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Biden announced the new package on Wednesday after an hourlong phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It includes heavy artillery systems and armored personnel carriers, signaling a more intense military commitment from what began as shipments of more defensive materiel.
“The Ukrainian military has used the weapons we are providing to devastating effect. As Russia prepares to intensify its attack in the Donbas region, the United States will continue to provide Ukraine with the capabilities to defend itself,” Biden said in a statement after the call.
Biden is grappling with how to bolster Ukraine’s defense against the Russian invasion without intervening directly with U.S. forces and stopping short regarding some equipment he fears will trigger a global war. Biden at first largely relied on punishing economic sanctions and defensive aid to curb Russia’s leverage -- but has steadily announced new shipments of increasingly lethal military hardware while ratcheting up his own condemnations, including by labeling Russia’s actions a “genocide” this week.
The announcement came as Ukraine is bracing for renewed Russian attacks in the nation’s east after President Vladimir Putin’s forces pulled back from areas around Kyiv. The move relieves pressure from the capital but raises the prospect of a prolonged struggle in the east and south, with Ukrainian forces encircled.
Biden’s announcement will be the biggest test yet of how far the U.S. can go in supplying arms without spurring a Russian response. The package will for the first time include 18 155 mm Howitzer artillery systems, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday.
The U.S. will also send 10 counter-artillery radar systems, 200 M113 armored personnel carriers, 100 Humvees and 300 more Switchblade drones, according to a list released by the Pentagon. Ukrainians will require some training on radars and artillery systems, Kirby said.
The Pentagon will also send unmanned surface vessels for coastal defense as well as individual chemical-biological protective suits and detection systems.
The new shipment will add to more than $2.4 billion in security assistance the U.S. has provided to Ukraine since Biden took office last year, including $1.7 billion since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24.
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fortitude to do this before the invasion, there might not have been one. But he tried to appease. He also gave Putin the green light in his National address saying that we would not intervene.
Biden fucked this up. His actions, inactions, and incompetence are the reason Putin felt that he could invade.
Don't you dare act proud of what this horrible, weak, and incompetent buffoon is now doing to save political face. Millions od Ukrainians died because of his cowardly appeasement and ineptitude.
And look.....Biden ended up doing anyways what he wouldn't when it mattered the most.
If only we had a strong leader.
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had been a very nice day !
No one provides more substance than Tyrone’s posts.
We are fortunate to have him.
YOUR obsession with drafting and sending our kids to another unending war In another foreign country. Also, most of your
so called substantial discussions are proven wrong or lies, so knock yourself out, smart guy
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