Posted on 03/12/2022 10:37:44 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
President Biden on Saturday directed Secretary of State Antony Blinken to provide $200 million in defense aid for Ukraine, including for military education and training.
Biden directed the funding via a memorandum authorizing a drawdown.
A drawdown is an order issued by the president to assist countries in an emergency without first seeking approval from a legislative authority or budgetary appropriations, according to a Department of Defense handbook.
Saturday's memo notes Blinken can use the aid for military training and to provide general "assistance to Ukraine and to make the determinations required."
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
You are trying to sell me something that NATO countries are not willing to do.
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Poland (NATO Country) certainly seems willing. So much so that they tried to enter this war on the coattails of the US by sending their migs to Ramstein.
Fortunately - the US said “No Thanks”.
Sure you can afford it, Brandon? Will it be pillows or blankets this time?
He could have transferred the billions of dollars in military equipment abandoned to the Taliban in August to Ukraine. But then the Taliban wouldn’t have it.
The whole sordid story.
Ukraine Worked With Democrats Against Trump
in 2016 to Stop Putin. The Bet Backfired Badly.
Real Clear Investigations ^
Posted on 3/10/2022, 8:11:28 AM by FarCenter
Six years ago, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, the Ukrainians bet that a Hillary Clinton presidency would offer better protection from Russian President Vladimir Putin, even though he had invaded Crimea during the Obama-Biden administration, whose Russian policies Clinton vowed to continue.
Working with both the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign, Ukrainian government officials intervened in the 2016 race to help Clinton and hurt Trump in a sweeping and systematic foreign influence operation that’s been largely ignored by the press. The improper, if not illegal, operation was run chiefly out of the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, where officials worked hand-in-glove with a Ukrainian-American activist and Clinton campaign operative to attack the Trump campaign. The Obama White House was also deeply involved in an effort to groom their own favored leader in Ukraine and then work with his government to dig up dirt on – and even investigate — their political rival.
Ukrainian and Democratic operatives also huddled with American journalists to spread damaging information on Trump and his advisers – including allegations of illicit Russian-tied payments that, though later proved false, forced the resignation of his campaign manager Paul Manafort. The embassy actually weighed a plan to get Congress to investigate Manafort and Trump and stage hearings in the run-up to the election.
As it worked behind the scenes to undermine Trump, Ukraine also tried to kneecap him publicly. Ukraine’s ambassador took the extraordinary step of attacking Trump in an Op-Ed article published in The Hill, an influential U.S. Capitol newspaper, while other top Ukrainian officials slammed the GOP candidate on social media.
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Shades of getting sucked further into Vietnam. Arms, training and advisers. and when that came up empty. Boots on the ground. Never learn
Exactly.
Can someone make a meme of Zelensky as Tattoo?
“de plane, de plane!”
Not only Clinton, but all the usual grifters, profiteers, and phony charities.
I see that group that advertises as Christians and Jews 100 times a day on FOX. They’ve ditched their old commercial, feeding elderly Jews in Siberia, to feeding elderly Jews in Ukraine. They are right on it.
What kind of fools fall for these scammers?
It’s getting worse than the handsome, eligible Nigerian Prince who needs you to send him $50,000 ASAP, or he will be killed.
You didn’t ask me, but this is what I think will happen:
Zelensky will be assassinated. Whoever takes over the reins will cave in to Putin’s demands.
Ukraine will be Russian again.
Putin will be the most-
feared man on the planet.
Biden will die in bed in Delaware due to aspirating his chocolate pudding.
From your lips to God’s ears.
Exactly. More money and javelines prolongs this mess and guarantees more icitizens are killed.
Sweden (and Finland) have NATO ambitions.
To improve their bona-fides, have Sweden “deliver” Poland’s MiGs to Ukraine.
Nobody could blame Finland if they did the same.
Thanks for posting that link. It should be the script for the next Dinesh D’Souza movie.
The $200 mill is bribe ........ gives Bidung carte blanche to write the narrative......
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Having never served heist now the UKraine war hero.
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