Posted on 01/19/2023 5:36:41 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The United States on Thursday announced a huge $2.5 billion weapons package for Ukraine, including 90 Stryker combat vehicles, the first time Washington has committed the system to Kyiv.
The new lethal assistance — announced a day ahead of a gathering of top Western military officials for the Ukraine Contact Group in Germany — includes hundreds of armored vehicles, thousands of artillery rounds and new Avenger air defense systems pulled from U.S. weapons stockpiles.
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I’d hold out for Davos.
One could rent it out for the annual WEF event and live well for ever more.
We sent the Afghans helicopters, tanks, and armored vehicles.
Yet somehow we can’t trust the Ukrainians with them?
If Biden have given Ukraine real military aid this war would have been over months ago.
Who is paying him to slow walk assistance?
It’s a big sandbox for the military Industrial complex to field test hardware.
"Stryker! Stryker! Stryker!"
Your post makes no sense. We did not send the Afghans anything.
It’s way better than a Toyota pickup, but at > $5 million it should be...
NATO is planning on fighting to the last Ukrainian is dead and the American taxpayer is broke.
A billion here, two billion there … in a couple of centuries it adds up to real money. /s
“Your post makes no sense. We did not send the Afghans anything.”
What? They received billions in arms from us. One example:
Afghan Air Force receives first Black Hawk helicopters
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-helicopters-idUSKCN1BU160
It’s a 2017 article. That was when we were still in control and the Afghan army was on our side.
The Stryker never struck me as making all that much cents.
Better than an upgraded Hummer likely.
Yes, that is what I mean.
We trusted the Afghan Army with vastly more advanced weaponry than Biden has been willing to give Ukraine.
If we gave Ukraine half of what we gave the Afghans the Russians would be fleeing home by now.
Strikers were built primarily for COIN type ops, not so much slugging it out in a near peer battle.
considering probably only 10% will reach the troops, and 90% will be on the black market, it won’t be a game changer.
we gave it to the Afghan military, then when Afganistan fell, we left it there for the Taliban.....
considering probably only 10% will reach the troops, and 90% will be on the black market, it won’t be a game changer.
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Heh. 10%? Really?
I doubt a single bit of any of it will ever cross the Ukraine border. All of it resold before it even leaves our own ports or whatever storage depot they’re in.
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