Posted on 07/21/2023 6:20:14 PM PDT by dynachrome
The United States plans to announce as soon as Tuesday a new military aid package for Ukraine worth up to $400 million, primarily comprised of artillery, air defense missiles and ground vehicles as Ukraine's counteroffensive grinds on, three U.S. officials said on Friday.
The U.S. is not including cluster munitions in this weapons assistance package, two of the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said. The U.S. first sent dual-purpose improved conventional munitions (DPICM) - a cluster munition fired from a 155 millimeter Howitzer cannon to Ukraine earlier in July.
Included in the package are several Stryker armored personnel carriers, mine clearing equipment, munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), munitions for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), anti-tank weapons including TOW and Javelin and munitions for Patriot and Stinger anti-aircraft systems, according to the officials.
The package was still being finalized and could change.
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The Democrats must have done some really awful things in Ukraine.
When does this end? Seriously. Bueller?
75% or more will be skimmed off by Biden.
Voodoo economics…
In May it was $1.2 Billion
Then another $375 Million
Last week it was $1.3 Billion
Now another $400 million
Pretty soon we’re gonna’ be talking real money
What about more cluster bombs?
It’s only criminal when the other side does it
10% for the Big Guy
Awesome - our previous billions have really paid off....
... oh wait.
@115Billion appropriated, maybe 80 Billion spent/transferred by now.
This all is munitions and equipment. No scope for fraud, unless it happened in the initial contracts. Which may have been decades ago.
Ukraine is not a Nato nation, and it is not one of the states in the US. Why is the US giving our states’ money to ukraine? We have some serious needs here that are going unfunded. This is nuts.
Russian Fronts, Criminal Gangs: US Couldn’t Account for Weapons Sent to Ukraine Last Year
Just send more.
This is what happens when voters keep electing people like Graham and all the other warmongers.
Get what we vote for.
About time huh? I REALLY don’t like these assclowns. 😠🖕
$200 billion just in PPP fraud.
An epic shitstorm is on the horizon. Things are going to get real ugly.
The fact that none of the Republicans wanted to look into Trump’s fraud accusations strongly implies most of them are into cheating themselves. Who knows if idiots like Graham really are the winners in their states all the time.
Turkey has been supplying cluster bombs since January.
“And they gathered to a Place called, Armageddon.”
Beezulbub posession
You have vastly larger domestic spending categories you can look at. I don’t know why you guys obssess so much over a minor expense in the context of the cosmically overgrown federal system.
Oddly enough, you didn’t care when the other side did it, and now you do.
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