, a senior administration official said late Tuesday, marking the most significant addition to American military support for the government in Kyiv in months.
The Patriot is to be included in a new $2 billion package of weapons that President Biden plans to unveil Wednesday, marking the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington, said the official, who spoke to reporters on the condition of anonymity in advance of a formal announcement.
The visit, during which Zelensky will visit Biden at the White House and address a joint session of Congress, comes as Russia carries out a relentless campaign of airstrikes on Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and electrical grid, which has plunged much of the country into darkness.
Ukraine is to receive one Patriot battery, which has up to eight launchers each that hold between four and 16 missiles, depending on the type of munition used. U.S. forces will train Ukrainians to operate and maintain the system in a third country, probably Germany. “This will take some time,” the official said, “but Ukrainian troops will take that training back to their country to operate this battery.” It is unlikely that the air defense system will arrive in Ukraine before spring.
The new weapons package will bring the total amount of military support for Ukraine approved by the Biden administration to about $22 billion.
Zelensky has sought the Patriot system for months, as Russia carries out a barrage of lethal strikes that have extended well beyond military targets, according to U.S. and Ukrainian assessments, and left much of the country without electricity, heat and running water.
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I guess the Neocons are going to find out, the hard way, that our Gold-Plated defense systems only are effective against Goat Herders, even with NATO people operating them.
Anyway, not my problem, it is THEY who have to try to explain that their kid was killed in, yet, another ‘training accident’.
grrrrrrrr
Why don’t we stay out of Russia and Ukraine affairs.
Biden paying Ukraine what He owes them.. Blackmail?
It’s for democracy, right?
Just imagine the blackmail they have on Brandon. And Hunter.
How much taxpayer money for Ukraine went to Sam Bankman-Fraud?
Ironicly, I find myself agreeing with Omar and Jypal and other anti-war leftists on this. Strange bedfellows.
“Ironicly, I find myself agreeing with Omar and Jypal and other anti-war leftists on this. Strange bedfellows.”
I too, am PERFECTLY HAPPY, to side with Leftists who don’t want WW3 (mostly because of my kids and grand kids). And while I hated this bunch during the Cold War (when we had a real enemy), I WELCOME the fact that they understand that the ‘Russian Threat’ only exists in the minds of the NEOCONS, and their supporters here.
I’m so old I can remember when Biden’s boss, Barly, cancelled sending Patriots to the Poles and Czechs because the Russiand didn’t want it.
Yup...they got something big on the perverts
I guess we’ll know what happened when these systems are used against us in Somalia or some other sh**hole that we’re bombing.
Very well said!
That wont work. Because Raytheon is required by law to report political donations.
There are no such restrictions on Ukraine. Don’t you want Brandon and his fellow democrats to get donantion laundered through Ukraine?
Thanks, but it turns out that the Leftist Baby Boomers were MUCH MORE interested in war than the Conservatives, as we can see here, where ANYONE with a dose of sanity, would be TOTALLY AGAINST nuclear war with Russia, yet this bunch REFUSES to even to talk to Russia, so we get closer to that outcome, every day.
I guess the problem with this bunch (now Neocons) wasn’t the concept of Nuclear War, but instead, back then, that they wouldn’t be launching the missiles.
We’re being led into a war by a pack of raving lunatics. Watch Nancy’s interaction with the sweatshirt-clad Zelensky following his address to our Congress. Bizarre and fawning behavior by the leaders of the greatest and most powerful nation on earth.
Now I am really worried since Brandon has now agreed to give Ukraine Patriot missle system. That is a hugh escalation. I better start preparing to go in exile.
Was disgusting...too many Democrats are involved for this to be legitimate.
Tucker was fired up lol.
Agree. My BIL is a former ADA officer, and; he made millions with his own Govt Defense Corp. I asked him about the Patriots. He told me the latest version of the software that controls them is very highly classified.
Yep. And righteously so!
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