Posted on 10/22/2024 10:45:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The United States has agreed to give Ukraine $800 million in military aid that will go toward manufacturing long-range drones to use against Russian troops, Ukraine’s leader said on Monday, fulfilling a longtime Ukrainian goal of getting Washington to buy weapons from manufacturers in Ukraine instead of primarily in America.
A Pentagon official, speaking anonymously because of the sensitivity of the issue, confirmed the move, which signifies a change in U.S. policy aimed at shoring up Ukraine’s ability to fight the war with its own weapons and on its own terms.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in a briefing with journalists Monday that the money was just the first U.S. disbursement for Kyiv’s weapons production and long-range capabilities.
The decision to support long-range drone production in Ukraine may be a kind of consolation prize for Mr. Zelensky, who — despite repeated pleas — has so far failed to persuade Western partners to lift restrictions on using their long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia.
The decision also shows a change in tactics for the West.
The United States has given more than $61 billion in security aid to Ukraine since Russia launched a full-scale invasion in February 2022. But it has long resisted giving money directly to Ukraine for weapons, instead portraying its support for Kyiv in the war as a way to support American companies and minimize the potential for corruption. U.S. military aid packages to Ukraine have shrunk recently, partly because of concerns about dwindling Pentagon stockpiles.
In April, Denmark became the first country to join a Ukrainian campaign called Manufacturing Freedom, which aims to raise $10 billion for the production of Ukrainian weapons. The Danish government agreed to...
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.....U.S. Agrees to Give Ukraine Millions to Build More Long-Range Drones.......
NO!!!!
Putin’s reluctance to use nukes have probably been reached over this announcement.
Given the most likely outcome of the war, when all is said and done, Russia will probably get some expensive, state-of-the-art drone factories paid for by the US taxpayers...
“U.S. Agrees to Give Ukraine Millions to Build More Long-Range Drones”
Thank GOD!
Was gonna say== rathole, but toilet is even better. What in the actual hell are these morons doing to our country?
Speedy- you just missed the exit. You would drag all of us down with this losing continuous scam of a “war”. How much are your pals skimming off this scam. They have no army, none left. They murdered the willing patriots and a whole lot more. Zelensky is padding his Swiss accounts, plural.
You realize that the “Peace Agreement” will be written with America agreeing to pay hundreds of Billions of dollars to Rebuild Ukraine.
Phase II of the money-laundering operation.
Thank GOD!
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Speedy, you’ve escaped from that thread where you’ve been institutionalized?
And nothing for the people in the Carolinas!
The corruption in this US proxy war is (almost) unfnbelieveable !
umm, no, I guess not
So if Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea give Billions to other countries to kill American troops they aren’t really at war with us?
So far no.
““Despites its denials at the time, the Soviet Union was intimately involved in the Korean War. The contribution made by the Soviets was vital. They provided diplomatic support, strategic and grand tactical planning, including the planning of the invasion of South Korea, and essential logistical support. They supplied and trained the air forces of China and North Korea. Soviet pilots flew aircraft with Chinese or North Korean markings and after the war claimed to have shot down over 400 UN aircraft.”
“Thousands of Russian served in Vietnam
“Starting in 1964, North Vietnamese fighter pilots and anti-aircraft gunners were being trained in the Soviet Union, with Soviet advisors also being stationed in North Vietnam. Early on, when the North Vietnamese troops were still unfamiliar with the new Soviet anti-aircraft batteries, Soviet crews manned the guns themselves and these crews did, in fact, shoot down US planes. One such Soviet battery reportedly downed six US planes.”
“Soviet involvement was not confined to anti-aircraft crews. There were also widespread reports (though these were never confirmed) that Soviet snipers had embedded with NVA units and infiltrated South Vietnam to test their new SVD Dragunov sniper rifles. Witnesses described these snipers as white men with blue eyes.
Beyond South Vietnam proper, but still within the unofficial theater of the war, Soviet GRU Spetsnaz special forces took part in at least one, and likely more, ground combat operation. In 1968, a team of ten Spetsnaz attacked a covert US base on the Cambodian-Vietnamese border, destroying three of the then-new US Cobra attack helicopters and actually stealing another. This operation was confirmed only after the fall of the Soviet Union, and if there was one Soviet special forces mission, there were almost certainly more.”
“From 1968 on, the Soviet Union provided the vast majority of the military and economic aid that North Vietnam received. They supplied their communist allies with food, petroleum, transport vehicles, iron, steel, fertilizer, arms, and ammunition. Most critically, the Soviets supplied all of this as aid rather than loans (as the Chinese had done early in the war). This eased the economic strain on North Vietnam and further advanced their war effort.”
A great chorus celebrates as we pour billions into Ukraine but the same chorus demands we pinch pennies when it comes to Israel - why is that?
Yeah, they did it. So what? We didn’t go to war over it and we’re not going to war with Russia over Ukraine.
I said it better in that response to post 14.
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