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US announces new Ukraine package as Pentagon chief visits Kyiv
The Hill ^ | 11/20/2023 | Brad Dress

Posted on 11/20/2023 11:22:33 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

The U.S. on Monday released a new $100 million aid package for Ukraine, announcing more artillery rounds and anti-aircraft munitions as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a surprise visit to Kyiv.

The package includes 155 millimeter artillery shells, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, small arms ammunition and Javelin and AT-4 launchers.

DEFENSE US announces new Ukraine package as Pentagon chief visits Kyiv BY BRAD DRESS - 11/20/23 1:56 PM ET SHARE TWEET

A soldier of the Ukraine’s National Guard 1st brigade Bureviy (Hurricane) ride an APC during combat training at a military training ground in the north of Ukraine Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) The U.S. on Monday released a new $100 million aid package for Ukraine, announcing more artillery rounds and anti-aircraft munitions as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a surprise visit to Kyiv.

The package includes 155 millimeter artillery shells, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, small arms ammunition and Javelin and AT-4 launchers.

Austin said at a Monday press conference in Kyiv that the package will help Ukrainian troops in the coming months “have the means that they’ll need to be successful fighting in the wintertime.”

“There is no silver bullet in a conflict like this. It really depends on providing the right capabilities and also integrating those capabilities in meaningful ways,” he said. “The Ukraine military is a learning organization, and it will continue to learn from from all of its operations.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kyiv; package; pentagon; ukraine; war
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To: delta7



21 posted on 11/20/2023 12:11:10 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - keeping Europe free of Russian invaders for 74 years - you're welcome!)
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To: refreshed

Absolutely my position. I’ve been stating it for over a year now on this forum. When does it end? It’s American treasure now, is it going to be the blood of American Marines later? Enough. Not my flag, not my country, not my war.


22 posted on 11/20/2023 12:11:24 PM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I trust so very little most of the information coming out of Ukraine. That said, I know democRATS and RINOs are getting their 10%.

Another example of why they hate President Trump, Elon Musk, etc. They obtained their $$$ the old fashioned way......They earned it.

Whatever else Musk is doing, he is singlehandedly dragging America and the human race into space. Someday our Sun will expand, and we have to move out into the universe. One of the current Mars rovers has a device that proves we can make oxygen from the Martian atmosphere. We will have to bring oxygen with us at first, and then create much more. There is a Saturn moon that is basically an orbiting fuel station. There are oceans of hydrocarbons on Titan. An orbiting space station could use Titan for energy, and rocket fuel. We have sent probes to asteroids, and one has returned a sample of the cosmic shhhhtuuff. We could also mine asteroids eventually.

President Trump demonstrated that when you let the entrepreneurs and free enterprise loose, America can still be the shining city on the hill. The entire world still desires to come here (just not all at once, please).


23 posted on 11/20/2023 12:12:00 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: delta7

And “ where have the young men gone?”……even Time magazine admits it, the average age of a Ukie soldier is now 43!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzclzXzYbg8

Senile Joe’s Ukie war narrative destroyed.


24 posted on 11/20/2023 12:13:25 PM PST by delta7
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The bipartisan highly profitable orgy of mass murder continues.


25 posted on 11/20/2023 12:14:38 PM PST by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: refreshed

Why just our treasure? Why not our blood?


Lose/cease fighting in Ukraine and your kids will shed their blood fighting Russia, which, from the sound of it, will make you happy.


26 posted on 11/20/2023 12:24:57 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: delta7

Vlad says Checkmate

Vlad has been very quite since he entered the freezer at Gelendzhik Urban Okrug, Krasnodar Krai, Russia ...


