Posted on 09/08/2022 6:21:41 AM PDT by BradtotheBone
Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Ukraine on Thursday for an undisclosed trip, his third visit to the country since Russia launched its invasion in late February.
He landed in the country after an overnight flight and met with his counterpart, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, just hours after Ukraine’s military chief publicly warned of the threat of Russia using nuclear weapons in the conflict.
“Another factor is the direct threat of the use by Russia, under certain circumstances, of tactical nuclear weapons,” Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhnyi said in an article co-authored by lawmaker Mykhailo Zabrodskyi and published by the state news agency Ukrinform.
Blinken is expected to announce a $675 million drawdown of U.S. arms and equipment for Ukraine, a senior Department of State official confirmed. The 20th drawdown since September 2021, which Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin mentioned in remarks to allies in Germany earlier Thursday, will include additional arms, munitions and equipment from U.S. military inventories.
Blinken is also planning to announce that the State Department will notify Congress that it will make $2 billion available in long-term investments to strengthen the security of Ukraine and 18 other neighboring countries, including many NATO allies, the official said.
“In total, the secretary will announce $2.6 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine and its neighbors today. These announcements will bring the total U.S. military assistance for Ukraine to approximately $15.2 billion since the beginning of this administration,” the official said.
Blinken’s visit comes on the heels of a call last month with Kuleba, in which he reinforced U.S. support for Ukraine’s defense needs. President Joe Biden later announced a $3 billion package to train and equip Ukrainian armed forces.
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Money kinda grows on trees aka printing presses.
Yeah, like more money will fix it.
Any chance he can just stay there?
... with a 10% kickback to the Big Guy.
We shouldn’t be giving money to any foreign nation
“Great, another 2.6 billion pissed away.”
It’s not the money, it’s the cashflow that is important.
When you are laundering money for your personal use, or the use of your criminal enterprise, it’s no big deal if it costs, say, half of the principal as long as you get money you can spend back in your pocket.
In this case, US taxpayer money goes out to the criminal enterprise that is the Ukraine, and good money to swiss, Caribbean, or some other bank magically appears.
That is what is going on. They don’t care about Ukraine, they care about the kickbacks they get from Ukraine - so the spice must flow.
Wow thats so clever! Never heard that one before!
Just another bagman dropping off the daily skim.
Starting to add up to real money
Seeing things as they truly are is sometimes painful.
Too bad it isn’t coming out of his own pocket. I don’t know ANYONE who made this pledge but I do know that everyone I know will be required to back up that pledge. Out of OUR pockets. “I don’t need sex, my government screws me every day” applies here.
Yes it does. This goes back a very long way, back to classical times. People have been making war on credit since the Bronze Age.
“War is not so much a matter of arms as of money”, Thucydides
.........”Blinken is also planning to announce that the State Department will notify Congress that it will make $2 billion available in long-term investments to strengthen the security of Ukraine and 18 other neighboring countries, including many NATO allies”.....
.........”Blinken is also planning to announce that the State Department will notify Congress that it will make $2 billion available in long-term investments to strengthen the security of Ukraine and 18 other neighboring countries, including many NATO allies”.....
I suggest we triple the aid and pray our government collapses. Nothing else will stop these corrupt maniacs.
“In total, the secretary will announce $2.6 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine and its neighbors today.’
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The plan is evidently to smother the Russian army in an avalanche of dollar bills.
Whoever’s keeping count, add this to the total. What’s it up to now? How much more will it take to keep Ukraine quiet about what it knows about biden? 100 billion?
Isn’t that nice of him to pledge our money. What a guy.
When are people going to say enough of this. We’re being spent into oblivion.
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