Posted on 12/21/2022 4:48:02 AM PST by Timber Rattler
President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are planning to meet at the White House on Wednesday, according to two sources familiar with the planning, in a Washington visit that is tentatively scheduled to include an address to a joint session of Congress.
Zelensky is already on his way to Washington, two separate sources said, for a visit that marks his first trip outside of Ukraine since the Russian invasion began in February of this year.
The visit to the White House, which hasn’t been finalized and has remained tightly held due to security concerns, will include a meeting with Biden and top administration officials and is planned to coincide with the administration’s intent to send the country a new defense assistance package. Biden will announce an additional $1.8 billion in security assistance to Ukraine during the expected visit, a significant boost in aid headlined by the Patriot missile systems within the package, a US official told CNN.
The new announcement will add to the nearly $20 billion in US security assistance provided to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began, and will come at the same moment US lawmakers are considering a sweeping government spending measure that includes an additional $45 billion in emergency assistance to the country.
The White House declined to comment on a potential visit or Biden announcement or new security assistance announcements.
Lawmakers are also planning for Zelensky to visit Capitol Hill to speak on Wednesday evening, though sources say the visit hasn’t been finalized as officials work through security preparations. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wouldn’t confirm reports Zelensky would be coming to the Capitol on Wednesday, saying, “I don’t know that that’s going to happen.”
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Yes, do you remember the short-lived discussion of a Peace Dividend? The War Lobby and the Defense industry led at that time by Bush #41, didn't want the Cold War to end. It would have meant the end of jobs, money and military intervention.
Bush didn’t even let Reagan’s chair cool off, before it was right back to “Business As Usual”.
And Biden isn’t Reagan, yet here you are diddling the Demented fool in public while cheering his foreign policy. Have you no shame, Piggy?
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for December 21, 2022:
- Pentagon admits Russia is gaining ground in Bakhmut; - Zelensky visit to Bakhmut mirrors similar visit to Lysychansk before it fell to Russian forces;
- Western media admits Russia has Ukraine outgunned 6 to 1 in Bakhmut;
- Claims that Russian losses are as significant as catastrophic toll Ukraine is suffering in Bakhmut does not reflect reality if Russia outguns Ukraine significantly;
- Bakhmut is a significant transportation hub and a crucial fortified position along one of Ukraine's last major defensive lines in the east;
- The fall of Bakhmut may lead to a similar breakthrough like Popasna;
- Russian forces appear interested in destroying Ukraine's military at Bakhmut more than taking the city itself;
Biden and Zelensky planning to meet
Now here’s what you do trade the cash for gold and the trail goes cold got it my guys will pick it up in your country.
Find a new home.
Is he at least going to to the piano routine for us?
Can you answer Jack, Mz. Zrattler?
Jack is blaming the wrong people. He needs to look at Comrade Putin for elevating President Zelensky by attacking Ukraine and trying to kill him and his government.
Jack is blaming the wrong people. He needs to look at Comrade Putin for elevating President Zelensky by attacking Ukraine and trying to kill him and his government.
Col. Douglas Macgregor: We can account now, as I pointed out in the op-ed, for about 540 000 troops, 1500 tanks, uh another three thousand plus uh armored fighting vehicles, hundreds of guns, a thousand rocket and drone uh strike systems, uh hundreds of fixed-wing aircraft and hundreds of helicopters.
The bottom line is that the Russians are now going to war and ukrainians are frankly on the ropes. All of their sophisticated equipment, their rocket artillery systems, what few they have left, are operated now by Americans and British contractors. They don't hav
So Ukraine is really in a lot of trouble and that's why Zelensky is working very very hard to convince everybody that we should give our last full measure for Ukraine, but it's not going to work and Ukraine is going to be destroyed and as we've seen from the new missile strikes the energy grid is almost completely gone, electricity is almost totally absent, water, food all the amenities that make life bearable are missing, and billions of uUkrainians are now leaving Ukraine because they cannot live where they are.
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