US rushes ANOTHER package to Ukraine with
Russia's momentum stalling: Biden sends
$775 million in missiles and armored vehicles
to Kyiv to help the counteroffensive
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Geoff Earle
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
8/19/2022 6:51:54 PM
The Biden Administration is sending more drones, ammunition, and armored vehicles to aid Ukraine in its fight against Russia's invasion, as Ukraine continues to find ways to hit Russia with long-range rockets.
The latest package the Pentagon is announcing totals $775 million, and contains 16 Howitzer systems, 1,000 Javelin systems that have been hammering Russian armor, as well as an undisclosed number of HARM missiles that go after radar systems.
Also included are 15 ScanEagle drones, a low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle made by Boeing, as well as 40 MRAPS, tactical vehicles meant to withstand improvised explosives.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
bamapreacher 8/19/2022 7:00:26 PM (No. 1253640)
Probably not a good idea to back Putin into a corner. A nuke in Kiev might be the result.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 8/19/2022 7:03:10 PM (No. 1253642)
Mitch is very very happy. He is heavily invested in the global military industrial complex and war is good for business and business is very good. Most of this will be sold on the black web and money will go into Swiss accounts of the Khazarian Mafia.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 8/19/2022 7:07:37 PM (No. 1253647)
Frankly I'm tired off the US printing money to finance a proxy war with Russia and sticking the taxpayers with the bill. I'm all for every country's sovereignty (especially ours), freedom of self determination and liberty but why am I footing the bill for Ukraine's struggle while this administration opens our borders to all types of potential villainy and disease? Also at my expense.
When in the course of human events......
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Ribicon 8/19/2022 7:33:37 PM (No. 1253673)
Every few days it's hundreds of millions of dollars more of printed money that we pay for through inflation and reduced standard of living, and in "sharing" our military wares thus way, there's no doubt that the theoretical enemies of our nation (no, not the American people, though that would be an easy conclusion to reach) will steal the technology and we'll then have to fund even newer weapons, because that's the way the MIC works.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
FormerDem 8/19/2022 7:36:04 PM (No. 1253676)
Good for Biden. I am surprised he is doing the right thing but hey. The better armed Kiev is the sooner this will be over. Berlin 1945, Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, Afghanistan 1979, Then USSR is over and Russia says it wasn't really them who did all that bad stuff. Then Georgia 2008, Crimea 2014, Kiev 2022. Every single time they take a couple of provinces and say this is just a simple somethingorother and wouldnit be easier if the rest of us just stood back while they get it done. I believe they are aiming at Constantinople and there is no way to avoid battle unless going to give them everything, and let them flay everybody, rape everybody, torture, imprison, kidnap, exile, slander, and rob everybody.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
kono 8/19/2022 7:42:49 PM (No. 1253680)
We're arming Ukraine as if they were the West's proxy in yet another Cold War era proxy conflict. Trouble with that is that their adversary is not a proxy of the USSR, but the once and future Soviet state, itself.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
rochow 8/19/2022 7:47:55 PM (No. 1253685)
What is Europe sending?? Are we once again the only ones to dole out cash and arms and ammunition and vehicles and and and and.......?!?!?! I for one am tired of this never-ending war that the AMerican taxpayer is funding.
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Surrogate war
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Kate318 8/19/2022 8:00:53 PM (No. 1253703)
I know this is a rhetorical question, but is anyone concerned about cost vs outcome? Is there a limit to what the Deep State is willing to pay for blackmail? The money and equipment being sent to the Ukraine is like money spent in the US education system, flushed right down the toilet. Either our equipment is crap, or the Ukrainian soldiers are crap, or the embedded US/EU/NATO fighters are crap. After all, we keep hearing about how Russia is close to defeat and Putin is close to death, right? So, what in the Sam Hill is going on?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LadyHen 8/19/2022 8:32:40 PM (No. 1253748)
Only an imbecile would think that ALL this cash and arms are actually reaching the average grunt in the field. I'd guess maybe 50-75% of it is getting sold off or pocketed for a tidy profit by the corrupt powers that be.
