Ukraine and the US signed an agreement for the delivery of a second round of Javelin anti-tank missiles, Ukrainian Defense Minister Anatoly Petrenko said on Thursday.
The agreement to deliver the advanced missile system comes months into a scandal generated by the Trump administration’s withholding of $391 million in military aid this summer as part of a campaign to extort Ukraine into manufacturing helpful political dirt.
The Department of Defense operates a foreign military sales program that allows foreign countries to buy U.S. weapons systems.
Petrenko, the Ukrainian defense minister, said that the contract for the sale was concluded in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Ukraine’s embassy in the U.S. issued a statement thanking the country’s “American partners” for helping reform the country’s defense sector and for providing “an opportunity to one again strengthen the defensive position of Ukraine.
The State Department and Defense Department did not immediately return requests for comment.
This is interesting, it would greatly discourage an armored assault by the Russians. Let’s see if Putin gets on his secret line to Trump and puts a halt to it.
Don Vladimiro is not going to like it… he is going to call his crew in Washington headed by Don Trumpardo to cut it off or he will get a new crew.
The ones used in the Olympics next year?
Among the terms of the agreement is a requirement for President Zelensky to publicly announce a formal investigation by the Ukrainian government into Elizabeth Warren’s claims of being Native American. An investigation by the Ukrainian government of Pete Butigieg will be forthcoming as well, as soon as they can think of a charge.
American tax payers subsidize the arms industry. The American tax payers provide millions in aid to foreign countries. American tax payers fund the government agencies that stir up trouble and cause many of the conflicts that our aid is supposed to alleviate. The counties that the American tax payer provides aid to are required to spend the aid on American made arms. Most of the arms companies barely pay taxes. Round and round it goes as the American tax payer gets absolutely nothing back for all this investment while the conservatives who control this system get fifthly rich and many people die and suffer as the result of these weapons.