Blinken, in Kyiv, unveils $2B in US military
aid for Europe
Associated Press,
by
Matthew Lee
&
Karl Ritter
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
9/8/2022 1:00:39 PM
KYIV, Ukraine— U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken paid an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Thursday as the Biden administration announced major new military aid worth more than $2.8 billion for Ukraine and other European countries threatened by Russia.
In meetings with senior Ukrainian officials, including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Blinken said the Biden administration had notified Congress of its intent to provide $2.2 billion in long-term military financing to Ukraine and 18 of its neighbors, including NATO members and regional security partners, that are “potentially at risk of future Russian aggression.”
“President (Joe) Biden has been clear we will support the people of Ukraine for as long as it takes,”
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Alecto2 9/8/2022 1:08:24 PM (No. 1272091)
More taxpayer money flushed down the crapper.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Sanchin 9/8/2022 1:08:53 PM (No. 1272092)
Tell your children and grandchildren that thier future was sacrificed for Corrupt Neo-Nazi Ukraine.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 9/8/2022 1:16:22 PM (No. 1272103)
The global military industrial complex is going to send the commission check to Hunter and an extra 10% on top for The Big Guy. War is good for business and business is very very good. Mitch is happy as hell too because him and Rove have large stock holdings in military arms manufacturing. Getting rich the old fashioned way through insider trading and stock options. Cha ching!!! It’s not about war it’s about looting the US Treasury.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
PChristopher 9/8/2022 1:16:37 PM (No. 1272105)
You paying for it with YOUR money, blinkey? You're nothing but a toad
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Twinkle93 9/8/2022 1:18:54 PM (No. 1272109)
When did Congress approve this funding?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
itsonlyme 9/8/2022 1:20:30 PM (No. 1272112)
Even after the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken still has a job. Many of the high-ranking pukes still have their jobs.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
felixcat 9/8/2022 1:30:00 PM (No. 1272120)
RE #5 - Not sure about this package but both parties in Congress have been more than happy to vote on previous aid packages.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Nexus-1 9/8/2022 1:39:59 PM (No. 1272130)
"Give it away, give it away, now......!"
-- Red Hot Chili Peppers
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/8/2022 2:12:49 PM (No. 1272177)
Lindsey Graham is certainly down with this. Empty the United States coffers and food product as fast as possible before 2024 so there's no reason to elect a leader the NWO will own this place. The corruption train is going full speed not stopping now.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TCloud 9/8/2022 2:15:32 PM (No. 1272181)
Was Burisma once a major arms exporter of Russian make military arms?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
FJB 2022 23 24 9/8/2022 2:17:04 PM (No. 1272184)
My God, the amount of money given away to other countries could have made every person in this country well to do, could have ended poverty, but no the fool in the whitehouse only knows how to inflate our economy and inflict pain on hard working, tax paying citizens. FJB and Blinken, (Dana Carvey's twin) keep your grimey hands off our money that you should have gotten confirmation from congress before dipping into the till.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Ribicon 9/8/2022 2:43:43 PM (No. 1272217)
The Republicans laugh as the USA is driven to complete insolvency, using a foreign entanglement having nothing at all to do with us as the pretext.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 9/8/2022 3:05:23 PM (No. 1272239)
Russia intends to push through Ukraine and into Poland and Romania to take control of two mountain-free areas which have been traditional routes to attack Russia from the west. Either help the Ukrainians stop him in Ukraine, or NATO will be fighting the Russians in Poland and Romania, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania.
Putin's push is because now he has enough young men to fill his army. In 15 to 20 years, his demographics tell him that he has no possibility of defending Russia across a wide front, needs to go to those few blocking positions. He took a portion of Georgia to block one route into Russia, years ago. And then took Crimea, to block another. Now he has a couple more to have a mountainous barrier to defend much of his perimeter, making it easier to defend with fewer troops which WILL be the case soon enough.
And Russians are nothing if not deeply, fundamentally paranoid. I have known some who were children in Stalingrad, and remember the privation. Like our generation scarred by the Depression, Russians are scarred by WW2 German invasion and that is reinforced by Napoleon's invasion
two centuries earlier. This is paranoia on steroids, perhaps literally in Putin's case.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/8/2022 3:20:01 PM (No. 1272251)
Sure it's going to the Ukraine and not for Brandon's Delaware fence?
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
GirlwithaCurl 9/8/2022 3:52:18 PM (No. 1272274)
Blinken, Winken and Nod!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
lakerman1 9/8/2022 4:25:51 PM (No. 1272316)
Did Blinken bring Price with him? Did they have their Monkey Pox shots??
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Ribicon 9/8/2022 5:14:22 PM (No. 1272352)
More context, the "fiscal hawk" Republicans allocated only $5 billion for Trump's scaled-back border wall; the remaining $10 billion was reallocated from the Pentagon budget. These same players who fought Trump like wildcats are nowhere to be found while Bidet sends multiples of that amount so a sketchy foreign land can have a border.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
PCMM 9/8/2022 5:30:38 PM (No. 1272363)
Do you remember when asking for an additional $2B for OUR military made you a warmonger. I remember … especially when I was in a field artillery unit in Korea and had to purchase my own cold-weather Gortex boots as a Private because the Eighth Army had run dry. I absolutely despise leftists.
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...and they complained about Republican "Neocons"! The Biden Democrat machine is a freaking war machine all by itself!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/8/2022 6:14:15 PM (No. 1272383)
What's $2 Billion here, $800 Million there when you're a Democrat throwing cash around to other countries for wars? If this were Trump asking for even another penny, he would be scrutinized and questioned and accused of getting kickbacks from the Ukrainian government. The press and media would accuse Ukraine elites of pocketing the money that we freely give them, maybe even calling them Fascists!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/8/2022 6:17:04 PM (No. 1272386)
Why not give Ukraine the jets and military equipment sitting in the desert in Arizona and Nevada that has been decommissioned. It just sits there, rotting. Let them have it. It might as well be used by someone and shouldn't cost us as much as giving them new stuff. Hand me downs work as well as new stuff when you are needy.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
RedWhiteBlue 9/8/2022 8:33:48 PM (No. 1272480)
So Antony Blinken went to visit his money in Ukraine? This ''war' is a farce and we should never has participated. Our money and our war equipment has been given to them. What fools we are!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
rochow 9/8/2022 9:10:15 PM (No. 1272525)
Moron blinken blanken at the behest of the buffoon in the WH throwing more gazillions after the several previous gazillions. When will this end? We do not want to be in WW III over the Ukraine. Let the Europeans help and send their money!!!!!!!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
DVC 9/9/2022 12:39:15 AM (No. 1272649)
Re #21, most of those aircraft have been at least partially stripped for parts, and none of them are "rotting" at all. They are in a dry climate with all openings covered with sealants and canopies covered with a white protective clothlike layer. The US military typically pulls parts from these aircraft to keep current aircraft in the air.
None of them could be immediately made airworthy, and would require extensive overhaul to bring back to airworthy standards. On top of that, many have had their wing structures "time out", meaning reaching the point where the metal is reaching it's limits and metal fatigue will be accelerating the cracking of the main wing structural spars. They are mostly there because they are worn out, but may still have some parts which are useable for as a repair part.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mifla 9/9/2022 5:17:13 AM (No. 1272689)
I have a solution to the energy crisis. Hook up the power grid to our treasury printing presses.
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