A file photo shows US troops in Latvia. The United States has approved $180 million in military assistance to the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Press TV – March 17, 2022
The United States has approved $180 million in military assistance to the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as part of NATO’s military buildup on Russia’s doorstep.
The measure was approved under the $1.5 trillion government funding bill President Joe Biden signed on Tuesday, the Estonian Defense Ministry announced on Thursday.
The additional resources in the Balkans complete the placement of NATO military resources along the full length of Russia’s European border, with the exception of Russia’s ally Belarus. An attempted coup in that country, backed by the US, failed last year.
The US committed the $169 million military assistance under an initiative last year but the Biden administration offered $11 million more, and it comes as Washington seeks to bolster its NATO allies amid Russia’s military action in Ukraine.
In a statement, Estonian Defense Minister Kalle Laanet said that Washington has “taken a clear initiative in the current security crisis by supporting its NATO Eastern Allies, Ukraine, and bringing Russia to the attention of the international community.”
“The decision of the Congress shows that the United States is committed to the protection of our region and clearly understands that the defense of their own country also begins in the Baltic States,” Laanet said.
The Biden government funding bill also included $13.6 billion in humanitarian and military assistance to help Ukraine to fight Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 24 ordered a “special military operation” in Ukraine’s Donbas region. Putin said his country was defending Russian-speaking communities through the “demilitarisation and de-Nazification” of Ukraine so that their neighbor became neutral and no longer threatened Russia.
Biden, however, called the Russian military action in Ukraine an “unprovoked and unjustified attack,” and the mainstream American media described it as the biggest assault on a European state since World War Two attack by Russia.
The United States has provided Ukraine with several hundred million in additional military assistance.
US President Joe Biden authorized the $200 million additional military equipment for Ukraine on Saturday.
Washington already authorized $350 million of military equipment on February 26, after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the State Department was releasing “lethal defensive assistance” from US stocks to Ukraine.
Well ?? The Fed Printing Presses are 24/7 non stop working ….
Putin got a lot of nuke targets
at his doorsteps !
FSB I hope you have the where abouts
of rothschild, rockefeller, soros, merkel,
bill gates, klaus schwab, silverstein9.11.
chertoff9.11. etc etc
America used to be the arsenal of democracy. Now it’s just the arse.
hot news is that russian forces entering ukraine have according to a tearful woman on TV
tipped babies out of the incubators onto the floor…
They are evil garbage and it does not matter what pence they put into something–a Jew will steal it.
Why doesn’t Russia simply pour billions into creating an alliance with Central America – lots of cheap Oil and Grain and stuff that has been sanctioned elsewhere – and plant the Heavy Artillery on the United right-bloody-State of America’s doorstep?
If NATO then decides to invade Central America in a pre-emotive Special Military Operation, the Western MSM are going to have a heck of a job selling it to the Mass Consumers after having indulged for weeks on end in the most extreme Demonisation of a Geographical Territory in the History of several universes –
Pre-emptive! Blummen spellchecker!!
@ MAC MC
IT WAS ALREADY THE ARSENAL
OF ANTIGERMAN JEWISH INCITEMENT
TO HATRED BY JEW MEDIA 1.+2. world war
180 million? That’s one pallet of cash. Be gone just after breakfast.
USA was economically strong and independent until 1913 (the Fed established) and civilized with good diplomatic manners until 1941 (entering the European Second War). It still had somewhat good potential and hope until their post-Cold War zionist meddling in Middle East, Gulf Stream and Pakistan and then those bloodthirsty, satanic destructions of Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lybia, Syria, their full support of israeli constant barking at Iran, Hezbollah and Syria but their final red line-crossing was the assassination of the sardar-general Qasem Soleimani (R.I.P.)…After this act the USA for me is nothing but the jew infested, shallow, degenerated, crippled, soulless pile of evil-smelling garbage together with their client high-level crime colonies – post 99 kosovo, post 2014 ukraine and their client criminal cartel states – Poland, Slovakia, Czechia and Baltics…I know too large amount of honest and good-hearted Americans to wish them to be nuked completely, however with all my heart and soul i wish and dream about total annihilation of their entire political/military/msm/entertainment establishment.