Posted on 01/25/2023 9:33:01 AM PST by shadowlands1960
The decision to move forward with providing the tanks marks a reversal for the Biden administration, which had been resisting pressure from Germany to send them to Ukraine.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced that the United States is sending 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine in its war against Russia.
The U.S. will also provide the necessary training and supplies needed to operate and run these tanks, he said.
NBC News reported the development Tuesday.
The president said sending the tanks will "enhance Ukraine’s capacity to defend its territory and achieve its strategic objectives" because they are "the most capable tanks in the world.”
"That’s what this is about — helping Ukraine defend and protect Ukrainian land. It is not an offensive threat to Russia, there is no offensive threat to Russia," the president said.
During a background call previewing Biden’s remarks, senior administration officials said the announcement is “very much a continuation of our effort to provide Ukraine with the capabilities that they need to continue to better defend themselves.”
“And it’s also in keeping with that representative of a long term, long term commitment that we have to Ukraine’s defense needs,” a senior administration official said.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
“The war actually started in 2014 when the US/NATO engineered coup of the duly elected government.”
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It wasn’t a coup. It was Ukraine’s version of a tea-party. They had enough of Russia rigging elections in Ukraine. They made a revolution against communist tyranny and abuse. They then organized free unrigged elections that eliminated the pro communists.
Now this is important.
Explanation :
The real deal was that Russia violated the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 :
According to the Western-sponsored Budapest Memorandum, Kiev gave up its nuclear weapons in return for the Russian pledge of respect for Ukrainian territorial integrity.
Russia’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine has brought to mind a crucial post-Cold War agreement over Ukraine’s nuclear weapons capability – which resulted in Kiev giving up its nuclear arsenal in light of the US and UK’s assurances that Moscow would respect the former Soviet republic’s sovereignty.
Ukraine possessed the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal, which consisted of at least 1,900 strategic nuclear warheads. The country had inherited that infrastructure from the former communist Soviet republic.
That capability is “more than six times the number of nuclear warheads that China currently possesses,” wrote Steven Pifer, the former US ambassador to Ukraine and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brooking Institution, an American think-tank.
If Ukraine had that strategic capability in the current conflict, it would have made a big difference and perhaps discouraged Vladimir Putin both from invading the country and from putting the Russian nuclear weapons on “high alert.”
But after the collapse of the Soviets in 1991, the US and the UK convinced Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons in return for Russia’s commitment “to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine” under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.
According to the deal, Moscow also pledged “to refrain from the threat or use of force” against Ukraine. However, with the current invasion of Ukraine, Russia clearly violates the 1994 nuke deal, experts say.
“Russia is in violation of the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 when it, together with the US and the UK, promised to uphold Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity if Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons,” says Matthew Bryza, the former US ambassador to Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic.......
The whole article :
https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/has-russia-betrayed-the-1994-nuke-deal-guaranteeing-ukrainian-sovereignty-55185
Oh okay,I guess then it makes it a-ok to get dragged into a nuclear confrontation with Russia.
UKRAINE IS NOT WORTH ONE AMERICAN SCALP.
WAR PIG FOOL.
NATO has hurt itself much more than they have hurt Putin. The idiocy continues.
The winners have been those packing their pockets through Money Laundering and the Military Industrial Complex.
I’d rather see them on the Mexican border.
Brilliant
Why do you hate Ukrainians? You should be demanding troops from France to go and fight the Russians. But you’re like all neocons…a cowardly but evil murderer.
U.S. will send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
Two made it to Ukraine there the rest um um cam up missing we are looking for them.
Have to admit, I stole the URL from patriots.win.
The warmongers in our country need to be stopped. Giving Ukraine our main battle tank is an escalation. If reports of Russia being beaten are true, why does Ukraine need these tanks now?
The Ukraine war is just as foolish as the Charge of the Light brigade, only without the nobility of that bloodbath. We have learned so little when it comes to war. Why would anyone, in their right mind, want a war with any Nuke Power—let alone Russia? And why de-humanize them by called them “RuZZians” or “Orks”. Do we want a genocidal war to kill all Russian people??? Next thing will be say, as we did to Japan, “When we are done, Russian will only be spoken in Hell.” When will they ever learn?
Oh, this isn’t a proxy war at all!
WAIT THIS IS A PROXY WAR
Our leadership is sending thousands and maybe millions of people to die for an oil pipeline.
Fact.
That’s better, but I regret to inform you that I’m usually too smart for my own good. I’m too used to retards around here though.
31 for now.
More later.
“ARW” wrote:
“Why do you hate Ukrainians? You should be demanding troops from France to go and fight the Russians. But you’re like all neocons…a cowardly but evil murderer.”
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“USA-FRANCE” answer:
You seem to be suffering from KDS (Kremlin delirium syndrome).
I don’t blame you. The Kremlin inherited their propaganda know-how from the Communist Soviet era. They are very good at it.
What is worrisome is that you don’t want to help defending sovereign Ukraine and its people against Russias monstrous unhinged illegal invasion. What’s the matter with you? Are you Russian? An anarchist? Why don’t you respect BORDERS?
During WWII a few extremists like you wanted to abandon the UK and not sending them the necessary military equipment to help them defend themselves against the German nazi socialists...
And now, you want the Nazi / Commie / Soviet era to come back by letting Russia continue its imperialistic land-grabbing policy all over the world?
The islamo-communist co-belligerent axis (Russia-Belarus-Chechnya-IRAN North Korea, CSTO) is helping Russia destroy Ukraine as we speak.
Wrong of you to support this mess.
Read a book about Ronald Reagan - and become a moral Christian citizen again.
Sorry I didn’t know. She looked like a tank so....
>>That threat got old a year ago.<<
Well I guess we will see. My take, this is a Euro problem, not an American problem. Well, I guess it is now.
Wouldn’t it be better to send 31 septic tanks full of illegal aliens?
Here is the study. It is well done and sourced. I remember Trump relating the story of meeting with a general soon after he took office. The General mentioned that he couldn’t take on a mission because he lacked sufficient munitions. Trump said that he would never allow that to happen again.
As a former naval supply officer who served a year in Vietnam, I have an appreciation for the importance of logistics in warfare. I am also skeptical of anyone who has a childlike faith that our current woke military is operationally effective witness our botched exit from Afghanistan.
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