Posted on 03/12/2024 12:18:03 PM PDT by Red Badger
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon will rush about $300 million in weapons to Ukraine after finding some cost savings in its contracts, even though the military remains deeply overdrawn and needs at least $10 billion to replenish all the weapons it has pulled from its stocks to help Kyiv in its desperate fight against Russia, the White House announced Tuesday.
It's the Pentagon's first announced security package for Ukraine since December, when it acknowledged it was out of replenishment funds. It wasn't until recent days that officials publicly acknowledged they weren't just out of replenishment funds, but $10 billion overdrawn.
The announcement comes as Ukraine is running dangerously low on munitions and efforts to get fresh funds for weapons have stalled in the House because of Republican opposition. U.S. officials have insisted for months that the United States wouldn’t be able to resume weapons deliveries until Congress provided the additional replenishment funds, which are part of the stalled supplemental spending bill.
The replenishment funds have allowed the Pentagon to pull existing munitions, air defense systems and other weapons from its reserve inventories under presidential drawdown authority, or PDA, to send to Ukraine and then put contracts on order to replace those weapons, which are needed to maintain U.S. military readiness.
“When Russian troops advance and its guns fire, Ukraine does not have enough ammunition to fire back,” said national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in announcing the $300 million in additional aid.
The Pentagon also has had a separate Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, or USAI, which has allowed it to fund longer-term contracts with industry to produce new weapons for Ukraine.
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There must be some truly corrupt, deep-state sh** going on in Ukraine that they need to protect and cover up.
Sure, the democrat, uniparty DC Marxists will sometimes fight tooth-and-nail for the right to spend other peoples’ money, but with Ukraine, its off-the-charts.
Weren't Covid mandates based on "military readiness"? Seems to me the stockpiles are being drained at the expense of national defense needs. And no, Ukraine is not part of that.
Or we're being lied to again.
“after finding some cost savings in its contracts”
No, we don’t any audits of anything connected to the MIC. The Pentagon budget needs to be slashed by a third, at the minimum. Then we’d see a heck of a lot more “finding” going on.
Yep, that’s how we got all the needless ventilators. Send them the ventilators.
Hunter Biden and Romney’s son, and I believe Pelosi’s son were all involved with Burisma.
And I would guarantee you, Zelenskyy and company have videos of all their transactions, phone calls, emails and conversations.................
That’ll be a real insurrection.
I don't understand the surprise, everyone knows The Pentagon works for the advancement and safety of Ukraine Nazis like Zelensky, and their borders not Americans or American Borders.
It's just unusual that The Pentagon isn't in Ukraine.
When Clinton was president, he ran the bullets and bombs down to near zero. When Bush took over, he personally called the CEO’s of the companies making those things and said, “Go to 24 hour shifts. We’ll pay for it after I take office in January.” They did and he did. I was at General Dynamics at the time. The CEO sent a global email outlining the conversation.
The “U” in “USA” may soon stand for Ukraine.
EXACTLY.
Too many prominent family names -- Biden, Pelosi, Kerry and those close to Romney -- here in the states, and, I wager, quite a few in the EU.
Working overtime to see the "receipts" never come to be read by the average Joe.
As with the SARS CoV2 game and the climate change/ Green game, a relatively few wealthy are heavily invested -- politically invested -- in keeping the hoaxes going, and, if they fail, destroying any audit trail.
move pentagon to Kiev..
put military on border
Stop supporting a corrupt government against another corrupt government. Sheesh.
Why are we supporting Ukraine in the first place? We shouldn’t be. We know there’s corruption like crazy there, but keep shipping dollars there like they grew on trees.
IT makes you wonder, what does Zelenskyy have on Biden, Romney, Pelosi, and all the rest of these corrupt whackos that he can demand they empty our treasury and borrow even more to pay him off.
Videos of them diddling little kids?................
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