Posted on 01/18/2020 10:10:18 AM PST by hsmomx3
Hopefully these Ukrainians officials will be witnesses to testify in favor of Trump and against the corrupt Bidens and Democrats.
Dems are digging their grave with this one. Bidens are about to go down.
The question for the Ukrainian officials will be whether they feel more used by the Dems or the Reps. I read that over 200 Ukrainian soldiers died as a result of the delay in the military money, also multi millions of dollars that will never be available because of the delay and the Sept. 30th deadline for the fiscal year. Don’t know how true this is, but the Ukrainians probably know.
Nunes has come out and said, they can take that letter and shove it. ...something like that. ...Nunes won’t take the crap.
Lol the fact that it’s MLK Day May have something to do with it too
I will be on the same side as Devin Nunes as we share
the same alma mater and battleground.
its certainly not something to be excited about.
Violence and possible deaths never are.
Even less work than usual...
LOL
If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you. Even the pentagon worker in charge of contracts said they caught up. I wonder how many Ukrainian military died because Obama would only send blankets and MREs and Trump had already sent military aid for a couple years. Pretty embarrassing that a Freepers is so uninformed
No way in hell should any Ukrainian officials be called to testify in a U.S. proceeding. The place is notoriously corrupt, and most of the public statements I’ve seen from their government and quasi-government officials seem to suggest that the average IQ over there is about 85.
You know, stupid, silly me just realized Monday is a holiday for the govt. and banks. Most people I know have to work that day.
“””””””’ I read that over 200 Ukrainian soldiers died as a result of the delay in the military money,””””””
False.
I like Nunes and am glad to hear this.
“Eric Ciaramella“
Let us know when the authorities arrive at your location.
LOL!! They’re welcome to my little $hithole city anytime.
If you want to know about medical issues, talk to a DOCTOR.
If you want to know about crops and herds, talk to a FARMER.
If you want to know about corruption in Ukraine, talk to a UKRAINIAN CROOK.
Dear CNN: Are you really too stupid to understand that, or are you misleading your viewer again?
This carefully engineered plot starts Monday regardless.
ah, we all have an inkling of what this may come down to in the end.
Fascists do whatever it takes to win, including kill.
These are exciting times, both the good parts and the scary parts.
Watching patriots possibly put their lives on the line to defend their beliefs Is exciting...yet dangerous and quite possible to spin out of control quickly.
We shall see my FRiend.
As I said in my comment, I didn’t know how true this is. So, I have now checked and found that I knew about the concerns in the first paragraph below, but had not heard about the last minute successful “scramble to save the money”, as described in the second paragraph. Late Sept. and October I was out in the country in a scramble to save my wilderness cabin. There was no electricity and little access to media for me there.
“Several OMB officials resigned in part due to their concerns that the withholding was illegal, and witnesses from the Defense Department and other parts of the administration testified publicly in the impeachment inquiry that there was widespread concern that the aid could not be spent by Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year, and would expire.”
“When the Trump administration ultimately dropped its hold on the aid on Sept. 11, Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike had to scramble to save the money. Just days shy of the deadline [Sept. 30], they passed — and Trump signed into law — a yearlong extension to allow the Pentagon to disburse the aid. But in late November The Times reported that $35.2 million of the initially withheld Ukraine assistance still sat in the U.S. Treasury.”
Source for above: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-12-12/millions-in-military-aid-at-center-of-impeachment-hasnt-reached-ukraine
Here is one observation of military aid from 2015 that saved lives. “Some of the early nonlethal aid was useful. After Ukraine received 20 Lockheed Martin AN/TPQ-53 radar systems that track incoming mortar and short-range artillery fire in 2015, the casualty rate for units equipped with those system went from 47 percent to about 18 percent, Ordynovych said.”
“That was some of the most useful equipment that we ever provided them because it provided them early warning,” Hodges said. “The Ukrainians used [the radar] so much, they were under so much rocket and mortar fire, that they became extremely proficient. So we learned from them.”
The above 2 paragraphs were from this defense news source. https://www.defensenews.com/congress/2019/09/25/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-us-aid-package-to-ukraine-that-trump-delayed/
Another detailed military source of information. https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2019/10/01/in-wartime-ukraine-trumps-stalled-us-weapons-sale-is-a-minor-concern/
There are many quotes above from a Ukrainian military source. One should be aware that when he reports that Ukraine felt no pressure from President Trump’s words and actions, a leader from a country like Ukraine would not want to make himself look week at home by saying he felt pressure from a foreign country. He does detail many ways in which US/Ukraine cooperation is benefiting both countries to increase strength in dealing with Russia and China.
This article describes conditions at the Ukrainian front. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/world/europe/ukraine-war-impeachment.html The following information about our gift of Javelin missiles to Ukraine I had not heard about.
“In 2018, the Trump administration authorized sales to Ukraine of a shoulder-fired anti-tank missile called the Javelin, reversing an Obama administration policy of supplying only non-lethal aid. But there is a big catch. The Trump administration provided the missiles on the condition that they not be used in the war, Ukrainian officials and American diplomats have said, lest they provoke Russia to slip more powerful weaponry to the separatists.”
CNN throwing the same pair of undies against a different section of the wall to see if they stick...this time...as they examine other sections of wall to toss the same undies against when they don’t stick this time either...
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