Posted on 03/16/2022 10:17:00 PM PDT by blueplum
President Biden on Wednesday announced $800 million in new lethal aid for Ukraine, bolstering U.S. support to the ex-Soviet nation as it ends the third week fighting Russian forces.
The latest tranche — part of the nearly $14 billion Congress appropriated for Ukrainian aid which Biden signed into law a day prior — brings the U.S. government’s total pledge of military assistance for the embattled nation to $1 billion in the past week and $2 billion since Biden took office. ...
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question: excepting the 40 million rounds for small arms, do we get this back if Ukraine wins or does Russia get all this when Ukraine falls like Afghanistan?
Congressional friends and family will make sure the money comes back to the US.
What I’d like to know is if Russia loses - does Ukraine get to keep Russia’s forex reserves as reparations?
I saw reports that Russia has already captured several hundred javelins
I wonder who they will give them to? Iranians? Cuba? Mexican cartels?
The Afghans got $28 billion in arms ... and they never gave Hunter a job.
Glaring deficiency:
I don’t see any feminine hygiene products for the Ukrainian soldiers.
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Wow oh my.
Nice collection of Javelins.
I could use one.
Concealed carry, of course.
Lol
Correction. The US left behind $85 BILLION of military hardware and pallets of cash in Afghanistan.
Exactly and possibly more. This is one of the subjects of my dissertation.
I can see that it’s Russia first for you.
Your Russian circle jerk is getting pathetic.
The pallets of cash will find their way into the DNC Coffers.
If vietnam and every conflict after that taught us anything. We will get them back. They will pointed right back at our sons and daughters.
We also get the joy of funding another pipeline war for Europe and whatever deep state the US likely installed in Ukraine under obama in 2014.
And the warm feeling every night before you close your eyes that you are on the same side as Soros, obama, biden, europe and the globalists.
Congress passed this bill pretty quickly but building a wall on the southern border was just too much I guess.
Just get a big coat.
Wo how many weapons and jeeps and trucks have we left abandoned in places or gave to the side that was gonna lose and our enemy was gonna get their hands in the equipment.
Over the years, I’d guess 100 billion.
I could be VERY Wrong in either direction.
I just made the number up from what I remembered about Afghanistan ...and this 15 billion :)
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