The following report is from UPI:
The Biden administration announced late Tuesday a drawdown of $100 million in security assistance for Ukraine.
President Joe Biden approved the drawdown of anti-armor systems valued at up to $100 million from Defense Department stockpiles, bringing the total value of arms, equipment and supplies given to the besieged Eastern European nation to more than $2.4 billion since the beginning of the administration and $1.7 billion since the invasion began.
The world has been shocked and appalled by the atrocities committed by Russia’s forces in Bucha and across Ukraine. Ukraine’s forces bravely continue to defend their country and their freedom, and the United States, along with our allies and partners, stand steadfast in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement
The announcement comes on the heels of Biden and his national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, separately telling reporters Monday that the United States will continue to arm Ukraine after the revelation over the weekend that hundreds of civilians in the Kyiv region, including the city of Bucha, were brutally executed by retreating Russian forces.
Ukrainian officials have said 410 charred bodies were found in cities and suburbs surrounding the capital, posting graphic images and video of dead and bloodied Ukrainians with hands tied behind their backs and littered upon roads.
The Biden administration is working “around the clock” to fulfill Ukraine’s main security assistance requests, Sullivan said Monday with Blinken stating in his Tuesday statement that they will supply Ukraine’s “urgent need for additional anti-armor systems” without specifying the weapons.
To date, the United States has conducted six drawdowns for Ukraine since August of last year.
The Defense Department on Friday also announced a $300 million security assistance package that included laser-guided rocket systems, switchblade tactical unmanned aerial systems and others under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiate, which differs from a presidential drawdown from Pentagon reserves as it procures the items from companies.
On March 16, Biden announced an additional $800 drawdown package of 800 stinger anti-aircraft systems, 2,000 javelin missiles, 20 million rounds of small arms ammunition and the like.
More than 30 countries have provided similar assistance to Ukraine since Russia invaded the country early Feb. 24.
The announcement also was made amid a growing push from democratic nations following the weekend revelations of atrocities committed in the Kyiv region to impose further sanctions against Russia and to hold its leadership, including President Vladimir Putin, to account for war crimes.
As we strengthen Ukraine’s position on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, we will also work with our allies and partners to gather information to document reported abuses and make it available to the appropriate bodies to hold those responsible to account.
Blinken said.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
Ecclesiastes 9:18
All modern wars are banker wars. They are not legitimate in the slightest. All this money, like all the other packages, will barely even see the light of day and get to the people the media says that it is. Rather, the strong majority (if not all) goes to all their rich criminal friends in the club.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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War should’ve just stayed as a means to defend land and its people and to deter threats never to be as a business.
It all started when America was getting all imperial and going to Panama, Nicaragua, and the Philippines, and this was years four or five decades or so before World War I, which is when America started getting involved in foreign entanglements.
WWII which led to the 1950s which was the most lukewarm decade-is it any wonder why in the 60s and 70s things started to go down the crapper-the Korean War didn’t solve anything, while that satanic atheist juiche dynasty communism of North Korea began its still ongoing murder spree, 1950s America was being lukewarm and playing games and setting the framework for what we’ve landed ourselves into.
Then came the American War-or more popularly known as the Vietnam war which was a drug war to forcefully steal land and make opium farms out of them-thankfully the rice farmers took up arms and fought back!