27 posted on 11/20/2023 12:28:34 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey, if our government can give Ukraine another 100 million they can surely give each of us a couple million each. I mean, if they’re going to be so free with it, WHY NOT? I could use a few…..
/s


28 posted on 11/20/2023 12:33:34 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: PIF

Why just war? Why not total war? If Russia is the true enemy of our survival as a nation, then it’s total war. Several ten megaton thermo-nuclear airbursts at a thousand feet over Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad to start. Destroy them, remember, it’s for our survival. Or maybe I should learn how to speak Russian. I don’t think so.


29 posted on 11/20/2023 12:36:20 PM PST by kawhill (kawhill)
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To: canuck_conservative

Still going…..
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Yeah, how much longer till the average age is 55? 60? ….or as this administration stated” to the last Ukrainian “?


30 posted on 11/20/2023 12:38:25 PM PST by delta7
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hire Mossad to whack The hamas supporting Putin.


31 posted on 11/20/2023 12:41:00 PM PST by NoLibZone (We have the nation we deserve The bad guys are willing to protest and riot while we email.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hopefully Austin went there to deliver the bad news to Zelensky, but reasoned that he should get a nice tip for his service to the GAE - yeah, $100 million sound about right?


32 posted on 11/20/2023 12:46:37 PM PST by Jim Noble (The future belongs to those who show up)
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

Sounds like

A God less world

You’re living in

This world passes away

Why fix it up

A new world replaces it


33 posted on 11/20/2023 12:46:37 PM PST by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: Firehath

We can alleviate

Improve present living conditions

Into the future too

That’s about it

Everything runs it course - channel


34 posted on 11/20/2023 12:50:00 PM PST by Firehath (Quackery - An irrelevant simplification / undetected Complex problem - attacking symptoms)
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To: PIF

“Lose/cease fighting in Ukraine and your kids will shed their blood fighting Russia, which, from the sound of it, will make you happy.”

Nonsense. This is the tired old domino theory again. “Russia is going to attack the west if they win in Ukraine”. This is just another stupid ethnic border war in Europe. Europe has been having these for centuries. It is none of our business getting involved in them. Ukraine isn’t worth the bones of a single one of our kids.


35 posted on 11/20/2023 1:00:22 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: kawhill

Several ten megaton thermo-nuclear airbursts at a thousand feet over Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad to start

Answered by staggered 500 km air & ground 20mt bursts, zigzagging north to south: result 300-200 million dead, the rest dying from the firestorms; this is an old Russian Cold War plan which they have not forgotten in the intervening 50 years.

We have no defense against Russian ICBMS, or even bomb shelters to climb out of after.


36 posted on 11/20/2023 1:08:36 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: rxh4n1

Not a theory, an announced plan by Russia - in fact, reiterated several times in the past 6 months.

First the Baltics, then Poland, then Germany - all the old USSR countries retaken.


37 posted on 11/20/2023 1:10:55 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

“Not a theory, an announced plan by Russia - in fact, reiterated several times in the past 6 months.

First the Baltics, then Poland, then Germany - all the old USSR countries retaken.”

Nonsense. Some blowhards in Russia were saying that crap. Same crowd that was talking about getting Alaska back. Well, at least you’re not claiming they’ll be on the English Channel next.


38 posted on 11/20/2023 1:18:22 PM PST by rxh4n1
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Get Ukraine EVERYTHING they need to defeat the evil putin/russia


39 posted on 11/20/2023 1:23:42 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: ChicagoConservative27

No oversight on the loot taken from American taxpayers, right?

That’s why the goons and thugs and official DC are supporting this war.

If this ‘war was on principle’ the money and weapons would have accountability tied in...but they don’t.

Here’s an idea, have the people of Ukraine vote on the issue, would they rather go with Russia or stay as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. Or move to one slightly more corrupt but in a different way? Then talk it out.

The everyday people never get any of the loot - they don’t get American dollars or weapons to sell on the black market. Nothing for ‘the people’ except to die for elties who are raking it in.


40 posted on 11/20/2023 1:27:37 PM PST by GOPJ (Ignorant but arrogant is a sad way to start an adult life. Victor Davis Hanson on Ivy college grads)
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