The Pentagon has a massive infusion of military aid for Ukraine “ready to go,” U.S. officials said, once a long-delayed funding measure, which is expected to pass the House this weekend, clears the Senate next week and President Biden signs it into law.
The Defense Department, which has warned that Ukraine would steadily cede more ground to Russian forces and face staggering casualties without urgent action on Capitol Hill, began assembling the assistance package well before the coming votes in a bid to speed the process, these people said.
One official, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the Biden administration’s planning, said that once the $95 billion foreign aid bill is finalized, it would take less than a week for some of the weapons to reach the battlefield, depending on where they are stored. The legislation includes about $60 billion for Ukraine, with most of the remainder slated for Israel and U.S. partners in Asia.
Good, it has been far too long. At least the military is doing their job.
The reason the US military became so effective and renown is less about being a good military organization, and more about being the largest, most efficient logistics company in the world. A logistics company that can deliver millions of tons of munitions to very specific parts of the globe in ridiculously short time frames.
If there’s one organization that can move $60 billion worth of equipment in like a week tops, it’s the fuckin DoD. That is their job.
Amatuers discuss tactics. Professionals discuss logistics.
The US on the regular flexes their ‘global airlift’ capability by shuffling tanks and armored vehicles around the globe via air freight, moving entire company’s worth of hardware between continents.
Sensible militaries with actual budgetary concerns use sea freight, accepting the delay.
Well yeah we built this fuckin rad giant plane that you can drive a whole tank into. What are we gonna do, not fly tanks around?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The Pentagon has a massive infusion of military aid for Ukraine “ready to go,” U.S. officials said, once a long-delayed funding measure, which is expected to pass the House this weekend, clears the Senate next week and President Biden signs it into law.
The Defense Department, which has warned that Ukraine would steadily cede more ground to Russian forces and face staggering casualties without urgent action on Capitol Hill, began assembling the assistance package well before the coming votes in a bid to speed the process, these people said.
One official, who like some others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the Biden administration’s planning, said that once the $95 billion foreign aid bill is finalized, it would take less than a week for some of the weapons to reach the battlefield, depending on where they are stored.
As the aid bill languished in Congress for months, officials in Washington and in Kyiv said Ukraine’s front-line units were rationing a rapidly evaporating stockpile of armaments and that soon Moscow would have a 10-to-1 advantage in artillery rounds.
Its last aid package, totaling $300 million, was prepared in March after the Pentagon identified “unanticipated cost savings” in recent arms contracts — an outlier after congressionally approved funding dried up last year and an intense political fight followed President Biden’s request for more.
Across the front line, Ukrainian troops are facing such severe ammunition shortages that they are rationing shells, leaving artillery units unable to protect the infantry by striking deeper into Russian-controlled territory to halt Russian advances.
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Why are we sending them equipment when they’re going to lose?
I don’t think they are going to lose. But at the very least it’s good to negotiate from a position of power. IE a banks going to loan money to someone with a job vs a homeless dude…
What the others said.
Also because they need equipment not cash. If the US would give them money, Ukraine would still have to get equipment somewhere.
Now the US is clearing out old inventory that is at the end of its shelf life (explosives have a shelf life) and the Ukranians use them to blow up Russian military instead of the US paying a company to dismantle the munitions.
The US charges the Ukranians current book value (low) and reimburses the military from the aid budget. The US military then uses this extra cash to buy new toys.
Russia’s war with Ukraine has done far more to weaken the Russian military than anything during the entire Cold War. Including the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
Why wouldn’t America send Ukraine equipment?
That poor cannon fodder :(
I guess Putin shouldn’t have chosen to invade Ukraine.
Why?
Then his military wouldn’t be cannon fodder.
Looks like Ukrainians are cannon fodder for the West. Lol.
They’re literally getting invaded by Russia in a defensive war for the very existence of their country. That’s not “for the west”.
Regardless, whether you look at it as a moral duty to the Ukrainian people, or as a self interested opportunity to protect Europe and weaken Russia, funding Ukraine is an efficient investment.
I’m not sure why you think that’s funny.
Is that the sort of thing that makes you laugh? People dying?
I know right, those poor conscripted russians getting slaughtered on the frontline for Putin’s imperialism
What about the poor conscripted Ukrainians getting slaughtered because they’ve been duped into thinking they can win?
You don’t ever think about those, huh.
Welcome back with the new burner o/
Something a lot of US fascists asked in the first few years of WW2 when it came to arms shipments to Britain!
To make loans to them if they eventually “win” or they make an agreement with the russians after the war, and to have an US muppet in the area?
