Posted on 09/30/2022 4:12:12 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
The Pentagon is preparing to overhaul how the United States and its allies train and equip the Ukrainian military, reflecting what officials say is the Biden administration’s long-term commitment to support Ukraine in its war with Russia.
The proposal would streamline a training and assistance system that was created on the fly after the Russian invasion in February. The system would be placed under a single new command based in Germany that would be led by a high-ranking U.S. general, according to several military and administration officials.
Gen. Christopher G. Cavoli, the top American officer in Europe, recently presented a proposal outlining the changes to Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, the officials said. Mr. Austin and his top aides are reviewing the plan and are likely to make a final decision in the coming weeks, senior U.S. officials said, adding that the White House and the Pentagon favored the approach. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe confidential discussions.
Just as the Pentagon has committed more than $16 billion in military aid to Ukraine — a combination of immediate shipments from stockpiles as well as contracts for weapons to be delivered over the next three years — the new command signals that the United States expects the threat from Russia to Ukraine and its neighbors to persist for many years, current and former senior U.S. officials said.
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The new command, which would report to General Cavoli, would carry out the decisions made by the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, a coalition of 40 countries that the Defense Department created after the Russian invasion to address Ukraine's needs and requests. Senior military officials from the member nations met in Brussels this week.
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Eff the pentagon. Eff Ukraine. Close our borders. So sick of these neocon scumbags worried about everyone else but the US.
Why?
Why not a new command to defend our borders, instead of the Big Guy’s catamite breeding camp?
The United States Proxy Command
The only thing to change on the border, is Biden’s policies.
The same border agents, physical barriers that were there under Trump,
are still there. The border was under control under Trump.
They have been ordered to stand down and allow our nation to be over run.
The Ukraine situation has nothing to do with it.
I would question how long the Germans will take in allowing this on their ‘holy’ ground.
Except the money being sent. They have no business sending our tax dollars to corrupt European regimes.
Resources devoted somewhere else and not domestically always matter.
WE are in a war with Russia. An undeclared war, but a war nonetheless. I can’t stand Putin, and I think aggression has to be stood up against. That said, I also think being honest is very important, and we need to be honest with ourselves about the fact that we’ve entered this war.
“Why not a new command to defend our borders, instead of the Big Guy’s catamite breeding camp?”
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Hear, hear!
The Pfentagon!
It’s not just Belarus, this is WWIII we’re in now.
Happy?
How much money will that cost us?
>> I can’t stand Putin... That said...
No need to qualify a rational POV. Those that would otherwise give you sh*t are braindead a-holes.
Still don’t care.
Tired of the, “I support the latest thing!” crapfest, while politicians and their families get rich off of kickbacks from defense contractors, which bills my grandkids for the tab.
While our country falls apart! We have 5 MILLION more illegals who poured across our border unimpeded since FJB was installed!
And Rs like Mitch, who could have stopped it, hide, and continue to make millions more!!!
And idiot Useful Idiots follow the laser pointer like cats on speed.
Ugh.
Where did you run off to seminar poster Timber Rat?
I call it, “The Military Industrial Complex Command”.
MAC-U. Conjures up bad recollections of a prior MAC. This time the other side has nukes. Worse it’s leader is demented. More worse, so is ours.
The new command will oversee the world’s largest money laundering operation where military “aid” will be returned as campaign cash for democrats and cronies.
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