Posted on 07/04/2022 8:54:03 AM PDT by kabar
To date, the United States has provided $2.3 billion in direct budgetary support to the Government of Ukraine. These direct contributions ensure that the Ukrainian government can continue operating and responding to critical needs – for example, keeping gas and electricity flowing to hospitals, schools, and other critical infrastructure, delivering essential services like healthcare, utilities, education, and humanitarian supplies to citizens, and continuing to pay the salaries of civil servants.
(Excerpt) Read more at usaid.gov ...
The aid package provides $19 billion for immediate military support to Ukraine, continuing the effort that has been vital to sustaining Ukrainian resistance, and $3.9 billion to sustain U.S. forces deployed to Europe. The package also contains about $16 billion for economic support to Ukraine, global humanitarian relief, and a wide variety of international programs as well as $2 billion for long-term support to NATO allies and DOD modernization programs.
Although some elements of the aid package will be available quickly, many will take years to fully implement. This raises questions about why long-term elements could not have gone through the regular congressional authorization and budget processes.
Replenishment of U.S. weapons stocks ($9 billion): This provides money for DOD to replace items sent to Ukraine in the past or in the future. The White House press announcement cites artillery, armored vehicles, anti-tank, and antiair capabilities. DOD is not necessarily replacing items like-for-like, but may substitute similar capabilities where the previous items are unavailable or obsolescent. The amount ($9 billion) is nearly three times the stated cost of equipment drawdown provided to date ($3.3 billion) implying that the replacements will be more expensive and that there will be additional drawdown in the future. As with the USAI, the secretary of defense must notify the congressional defense committees of the details of such transfers not less than 15 days before any such transfer.
Samantha Powell, wife to Cass Sunstein, is the USAID Administrator.
What are our national interests in Ukraine? There are none. What are our national interests at our souther border? There are plenty, beginning with a nation is only a nation with clearly defined and controlled borders. A nation without control over its borders is not a nation. We no longer have a country. Biden does not enforce laws established by our elected representatives.
Incestuous. Powell used to be the UN Ambassador under Obama/Biden. She was the one asking for multiple unmasking data. Ideologue.
Everybody is so worried about us being colonialists, maybe we should be.
Give us a chunk of Ukraine.
Ukraine has become the new quagmire. Get out of one endless war (Afghanistan) and jump into another. We are the biggest debtor nation and it only gets worse.
We have paid enough to buy the country many times over. A chunk of Ukraine would bleed us dry. Ukraine is a poor country.
I know. I’m 56 so it will run out just in time for me. It’s the only thing I have. No IRA, no investment portfolio.
Another $1.3 billion to Ukrainian and yet the IRS is still on my ass over a $1200 tax dispute.
Maybe I should buy an island, create my own country, incite a war with my neighbor, and then petition the US gubmint for a couple billion dollars in cash, gifts and prizes. It’s for the children, of course.
Seems to be working out well for everybody else.
Take a chunk of Ukraine and move the Indians there.
I wonder how much of this money is being diverted to purchase upscale properties in Switzerland?
They are called the Guardians now. Guess Ukraine would be an upgrade compared to Cleveland.
Hmmm 1.3 billion divided by the seniors on Social Security trying to survive Biden’s inflation is what?
The latest that got me was Ben Stiller’s support for the Ukraine. Makes me wonder if I am chanting for the right side?
My thinking has always been what the Democrats pulled off in 2020 could not have happened without the support of GOP leadership. Explicit and implicit.
Can we see what these parasites are doing while we are told to eat sh##
I think you are likely right.
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