Mainstream media has admitted that, after round after round of expensive weapons and funding packages to help aid the Ukraine in their war with Russia, the strong majority of these munition supplies still have yet to reach their destination, could still take more month and years to come.
Just four days ago The WinePress reported how the United States pledged to send even more weaponry to the Ukraine, bringing the new total to $10.1 billion in aid at the time.
US To Send Even More War Toys To Ukraine Bringing The Total To $10.6B In Aid
Now the Biden Administration, in keeping with the Ukraine’s independence day, says they will be sending yet another $3 billion dollars worth of military equipment and personnel.
The Associated Press reported how this package is designed to support Ukrainian forces “to fight for years to come.” The outlet wrote:
As Russia’s war on Ukraine drags on, U.S. security assistance is shifting to a longer-term campaign that will likely keep more American military troops in Europe into the future, including imminent plans to announce an additional roughly $3 billion in aid to train and equip Ukrainian forces to fight for years to come, U.S. officials said.
U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the package is expected to be announced Wednesday, the day the war hits the six-month mark and Ukraine celebrates its independence day. The money will fund contracts for as many as three types of drones, and other weapons, ammunition and equipment that may not see the battlefront for a year or two, they said.
The total of the aid package — which is being provided under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative and is the largest to date— could change a bit overnight, but not likely by much. Officials said that it will include money for the small, hand-launched Puma drones, the longer-endurance Scan Eagle surveillance drones, which are launched by catapult, and, for the first time, the British Vampire drone system, which can be launched off ships.
Several officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the aid before its public release.
Unlike most previous packages, the new funding is largely aimed at helping Ukraine secure its medium- to long-term defense posture, according to the officials familiar with the matter. Earlier shipments, most of them done under Presidential Drawdown Authority, have focused on Ukraine’s more immediate needs for weapons and ammunition and involved materiel that the Pentagon already has in stock that can be shipped in short order.
In addition to providing longer-term assistance that Ukraine can use for potential future defense needs, the new package is intended to reassure Ukrainian officials that the United States intends to keep up its support, regardless of the day-to-day back and forth of the conflict, the officials said.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg noted the more extended focus Tuesday as he reaffirmed the alliance’s support for the conflict-torn country.
Winter is coming, and it will be hard, and what we see now is a grinding war of attrition. This is a battle of wills, and a battle of logistics. Therefore we must sustain our support for Ukraine for the long term, so that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent nation.
Stoltenberg said, speaking at a virtual conference about Crimea, organized by Ukraine.
But is the weaponry reaching it’s final destination? According to mainstream media, not really.
Covering the news of the latest spending package, NBC News wrote:
Many of the systems will not be in the hands of Ukrainian fighters for months or years because they’re still being developed, the officials said.
Several weeks ago CBS News also admitted that not even half of the supplies were getting to the Ukraine, though they claim uptick is finally commencing:
Jonas Ohman is founder and CEO of Blue-Yellow, a Lithuania-based organization that has been meeting with and supplying frontline units with non-lethal military aid in Ukraine since the start of the conflict with Russia-backed separatists in 2014.
Back in April, he estimated that just “30-40%” of the supplies coming across the border reached its final destination. But he says the situation has significantly improved since then and a much larger quantity now gets where it’s supposed to go.
In April of this year CNN ran a headline, titled, “What happens to weapons sent to Ukraine? The US doesn’t really know.”
CNN began introduced their article, writing, ‘The US has few ways to track the substantial supply of anti-tank, anti-aircraft and other weaponry it has sent across the border into Ukraine, sources tell CNN, a blind spot that’s due in large part to the lack of US boots on the ground in the country — and the easy portability of many of the smaller systems now pouring across the border.’
I couldn’t tell you where they are in Ukraine and whether the Ukrainians are using them at this point. They’re not telling us every round of ammunition they’re firing and who and at when. We may never know exactly to what degree they’ve using the Switchblades.
A senior defense official told reporters at the time
CNN also noted that the times of weapons being sent to Ukraine were also the same munitions being sent to Afghanistan for years to covertly fight the Soviet Union, and then later the Taliban – finding out later that some of those supplies wound up on the black market.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
WinePress readers know the saying well: from crisis to crisis to crisis: it’s Crisis Economics 101. Endless sums of cash must be siphoned from the taxpayer while empowering the Federal Reserve to keep the debt-based economic system afloat by printing infinite sums of cash, even though the system is already illiquid. But you’re not supposed to figure that out.
A man void of understanding striketh hands, and becometh surety in the presence of his friend.
Proverbs 17:18
Moreover, you’ve heard me say that I seriously doubted that these weapons were even going to the Ukraine in the first place. Now, don’t take my word for it: the media confirmed what I have been saying for a longtime. But, we know how the game is played: every time Zelensky comes on camera with that same moss green shirt, like a cartoon character, pandering and gaslighting everyone for not doing enough to support him. And then come the narcissists who fall for it, hook, line, and sinker.
You know, there are still nitwits in my neighborhood that are proudly flying a Ukraine flag outside their homes?
The bottom line is simple: the real war is not in Ukraine: it’s in your wallet.
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
Isaiah 55:2
[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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