Posted on 11/23/2022 7:35:46 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is sending another $400 million in weapons, ammunition and generators to Ukraine, the White House announced Wednesday, and is pulling the gear from its own stockpiles to get the support to Kyiv as fast as possible as Russia continues to target Ukraine’s energy sources and winter sets in.
Including the latest aid, the U.S. has committed more than $19 billion in weapons and other equipment to Ukraine since Russia attacked on Feb. 24. The new package of aid will be provided through presidential drawdown authority, which allows the Pentagon to take weapons from its own stock and quickly ship them to Ukraine.
The flow of weapons comes as the Biden administrations seeks to pass an additional $37 billion in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine during the post-election session of Congress, before Republicans take over control of the House in January. Some Republican members including potential speaker Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., have questioned the amount of money being spent on Ukraine.
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*sigh*
Uh, I’d like some of my taxpayer provided ammo dropped off at my house. Not that I have a weapon or anything. 😯😎👍
I’m glad to see generators going to Ukraine.
But the biggest beneficiary of Russia’s war crimes on civilian energy infrastructure is probably going to be China.
For years our largest import from China was heavy electrical equipment.
Trump blocked Chinese products from being part of the US electrical grid. But Biden reversed that.
I object! I did NOT give them permission to spend MY tax dollars to do this!
Wait...wait...you mean we’re sending fossil fuel generators to Ukraine? What about the pollution and global warming effects? /sarc
US sending Ukraine $400M in weapons, ammunition, generators.
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And Ukraine will launder and send most of it back to democrats.
$100 billion wasted on a war that has absolutely nothing to do with our national security.
How’s our border doing?
Now all they’ll need is the gas and diesel to run ‘em.
In addition to the billions already sent.
Just how much more does he have to send them before they agree to keep quiet on what embarrassing information they have on him?
Spending a small fraction of our defense budget, and degrading Russia’s military by 80% in the process, without firing a shot or putting US troops at risk.
This seems like a smart and inexpensive way to hurt a malignant geopolitical rival, but what do I know.
Of course, a generator is no good without gas, so...? I notice there’s no mention of who’s buying the gasoline.
What next? Will Dr. Jill should propose that we all knit wool socks for the war effort?
> $100 billion wasted on a war that has absolutely nothing to do with our national security. <
Right. As I have noted elsewhere, I consider Putin to be a war criminal. But this is Europe’s problem, not ours. Let the UK, Germany, etc. pony up all the cash. They can afford it as much as we can.
Oops! I forgot that the United States must be involved in everything everywhere. Just like with the old Roman and British empires. That was one reason those empires collapsed. We will be no different.
https://t.me/s/rezident_ua/ (Ukrainian Telegram Channel)
Resident
Problems began with the nuclear power plant, which was warned by the Office of the President of the British intelligence services. The power units of the South Ukrainian NPP were shut down in an emergency; Rivne NPP was transferred to emergency operation mode; Khmelnitsky NPP is disconnected from the power system.
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⚡️⚡️⚡️#Insider
MI6 transmitted intelligence to the Office of the President and the General Staff that the Kremlin has agreed on strikes on substations at Ukrainian nuclear power plants since November. British intelligence recommends that Bankova strengthen the nuclear power plant with additional air defense and prepare Ukrainians for a hard winter.
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05:44
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⚡️⚡️⚡️#Insider
Our source in the OP said that the energy system is not sustaining and each subsequent missile strike can disable it completely, provoking a complete blackout of Ukraine.
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05:50
Resident
⚡️⚡️⚡️#Inside
Our source in the Presidential Office said that the Office of the President held talks with NATO/Pentagon representatives four times in two weeks about the need to urgently provide Ukraine with air defense systems. But the West is ignoring our requests, forcing Zelensky to negotiate with the Kremlin and implement the #Sullivan_formula .
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⚡️⚡️⚡️#Inside
Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President is disappointed with the armed sabotage of the West, primarily the lack of the promised air defense systems, which should allow the preservation of Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. Unfortunately, NATO countries handed over only a few anti-missile systems that protect Kyiv.
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Resident
Our air defenses shoot down only 30% of the missiles, and the Office of the President continues to convince everyone of the opposite so as not to provoke a panic. Videos of missiles flying over the entire country confirm the fact that air defense cannot cope with missile strikes. Moreover, there are 6 air defense calculations in Kyiv, which also include German IRIS-Ts, but they do not save from attacks on critical infrastructure.
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⚡️⚡️⚡️#Inside
Our source in the OP said that the Office of the President instructed the mayors of the cities not to talk about the blackout, they don’t want to sow panic on Bankovaya and decided to repeat the track with the Russian invasion, to the very end to deny the possibility of a failure of the energy system of Ukraine.
Mass strikes on Ukraine, our air defense intercepted part of the missiles, but explosions all over the country.
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Our source from the Office of the President reported that Bankova’s technologists decided to completely stop information about missile strikes on critical infrastructure. Now the Servants of the People have submitted a bill to the Parliament, which proposes to toughen the punishment for publishing information about fire damage to infrastructure facilities and authorities in Ukraine.
So, for the publication of information about the shelling of these objects, if such information was not made public by the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense or the Security Service of Ukraine or other authorized state bodies or officials, it is proposed to punish with a fine of 1000 to 3000 tax-free minimums, or public works from 200 up to 240 hours, or correctional labor for up to 2 years.
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⚡️⚡️⚡️#InsideOur
source in the OP said that the Office of the President conducted a closed sociology on the topic of possible negotiations with the Kremlin and the implementation of the so-called #Sullivan_formula, 80% of respondents consider such a step a betrayal of Ukraine.
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⚡🛢 Part of Druzhba (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/8665) oil pipeline running through Ukraine partially HALTED following Russian strikes (https://t.me/IntelRepublic/9077), but oil transfer from Belarus in direction of Ukraine still ongoing - Russian pipeline transport company Transneft.
💥💥💥The first data on the results of strikes in Ukraine: emergency power outages have been introduced in all regions, Ukrenergo reports
▪️A series of powerful explosions in Kiev. Mayor Klitschko announced a hit on an infrastructure facility. The whole city is without water and partly without electricity.
▪️Also, in the Vinnytsia region and the Lviv region, attacks were carried out on critical infrastructure facilities;
Power outage at:
– Kyiv and regions
— Dnepropetrovsk
— Krivoy Rog
— Poltava
— Zaporozhye
— Nikolaev
- Odessa and the region.
— Rivne and regions
– Khmelnytskyi and the region
— Kremenets-Podolsk
— Kirovograd region
— Kharkov
— Lutsk
— Cherkassy
— Chernihiv
— Sumac
— Zhytomyr
Interruptions and shutdowns of water in:
— Kyiv
— Sumac
— Nikolaev
— Kharkov
— Dnepropetrovsk
— Odessa💥💥💥
Blackmail of Biden continues...
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