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US to send Stryker vehicles to Ukraine in new $2.5 billion package
The hill ^ | 01/19/1023 | Ellen Mitchell

Posted on 01/19/2023 5:36:41 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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Why not make it 2.5 billion in weapons and a villa in France..🙄
1 posted on 01/19/2023 5:36:41 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’d hold out for Davos.

One could rent it out for the annual WEF event and live well for ever more.


2 posted on 01/19/2023 5:40:05 PM PST by Paladin2
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3 posted on 01/19/2023 5:40:41 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (Statute of Limitations is going to elapse on Hunter Biden )
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Guess we are about to get some idea about how the Stryker will hold up in near-peer combat.
4 posted on 01/19/2023 5:44:10 PM PST by jeffersondem
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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?


5 posted on 01/19/2023 5:47:51 PM PST by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: jeffersondem

It’s a big sandbox for the military Industrial complex to field test hardware.


6 posted on 01/19/2023 5:50:59 PM PST by CapandBall
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To: ChicagoConservative27

"Stryker! Stryker! Stryker!"

7 posted on 01/19/2023 5:52:31 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Renfrew

Your post makes no sense. We did not send the Afghans anything.


8 posted on 01/19/2023 5:52:39 PM PST by Fungi
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To: jeffersondem

It’s way better than a Toyota pickup, but at > $5 million it should be...


9 posted on 01/19/2023 5:53:52 PM PST by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: CapandBall

NATO is planning on fighting to the last Ukrainian is dead and the American taxpayer is broke.


10 posted on 01/19/2023 5:54:44 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (Germans are bat-crap crazy for cold showers, high energy bills, and boiled turnips.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A billion here, two billion there … in a couple of centuries it adds up to real money. /s


11 posted on 01/19/2023 5:55:26 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Stupidly is a moral problem, not an intellectual problem. )
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“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


12 posted on 01/19/2023 5:59:09 PM PST by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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It’s a 2017 article. That was when we were still in control and the Afghan army was on our side.


13 posted on 01/19/2023 6:02:26 PM PST by Fungi
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To: jeffersondem

The Stryker never struck me as making all that much cents.

Better than an upgraded Hummer likely.


14 posted on 01/19/2023 6:04:53 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Fungi

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.


15 posted on 01/19/2023 6:06:35 PM PST by Renfrew (Muscovia delenda est)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://mises.org/library/living-reality-military-economic-fascism

Spread the word


16 posted on 01/19/2023 6:07:56 PM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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Strikers were built primarily for COIN type ops, not so much slugging it out in a near peer battle.


17 posted on 01/19/2023 6:18:49 PM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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considering probably only 10% will reach the troops, and 90% will be on the black market, it won’t be a game changer.


18 posted on 01/19/2023 6:20:19 PM PST by davidb56
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we gave it to the Afghan military, then when Afganistan fell, we left it there for the Taliban.....


19 posted on 01/19/2023 6:22:30 PM PST by davidb56
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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.


20 posted on 01/19/2023 6:22:39 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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