The U.S. will send Ukraine the full $6 billion in outstanding military aid before President-elect Donald Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20, Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said at a briefing on Nov. 7.
Previously, Politico reported that U.S. President Joe Biden was rushing to deliver the remaining $6 billion by the end of his term out of fear that a Trump administration might halt weapons shipments to Ukraine.
Ukraine will receive $4 billion under the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which pulls weapons from U.S. stocks, and $2 billion from the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), Singh told reporters.
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This is, to me, the severe irony of Trump as a president. All of the good things he does seem to be for the wrong reasons, and pulling back on our foreign aid will be one of them.
Personally, I never supported the US becoming involved in Ukraine. If we lived in a time when Americans weren’t struggling to pay for groceries or forced to ration life-saving meds, I might feel differently, but right now, we shouldn’t be sending a single cent to any foreign wars. We should be laser-focused on our own people’s suffering until the standard of living in this country resembles the first-world country we’re supposed to be.
For what it’s worth, military aid of this sort doesn’t involve any money leaving the US. This is the government paying companies to send war materials to Ukraine, or sending and writing off our own old military equipment. You can take issue with the money going to the military industrial complex, but it’s not going overseas at the expense of our own citizens.
Also, funding Ukraine’s defense is vastly immensely cheaper than fighting any conflicts of our own, and has similar geopolitical outcomes.
Literally two of the same arguments used to get the US mired in Iraq and Afghanistan, but even if this instance includes no cash payouts, that doesn’t mean it isn’t a cost to US taxpayers made in neglect of our own people. Further, hundreds of billions in cash have been spent on the war in Ukraine and our US-sponsored genocide in Palestine.
Forgive me if I’m not willing to digest them this time around. This nonsense and the neglect of our people here are why my eighty-year old parents are driving for DoorDash.
Let’s be perfectly clear though that pulling back on foreign military aid will in no way help the American people under the Trump administration. None of that “saved money” will go anywhere other than being diverted to loyal business owner interests.
Except now you have a hostile nation in Russia being let loose in Eastern Europe.
you Americans will blame anything and everything before capitalist wealth hoarding
This comment demonstrates that you, inexplicably, don’t see our unprecedented and planetwide warmongering as part of said ‘capitalist wealth hoarding’.
That is an interesting position.
Thank you for your comment.
“foreign aid” is one tiny way that American stolen wealth makes its way out. Notably you didn’t say “military aid”
This will likely be the last shipment of aid provided.
Out of everything, this is one of the harder things for me to take. The US voted for this shithead, but the Ukrainian people are the ones who will suffer because of him. Because of us.
From what little I have read, it seems like broader Europe is working towards that and other things without the US, but some countries have their own right wing issues.
And sadly when EU was formed this crazy shit was just outside of even imagination. Now a couple of stupids can really hinder it, if not block completely…
I was hoping that if somehow, somehow Orbán was gotten rid of in my country, the EU would be free of this plague. Now not even that would solve it.
I know right? Poland got their shit together too, but Slovakia lost it completely… sigh
We’ll have to rely on Europe to get it’s shit together. It doesn’t look good though.
Are you also relying on Europe to get its shit together when it comes to climate change? I think you still don’t understand how fucked the world is because US citizens did not get their shit together and voted for Trump.
Are you also relying on Europe to get its shit together when it comes to climate change
Actually, no. We’re already fucked. You’re fucked the same as the US no matter how much you want to feel superior. We’ve been past the point of no return for over a decade. Don’t act like you’re innocent. I mean, c’mon. You guys invented capitalism and colonialism. Europe invented pollution. Go fuck yourself.
I’m not saying that European climate policy in recent decades hasn’t also been disastrous. I’m just tired of reading these whataboutism comments that try to shift the blame somewhere else instead of simply admitting responsibility for one’s own actions and decisions. This isn’t about national pride, which I generally consider to be dull-witted by the way, but about a future worth living.
That’s quite the topic change there. But, no, I have no optimism about climate change.
Neither do I, because the US citizens elected Trump, who will both betray our friends in Ukraine and withdraw from the Paris climate agreement. These are just two of his future misdeeds, which are completely foreseeable. Thank you dear allies from the US, you are really very helpful.
Fuck trump, and fuck putin. Lets put boots on the ground to defend Ukraine and make trump pull out when gets in office. But i bet a month of pissed off soldiers would destroy Russias army.
