Posted on 10/29/2023 9:24:09 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
Since the West-backed Maidan Putsch seized power in Ukraine in 2014, they have embarked on a massive de-Russification and pro-Banderization campaign, tearing down statues and monuments, replacing plaques, and renaming towns and streets – getting rid of anything dedicated to Russians and Soviets, and frequently erecting honours and memorials to WW2 era West Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, who are glorified for fighting those Russians and Communists, despite their bloody massacres of Ukrainian Jews, Poles, Hungarians, Russians, and Leftists in their place.
This policy has been accelerated even further in recent days as Zelenskiy has recently put into force directives that Ukraine must be completely de-Russified by the end of the year. A Ukraine where before the West-backed Maidan Putsch in 2014, 20% of the population was ethnic Russian and over half of the country spoke Russian on a daily basis.
(Excerpt) Read more at marksleboda.substack.com ...
After everything that Moscow did to Ukraine in the 20th century alone, can anybody blame them for wanting to be rid of all the symbols and institutions of that oppression?
Lots of heroes were smeared by the Soviets as collaborators after WWII. It has been Moscow’s go-to insult since Stalin’s day. Just a fact that needs to be repeated on every one of these threads.
Some were UPSET the House was shut down for a few days b/c we weren’t sending your tax dollars to foreign countries fast enough. The same “Congress” that gleefully tramples 2A rights, is hell bent on supplying weapons to foreign countries.
whitehouse.gov
MARCH 16, 2022
Briefing Room
Fact Sheet of MARCH 16, 2022-——U.S. Security Assistance for Ukraine
President Biden today, MARCH 16, 2022, announced an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine, bringing the total U.S. security assistance committed to Ukraine to $1 billion in just the past week, and a total of $2 billion since the start of the Biden Administration.
The assistance will take the form of direct transfers of equipment from the Department of Defense to the Ukrainian military to help them defend their country against Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion.
The MARCH 16, 2022 new $800 million assistance package includes:
800 Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
2,000 Javelin, 1,000 light anti-armor weapons,
6,000 AT-4 anti-armor systems;
100 Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems;
100 grenade launchers, 5,000 rifles, 1,000 pistols, 400 machine guns, and 400 shotguns;
Over 20 million rounds of small arms ammunition and grenade launcher and mortar rounds;
25,000 sets of body armor; and
25,000 helmets.
In addition to the MARCH 16, 2022 weapons listed above, previous US assistance committed to Ukraine includes:
Over 600 Stinger anti-aircraft systems;
Approximately 2,600 Javelin anti-armor systems;
Five Mi-17 helicopters;
Three patrol boats;
Four counter-artillery and counter-unmanned aerial system tracking radars;
Four counter-mortar radar systems;
200 grenade launchers and ammunition;
200 shotguns and 200 machine guns;
Nearly 40 million rounds of small arms ammunition
Over 1 million grenade, mortar, and artillery rounds;
70 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs) and other vehicles;
Secure communications, electronic warfare detection systems,
Body armor, helmets, and other tactical gear;
Military medical equipment to support treatment and combat evacuation;
Explosive ordnance disposal and de-mining equipment; and
Satellite imagery and analysis capability.
In addition to the U.S.-produced short-range air defense systems the Ukrainians have been using to great effect, the United States has also identified and is helping the Ukrainians acquire additional, longer-range systems on which Ukraine’s forces are already trained, as well as additional munitions for those systems.
The United States continues to expedite the authorization and facilitation of additional assistance to Ukraine from our Allies. At least 30 countries have provided security assistance to Ukraine since the Russian invasion began.
In 2022, the Department of State authorized third-party transfers of defensive equipment from more than 14 countries, a number that continues to grow as Allies and Partners increase support to Ukraine.
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defense.gov
Immediate Release
Oct 26, 2023
Biden Administration Announces Additional Security Assistance for Ukraine
Today, Oct 26, 2023, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs.
This announcement is the Biden Administration’s forty-ninth tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021.
This Oct 26, 2023 package includes additional air defense capabilities, artillery ammunition, anti-tank weapons, and other equipment to help Ukraine counter Russia’s ongoing war of aggression and fight for its independence and freedom.
