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White House: We’re Concerned About Having Weapons for Our Own Defense, That’s Why We Asked for More Money
Breitbart ^ | 10/22/2023 | Ian hatchett

Posted on 10/23/2023 6:42:34 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN This Morning,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said that President Joe Biden requested supplemental funding from Congress because the U.S. running low on the weapons it needs for its own defense is “a concern.” But “the United States military can continue to defend our national security interests all around the world.”

Co-host Phil Mattingly asked, “In the President’s primetime address, he talked about the aid he’s seeking for Ukraine, and how much of that aid is to basically refill American stockpiles. My question is, the state of those stockpiles right now, the state of where U.S. weapons stockpiles stand, with two wars — sending now two different types of shipments on a regular basis towards two U.S. allies, how big is the concern that the U.S. is dangerously low on what it should have for its own defense right now?”

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KEYWORDS: defense; foreignagent; liars; money; ukraine; ukrainelobbyist; war; weapons; whitehouse
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To: ChuckHam

Somehow, some of the weapons ended up in the hands of cartels.


21 posted on 10/23/2023 7:12:26 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We also drained the SPR.


22 posted on 10/23/2023 7:15:39 PM PDT by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: ChuckHam
"I wonder where all our weapons went? Can you answer the question Neocons and progs?"

I've brought up the fact on several threads, that by sending the majority of our stockpiled weapons to Ukraine, we've left ourselves vulnerable at home, especially in light of the fact that it would take time to get up to speed, to mass-produce the war machinery necessary if we were faced with an all-out war. Neocons claimed I didn't know what I was talking about. Frankly, I don't believe this country's manufacturers would ever cooperate, or fully organize, the way they did in WWII, in order to mass-produce enough military equipment to successfully support our troops in another World War. We won WWII because we had the will to provide by any means, what our troops needed to get the job done. That ain't happening today.

23 posted on 10/23/2023 7:18:50 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If they are explicitly for America’s protection, make it impossible for any of them to be given to any other country or governmental/military powers, ever.

Otherwise they will give them away as well.


24 posted on 10/23/2023 7:25:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The FIBBIES need to get the names of all 82 Million pieces of meat with two eyes who voted for Harris and JO JO and cancel their voter registrations. All of them regardless of how many they have.


25 posted on 10/23/2023 7:26:17 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't be an attention ho. Country Music Stars aren't given Grammys by the retarded, "woke" left. )
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To: All

Gee, maybe youse guys shouldda thought about that before you gave ‘em all away.


26 posted on 10/23/2023 7:29:07 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Afraid those angry Americans will be coming after your sorry asses?


27 posted on 10/23/2023 7:29:49 PM PDT by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The administration pissed all the money away on ukraine...


28 posted on 10/23/2023 7:30:04 PM PDT by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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To: Paladin2

Apparently they’re low on brains, too.


29 posted on 10/23/2023 7:31:01 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: skinny old man

That and the Stupid Loans for the deadbeat college meatballs.


30 posted on 10/23/2023 7:32:41 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't be an attention ho. Country Music Stars aren't given Grammys by the retarded, "woke" left. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Only took the clowns who started the Ukraine War, the Neocons, 20 MONTHS to figure out that producing weapons just might be a good idea, if you’re currently dumping everything you got into Ukraine.

...and, by the way, Russia is run by men, rather than women and creeps, so it only took them a month or two to figure out the same and step up production, or at least start that process.


31 posted on 10/23/2023 7:34:11 PM PDT by BobL (Trump gets my vote, even if I have to write him in; Millions of others will do the same)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Seriously? They just let all our enemies know via “the news” that we’re defenseless? WTH?


32 posted on 10/23/2023 7:37:54 PM PDT by mikelets456
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Just watch, They will try to use this to confiscate our weapons. For defense of our country, of course.

That's why they were so eager to give them away.

33 posted on 10/23/2023 7:39:33 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: skinny old man
The administration pissed all the money away on ukraine...

Ever wonder where the 155 artillery shells are made?

The Army makes artillery shells at Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania (Joe's hometown) as well as a General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems facility nearby in Wilkes Barre.

