In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Zelensky thanks Biden for ‘unprecedented’ support in latest call , tlozo wrote: spending money for Ukranians so they can go to the movies, buy new clothes and eat out. US sent $275 million in weapons.
Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces the authorization of a Presidential Drawdown of security assistance valued at up to $275 million to meet Ukraine's critical security and defense needs. This authorization is the Biden Administration's twenty-seventh drawdown of equipment from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.
Capabilities in this package include:
• Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
• 80,000 155mm artillery rounds;
• Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems equipment;
• Counter air defense capability;
• High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs) Ambulances and medical equipment;
• Approximately 150 generators;
• Field equipment.
You're distorting the facts, again. Surely you know that military funds are not necessarily hardware but are cash funds.....You only listed the hardware.
Note that long-term military support consists of FUNDS that the Ukraine CAN use for weapons/security....and Congress just declined to audit how the Ukraine is actually using said funds. And Economic support (15 billion so far, another 10 billion proposed) is part of these generous gifts of taxpayers money, which goes directly to the Ukrainian government.So in the chart below, there's cash opportunities in military support (navy blue) and economic support (green) and this is just one way the money escapes auditing. Claim you bought missiles and write yourself a receipt for them and when asked to prove they exist, point out that they were blown up 2 months ago. Rinse and repeat.Note militaryRemember, the Ukraine is the corruption capital of the world, with the US and Ukrainians having well-established means of 'moving money around.' For example, Ukrainian investigators documented the theft of IT training funds the US awarded the Ukraine. When there's a will, there's a way. The US and the Ukraine are dirty together and they have their ways.
- Long-Term Military Support ($10.4 billion): This consists of money that Ukraine can use to buy new weapons, mostly from the United States but also elsewhere. The problem is that these need to be manufactured, so there is a long delay. As a result, this likely funds postwar rebuilding the Ukrainian military, not current operations. (Because the USIA funds both long term and short-term support, the split is an estimate.) Confusion sometimes arises because DOD announcements state that United States has “committed” certain amounts of military equipment to Ukraine― for example, a recent fact sheet stated that “in total, the United States has committed more than $18.5 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration.” This combines the short-term and long-term support.
- Economic support to the Ukrainian government, which goes directly to the Ukrainian government to allow continuing operations since the war has disrupted its own mechanisms for raising revenue.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/aid-ukraine-explained-six-charts