This package utilizes assistance previously authorized for Ukraine during prior fiscal years under Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) that remained after the PDA revaluation process concluded in June. This security assistance package is another visible signal of the United States’ continued commitment to supporting the Ukrainian people in the face of Russian aggression.
The United States remains committed to working with Allies and partners to provide Ukraine with capabilities to meet its immediate battlefield needs, and the Biden Administration calls on Congress to meet its commitment to the people of Ukraine by passing additional funding to ensure Ukraine continues to have what it needs to defend itself against Russia’s brutal war of choice.
Security assistance for Ukraine is a smart investment in our national security. It helps to prevent a larger conflict in the region and deter potential aggression elsewhere, while strengthening our defense industrial base and creating highly skilled jobs for the American people.
The capabilities in this package, valued at up to $150 million, include:
• Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
• AIM-9M missiles for air defense;
• Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;
• Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
• 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;
• Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
• Javelin anti-armor systems;
• More than 2 million rounds of small arms ammunition;
• Night vision devices;
• Demolitions munitions for obstacle clearing;
• Cold weather gear; and
• Spare parts, maintenance, and other ancillary equipment.
Silly-
The Russians lost over 600 cities and 20 million dead in WWII. They carried the brunt of the war, not the French, British or even us. It might appear that way in our movies where Brad Pitt single handed defeats entire German armor battalions, but reality has about 2/3rds of all German casualties in Russia.
If you take the entire Africa campaign, Normandy 1944 to Germany’s end, the air war, Atlantic war, Italy from Anzio onward, the German casualties early on in Greece, YU, Norway, Poland, invading France... All of that is 1/3.
The Russians have a “hatred” for the NAZI’s.
Putin’s brother died as an infant in Leningrad (1942), many in his family died fighting the Germans in this war... His father fought and was injured in the war... What you’re doing doesn’t even make sense.
But... it sounds good to you I suppose.
Doesn’t change the fact that Putin used Nazi tactics to Invade Ukraine.
No that is you.
But it’s nice that you live in a black and white world of simpletons.
But if you want to see something interesting, you may need to VPN, see if you can find the video of our AT-4s and British Nlaw in the hands of Hamas.
Uh-huh?
I suggest you go anywhere in Russia, literally anywhere, and talk nazi crap, or wear nazi crap, or waive a nazi flag, and see how long before you get your @ss beat.
The Russians were communists ever since Lenin and already then the targets of Nazi’s: http://www.liberate.gg/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Nazi-camp-uniform-symbol.jpg (a commie gets a red inverted triangle - political)
It’s not even a conspiracy theory, what you’re saying is just idiotic.
***You are LITERALLY trying to convolute the people who fought the nazi’s, with the nazi’s. No one played a bigger role in bringing the nazi’s down, and no nation suffered more at the nazi’s hands.***
You may as well call the Israeli’s Nazi’s using your reasoning, and indeed some people do. When folks use the nazi thing, they usually know they lost an argument. It’s one of those last straw emotional appeals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Wanna see something funny?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqoV0jlLojg Brand new UK Nlaw and US AT-4s in the hands of Hamas. Where do you think those came from?
My beloved sister:
“But but but Zelenskyy’s a JEW! How could he let this happen??”
I don’t assume for you to look, so I found where the Hindustan Times actually aired it.
See previous post.
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There was (and maybe still is) a Russian neo-nazi skinhead subculture. Thats why a bunch of the Prigozhin guys had nazi tattoos, being as they had their start as criminals, an alienated group.
Some were also to be seen in the Bald&Bankrupt videos, IIRC in his gopnik episode.
People are complicated. There was extreme alienation in Russia from the 1980s on, and a range of bitter manifestations of this. How best to declare utter rejection of the Soviet/post-Soviet culture? Well, by trying to appear as the bad guys in what became the core of the Soviet justification for their regime.
A US DOJ report from 2008, so pre-Obama.
Absurd crap.
I despise every Russia loving Hamas supporting pos!
Can there be any doubt now Putin is the real Hitler?
After what Russia unleashed in Israel only a lunatic can point fingers at Ukraine.
Those who are supporting the Russia/ Iran/ Hamas/ N Korea axis are enemies of the United States.
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