Posted on 03/25/2024 4:48:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Russia has launched its third wave of missile strikes against Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, in five days, as part of its escalating aerial bombardment of the city.
Five people were injured in the strike, with two of them taken to hospital, said the Kyiv mayor, Vitali Klitschko, as Ukraine’s foreign minister called on international allies to supply more air defences to his country.
The injuries and damage appear to have been the result of falling missile debris as the Ukrainian air force said it had shot down two missiles over the city.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, renewed his appeal to western partners to provide more weaponry to protect against the unrelenting aerial attacks.
“We never tire of repeating that Ukraine needs more air defence,” he said. “This is security for our cities and saves human lives.”
Frontlines in the war have remained largely static despite recent renewed and highly costly Russian efforts to advance in the Donbas region and the capture of some settlements.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The Russians are knocking them out right and left. The Russians are also stepping up to their hypersonics. Nothing NATO has can deal with them. The Patriot and the Uke intelligence center taken out this morning were with Kinzhals. The air raid alert went off 10 seconds prior to the headquarters building going up.
How about save lives and give up?
Add sarcasm to my last sentence in this previous post.
History has shown that doesn't turn out well.
I’m sorry, my mistake. Make that 2 Patriot systems around Kiev taken out this morning.
“The Patriot and the Uke intelligence center taken out this morning were with Kinzhals. The air raid alert went off 10 seconds prior to the headquarters building going up.”
Got a thread for that?
“Make that 2 Patriot systems around Kiev taken out this morning.”
Link?
Biden and the Democrats are hot to trot, massively arming foreign countries, at the same time they’re grabbing guns from Americans. The same “Congress” that gleefully tramples our 2A rights, is hell bent on supplying weapons to foreign countries.
Not content w/ the mega billions already in his pocket, Zelensky now says
he wants US tax dollars to Ukraine “according to the Israeli model”......here’s what he means:
Congressional Research Service
US Foreign aid to Israel
60 page detailed report
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL33222/44
The concerned Israeli lobby made sure Congress is required by law to ensure that U.S. military aid in the Middle East region doesn’t damage Israel’s military superiority over its neighbors. That requirement enjoys broad bipartisan support and has served as a benchmark for ensuring Israel receives robust U.S. support.
Biden keeps gaslighting Americans about the “need” for
American foreign aid tax dollars to Ukraine and Israel.
Here’s why they DONT need it:
About $113.1 billion in tax dollars were authorized in 2022 for Ukraine, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Most of it–about $67.1 billion–was defense-related. The other $46 billion included:
<><>$26.9 billion for economic support;
<><>$7.9 billion for international disaster assistance;
<><>$6.6 billion in assistance for refugees;
<><>$1.5 billion for assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia;
<><>plus $3.1 billion for other non-defense spending.
US tax dollars helped Ukraine
<><>pay the salaries of 618,000 educators, 517,000 health workers, and 56,500 first responders
<><>helped sustain critical healthcare services,
<><>helped meet pension responsibilities for 9.8 million people,
<><>assisted 1.3 million internally displaced persons,
<><>provided housing assistance to 4.1 million people,
<><>provided social assistance to 240,000 low-income families
<><>helped subsidize 480,000 persons with disabilities,
<><>bought supplies for farmers,
<><>financed finding markets for small business.
Backstory: Since 1973, Israel has received more than $120 billion US tax
dollars in MILITARY assistance ALONE, including “three special aid” packages.
<><>billions for signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty
<><>billions for Israel’s withdrawal from the Sinai.
<><>billions for redeployment of Israeli forces
<><>rebuilding Israeli air bases in the Negev cost $5 billion.
Biden’s 2023 arms handout to Israel after Oct 7:
<><>57,000 155mm artillery shells
<><>more than 5,000 Mk82 unguided or “dumb” bombs,
<><>more than 5,400 Mk84 2,000 pound warhead bombs,
<><>around 1,000 GBU-39 small diameter bombs,
<><>approximately 3,000 JDAMs, which turn unguided bombs into guided “smart” bombs,
<><>BLU-109 bunker busters w/ 2,000 pound warheads designed to penetrate concrete shelters.
Besides weaponry, Israel also receives economic and humanitarian foreign aid tax dollars, which supports Israel’s broad economic development and sociopolitical stability and can include non-military support related to the country’s pressing security needs.
Military aid from US taxpayers has blanketed Israel over the years. They have more than enough resources, now, to nail Hamas and Hezbollah. Wealthy Israel has very low debt, and actually had a budget surplus this year.
The US is $33 trillion in debt, a debt which future American generations are saddled with.
What’s new. Beggars gonna beg.
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Ukraine bravely intercepted the missiles with several buildings that were completely expendable and totally unimportant, no serious damage was incurred!
- Baghdad Bob
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