Why....just why...we have no interest in Ukraine. As far as I’m concerned, they would/could be better off under Russia.
I am tired of this crap too. I do not care about Ukraine and who crosses their borders.
Don’t give them anything sophisticated ... the Russians will reverse engineer it for use against us.
Would it have been easier to drive the weapons from Afghanistan?
$200 million in defensive aid... Wow, Biden is really going all out to support Ukraine, while probably getting handouts personally from Putin just to put on a little show of resistance.
Biden has been letting Russians be his rump ranger as long as John Kerry has. I remember Biden and Tip O’Niell doing everything they could to accommodate the Russians as they sought to base their military in Nicaragua and started building an airbase in Grenada. Biden hasn’t changed, as he demonstrated by cutting our pipelines and opening the way for Russia’s. He might bluster a bit for the sake of looks in an election year, or to see if Putin is willing to pay more cash to Hunter for access, but Biden isn’t concerned about containing Russia, he would just prefer it if Russia could take Ukraine quietly and covertly so no one is disturbed while watching Netflix, or better yet, wait until after the next election.
You don’t “start” wars by convincing the Russians to mass troops on Ukraine’s border. Seriously, that idea is just stupid.
Weapons?
What, compact weather stations to be disbursed around the country to monitor the threat of the dreaded climate change?
The Hill does not understand the difference between bullets and weapons. They just write what the White House sends them to create the WH messaging narrative for domestic consumption. What they sent was 200 million of ammo because sending weapons would be too upsetting to Putin. I guess bullets this time are better than blankets last time.
I would wager all that stuff is coming out of our military units supplies. I remember when during Viet Nam we had to turn in all our unit’s weapons so they could be sent to the South Vietnamese...50 M1 carbines, 2 grease guns and 2 M1911’s. Gone.
200 tons of old Soviet hsit from the Baltics, Estonia in particular, or newer American stuff that they have no training on.
Stupidity.
But we gave 80 billion in weapons to Afghanistan. To terrorists.