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Defense Secretary Austin says the US will provide $2.3 billion more in military aid to Ukraine
AP ^ | July 2, 2024 | TARA COPP and LOLITA C. BALDOR

Posted on 07/02/2024 8:35:40 AM PDT by McGruff

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Tuesday that the U.S. will soon announce an additional $2.3 billion in security assistance for Ukraine, to include anti-tank weapons, interceptors and munitions for Patriot and other air defense systems.

Austin’s remarks came as Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov met with him at the Pentagon. And they mark a strong response to pleas from Kyiv for help in battling Russian forces in the Donetsk region.

Austin said the aid will come through presidential drawdown authority, which allows the Pentagon to take the weapons from its stocks and send them more quickly to Ukraine.

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1 posted on 07/02/2024 8:35:40 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: McGruff

Peanuts.

Why not go for broke?

$23 Trillion, and then we’re talking!!


2 posted on 07/02/2024 8:36:44 AM PDT by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: McGruff
you beat me :P

I'll ask the mods to delete mine.

3 posted on 07/02/2024 8:37:19 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: McGruff

No.

And give us back the money you already stole.


4 posted on 07/02/2024 8:42:38 AM PDT by Lazamataz (joesbucks is back. Let's remedy that! 😁)
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To: McGruff

What’s money if you can’t charge it?


5 posted on 07/02/2024 8:43:30 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand (Mp)
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To: McGruff

Russophiles’ heads exploding in ....3....2....1...


6 posted on 07/02/2024 8:45:41 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan (Your insults are my rocket fuel. )
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Another 10% for the Big Guy...


7 posted on 07/02/2024 8:47:25 AM PDT by Senormechanico
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To: McGruff

Zeepers love this.


8 posted on 07/02/2024 8:48:33 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: everyone
Baby needs a new car.


9 posted on 07/02/2024 8:49:38 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

Who’s going to provide the US military aid and buy Jill a new car when we need it?


10 posted on 07/02/2024 8:50:33 AM PDT by bgill (.)
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To: bgill
Do we know for a fact that Zelensky's wife bought a Bugatti?
11 posted on 07/02/2024 8:58:29 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630
The secret weapon that will change the war in favor of the Ukraine!


12 posted on 07/02/2024 9:08:48 AM PDT by xp38
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To: McGruff

How can you fight a war without a 4.5 million dollar Bugatti for your wife?


13 posted on 07/02/2024 9:09:04 AM PDT by circlecity
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To: McGruff

Bish needs US taxpayer money for her new Bugatti. People dying all around her and these two bask in greed.


14 posted on 07/02/2024 9:13:58 AM PDT by dforest ( )
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To: McGruff

What does Speaker Mike Johnson and Congress say?

A-okay?


15 posted on 07/02/2024 9:16:10 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: McGruff

Woohoo!!!!


16 posted on 07/02/2024 9:16:26 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: McGruff

That money is needed here in the USA. Needed because our nation is broken, and to rid us of invaders.


17 posted on 07/02/2024 9:17:06 AM PDT by roadcat ( )
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To: McGruff

Only 2.3? they need more to take out the rest of the murdering Russian invaders.


18 posted on 07/02/2024 9:22:31 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: McGruff

::Alongside some 50 allies and partners::

WHO are these allies and partners? How about them putting up the money??


19 posted on 07/02/2024 9:26:48 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: McGruff

How is this even possible???

I guess the US prints the money, and has the IMF/World Bank “Loan” the money to Ukraine, for Ukraine to then “buy” the armaments from the US MIC...


20 posted on 07/02/2024 9:33:39 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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