Posted on 04/21/2021 7:12:04 PM PDT by Mariner
The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously advanced a bill on April 21 to deliver military assistance to Ukraine, including lethal weapons, to help the Eastern European country counter Russian aggression.
The Ukraine Security Partnership Act would provide Ukraine with up to $300 million per year in military assistance until 2026, $150 million of which is subject to conditions. It needs to be passed by both the House and Senate and be signed by President Joe Biden to become law.
Kyiv is asking the West for more support amid a Russian military buildup near Ukraine’s border and in occupied Crimea. The United States and NATO say the Russian troop movements there are the largest since 2014, when Moscow illegally annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula and backed separatists holding parts of the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk in a conflict that has killed more than 13,000 people.
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What would Ukraine do to preserve those "billions of dollars in gas transit fees"?
Very strong incentive to sabotage the political environment around Nordstream 2.
Where are the flying suicide murderers when you need one ?
So to preserve Ukraine’s grift fees and outright theft from the gas lines, we are opposed to Nord Stream 2?
DC is so hopelessly corrupt it’s truly a farce.
So the politicians are going to put our lives on the line for their enrichment.
The previous 4 years of Trump have shown us just how corrupt this trash is. Trump was taking away their money schemes by not getting involved.
Biden fixing to pay off his buddies - again.
Surely the current budget already has all of the funds necessary.
Not our fight now.
We’ve got our own problems.
Putin will make his move long before this happens.
Another utter waste of money with the underlying purpose of meddling in the affairs of Eastern Europe.
Biden will send in the tranny brigade, with the plan to make Putin’s soldiers laugh themselves to death.
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