Posted on 09/08/2022 4:28:11 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unscheduled visit to Kyiv on Thursday as the Biden administration announced major new military aid worth more than $2 billion for Ukraine and other European countries threatened by Russia.
In meetings with senior Ukrainian officials, Blinken said the Biden administration had notified Congress of its intent to provide $2 billion in long-term Foreign Military Financing to Ukraine and 18 of its neighbors, including NATO members and regional security partners, that are “most potentially at risk for future Russian aggression.”
Pending expected congressional approval, about $1 billion of that will go to Ukraine and the rest will be divided among Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, the State Department said.
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The financing comes on top of a $675 million package of heavy weaponry, ammunition and armored vehicles for Ukraine alone that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced earlier Thursday at a conference in Ramstein, Germany.
That package includes howitzers, artillery munitions, Humvees, armored ambulances, anti-tank systems and more.
Austin said that “the war is at another key moment,” with Ukrainian forces beginning their counteroffensive in the south of the country. He said that “now we’re seeing the demonstrable success of our common efforts on the battlefield.”
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Germany and the Netherlands will provide training in demining to Ukrainian soldiers as well as demining equipment, the countries’ defense ministers said on the sidelines of the meeting with Austin. The training will be carried out in Germany. The two countries previously joined forces to send howitzers to Ukraine.
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Love to see Blinken’s bank account. Or is the the “big guy” ( front man ) for a family member?
Biden admin is a bigger threat to the safety and security of America than Putin could ever dream of.
Boy, Biden just keeps spending money that we don’t have.
What do you mean, we don’t have it? We have oodles of the stuff. It’s all free. Just print some more. As long as we don’t run out of paper and ink, it’s all gravy.
Why not a trillion?
Silly me, I thought congress had to authorize spending.
Me, too!
Guess we just need to trust our betters, eh? /sarc
Must have secured another country willing to take money in return of a sizeable donation to our politician’s secret offshore accounts.
Timber is on the record as saying he doesn’t care how much taxpayer dollars we have to keep pumping into Ukraine.
Timber is one of the ignorant cadre of useful idiots for Biden who have been infiltrating FR since the war began. Mercyflush is another turd who should be sent down the toilet bowl.
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