US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Ukrinform: Contact Group has committed $65B in security assistance to Ukraine - Austin
The Ukraine Defense Contact Group has allocated about $65 billion in security assistance to Ukraine to further strengthen and improve the capabilities of the Ukrainian Air Force in real time and in the long run.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said this in his opening remarks at the 12th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, according to an Ukrinform correspondent.
"In total, the Contact Group has committed nearly $65 billion in security assistance. Now, Putin was hoping that our resolve would fade. And he was betting that our unity would crack. Instead, we remain as united as ever," Austin said.
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Update: Pentagon reveals value of military aid pumped into Ukraine (RT)
WNU Editor: Only $65 billion?!?!?
Here is a good read .... 54-Nation Alliance Reveals How Many Billions Pumped Into Ukraine (Zero Hedge).
29 comments:
Russia attacked a medical facility
That there is some very strange accounting.
money thrown in the trash, a good part of the population of ukraine does not want war, russia is powerful it is very stupid to mess with wasp stingers, moths are china so it was right to ease up, trump was right shame the Democrats a fraud
lol yep
correct on all points.
American tax payers giving money to corrupt UKRAINIANS 🤣🤣🤣🤣while many Americans starving
If russia did not started a war the world is more peaceful.
HOSPITAL TARGETED: At least two were killed and than 30 injured in a Russian missile strike on a medical clinic in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. More than 90% of RU precision strike munitions target Ukrainian civilians.
I hate it when WNU goes on a crying jag. It is so unmanly. Makes you wonder what his favorite color is.
SA-2 surface to air missiles cost $100,000 during the Vietnam War. It is $700,000 in today's dollars. It took several missiles to down an American war plane.
The Soviet Union aka the Russians spent big bucks during the Vietnam War.
Funny, but I can find out how much the Vietnam War cost the American government. I cannot find how much the War cost the Soviet Union.
I think people like WNU like it like that.
The Sovs went broke financing shit hole wars
Something worth remembering.
65 billion?
is he counting black budget money, money from dept of state, dept of agriculture and all the rest of the USG?
Bet you, you can at least double the cost.
It is another Afganistan and Viet Nam.
Money down a rat hole.
Good try Senior blog manipulation programmer.
Keep trying to throw the conversation off the main point of the thread
The Soviet Union was broke before the Korean War. It is not only wars that broke the back of the USSR. It is an all round shitty model.
The US won the kitchen debate. See Kruschev and Nixon.
The USA has better things to spend its money on than Ukraine, like shoring up the crumbling infrastructure (bridges) and building a border wall to stop the flow of illegals and drugs from the southern border. When President Trump is reelected in 2024, I expect there to be big changes on how the USA spends its money.
The odd thing about faked election data is that most dictators feel the need to invent laughably implausible figures. In 1989, the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu claimed that 98.8% of voters had approved of his remaining in power. In 1995 and 2002, Saddam Hussein won his election with 99%. In 2014, 96.77% of Crimea voted to join the Russian Federation.
And in 2019, Kim Jong Un of North Korea won 100% of the vote, with a 99.9% turnout. (Presumably the 0.1% were dying, otherwise they would have been at the ballot boxes.) And on it goes.
9:03 AM = moron
You are partially.ly correct.
But you forget that part of the Reagan administration plan was to spend more on defence, the Sovs could not keep up.
And yes the Sovs were broke after ww2, but look how long they lasted. Besides poor econ manag,ent, the spending on allies and commie wars and causes cost them untold billions of dollars thet could of used to fix a hobbling economy.
War and defense is drain on any economy.
The Sovs experience was one of slow decline then collapse and defence / FUNDINg Proxies wars was a significant part of it.
You are a smart guy.
Paul Kennedy. The Rise and Fall of Great .Powers
"In an age when people only read the headlines, getting some statistic or “fact” at the top of a page is all that matters."
resembles former, retired?
hitting a medical center is considered out of humanity. Russia started all this mess. very inhumane
WW2 was a shot in the arm for the USSR. For 5 or more years people could not bitch as much about the economy, because there were really people trying to kill way more of them than the communist party leaders. Stalin did not create the fervor of "The Great Patriotic War", but he rode it for all it was worth. There was lots of death and destruction. On the other hand the Soviets did not have to provide for the dead and could use their deaths to their advantage during and after the war. Plus there was the war booty.
Oil exports to Europe were another lifeline to the USSR.
Reagan killed that when he convinced the Saudis to pump more oil. It was not just all spending more on the military. the increased oil supply hurt American domestic oil producers. So, while it hurt the USSR, it hurt the US too. The US was able to withstand that insult. The USSR no so much.
I agree with everything
Anon is right!
American tax payers giving money to corrupt UKRAINIANS 🤣🤣🤣🤣while many Americans starving
May 27, 2023 at 4:57 AM
name five starving Americans
4:57 will alternately propagandize starving American and the obesity epidemic.