And yes, those same powers want to prolong this atrocity for as long as possible, casualties be damned. This is money in the bank for the likes of Biden and his friends in high places. We have no idea how rich this farce of a proxy war is making the Evil of the Earth. All from the wallets of the American people and spilling the blood of Ukrainians and Russians.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rich323 8/19/2022 10:16:19 PM (No. 1253840)
Sound like a poker game I see your tanks and raise you 100 anti aircraft missiles. Unfortunately the pot of this game is going into the pockets of Zelensky and the Ukrainian oligarchs.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 8/19/2022 10:45:58 PM (No. 1253872)
Infrastructure
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 8/20/2022 4:39:21 AM (No. 1253996)
Pretty soon we are going to be known as the "united states of bankrupt america" I am very sorry to see the Ukrane people suffer and all for sending help, but there has to be a limit because there are people who are suffering here in our country that some of those billions could be helping. Let other countries match what we have done and are doing. It seems like the "america" first with this administration only pertains to the purse strings and doling out billions of dollars that most of which is probabvly going to politicans and not the people who need the help.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 8/20/2022 8:58:18 AM (No. 1254145)
I understand Germany is sending some left-over Nazi helmets (repainted of course) canteen along with some wool blankets. Everyone is on the same page helping the war effort. The US just does a little more like keeping the Ukraine politician's payroll rolling.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 8/20/2022 9:16:05 AM (No. 1254164)
As usual after a Democrat President has been in office the next Republican President will have to rebuild our military. We left 7 billion dollars of equipment in Afghanistan plus however billions in equipment we have given Ukraine
Ukraine is a strange war. Russia is twice the size of the U.S. Ukraine is almost the size of the State of Texas. Russia the superpower is having a hard time taking a small portion of the Ukraine. Odd. So many questions, No answers.
Of course also there is the Biden's sucking money out of the Ukraine for years and I have read Pelosi's and Romnsy's sons have had dealings there too.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Speedypetey 8/20/2022 9:33:14 AM (No. 1254190)
One must wonder how many Ukranians want to die for the corrupt comedian and the political elites money laundering destination? You can send weapons but when all the young men have moved to the EU and USA are they going to get their beloved dictator Zelensky to pull the triggers?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Zigrid 8/20/2022 9:58:56 AM (No. 1254219)
The pentagon is celebrating these days...they got their war and all the arms dealers are thrilled...war is good business and makes the oligarchs richer with every explosion...never mind the poor Ukrainians that die and get tossed around...someone has to be the victim so the new world order dudes can control the world...
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cor-vet 8/20/2022 10:08:42 AM (No. 1254230)
C'mon man! It takes big bucks to protect one of your favorite money laundering machines. Let's just be thankful Russia, Russia, Russia didn't attack China. No telling how much Bidet would spend to cover his Chinese benefactors.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Leathernuts 8/20/2022 11:01:15 AM (No. 1254284)
Some many good post by our astute Lucianne readers. Monica Crowley said this AM about 30% of these weapons are actually getting to the frontline grunts. Whaaaa? So the black marketeers and other corruptocrats on both sides of the Atlantic are profiteering from this proxy war. We need some sort of congressional accountability on the gear we send over. I do not think the Deep State wants us to know.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
TCloud 8/20/2022 11:06:31 AM (No. 1254290)
Russian Chess moves see the Winter Campaign being prepped on the Chess Board!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
czechlist 8/20/2022 11:08:38 AM (No. 1254293)
Seriously. How many have bothered to read the history of that region? The politicians, military and media only tell you what they want you to know. Who knows "RUS-sIa" originated in Ukraine? And convince Ghadaffi and Milosevic that NATO is a "defensive" alliance. There is very good reason for Putin to be paranoid.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
felixcat 8/20/2022 11:21:48 AM (No. 1254308)
And even more shameful are all the Republicans in Congress approving these payments.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
nerdowell 8/20/2022 12:10:08 PM (No. 1254358)
This conflict is looking more and more like the Spanish Civil War in that it is becoming a proving ground for recent munitions systems.
If you have a minute take a look at this Youtube interview: Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy | Lex Fridman Podcast #310. In this discussion Bustamante extols the value of testing these new weapons in live-fire theatre, where they can be evaluated and enhanced.
This suggests that, increasingly, we--not the Ukrainians-- are fighting this war.
This proxy war has gotten more and more proximal and perpetual.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
nerdowell 8/20/2022 12:12:16 PM (No. 1254363)
I should say this character Andrew Bustamante may be full of it, so a grain of salt is in order. Bit if...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
NotaBene 8/20/2022 1:44:06 PM (No. 1254450)
In the meantime, Russia is taking back the Donbass and conquering the Black Sea coast. Let them fight to the last Ukrainian Nazi, provided the USA Miliary-Industrial-Congressional Complex makes money.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 8/20/2022 4:27:36 PM (No. 1254555)
Covering up for Biden's (and other politicians) Ukraine money laundering operations sure is expensive to American Taxpayers..
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 8/20/2022 6:01:23 PM (No. 1254623)
While our Vets and our failing, antiquated power grid get nothing.
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Once again, what legislation authorized this and what were the floor votes? IS ANYONE FIGHTING BACK?
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