The Biden regime hasn’t forgotten about UKRAINE (Never!) in all the fervor over Taiwan. Due to an ‘accounting error,’ (of which there appear to be many under Brandon), the regime announced the second of two recent arms packages for Kiev, this latest one worth $250 million, and includes HIMARS ammo, AIM-9 missiles, artillery rounds, and an assortment of other military equipment. It uses the PDA, weapons directly taken from Pentagon stockpiles. (The first package was announced on Aug. 14th, and included highly controversial cluster bombs.)
The ‘accounting error?’ The Pentagon says it overvalued arms sent to Ukraine earlier, which frees up an additional $6.2 billion to continue fueling the flames in a corrupt proxy war against Russia. Congress has authorized $113 billion in war spending since the war began.
While on what appears to be a perpetual summer vacation, Biden has managed to ask Congress to authorize yet another $24 billion on the proxy war. And meanwhile, direct U.S. complicity in the proxy war is increasing by leaps and bounds. Ukraine has significantly increased drone attacks to Russia’s interior, but is using Western (read: U.S.) intelligence to do it, despite Washington’s claim it is not encouraging or enabling the operations. Some 42 drone attacks targeted Crimea on Friday alone, and are only expected to increase. And, according to The Economist, the purpose of the attacks, to psychologically impact civilians, shows the drones are purposely targeting ordinary Russians.
Meanwhile, Central European NATO members, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, are demanding Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko expel around 10,000 Wagner fighters who entered in June, after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed mutiny (and what is now believed to be his recent assassination.)
Poland, undoubtedly emboldened by the U.S. regime, had ordered a deployment of up to 10,000 of its own troops on the Belarus border. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is still alive despite press reports claiming he was terminally ill for years, has said he will consider an attack on Belarus as one on Russia, which is rather measured under the circumstances.
The buildup of troops provoked a stronger response from Lukashenko, who has threatened to use Russian nuclear weapons in response to “aggression from NATO.” This has no hope of ending anytime soon, and indeed, senior U.S. officials are poised to back Kiev against Moscow even beyond next year, if necessary. And it will be necessary until diplomacy instead of warfare is used, according to pro-Biden newspaper, The Washington Post and columnist David Ignatius.
The U.S. position seems rather foolhardy, given Putin’s fight is an existential one with much more at stake for Russians than Americans, and given the fully-anticipated failure of the Ukrainian counteroffensive despite a massive influx of money and weapons.
But the U.S. and Ukraine aren’t even seeing eye to eye these days, according to The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. wants Ukraine to use “combined arms” tactics they were taught from NATO at training in Europe (!). Americans also want Ukraine to focus on severing Russia’s land bridge to Crimea at the Sea of Azov. Ukraine, conversely, sees the conflict as requiring air superiority, which they do not have (nor do the Russians, for that matter.)
That all may change, though, as the scheduled training of pilots in Europe has been replaced with a plan for the Pentagon to train Ukrainians on F-16 fighter jets in the U.S. starting in September, according to The New York Times. First, they must be taught English in Texas, then on to flight school in Arizona. It is expected it can be accomplished in under a year.
Moscow will surely view this as an American escalation, especially since the F-16s can carry nuclear weapons. That view is only exacerbated by Poland’s and Slovakia’s sending of Soviet-made MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine earlier this year, making NATO appear to be, and in fact, being, a direct entrant into the war.
If you are to believe American press, (and you shouldn’t), democracy itself is at stake. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who had previously put his country under martial law until at least Nov. 15th and canceled all elections in that period, said on Sunday that Ukraine could have elections during the war if only the U.S. and Europe ponied up enough money for them to hold a vote in October. In the interim, the eleven opposition parties in Ukraine are banned and the media there has been nationalized. (Premonitory, perhaps?).
And if you are to believe American officials, like, say, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Ukraine is assured of further Congressional approval for war spending, even if House Speaker Kevin McCarthy might have a tough sell bringing it to the floor because of increasing G.O.P. (and American) opposition. Indeed, a CNN poll found 55% of Americans oppose more spending on Ukraine.
Alarmingly, the current U.S. regime and its allies are negotiating deals for long-term military support to Ukraine that future administrations would be hard-pressed to exit, according to The Wall Street Journal. The idea is a simple one: lock in long-term pledges of G-7 nations and others (said to number 18) to telegraph to the Kremlin that it cannot simply wait out the Biden regime in hopes the new Trump administration will significantly scale back support for Kiev.
While the Biden regime cannot legally bind a future president, it can set the stage to make it difficult, especially of G.O.P. hawks remain in Congress. The regime can also issue a long-term memorandum of understanding regarding support for Ukraine, which would not require Congressional approval. It would provide Ukraine annual military aid from the U.S., much like we provide Israel.
If one didn’t know any better and were sufficiently paranoid and into ‘conspiracy theories,’ one might think that this is Biden’s ‘payback’ to the co-conspirators in his international corruption schemes that have made his family wealthy beyond imagination, and at the same time, compromised the United States on the world stage.
The only question then becomes, is it payback in the sense he is robbing American taxpayers to pay for these nations’ welfare and wars? Or is it payback in the sense he is actually burdening these nations by provoking international war with them being both the subject and the arena of lethal conflict? Is it a case of no act going unthanked or of no act going unpunished?
Maybe it’s both and Brandon’s having the last laugh. One thing is sure: the American taxpayers are not laughing, and won’t be for a very long time.
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