“Breaking down the Ukraine aid - of the $61 billion, $13 billion will replenish US stockpiles of weapons, and $14 billion will go towards US defense systems for Ukraine. $7 billion will go toward US military operations in the region. We assume the remainder will go directly to Ukrainian oligarchs.”
(US military operations in the region - so the US is an active participant in the war? Or what is this saying?)
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/hou ... -us-border
“In total, the foreign assistance package totals $95 billion - which only passed after Speaker Mike Johnson cut a deal with Democrats in order to force it through by a vote of 311 to 112.”
So a not inconsiderable amount of that ‘aid’ goes straight into American / NATO defence companies who are already unable to keep up:
“Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine”
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/03/10/poli ... index.html
The interesting question, though, is what changed Speaker Mike Johnson’s mind about insisting that the US border should be addressed before any foreign aid should be considered.
Kunstler, though provocative as ever, has a good point:
“You tell me what conceivable way Ukraine can prevail in this proxy war now without just tripping off the civilization-ending nuke exchange? America does not have enough tactical missiles and artillery shells at hand to send over there. What we did have is gone. NATO never had much to begin with. Ukraine has run out of available cannon-fodder to conscript from its dwindling population. Despite Mr. Macron’s recent bluster, NATO can’t raise a credible army, or even agree on which country would send what. Nobody is riding to the rescue. Instead, Russia is fortifying its home-grown armaments industry and its military while systematically turning off the electricity all over Ukraine by blowing up the power stations. Very soon, Ukraine will be reduced to medieval living conditions — no lights, no phones, no Internet, no shopping, no ability to conduct modern warfare. End. . . of. . . story.”
It just remains for the clock to run down on the whole ludicrous circus and America and ‘the West’ to do another Afghanistan chaotic and humiliating withdrawal and total capitulation.
