Posted on 09/08/2024 4:58:43 AM PDT by george76
Keep killing all those white men USA .
end the money - end the war
Well then, if we did that it wouldn’t fund the pensions of all those poor Ukranians.
Next, Biden will justify monies to Ukraine through his Inflation Reduction Act?
He's gonna get us all killed.
Well then, if we did that it wouldn’t fund the pensions of all those poor Ukranians.
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nor would it fund the off shore accounts & campaign donations to dem/DS pols
In reality it is about keeping Russia from killing white men, women and children.
On Friday, Biden announced another multi-million dollar check to Ukraine in top of the $113.4 billion it has already given Zelensky. Ukraine gets another $250 million US aid package that includes missiles, armored vehicles, and anti-tank weapons.
Zelensky’s keeping pace with other recipients of billions in US tax dollars.
“Coincidentally,” reason.com reported Biden State Department announced just this week
<><>over $20 billion in new arms sales to Israel,
<><>including fighter jets, armored vehicles, and ammunition.
<><>Just days before, Biden removed several major barriers to arming the Israeli military
<><>releasing $3.5 billion in U.S. taxpayer money for the Israeli military,
<><>unfroze a $262 million munition shipment that had been held up since May,
<><>and will not restrict US aid to an Israeli army unit accused of beating an American to death.
Earlier this year, the US Congress passed a $14 billion aid package for Israel. It included
<><>funds to replenish weapons that had been sent to Israel from U.S. military warehouses
<><>direct financial grants to the Israeli government.
<><>On Friday, the Biden administration released $3.5 billion in those grants.
The largest portion of this expenditure is an $18.82 billion deal for F-15 fighter jets and related accessories, with deliveries scheduled for 2029.
The $262 million munition shipment is immediately useful for the Israeli military. It includes
<><>6,500 joint direct attack munition (JDAM) kits
<><>and a GPS guidance system for aerial bombs.
Biden had held up the JDAM sale after the Israeli army invaded Rafah, displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Biden came into office promising to end “forever wars” in the Middle East. He pulled U.S. forces out of Afghanistan and oversaw a truce in the Yemeni civil war. Over the past year, however, Biden has reopened the war in Yemen and overseen the deadliest explosion of Israeli-Palestinian violence in history. His legacy may be ensuring that American weapons continue to fuel these conflicts after he leaves office.
For years, the United States supported the Saudi military in Yemen with aerial refueling, intelligence sharing, and a steady supply of ammunition—everything but dropping the bombs themselves. The war killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis, spread famine and disease, and failed to dislodge the Houthi movement from power.
In February 2021, Biden announced that he was “ending all American support for offensive operations in the war in Yemen, including relevant arm sales,” although he would continue to provide “defensive” support. In April 2022, the United Nations successfully brokered a ceasefire between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis that has held up so far.
But after a series of Houthi attacks on Israeli and foreign shipping in the Red Sea, the Biden administration launched the first direct U.S. strikes on Houthi forces—and the first airstrikes by anyone on Yemen in more than a year—in January this year.
The Saudi government has not stopped pushing for U.S. military support. This week, they got their wish, with Biden approving a sale of 3,000 Small Diameter Bombs and 7,500 Paveway IV bombs over the next few months. Biden administration officials have said that shipments would not affect the Saudi-Houthi truce and hinted that they were meant to signal tighter U.S.-Saudi military cooperation in the future, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Biden has been a much more consistent supporter of the Israeli military campaign in Gaza following the October 7 attacks on Israel. Although he has verbally called for a ceasefire and held up a single shipment of bombs to the Israeli military, Biden has also worked to remove legal roadblocks and conceal the full amount of U.S. military support to Israel, including sending dozens of small shipments just below the threshold that would require congressional approval.
On Saturday, the Israeli military bombed a school and mosque with at least one American-made guided bomb, killing 93 people at dawn prayers. Israel claims that the attack killed 31 militants; the nonprofit Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and Al Jazeera report that several of the “militants” on Israel’s list were either people who had died several days before or had no Hamas ties.
Last month, Israeli forces dropped eight 2,000-pound bombs with JDAM kits on a tent city, killing Hamas commander Mohammad Deif along with 90 bystanders.
In addition to freeing up more money and munitions, the Biden administration moved to lift restrictions on how Israel can use this aid. A rule known as the Leahy Law forbids U.S. military aid from going to human rights abusers. In April 2024, the U.S. State Department announced a Leahy investigation into Israel’s Netzah Yehuda Battalion.
Netzah Yehuda had been accused of abusing Palestinian civilians in the West Bank, including Palestinian-American retiree Omar Assad, who died in their custody in January 2022. No soldiers were charged in connection with Assad’s death. In October 2021, Israeli police arrested four Netzah Yehuda troops for sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee; one soldier pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison.
The Israeli government opposed any kind of “sanctions” on soldiers who are “fighting terrorist monsters.” So did Republicans in Congress. Sen. Marco Rubio (R–Fla.) called the investigation “an effort by President Biden to appease Israel’s enemies, including the antisemitic mobs terrorizing college campuses across America.”
On Friday, the State Department said that Israel had “effectively remediated” the problems with Netzah Yehuda by giving the troops a “two-week educational seminar.” The unit is now free to continue receiving weapons paid for by the American taxpayer.
If we stopped Russia would attack a NATO country after killing as many Ukrainians as possible. Then we would have to send our soldiers to Europe to fight and die.
Project Ukraine is becoming a debacle, much, much worse than Senile Joe’s Afghanistan debacle.
When do Americans wake up?
What I would do for a magic wand. We wouldn’t have NATO vs. the Russians, we’d have a united Christendom. The Cold War is over. The Russians aren’t Communist any more. There is no logical reason for us to be enemies save that we have nuclear weapons and a generation of old farts who are either in a Cold War mentality or cling to an antiquated belief that expansionism is in any way viable in the 21st century (hint: it is not). And there is even less of a reason for the Russians and the Ukrainians to be killing each other. I know, it has to do with NATO expansion. But for crying out loud, this doesn’t make sense anymore. The dynamics of what determined what nation-states could grab and/or absorb eighty years ago are completely obsolete today. The world has changed.
The headline belies the article
There is not a check for $$$, but rather a contribution of stuff. What the stuff is, is not totally delineated. There are reports of old and perhaps near obsolete American weapons being provided. The old weapons have been replaced in the American inventories by new and better.
There is a certain irony involved. The outdated weapons being used by Ukraine are superior to the best the Russian military can bring to the fight.
If we stopped Russia would attack a NATO country
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Read Putin’s speech on day one- three stated goals addressed to his Nation and the world. He will accomplish those three goals, nothing more….unless the collective West pushes him further, he holds ALL the cards.
He in addition is doing well in de- dollarization, crippling the EU economy ( and the US economy), all the while filling his pockets with energy $$$.
All eyes on the Brics Summit in October. It will be historic! ….say bye bye to US hegemony.
In the meantime, veterans benefits checks could be delayed due to funding shortage
Vets’ benefits checks could be delayed without a VA funding fix soon
Hardworking taxpayers cut another massive check to Ukraine. The plunder continues...
Drivel...... pro terrorist drivel
What this Democrat NWO government is doing is to buy its way into WWIII, and all the RINO war goons and MICs are right in there with them.
Long range US missiles controlled thru US satellites.
Its not a “check”, its stuff.
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