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US will send Ukraine $725 million more in counter-drone systems, anti-personnel land mines
AP ^ | Dec 2, 2024 | TARA COPP and MATTHEW LEE

Posted on 12/02/2024 8:07:41 AM PST by McGruff

The U.S. is preparing to send Ukraine an additional $725 million in military assistance, including counter-drone systems and munitions for its High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, which could indicate more of the longer-range missiles are headed to the battlefield.

Two U.S. officials did not confirm whether the munitions for the HIMARS are the coveted ATACMS — the Army Tactical Missile System — but Ukraine has been pressing for more of the longer-range missiles to strike additional targets inside Russia.

The package also includes more anti-personnel landmines that Ukraine is counting on to slow Russian and North Korean ground forces in the Kursk region.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine; War
KEYWORDS: bidenbois4ww3; bidencrimefamily; hunter; hunterbiden; hunterbidenpardon; killkillkillforpeace; lyinjoebiden; mic; mines; tothelastukrainian; ukraine; ukrainewar; welfarewar; zeepersthrilled
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1 posted on 12/02/2024 8:07:41 AM PST by McGruff
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To: McGruff

How about redirecting that money to victims of Helene that are freezing in tents since it is US taxpayer dollars?

No more wasted in Ukraine.


2 posted on 12/02/2024 8:10:42 AM PST by dforest
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To: McGruff

See... We are NOT going to “let” Zelenzkyy call a ceasefire. The Nation Builders are just not going to let it happen.


3 posted on 12/02/2024 8:11:11 AM PST by Openurmind
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To: McGruff

This ain’t a 10% deal. This is a 50% deal.


4 posted on 12/02/2024 8:14:26 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: McGruff
Didn't Princess Diana spend years working against land mines?

Aren't land mines forbidden these days?

5 posted on 12/02/2024 8:15:04 AM PST by Teacher317
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To: Teacher317

Biden himself condemned the use of anti-personnel mines in the strongest language. He called it a war crime.


6 posted on 12/02/2024 8:19:16 AM PST by circlecity
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To: dforest

My thoughts exactly.

Barely a dime for Americans in NC.

it’s criminal really


7 posted on 12/02/2024 8:21:25 AM PST by Thorium90
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To: McGruff

Emil Kastehelmi
@emilkastehelmi
This fall has been grim for Ukraine. According to our assessment, between 1 September and 30 November, the Russians captured over 1600 km2 in Ukraine, and retook roughly 500 km2 in Kursk. The rate of advance accelerated every month, despite the Russians suffering heavy losses.


8 posted on 12/02/2024 8:21:46 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: circlecity

“Biden himself condemned the use of anti-personnel mines in the strongest language. He called it a war crime”

He also said he wouldn’t pardon that crackhead son of his either......which means if his lips are moving you can expect it to be a damned lie every time.


9 posted on 12/02/2024 8:23:43 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: McGruff

ENOUGH!

let Ukraine take care of itself. Better yet, let’s see what the democrats and globalists are hiding over there.


10 posted on 12/02/2024 8:28:23 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: McGruff

I get it.

Christmas


11 posted on 12/02/2024 8:30:17 AM PST by ABStrauss (I miss Rush!)
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To: V_TWIN

Excellent point. Hard to believe all the people out there who have yet to realize how democrats lie about everything.


12 posted on 12/02/2024 8:35:26 AM PST by dforest
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To: circlecity; Teacher317

Two Years Later, President Trump’s Landmine Policy Remains
January 31, 2022
“Today marks the second anniversary of President Donald Trump’s anti-personnel landmine policy, which reversed decades of practice by allowing the U.S. military to produce and deploy anti-personnel landmines anywhere in the world.”
https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2022-01/two-years-later-president-trumps-landmine-policy-remains


13 posted on 12/02/2024 8:35:49 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: dforest

Whatever a democrat says believe the opposite.....9.8 times out of 10 you’ll be right.


14 posted on 12/02/2024 8:37:45 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: McGruff

Most of that is kickbacks, I’m sure. Biden is jamming as much into the corruption machine as he can.


15 posted on 12/02/2024 8:43:01 AM PST by Fido969
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To: V_TWIN

The land mines should have been given and put in place beforehand. Are the Balkans taking notice?

It wouldn’t take too long to install them as troop movements give ample warning.


16 posted on 12/02/2024 8:44:19 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ansel12

Yes. But Trump never condemned the use of anti-personnel mines then turned around and gave hundreds of millions of dollars of them to a foreign country to use in a war we aren’t involved in.


17 posted on 12/02/2024 8:45:27 AM PST by circlecity
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Balkans? My bad. It’s the Baltics.


18 posted on 12/02/2024 8:45:34 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: McGruff

OMG. Does it ever end?


19 posted on 12/02/2024 8:48:38 AM PST by MNDude
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To: McGruff

Anti drone tech will prove useful say a program to mlnlturize proximity fuzes for light/small air defense/flak guns😃mount on pick up trucks,for high mobility.


20 posted on 12/02/2024 8:55:03 AM PST by Nebr FAL owner (Treason is the reason for Democrat Sedition & subvertion )
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