If anyone starves in America (there has bound to be a few) it is the result of criminal family members or mental illness. It is not due to the economy or lack of government support.
4:57 get bonus pay for the emojis. For some reason his FSB boss thinks it is effective.
No I agree no one is really starving out there. But that money could be used to tighten the border, fight crime or a hundred other projects that this country needs. Money spent on the military is non value added.
Money spent on a corrupt and incompetent regime is ,money thrown down a rat hole.
Let's do this again. What strategic value is the ukrain to the US. Answer, none.
And you have to ask yourself the Russians and Ukrainians did fine prior to 2014.
Then the coup happened.
Prior to 2014 there was no threat to NATO from Russia. So why did we have to back the 2014 ukie government?
No this war is stupid. Our support for the ukies is stupid.
This is Russians border. It is clearly thier sphere of influence.
Mexico is ours, Grenada is ours , Nicaragua is ours, Panama is ours and yes Cuba is ours,
We have kept those idiots out of our area and it is clearly understandable and reasonable to what the Russians are doing the same thing.
Funny thing. Panama owns the Panama canal and gets all the revenue.
Pineapple head got arrested and sent to jail for working with the narcos.
Problem?
No
the hemisphere is under US influence. And who put pineapple in jail and where was mr Endara sworn in at?
Still being the little piece of shit aren't you.
It is Latin America you POS. If William had not taken refuge, he would have been clipped by Noriega.
I make no apologies for having Noriega taken from power after assisting the Narcos.
I do not believe in spheres of influence. At that rate you are thinking like the 19th century French and British governments how bourgeois of you. I mean damn man WTF? You are not keeping up with wiki. WTF is wrong with you. Did you fall off a Lada when you were young?
You are thoroughly trampling mud and shit all over Russia's spheres of influence. How nice of you.
I am the one who said that Crimea should be Russian. It is like the unequal treaties china signed. It left a mark. Russia was weak in 1991. I understand this. I do not believe that 97% of the people in Crimea want to be part of Russia. But I believe it is a solid 40% and may be north of 51% to 55% or would be with the right promises or inducements. Some ethnic Ukrainians might be for it if they had extended family members who were Russian. But Putin never went that route.
Sphere of influence Russia had are or were religion, language and share history (good and bad). The Holodomor is not going to go away. But it can be mitigated. It was the Soviet system that did it.
I have read the Ukrainians or whoever moved southeast to get away from Polish nobles and feudal obligations. Later the Cossacks or whoever accepted Russian suzerainty to get protection from the Turks. Those angles could have been worked, but after what you did, I doubt it now.
Another angle would have been a joint Slavic or at least Eastern Slavic Esperanto project. that is my original idea. Others might haver had it before me, but I never heard of it. A Slavic Esperanto project would be much less problematic than rehashing history.
The result might not be quite Russian, but it would not be quite Belarussian or Ukrainian either. You would not have the Baltic states or the Central Asian states, but otherwise it would look geographically like the USSR .I do not know that this would work anymore either.
I had a boss that liked and used the well known phrase you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar. It is slower than conquest, but I think it is more permanent.
"the hemisphere is under US influence. And who put pineapple in jail and where was mr Endara sworn in at?"
"The protest was attacked by a detachment of Dignity Battalions, a paramilitary group supporting Noriega, and the three candidates were badly beaten. Endara was struck with an iron club, leaving a gash on his head. He was briefly hospitalized and received eight stitches."
After all that where do you think William should have been sworn in?
He only served 5 years. Not much of a dictator that one. I can see why you dislike him.
2:59.
You are misguided. . You are so wound up you cannot see straight. What do you think the Monroe Doctrine is all about? It is about SPHERES of INFLUENCE
Sorry Candice , that's just the way it goes. You have your significant areas that are close to you and I have mine. We have an unstated mutual understanding that we do not mess with these areas.
EVERY THING ELSE IS UP FOR GRABS
Vietnam
Angola
The Middle East and all the other bs countries.
That's just the way it is.
As for Latin America. Che got his ass kicked and Fidel and Arbenz and our buddy Allende got hammered.
That's just the way it is. You don't like it. Go back and give the Grenadians reparations and all the others in LATAM that we screwed...... and while you are at it, the lease of GITMO ended in 1999. You need to give that back too.
The Russians would be fools for not attacking g the Ukies. What NATO on thier border The Black Sea fleet kick out of Sevestpol potentially missles or ABM systems (like Romania has US systems now) only 5 min from the border.
Get real
Like I said before.
If everything that happened in ukriane since 2014 had happened in Mexico and instigated by the Russians,
You really think we would not have Invaded Mexico?
If you do...... you are full of shit.
BTW. Endara was sworn in at the American embassy in Panama City. Arranged by the US Government. He was chosen in advance. How is that for professional puppeteering?
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