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.

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  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldB
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    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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        • golli@lemm.ee
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          And that automatically means that the larger military will win? Looking at Vietnam and Afghanistan …

          • capem@startrek.website
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            Yeah. Vietnam and afghanistan are identical to the war in Ukraine.

            It’s not like the US is on the other side of the world, or anything.

            Nope. They’re exactly the same.

            Anything to avoid admitting Ukraine is going to lose and you’ve been taken for a ride 🤣

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          Its June 1940. France has surrendered, the continent has fallen, and what remains of the British army has just evacuated from Dunkirk leaving all of its heavy equipment behind. At this stage of the war the British army is outnumbered at least 12-1 by an enemy that is infitely better equipped than it.

          Should Britain have surrendered to the Nazis because they were losing to “a better army?”.

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      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…

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      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?

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                  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.

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                  I’m not sure why you think that’s funny.

                  Is that the sort of thing that makes you laugh? People dying?

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          I know right, those poor conscripted russians getting slaughtered on the frontline for Putin’s imperialism

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            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.

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      Something a lot of US fascists asked in the first few years of WW2 when it came to arms shipments to Britain!