US to send anti-aircraft Stingers to Ukraine

Stars & Stripes ^ | February 27, 2022 | Associated Press

[epluribus_2]

I’m not going to believe this press release from Biden until he also releases the date of delivery and the court or border ground locations. Then I’ll know it’s really him that ordered it.

[Clean_Sweep]

The o ly purpose of this announcement is so closer to elections they can say they helped Ukraine. The fact that Ukraine never received them won’t matter in the media.

[BiglyCommentary]

They need to surround Kiev and fire away. Peel off the outer ring.

[FlyingEagle]

If they really wanted to send a signal, they would sink Putin’s yacht. These missiles will hurt a lot of people, not Putin.

And Brandon probably doesn’t even know about what the Brandon Junta did here.

[tlozo]

I’m not clear on the military end game for Putin. Does he just keep marching across the eastern bloc until everyone’s his vassal? Bringing back the old gang

Once all these thousands of anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles reach Ukraine, the Russian army is marching nowhere.

[rktman]

Worked great in A-stan.

[Socon-Econ]

Anyone know how the USA can get them there at this late date — without getting into combat? If Biden had been doing anything more than virtue signaling, they would already be there.

[sit-rep]

once upon a time, this would be leaked info and a crime. now, low and behold, the stars and stripes is behind the trumpet... smmfh...

[Ben Hecks]

Will some (or many) of these end up in the hands of UNfriendlies?

That's entirely possible - one of the Stingers that Hillary sorted out in Benghazi ended up taking down one of our helicopters in Afghanistan. Maybe she still has a few left from that batch.

[LukeL]

Is this the Lend Lease Act 2.0?

[Karoo]

Now Biden decides to send weapons?

He’s slow. Biden is slow

[tlozo]

Anyone know how the USA can get them there at this late date — without getting into combat? If Biden had been doing anything more than virtue signaling, they would already be there.

All of western Ukraine is still free of Russians.

[Veto!]

Putin is not clear either. Ran out of brain cells and should be sent to the Funny Farm.

[Zhang Fei]

[Now Biden decides to send weapons? After the Ukraine capital city is surrounded by Russians.

Those Stingers will be intercepted by Putie Poots goons. As usual, Biden is a brain short and months late.]

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Lviv/Lemberg isn’t. Worst come to worst, they can move the seat of government temporarily out to Lviv, much as West Germany’s Bundestag was camped out in Bonn, as far from the front line as it was possible to get without ending up in Belgium. I think they were getting a sense of whether Ukrainians would fight. No point handing weaponry over to a government that was just going to give them to Putin. Now that we’ve established they will resist, it’s time to give them everything they want, up to and including leftover Migs and Sukhois and perhaps even Patriot batteries. We can replenish the inventories of NATO allies with F-16’s and F-15’s.

[ifinnegan]

10% for the big guy.

[JonPreston]

Leave it to Demented Joe to ruin my last few years :)

[oldasrocks]

Someone should tell biden that Russia is going to release his and Hunters business dealing in Ukraine. biden would have the supplies there tonight.

[null and void]

From puissant to pissant in one orgy of vote fraud.

[KobraKai]

Ted: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We’re bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We’re coming in from the north, below their radar.
Elaine: When will you be back?
Ted: I can’t tell you that. It’s classified.

[Paul R.]

Oh, come on. You think the Russians would not know anyway?

I do agree this is very late in the game. Those Stingers should have been close to Ukraine’s’ border before the big wave of Russian troops went in. After all, we are told our intel knew about this invasion well in advance, no? (And the intel was correct.)