In a press release from the Department of Defense (DoD), Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said the Biden Administration approved a new package worth $250 million. The press release states:
Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs. This announcement is the Biden Administration’s fifty-fourth tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021. This package includes additional air defense capabilities, artillery ammunition, anti-tank weapons, and other equipment to help Ukraine counter Russia’s war of aggression.
This package utilizes assistance previously authorized for Ukraine during prior fiscal years under Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA).
The capabilities in this much-needed package, valued at up to $250 million, include:
- Additional munitions for National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS);
- Stinger anti-aircraft missiles;
- Air defense system components;
- Additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
- 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds;
- Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles;
- Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
- More than 15 million rounds of small arms ammunition;
- Demolitions munitions for obstacle clearing;
- Spare parts, medical equipment, maintenance, and other ancillary equipment.
These capabilities will support Ukraine’s most pressing needs to enable its forces to defend their sovereignty and independence. U.S. leadership is essential to sustaining the coalition efforts of some 50 allies and partners currently supporting Ukraine.
Security assistance for Ukraine is a smart investment in our national security. It deters potential aggression elsewhere in the world, while strengthening our defense industrial base and creating highly skilled jobs for the American people. It remains critical that Congress takes action as soon as possible in the new year on the President’s national security supplemental request to ensure that our support for Ukraine can continue, and Ukraine is able to defend itself against Russia’s ongoing attacks and consolidate and extend its battlefield gains.
Right around the same time this was announced, the Financial Times ran a headline titled, “Global defence orders surge as geopolitical tensions mount.” The article wrote, “The order books of the world’s largest defense companies are near record highs after growing by more than 10 percent in just two years because of rising geopolitical tension, including the conflict in Ukraine.”
The report found that by the end of 2022 – as data for 2023 is not yet available – the combined backlogs for the top 15 earning defense contractors in the world, netted roughly $778 billion dollars, a 12% increase over the course of two years.
However, what we do know is that just in the first six months of this year, from January to June, already recorded $766 billion in backlogs. No doubt when the full datasheets are revealed for the rest of the year, the amount of orders for international defense contractors will be monumental, perhaps even breaking $1 trillion in spending.
And naturally because of this boon in global efforts to ramp-up the war machine, the stock values of many of these companies grew as well, generating some serious dough for investors.
Simply put, as Lena Petrova, CPA, said, “You don’t really produce billions worth of anything if you’re not planning to use it, right?”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
In the words of former Marine General and two-time Medal of Honor recipient, Smedley Butler once wrote:
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
All wars are banker wars. War is a racket.
On top of this, as Gerald Celente of the Trends Journal oft says, “When all else fails they take you to war.” The world economies are in freefall, and so war production is great stimulus. However, in the case of the U.S and the West, its fate has been sealed. These warwhores are doing what they can to siphon every last drop out of this bloated pig because it all comes down, and ultimately results in a massive loss of life from all this; from the wars, economic collapse, “pandemics” and vaccines, famine, cyber attacks, and so forth.
[9] But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. [10] For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. 1 Timothy 6:9-10
[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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Idiots just keep giving all our taxes to other countries and our jobs to illegals.
#68 on how to run a country, see manual pg#1983652 (Awarding Plans to Successful Country Loss, 2023 edition)
At this point in time; all ya can do is watch in amazement at sheer stupidity.