Posted on 03/03/2025 12:56:01 PM PST by marcusmaximus
The Trump administration has stopped financing new weapons sales to Ukraine and is considering freezing weapons shipments from U.S. stockpiles, moves that threaten Kyiv’s ability to fight at a critical time in its battle against Russian forces, current and former U.S. officials said.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio in recent weeks signed a waiver to exempt Ukraine from the ban Trump imposed on foreign assistance, but senior State Department official Peter Marocco hasn’t sent a required letter to the Pentagon to allow the aid to flow to Kyiv, current officials said.
Withholding the letter has resulted in a de facto halt to new weapons deals for Ukraine using the U.S. Foreign Military Financing system, which is managed by the State Department and pays for weapons for some countries, according to current and former U.S. officials familiar with the situation.
Ukraine is able to get weapons from the U.S. through several means, including Foreign Military Financing, which provides loans and grants for nations to buy weapons from U.S. defense companies, and the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which allows the Pentagon to buy weapons for Kyiv but is currently out of funds. However, presidential drawdown authority, which allows the Defense Department to pull directly from its own stockpiles, has been the most significant tool for arming Ukraine.
On Monday, the White House is holding a meeting to consider suspending shipments using the drawdown authority, a congressional aide and a second person familiar with the matter said.
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There are over $3 billion in funds to draw from existing stockpiles that have been authorized by Congress but not allocated by the administration, the congressional aide said.
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Its time to take the car keys away.
Time for Europe to tote that bucket for the foreseeable future
Long overdue we shut this mess down hard and let the little dictator pound sand!
If that happens, Zelensky will be forced to negotiate and end to the war.
hey, Zelenskyy, FAFO!
France, Canada and Britain have said they will fill the gap, so let them.
Euro taxpayers are about to get fleeced.
Hopefully that gets them angry enough to rid themselves of their leftist governments.
If not they can enjoy the suck.
“U.S. Hitting Brakes on Flow of Arms to Ukraine”
>SARC< No doubt the EU can pick up the slack ...>/SARC<
The Trump administration has stopped financing new weapons sales to Ukraine...
Well, it’s not really a SALE if Trump has to finance it.
Does msm even read what it writes anymore?
If ukraine filled out an application with VISA for 1500 bucks, they would be declined.
Trump is exposing the WEF, London-Brussels EU socialists.
Let them run, and fund, their political schemes themselves, in the broad daylight - and let them suffer the consequences.
Is there going to be a leftist judge that tries to play commander in chief and tries to restore funding for Ukraine?
The rinos and Dems are hell bent to do anything that harms Trump even if it endangers national security and wastes more money.
Count on it.
Alternative leaders:
Zaluzhny, a failed general and extreme nationalist.
Poroshenko, a former president backed by the Maidan insurrectionists and Nuland neocons.
Yermak, Zelvis' personal aide.
Nobody else would dare mount a challenge, under the threat of being investigated and jailed by the SBU.
President Trump today:
◾️United States wants the fighting in Ukraine to be over soon, not for the war to drag on for years.
◾️President Zelenskyy needs to show more appreciation for the support of Ukraine by the United States.
◾️The minerals deal is not dead.
◾️Regarding US aid to Ukraine: a lot of things are happening right now. I could give you my answer and I could go back to the Oval Office and find out my answer is obsolete.
When they are paying for it, bleeding for it, dying for it, let’s see their ardor wax.
Europe! Europe! You’re the man!
If you can’t do it, well ....
Try some other Euroweenies with a “plan”!
And cash on hand....
Audit the Pentagon.
I’ve always hoped that broken stuff would self heal, it never does.
Zelenski is willing to continue to fight to the last American dollar. Got news for the little jerk, that’s coming sooner than he thinks.
I’m sorry for the Ukrainian people, but their leaders have either been dumb or corrupt. Z is both.
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