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Ukrainian soldiers rationing bullets, checking daily for congressional updates over stalled aid: senator
Nypost ^ | 02/18/2024 | Ryan King

Posted on 02/18/2024 11:33:42 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Ukraine’s soldiers have been reduced to rationing ammo and checking daily for any updates from US lawmakers over whether Congress may cough up more aid, a Democratic senator claimed Sunday.

“Ukrainians on the front lines are rationing bullets! More people are dying, more territory is being taken by Putin, because Republicans are afraid of what they call ‘procedural violence’ – ‘a motion to vacate’ or a ‘discharge petition,'” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) posted on X, referring to the congressional chaos over proposed legislation that includes billions of dollars in additional funding for Ukraine.

“Suck it up and pass the bill,” he urged his Capitol Hill colleagues

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: bullets; killkillkillforpeace; rationing; soldiers; ukrainian
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Rationing ammo and checking dealing updates from US lawmakers... That's really bizarre to me.. more than meets the eye here.
1 posted on 02/18/2024 11:33:42 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s called lying.


2 posted on 02/18/2024 11:35:25 AM PST by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yes, it is propaganda bullshat. Even if Congress passed a bill it wouldn’t help any time soon.

So this is pure BS.


3 posted on 02/18/2024 11:36:14 AM PST by dforest
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why not get the Eeeee-yew to pony up the funds for the US MIC this time?


4 posted on 02/18/2024 11:37:15 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Have they sent agents to beat up speaker Johnson yet?


5 posted on 02/18/2024 11:38:39 AM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: dforest

> So this is pure BS.

Finely crafted and made from the most expensive ingredients. It is classic BS of the most ordinary kind.


6 posted on 02/18/2024 11:41:01 AM PST by glorgau
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To: ChicagoConservative27

perhaps there would be much more ammo if Ukrainian leadership had not siphoned off so much of Biden’s billions of dollars - US tax-payer billions, that is!

when we fail to place conditions of monetary gifts, we are inviting theft.


7 posted on 02/18/2024 11:43:21 AM PST by elpadre
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To: EEGator

LOL

For those of us that have been paying attention , we lack the war manufacturing capacity to keep up with Russia at this time
(And they continue to add more capacity)

This:

JD Vance on Ukraine funding: “If the package that’s running through the Congress right now ... goes through, I have to be honest to you, that is not going to fundamentally change the reality on the battlefield
https://rumble.com/v4e7dec-jd-vance-on-ukraine-funding-its-not-going-to-make-a-difference.html


8 posted on 02/18/2024 11:43:28 AM PST by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It only took a few seconds to find them some ammo:

https://ammo.com/brands/wolf-ammo


9 posted on 02/18/2024 11:44:04 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: NWFree
They probably put him on the Myrotvorets list...
10 posted on 02/18/2024 11:44:20 AM PST by kiryandil
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We’re not the only country that has bullets to “loan”.


11 posted on 02/18/2024 11:44:56 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Ukraine could sell territory to Poland, Hungary or to an American billionaire for an independent country.

Imagine Muskland, where income tax is only levied for 10 years(the amount of time the US gets to grab income tax from Americans renouncing US citizenship).


12 posted on 02/18/2024 11:45:23 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Putin invaded Belarus, would the Quisling Puppet Biden be sending billions to defend that country?

No he would not. The reason is that Lukashenko is not a prancing homosexual. Biden only supports Globohomo’s like Zelenskyy.

In fact, I doubt Puppet Biden would send ANY aide to ANY of the former soviet republics (except the Baltic countries because they approve the degenerate LGBT agenda).


13 posted on 02/18/2024 11:48:32 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When it comes to Soviet field artillery ammo expenditure there are numbers of 1944 suggesting this share:

76 mm guns....................... 31,939,000 rounds (average ~6.25 kg)
107 mm guns...................... 99,800 rounds (average ~ 17 kg)
122 mm howitzers/guns...........8,378,500 rounds (average ~ 22 kg, howitzers)
152 mm howitzers..................3,543,100 rounds ( average ~ 43 kg howitzers)
203 mm howitzers....................167,770 rounds (average ~ 100 kilos )
210 mm guns................................ 50 rounds (average ~ 135 kilos) (these low figures are likely not true)
305 mm howitzers........................ 660 rounds (average ~ 340 kilos)

when we go to Soviet mortar ammo expenditure (1944):

50 mm mortar: 3,236,500 rounds ( average ~0.85 kilos)
82 mm mortar: 42,550 700 rounds (average ~3.3 kilos)
120 mm mortar: 15,454 000 rounds (average ~15.8 kilos)
160 mm mortar: 12,200 rounds (average ~40.8 kilos )
280 mm mortar : 3,320 rounds (average ~ 246 kilos

Total 61,643,320 rounds, total weight 392,176 tons and average weight of round about 6.36 kilos. These weights taken from wikipedia sources and estimated.

https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=236220


14 posted on 02/18/2024 11:51:49 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Suck it up and pass the bill,” he urged his Capitol Hill colleagues.”

No. Close the border 100% and maybe, just maybe we will talk about it.

L


15 posted on 02/18/2024 11:52:21 AM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: janetjanet998

Maybe all those people that have been fired this year can start manufacturing ammunition jobs…


16 posted on 02/18/2024 11:53:01 AM PST by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sorry, giving bullets out to people we suckered to die for us is not in line with the Aloha Spirit....


17 posted on 02/18/2024 11:53:04 AM PST by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Let the EU provide their continent’s weapons and ammunition, we’ve go our own problems inside the USA with Democrats, RINOs, China and other enemy nations and peoples and even more problems crossing our borders with little or not resistance.


18 posted on 02/18/2024 11:54:20 AM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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How can this be???

Just a couple of days ago some neo-con pseudo-con warmonger assured me that the Zelenskyy team had all the small arms ammo they need; all they really need is 155mm Howitzer ammo.


19 posted on 02/18/2024 11:54:25 AM PST by LegendHasIt
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So Ukraine switched from Commie bloc to NATO ammo ?

Asking for a friend.

20 posted on 02/18/2024 11:57:19 AM PST by SecondAmendment (The history of the present Federal Government is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations ...)
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