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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This is for Ukraine’s victory party.
They are TOTALLY kicking Russia’s behind.
Just effing annihilating them. Making them their female dog.
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Stolen elections cause WWIII but by all means Trump should stop whining about it and focus on real issues...../s
The GOPe trying out this message are the same ones that want NATO to join this war.
How many times do you have to be told that cluster bombs are not a war crime?
“Is using them a war crime?
The use of cluster bombs itself does not violate international law, but using them against civilians can be a violation. As in any strike, determining a war crime requires looking at whether the target was legitimate and if precautions were taken to avoid civilian casualties.”
“The part of international law where this starts playing [a role], though, is indiscriminate attacks targeting civilians,” Human Rights Watch’s associate arms director Mark Hiznay told The Associated Press news agency. “So that’s not necessarily related to the weapons, but the way the weapons are used.”
It’s everybody else’s money.
Not theirs. Just yours and mine.
From the article it is mostly ammo. I don’t see how politicians can skim 75% off the top when the package is ammo. What are they going to do with it?
Our tax dollars being fed into the new laundry machine and filtered to the accounts of its supporters
A measly ten billion bought largess beyond Zelinsky’s wildest dreams. Perhaps now he can get out of those Castroite rags and dress like the mountebank he truly is.
Why not 400 Trillion? Ukraine’s border is worth every dime we own!!!
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.
Yes it’s called banking military aid package money.
Ukraine banks are fat and happy doing better then ours.
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