Posted on 09/16/2022 1:29:36 PM PDT by Its All Over Except ...
The Biden administration has just announced yet another new weapons package for Ukraine worth $600 million, which now brings to total US military aid pledged since the start of the conflict to $15.1 billion.
Crucially, in this case the arms are being sent under the presidential drawdown authority, which allows the White House to take arms directly from US military stockpiles for use by foreign allied forces. The administration confirmed it was the 21st time it drew from Pentagon stockpiles.
The Guardian details, “Joe Biden authorized the latest assistance using his Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the president to authorize the transfer of excess weapons from US stocks.” The report stresses, “The White House said it was the 21st time that the US’s defense department has pulled weapons and other equipment off the shelves to deliver to Ukraine.”...
President Zelensky is now going straight to Congress and the US arms makers themselves, which is somewhat unprecedented:
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(Excerpt) Read more at zububrothers.com ...
Presidential Drawdown Authority exists for unforeseen emergencies. If the Ukraine conflict ever qualified as such, it no longer does. Congress has met hundreds of times since the intervention commenced. There is no basis for continuing to rely on emergency authorities. This is an abuse.
Sending excess Himars to Ukraine will keep a Democrat President from saying “Man we have a lot of these laying around, we need to invade someone”
The Invasion at the Mexican border is close range enough we wouldn’t need HIMARS if it came to that.
Its better they are being used by non-US servicemen.
The good people of Camden AR will probably get a new Ford dealership and a remodeled Walmart out of the deal. Ukraine gets to keep its country and China learns invasions only work on paper.
Everybody wins.
Once again the Biden administration will need to replenish what we have given away using more taxpayer funds...
Then Republicans are questioned as to why we need to spend more on the military...
The new IRS has to get a stockpile of weapons from some place to coral the rabble.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I thought NVDs were ITAR materiel? Are we just ignoring ITAR?
And i’m not even ULTRA MEGA MAGA. 😎👍
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