Patrick Tucker – Russia Insider June 17, 2020
The upcoming delivery will bring total counter-Russia aid to the Eastern European nation to $1.75 billion.
The Pentagon will send weapons and other military aid worth $250 million to Ukraine as part of the four-year-old Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, or USAI, defense officials announced Thursday.
The aid includes counter-artillery radars, air surveillance systems, other tactical equipment, military medical treatment, cyber defenses, and “strategic communications,” according to a Thursday release by the Pentagon. Intended to help Ukraine fight the Russia-backed forces that have occupied part of the country’s eastern region since 2014, the aid aims to “enhance Ukraine’s defensive lethal capabilities and situational awareness in the maritime domain” and “counter Russian cyber offensive operations and misinformation.”
Past U.S. aid to Ukraine, which totals about $1.5 billion, has included: Javelin anti-tank missiles, retired Coast Guard cutters, unarmed drones, Harris radios, armored Humvees, and communications equipment. The U.S. has also helped to train Ukrainian special forces.
The release said the new aid re-affirms the “long-standing defense relationship between the United States and Ukraine – a critical partner on the front line of strategic competition with Russia. The United States remains steadfast in its support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders.”
Last year, misuse of the USAI funds led to the impeachment of President Donald Trump. After the Office of Management and Budget withheld $214 million that Congress had appropriated through the initiative, Trump told his Ukrainian counterpart that the aid would be released only after certain key “favors,” including announcing an investigation into the family of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Laura Cooper, U.S. defense undersecretary for Russia, Eurasia and Ukraine, testified that Ukraine had met various metrics for political reform and that the Defense Department supported the release of the aid. The Government Accountability Office determined that the hold was a violation of the federal Impoundment Control Act.
- Patrick Tucker is technology editor for Defense One. He’s also the author of The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? (Current, 2014). Previously, Tucker was deputy editor for The Futurist for nine years. Tucker has written about emerging technology in Slate, … FULL BIO
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The problem with this is that the Ukraine army has a lot of conscripts who don’t want to be there, never mind kill their own people for the Pentagon. Many Ukrainians of conscript age fled the country and those that saw action on the Eastern front had officers standing behind them ready to pistol-whip them or shoot them for not doing their fascist regime duty and murdering their own people. Ukraine must have the worst military in Europe, proving to be totally out of their depth when fighting forces in the Dombass.
Of course, this doesn’t mean they won’t start a war with Russia. If Putin thinks like me, he will nuke Kiev. NATO wants to stretch the Russian military on the ground. This is something the Russians need to avoid & a nuke nips this in the bud. Now, you may say this is extreme, well, it’s not. The head of the Russian military said very clearly in a public statement that any attack by NATO on Russia will be met in the first instance with nuclear weapons… I think he was referring to tactical nukes.
So any Brits who have their sons, daughter or family members serving in the Baltic states, they won’t be coming home if war breaks out in this region.
The problem (and I’ve said this before) is that the culture (illusion) of supremacy in the US and UK, is such, that no one dare stand up and question their agenda. Take the comment made by Gavin Nutter Williamson when he was UK Defense Secretary in respect of China and the South China Sea: “We should send our two carriers & show the Chinese who is boss.” This comment might have been ‘tongue in cheek’, but the sentiment is very real & Gavin the Nutter is a window on the culture in Whitehall and the regime, & I say regime irrespective of party.
In the US, far worse things have been said where officials & the elected, openly state they want wars with Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela & North Korea. Some of this is religious fundamentalism, some of this is the idea of US exceptionalism, which is daft & I won’t cover here. There is definitely a US/UK agenda for big wars if Covid and the economic collapse doesn’t work. Food shortages and hyperinflation are coming and when I say hyperinflation, I am talking 10/20% will be enough to cause massive social unrest and wars are always an easy way out.
Well, $250 million of “Jew Bucks”, created from thin air, might not seem like much, given the TRILLIONS of dollars cranked out by the Satanist Federal Reserve in recent months.
But, tens of millions of American civilians are “food insecure” today. Yet, Americans will just not wake up to the Satanic Evil that rules the USA. These fools who persist in believing Osama bin Laden and Al-Queda did 911 is just one example. Of course, this is not the first time that the Ashkenazi Satanists have wrecked Ukraine. The Khazar Kaganovich, in implementing Stalin’s collectivized farming in the Ukraine, caused the STARVATION of 6-8 million. Research the Holodomor.