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U.S. Will Ship More Arms to Ukraine, Officials Say
The New York Times ^ | January 19, 2023 | Eric Schmitt

Posted on 01/19/2023 7:28:00 AM PST by Timber Rattler

The United States plans to send Ukraine nearly 100 Stryker combat vehicles as part of a roughly $2.5 billion shipment of arms and equipment that is expected to be announced at a meeting of allies in Germany on Friday, two U.S. officials said on Thursday.

The decision to send the Strykers, which could be delivered within weeks, comes just days after Britain committed to sending Ukraine 14 Challenger battle tanks and the United States, France and Germany agreed to send dozens of armored infantry fighting vehicles, including 50 Bradley Fighting Vehicles. Germany has also been under pressure to authorize the delivery of German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine.

Colin H. Kahl, the U.S. under secretary of defense for policy, told reporters on Wednesday that Ukraine needed more mechanized infantry and armored personal carriers to punch through heavily fortified Russian defenses.

“The Russians are really digging in,” he said. “They’re digging in. They’re digging trenches, they’re putting in these dragon’s teeth, laying mines.”

“To enable the Ukrainians to break through given Russian defenses,” he added, “the emphasis has been shifted to enabling them to combine fire and maneuver in a way that will prove to be more effective.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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To: jacknhoo

You just lost your argument, son.


41 posted on 01/19/2023 11:07:32 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six
You must be a Democrat, because by your logic

Next time, I'll add the *sarc* tag.

42 posted on 01/19/2023 11:09:01 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Timber Rattler

CIA gives us this news via MSM to try to normalize it, so when the USA is attacked by Russia, we will think that it is not our US versus Russia provocation by proxy-war that caused it.

Do you get all your propaganda news from MSM Intelligence outlets like NYT and WAPO?

It is a steady diet of BS which I guess you neocons like, since you post it all the time.


43 posted on 01/19/2023 11:11:10 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: ought-six

I don’t have an argument. You’re ogre level brain dead not to see that already.


44 posted on 01/19/2023 11:14:02 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: timza

You might look into the massive amounts of Western training that Ukraine has received for years and is currently receiving.


45 posted on 01/19/2023 11:15:58 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Timber Rattler

They’ve been taking an arm and and leg.

It’s a ripoff, Jim


46 posted on 01/19/2023 11:24:12 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: ought-six; jacknhoo
the insults are to be expected from the Russian shills, but's it's a useful proxy, because - if that's all they got, then they don't have any battlefield success

otherwise, they'd be talking about that, wouldn't they??

so if any Russian shills want to hurl more insults,




47 posted on 01/19/2023 11:27:20 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Timber Rattler
Vladimir Putin: "Russia annually produces three times more air defense missiles than the U.S., and overall we manufacture about as many surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) as the rest of the world combined."

Link to full remarks: http://shorturl.at/uwOT4

48 posted on 01/19/2023 11:45:50 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Timber Rattler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts-BVW6ujT8

INTERVIEW: #Ukraine is throwing in troops to face certain death defending #Bakhmut

"INTERVIEW:#Kyiv installed three defensive lines but the Russians are gradually grinding through them, explains #GonzaloLira. #Soledar, which has fallen, was the penultimate town of the penultimate defence line

49 posted on 01/19/2023 11:50:43 AM PST by Kazan
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“Next time, I’ll add the *sarc* tag.”

These days, it can be necessary; unless one knows the poster.


50 posted on 01/19/2023 12:13:54 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: jacknhoo

“I don’t have an argument.”

No kidding.


51 posted on 01/19/2023 12:14:54 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Timber Rattler

I wonder if anyone has made the casual link between US spending in the Ukraine to the inflation rate?


52 posted on 01/19/2023 12:59:12 PM PST by Sam Gamgee
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