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Biden Administration Announces $500 Million Weapons Package for Ukraine – via antiwar.com
On Thursday, the Biden administration announced what is believed to be its last military aid package for Ukraine, which is worth $500 million and includes support equipment for F-16 fighter jets, air defense munitions, and other equipment.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced the new military aid at a meeting in Ramstein, Germany, a gathering known as the Ukraine Defense Contact group, which he has overseen since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly three years ago.
While Austin is leaving behind a raging proxy war and there’s no clear path to a Ukrainian military victory, he told the group that he was proud of his work.
“I am incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved together. Over the past few years, we have moved heaven and earth to get Ukraine the security assistance that it needs,” Austin said.
The killings, maimings and poisonings must continue at the hands of American government dickheads. And this asshole of a human being is proud of their achievements. I am convinced that somewhere, at some point in time, the few of us still around who believe this is the work of demons, were removed from Earth and thrown into this cesspool of vomit due to some celestial fuck-ups, and unbeknownst to any of us we find ourselves in the land of being continually incredulous that such shit stains are actual life forms and we are left to live among them.
“And together, we’ve committed more than $122 billion worth of security assistance and expanded factories around the world,” the secretary added.
$122 Billion? That’s all? Thank the gods there is no homelessness here in America, no poverty…thank the gods we have a stellar health care system, free to all. Thank the gods our infrastructure is solid and up-to-date and thank the gods that we’re polluting the shit out of the environment but just far away from America.
Austin urged that military aid to Ukraine must continue amid uncertainty about how the incoming Trump administration will approach the conflict. “So we must not let up. That’s why I am announcing today another Presidential Drawdown Authority package, valued at approximately $500 million,” he said.
The new military aid is being provided in the form of the Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows weapons to be shipped straight from US military stockpiles. According to a Pentagon press release, the arms package includes:
- AIM-7, RIM-7, and AIM-9M missiles for air defense
- Air-to-ground munitions
- Support equipment for F-16s
- Armored bridging systems
- Secure communications equipment
- Small arms and ammunition
- Spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation
The Pentagon also released a fact sheet that said the Biden administration had committed a total of $65.9 billion in military equipment to Ukraine. Including other types of aid and Pentagon spending on troop deployments to Europe and the replenishment of US stockpiles, the Biden administration has spent at least $186 billion on the proxy war.
Believing in these shysters is like believing the friend, relative or loved one who wants you to think they’re incredibly kind, almost nauseatingly full of love, a deep thinker, full of hope, imagination and goodness, generous to a fault, a lover of truth, extremely learned and read, and maybe most importantly, one of the most modest people you’ll ever know.
Um…you really don’t believe them, do you?
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Dispatches from the Asylum 