The capabilities in this announcement include:
Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
155mm and 105mm artillery ammunition;
60mm and 81mm mortar rounds;
Unmanned Aerial Systems;
Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided (TOW) missiles;
Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems;
Small arms and ammunition;
Demolitions equipment and munitions;
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear protective equipment;
Spare parts, ancillary equipment, services, training, and transportation.
Good to see that its mainly ammo. That’s how you can stretch the funding, avoiding sending new, high ticket price systems and just making sure they can use the stuff they’ve already got.
Its kinda wild.
The opposition won so natural current leadership will want to push their agenda while they still can. As far that makes sense.
What doesn’t make sense is how almost all of the agenda pushing we hear about is about foreign.
Bad reporting in the media may play a large role in this but the perceptions bears the question:
Is The President of the united states still a head of state of the American people. Or are they just the CEO of an American company who has the power to act as a deployable co-government for hire for other nations.
I am not explaining this very well, but does anyone else recognize this?
The Democrats can not pass any new laws, since the Republicans hold the House. So the only power they have is that of the president. However Trump can reverse a lot of that as soon as he gets into office. However in foreign policy that is often not the case. For example Ukraine is not going to return US weapons, just because Trump got elected. Also those things are often more important.
US earns a lot of money, and can afford a huge debt, by being a global superpower. By projecting power abroad, it also projects support for American businesses on worldwide markets. This is how the US earns enough money for a huge military budget, used to project the power. And all of this becomes possible thanks to alliance with European and other countries.
Current Russian invasion in Europe is about vital US interests. Support to Ukraine requires a rather small fraction of the US military budget. Failure in Ukraine will cost much, much more - probably including the American lives.
