Posted on 05/28/2025 10:57:22 AM PDT by McGruff
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will leave Berlin with a new €5 billion ($5.7bn) arms package as he seeks to build his country’s arsenal, and its ability to produce weapons at home.
The standout agreement in the package announced in the German capital on Wednesday centers around Germany financing the joint production of long-range missiles inside Ukraine that would enable Kyiv to strike targets deep into Russia.
One significant aspect was missing. There had been big expectations prior to the news conference that Merz would announce the transfer or approval of Ukraine’s use of Germany’s highly sophisticated long-range Taurus missiles.
Merz had been very strong on ensuring Ukraine received Taurus during the election campaign against Olaf Scholz, the former chancellor, of the Social Democrats. Scholz and the party were very reticent to send the weapons, worried it may escalate the conflict even further.
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You mess with the bull, sometimes you don’t get the taurus missiles.
Is it to the point that the EU and Germany are suddenly in total control of NATO?
Is it time for the USA to rethink NATO?
Trump nor the USA should chose war with Putin.
I see this as a good thing.
“Is it time for the USA to rethink NATO?”
Let’s get our money back.
Western partners are not imposing any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine for use against Russian military targets, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on May 26.
“There are no longer any restrictions on the range of weapons delivered to Ukraine – neither by the U.K., France, nor us. There are no restrictions by the U.S. either,” Merz said during a discussion forum organized by the WDR channel.
Ukraine isn’t even in NATO, and they are treating it like a member. Rethink NATO? Get the hell out, rather. Europe has abandoned the idea of democracy while opening its borders to Islamofascist invaders. What’s left to defend?
What a clown show. You just can't make this stuff up.
OTOH I'm open to allowing White refugees from there provided we can be selective.
Hey, lets build missiles in Ukraine!
Father Kalibr and General Iskander will never find our secret location…and if they do, well, we have Patriots with a 50% ( maybe) chance of stopping them,
That was Bee Ess at the time.
He was gas lighting about statements from the biden klown admin from last Nov which interposed no objections to long range US weapon strikes into Kursk.
SugarNose Merz has developed an erotic obsession with military weaponry ( according to his own DefMin Pistorious) ……the latest being the Taurus latest wunderwaffen….transfer of which to Ukraine was almost unanimously voted down last year by the Bundestag
“You just can’t make this stuff up.”
Obviously Europe and Ukraine can.
Pintos?
Biden gave his permission to use them on Russian soil...just before he left. Don’t know if he did it by EO or via Congress.
What irritates me is that Zelensky pretends he is for peace but travels the globe to get handouts to do everything but seek peace.
Agree.
And the Globalist pukes intend to destroy the USA financially.
STOP!
NO MORE!
The money is gone. But Trump has made arrangements with rare earth for part of it.
But Yes. Either NATO and our CIA need to be reigned in or ended totally.
“our CIA need to be reigned in or ended totally.”
We have NO control over the CIA.
But some of their old crew, know why they are so messed up.
Sam Faddis is old school and wrote a book about the failure.
Sam Faddis: Weaponization of the Department of Justice, Building Of The Church Committee (Jan 11, 2023)
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