Posted on 01/22/2022 12:35:07 PM PST by dynachrome
The U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, announced on Saturday that part of a $200 million “security assistance” package for Ukraine’s military had arrived in the country early that morning.
“The donation, which includes close to 200,000 pounds of lethal security assistance, including ammunition for the front line defenders of Ukraine, demonstrates the United States’ strong commitment to Ukraine’s sovereign right to self-defense,” the U.S. embassy said in a post on Facebook.
The embassy noted that more than $650 million of security assistance had been committed to Ukraine by the United States in the last year, and more than $2.7 billion since 2014.
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Not keeping it real stealthy, are they?
Families of US Embassy personnel in Ukraine ordered to begin evacuating as soon as Monday: officials
Big package with a red ribbon is opened and out jumps a smiling stripper, former lover of Hunter Biden, sent by Hunter as a gag gift.
New Military vehicle dealerships opening soon.
only the trafficking tunnels of the US Senator’s four
children are stealth and protected.
Xiden and the Pentagram could care less about the
anything except their bank accounts and their beloved CCP.
Afghanistan wasn't about saving the Afghan people. It was about big companies profiting along with Congressmen and women and others connected to this big outlay of American cash.
Ask Liz Chaney how much her daddy and the Bush family have profited from war in the middle east and continued support to Iraq.
I'd love to have a nickel of every dollar Halliburton made supporting the troops over there. I'd be a multi millionaire.
Stand that Ukraine strawman up real tall with lots of high tech gadgets. Give Putin something to aim at.
Corporate Criminals, playing with tanks.
lethal security assistance, nice term, I’ll have to remember it.
We gave 80 billion in weapons to the middle east.
I guess we send more to Afghanistan than to Ukraine!
What about our southern border? Where’s that meme?
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I think Obama started it. At least I hadn’t heard this term used like that before.
He refused to send missiles or guns because they are “lethal” and supposedly that is an important difference.
Went even that far that sent Humvees and had the autocannon taken off before.
“The donation, which includes close to 200,000 pounds of lethal security assistance. . .”
I’m surprised they didn’t state the amount in ounces - it would have been a bigger, more impressive number.
Why not just say 100 tons was delivered or 10 big truck loads.
OK you naysayers. If Putin succeeds with Ukraine, all the Baltic states are next. Warm water ports have always been a Russian objective, even before the Bolsheviks took over.
This is not just a Game of Thrones, it’s the real thing. After the Baltic states, Poland by way of Belarus.
Russia by itself has a piddling economy. Only significant hard currency export is oil and gas. Russia doesn’t have a lot of good farm land, either. Ukraine was the breadbasket of the old USSR, and Emperor Putin wants it back. In fact he wants the whole of the USSR back.
Unlike Afghanistan, Ukraine’s people are historically Christian, and ever since the Holodomor have been pro-West. Abandoning Ukraine would be as much of a geopolitical crime as the abandonment of Czechoslovakia to Hitler was.
What about our southern border? Where’s that meme?
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That is the meme, rotate it 90 degrees clockwise
Nice!!
Thx!!
U.S. Assistance to Ukraine -— US Embassy in Ukraine Overview
U.S. assistance to Ukraine since 2014 totals over $3.7 billion, plus three $1 billion sovereign loan guarantees.
For FY 2020, Congress has appropriated $698 million: $448 million for State/USAI programs and $250 million for USAI, including $50 million for lethal assistance.
The $448 million appropriation for State/USAI programs includes approximately $285 million in the development accounts and approximately $163 million in the security accounts.
To combat COVID, thus far the United States has provided over $26 million in assistance in new and redirected funding.
This funding will prepare laboratory systems, activate case-finding and event-based surveillance, support technical experts for response and preparedness, bolster risk communication, and support water, sanitation and hygiene interventions for the most vulnerable populations in eastern Ukraine.
Assistance will also counter disinformation, bolster media’s health reporting capacity, expand the government’s ability to continue operating under pandemic-related restrictions, and support Ukraine’s economic recovery.
U.S. assistance priorities:
Security: U.S. programs provide technical assistance, training, and equipment to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and security services to defend Ukraine’s territorial integrity and enhance border and internal security.
Countering Russian Aggression: U.S. assistance works to demonstrate the positive effects of national-level reforms for Ukraine, combat the spread of disinformation, and improve Ukraine’s commercial and energy linkages with Western economies.
Anti-Corruption and Rule of Law: Programs support law enforcement and justice sector reform and governance reforms to increase accountability and effectiveness of governance.
Energy Security: Programs improve Ukraine’s energy security by diversifying supply, establishing competitive markets, accelerating legal regulatory reforms to combat corruption, and ensuring compliance with EU standards and commitments.
Economic Growth: Programs support pro-growth reforms such as an improved land market, privatization, increased competition, and transparent corporate governance. U.S. assistance also supports the growth of small- and medium-sized enterprises.
Cybersecurity: Programs help Ukraine protect itself against Russian cyber-enabled attempts to destabilize it. This includes efforts to support Ukraine’s cyber strategy and legal framework, strengthen incident response capabilities, and harden critical infrastructure.
Humanitarian Assistance: Since the conflict began in 2014, the United States has provided nearly $246 million in humanitarian assistance to date for conflict-affected populations.
Assistance includes emergency shelter, provision and distribution of relief commodities, protection of children and the elderly, psychosocial support, water infrastructure repair, and livelihoods and business development support for internally displaced persons.
Election Support:Programs strengthen Ukraine’s election system; increase citizen participation; increase representativeness and responsiveness of political parties; support effective civic oversight; and promote issue-focused media coverage.
The United States is the largest contributor to OSCE’s Special Monitoring Mission, a comprehensive source of information on military and humanitarian developments in areas of eastern Ukraine controlled by Russia.
The United States supports the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, an important source of information and advocacy for human rights in Crimea and eastern Ukraine.
Please visit each section/agency’s page for further information.
What could go wrong?
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