Posted on 01/31/2023 4:51:46 PM PST by ransomnote
WASHINGTON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - The United States is readying more than $2 billion worth of military aid for Ukraine that is expected to include longer-range rockets for the first time as well as other munitions and weapons, two U.S. officials briefed on the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
The weapons aid is expected to be announced as soon as this week, the officials said. It is also expected to include support equipment for Patriot air defense systems, precision guided munitions and Javelin anti-tank weapons, they added.
One of the officials said a portion of the package, expected to be $1.725 billion, would come from a fund known as the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which allows President Joe Biden's administration to get weapons from industry rather than from existing U.S. weapons stocks.
The USAI funds would go toward the purchase of a new weapon, the Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) made by Boeing Co (BA.N), which have a range of 94 miles (150 km). The United States has rebuffed Ukraine's requests for the 185-mile (297-km) range ATACMS missile.
The longer range of the GLSDB glide bomb could allow Ukraine to hit targets that have been out of reach and help it continue pressing its counterattacks by disrupting Russia further behind its lines.
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Hmmm...Brandon's handlers and NATO sure want to get WWIII kicked off. Losing control of the narrative so time to start the war...
Stuck on stupid.
Step by step
NeoCon’s think this is their big chance to get people to take them seriously again after decades of foreign policy disasters.
Biden’s War
Bring on the pom-pom wavers.
Braindead and company is hell bent on getting us into a world war. It’s the only way to instill a dictatorship.
“One of the officials said a portion of the package, expected to be $1.725 billion, would come from a fund known as the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which allows President Joe Biden’s administration to get weapons from industry rather than from existing U.S. weapons stocks.”
Congress could find away to cut off those funds.
No mas
Somebody needs to stop this madman. And I’m not talking about Putin.
They don’t have a clue about their end game here. The neocons, conservative warmongers, RINO’s, deep state and their beloved CNC BiteMe have no strategy here except to keep sending money and weapons to this corrupt, oppressively government, their next George Washington Zelensky. Over throwing the thug Putin is sheer fantasy and dangerously stupid.
We bitched and raised hell about the big lie of Russian interference in the 2016 election and yet we go out and try to over throw by hook or crook another government. We did it in the Ukraine in 2014, Egypt, Libya etc... why not try it against a major power and of course for anyone to attempt to interfere in US elections, why that is forbidden!
We are one miscalculation away from a shooting war with Russia. There are NO adults in charge in this fiasco.
Two billion dollars. What’s that, two pieces of hardware? /S.
Roger that. Biden is past stupid. Lunatic is mild.
The fruits of a stolen Presidency.
GTH, Joseph Stolen
Stuck on stupid.
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It’s as stupid as the never-ending covid injections. They will not stop.
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