Posted on 08/29/2025 11:23:36 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A package of U.S. cruise missiles is among the first shipments of purchases by NATO allies to be sent to the embattled country.
Europe has begun buying American weapons for Ukraine in earnest, only weeks after President Trump struck a deal with NATO allies to do so.
The latest sale, announced by the State Department on Thursday, will send 3,500 extended-range cruise missiles and GPS navigation kits to Ukraine once Congress formally approves it, as expected. They cost $825 million, paid for by Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway, with some unspecified financial assistance from the Pentagon.
The missiles can be fired from fighter jets, and have a similar range to the Storm Shadow and Scalp missiles that Ukraine has used to strike Crimea and into Russia.
The sale marks one of the first purchases by European countries on behalf of Ukraine since Mr. Trump and other NATO leaders reached the deal. It is a policy shift for the United States, which had provided about $67 billion worth of weapons and other military aid directly to Ukraine during the Biden administration.
It will also offer a financial windfall for American weapons producers while shielding Mr. Trump — who has expressed skepticism of devoting U.S. military support to Ukraine — from accusations of direct involvement in the war.
“It’s not a game changer for Ukraine’s Air Force, but it might signal that there’s a productive conversation between Europeans and the Trump administration, in terms of future supply of modern equipment to Ukraine,” said Rafael Loss, a defense and security expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Last month, President Trump said European allies had agreed to buy American-made weapons...
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Excellent.
Everything is now going forward according to plan.
Also, Russia’s minster of economy was forced to admit recently that Russia is now on the brink of recession.
Thus, Putin will have to end his Neo-imperialistic war soon, or his people will have to end HIM.
I believe the NYT is spinning the news as usual to protect the Globalists’ altruistic image.
Yes, they have an arrangement to buy weapons from the US. Early remarks about the related deal, the F-16’s, NATO showed it was planning to keep the new F-16s for itself, and to give Ukraine their older models.
Then Russia hit NATO member assets in Ukraine, and now we’re told NATO is buying weapons ‘in earnest’. Oh but I’m sure they’re not trying to protect their assets in Ukraine now that Trump has ceased direct support. Putin said many times in the past that assets of nations participating (I forget his words) in the Ukraine war are legitimate targets, regardless of where they are located.
Daddy’s gone from this conflict, NATO is scared for itself and naturally, rushed to buy weapons FOR UKRAINE. They are such saints!
They probably cry themselves to sleep at night having let their own military atrophy while living like ticks off US blood and treasure.
“The Pentagon expects the contractor’s factory to produce at least 4,000 missiles over the first four years, averaging more than 70 units per month.”
https://aeronaut.media/articles-en/en-eram-long-range-missiles/
We used to have a slogan like that.
it was;
Give me liberty or give me death
Whaaaa?
$825 million? That’s all? And paid for by countries not labeled UK, France or Germany?
They are likely talking about 500 mile range weapons that price $1.5M each. Then GPS kits also mentioned . . . no telling what that is. 500 lbs a proper payload of explosives.
US production program not yet underway. When it begins the hopes are **after 1 year** output could be 1000 missiles per year thereafter. This somewhat shoots down the $1.5 million per missile price, since development clearly is underway if there is no current production line. Salary being paid to do more than build. Development still in progress.
This doesn’t look like even 100 missiles, by the end of 12 months. And that doesn’t assess warehouse loss from attack.
So, 3 minor countries are coming up with $895M to place an order for missiles, that won’t be built for . . . call it a year, and call it 100 total output at that point, with more after, if there is more money.
Then there is the issue of Ukraine’s cruise missile production. And European weapons production. Why send money to the US if it can stay in the EU.
War, whoa, lord
What is it good for
Absolutely nothing
(War) it ain’t nothing but a heart breaker
(War) it’s got one friend that’s the undertaker
Oh, war, has shattered many a young mans dreams
Made him disabled, bitter and mean
Life is much to short and precious
To spend fighting wars these days
https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/174226/War
Note the vague and ominous, “with some unspecified financial assistance from the Pentagon.” We’re still shelling out the bucks.
Ukraine is critically short on manpower.
And, we and European countries are critically low on Patriot interceptors, missiles and ammo.
There is no scenario where Ukraine isn't going to continue to lose lives and territory going forward unless it takes any deal it can get.
But, you don't care how many more Ukrainians die or how much more territory Ukraine loses.
Oh, and there is the issue of software mods on the airplane to accomodate info transfer to the missile and the launch instruction itself.
$1.5M/missile is absurd.
<>Fired CNN anchor Jim Acosta receivd $4 million from USAID for Ukraine to "disseminate positive information."
In other words,they paid him millions to lie to the public.pic.twitter.com/S5TyDYTEvn— Barron Trump 🇺🇸 Commentary (@BarronTnews) August 28, 2025
My suggestion is that those people in the part of Donetsk Putin doesn’t have that want to live under his rule might get rehoused elsewhere in Donetsk. To build them new housing would be cheaper than fighting an expensive war. The housing for 60,000 people might cost $2 billion. The costly pay for ~500,000 Russian fighters is running ~$20 billion/year.
I use the Luhansk maps to best show the (lack of Russian) progress in Donetsk Oblast.
Trump just misspoke, he meant 24 years, not hours.
Or the Ukrainian Nazi Azov Battalion could promise not to shell the Russian-speaking regions anymore.
They won’t accept any deal that resembles capitulation because there’s no difference then to occupation: either the Russians will keep killing and torturing people of their puppet regime will, and they know that. They might as well keep fighting.
In the meantime... :
“One Flamingo a day, keeps the Russians away!”
The Ukrainians are also not stupid, so they reverse engineer what they get: I've seen some pics of what look like slightly scaled down versions of the SCALP cruise missiles. So what they get helps them in more ways that just the obvious.
There are lots of Russian speakers serving in the Ukrainian military: they aren’t Russians anymore just like Americans who speak English aren’t Brits.
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