The $50M document seems to be authorization by State to US defense companies to sell various defense items to Ukraine. It is not the US sending arms or money, as best can be understood in the document. The money for the buy is not mentioned. It could be EU money. It can be from anywhere and Lockheed et al are authorized to take that money in return for shipping . . . not so much arms but apparently services.
This does not at all read like shipping from US inventory.
I read it too and I wish President Trump or someone in the administration would clarify it.
I think you are reading it correctly.
I would add, what’s a measly 50 million in this war in which as much as billion might have been in a week and at least averaged way over a billion a month. 50 million is a drop in the bucket.
Owen posted: “The document seems to be an authorization to US defense companies to sell various defense items to Ukraine in the amount of $50 million.......and not sending US arms or tax dollars to Ukraine. The source of the $50 million for the buy is not mentioned. It could be EU money, from anywhere and defense mfg, Lockheed et al, are being authorized to take that money in return for shipping . . . not so much arms, but apparently services, as well.”
FYI-——The Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program is a US government initiative that provides grants and loans to foreign countries to help them acquire US defense articles, services, and training. It theoretically supports US foreign policy objectives by strengthening alliances, promoting regional stability, and contributing to the US defense industrial base.
FMF funding is appropriated by Congress through the Foreign Operations Appropriations Act and is managed by the Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA).
As one example, In October 2023, the Joe Biden said Israel had nearly 600 active Foreign Military Financing (FMF) cases, totaling around $24 billion.
Israel has also historically been permitted to use a portion of its FMF tax dollars to buy weaponry
from its own Israeli defense firms—a benefit not granted to other recipients of US military aid.
Trump may be giving that selfsame benefit to Ukraine.