I'm just sayin ...

34 posted on 10/23/2023 7:47:50 PM PDT by 11th_VA (<><)
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To: 11th_VA
"To be honest, ammunition has a shelf life. And anyone in he military knows, we'd do live fires just to get rid of ammunition, so we wouldn't have to turn it in."

I've been out of the Marine Corps for almost 20 years, but I never remember ammunition having a shelf life as long as it was properly stored. In the 1980s we were still using artillery shells, mortar shells and .50cal rounds from the Korean war. I can imagine that there are some things that only be used for training after a certain age, e.g. missiles, but the we were always hoping for a higher allotment of training munitions.

35 posted on 10/23/2023 7:49:04 PM PDT by fini
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Funny, I have never heard of any mention of money going towards buying weapons for our defense. What I have heard is 19 billion to help with the relocation of illegal aliens into America with free support offered for them. To include, but not limited to, housing, food & medical care.

Sadly, some on this board actually do not care that this invasion of military aged young men make up the majority of these invaders.

36 posted on 10/23/2023 7:53:16 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: fini
My time goes back nearly 50 years, when I was a junior petty officer working in a unit. We were told to always draw the oldest munitions and I thought (memory may be cloudy) that if it wasn't all expended, we'd need to return it. It's possible there was a capacity issue in the magazine (small unit), and they would replace the old munitions with newer stock.

But I never remember seeing anything more than 10 years old.

37 posted on 10/23/2023 7:59:58 PM PDT by 11th_VA (<><)
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To: 11th_VA

I am guessing that you are talking about Naval ordinance. I am completely ignorant about those types of munitions.


38 posted on 10/23/2023 8:05:35 PM PDT by fini
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To: All

“Low on ammo” is an afterthought........dreamed up on the
fly b/c they got the word that Americans are sick of it.
They’re loathe to give anymore of their tax dollars to
these pampered foreigners.

We do not have $106 billion to giveaway. We have to go
into debt and stick future generations with the bills.

Why dont these people stand on their own two feet? Wealthy Israel
and money grubbing Ukraine should do their own borrowing.


zerohedge.com
BY TYLER DURDEN
MONDAY, OCT 23, 2023 - 04:40 PM
via David Stockman’s Contra Corner

Joe Biden’s Hideous $106 Billion War Package

There is not one dime in “Joe Biden’s” war package that enhances the safety and security of the American homeland, yet all of it is being blithely charged to Uncle Sam’s vastly over-extended credit card.

Nor should you take our word for it. What’s left of the Fed-tortured bond market cried out for help this AM, tagging the 5.00% level on the benchmark 10-year UST for the first time since June 2007.

Back then, the public debt was $8.8 trillion, meaning every 100 basis points of increased yield added $88 billion to annual debt service. Today, of course, the public debt is $33.5 trillion, and the incremental debt service on 100 basis points will amount to $335 billion or nearly 4X more.

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There is a fiscal elephant in the room nearly the size of the nation’s monstrous defense budget itself, yet the semi-comatose occupant of the Oval Office chose this moment to indulge in the absolute worst game of log-rolling politics we have ever witnessed..........the “Joe Biden” boondoggle includes:

$61 billion for the Ukraine warhawks
$14 billion for virtue-signaling against Hamas
$14 billion to usher in more border jumpers
$14 billion for various bleeding heart “humanitarians”
$3 billion walking around money for various corrupt factotums

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Still, do these clueless fools not understand they are now staring fiscal catastrophe square in the face? As of Q2 2023 the annualized rate of interest expense on the public debt clocked in at $909 billion, which represented a doubling of the level which prevailed when the voters last put a Republican in the White House to, well, rein in the red ink!

........the Washington neocons insist upon it, the defense contractors are luxuriating in it and the US military is getting a grand munitions and weapons testing range in the bargain.

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39 posted on 10/23/2023 8:06:17 PM PDT by Liz (“The only time Biden gets his hands dirty is when he’s taking cash from foreign countries." Trump)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

First step: STOP SENDING WEAPONS AND MONEY TO UKRAINE!!!


40 posted on 10/23/2023 8:16:21 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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