Biden tells Ukraine US will send more aid, small drones, Humvees

[jakeXT]

Source: Associated Press



WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say Vice President Joe Biden is telling the Ukraine president that the U.S. will send more aid to the country. That will include small drones and armored Humvees.

Biden delivered the news in a call to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko (por-oh-SHEHN'-koh). The aid includes some small Raven drones systems, which can be launched by hand. The U.S. will also send 30 heavily armored Humvees and 200 other regular Humvees, as well as radios, counter-mortar radars and other equipment. All of the aid is nonlethal, and the drones are not armed.

The drones and other equipment, not including the Humvees, are worth about $75 million. It's not clear how many drones would be sent or what the Humvees cost.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the aid on the record.


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[WDIM]

1. our war contractors say thank you.

Military industrial complex in control.

[snooper2]

2. Wouldn't be in an issue if the pro Rus-Si-A assholes would turn themselves in

for treason..

And if Pootie would get his "ghost" Army back on his own fucking soil-

[zeemike]

4. And they could say the same to us.

This is a proxy war against Russia and we all know it...but we are not allowed to believe it.

But the neo cons will not stop until we have the world in a war again...so much profit in it, and a chance to once and for all rule the world.

[swilton]

5. ++++

[Fred Sanders]

3. A token response made necessary by geo-politics.....not a single real weapon among them...good.

"The transport trucks and small unarmed drones are in the mail".

[elias49]

9. Seriously. Why doesn't Ukraine get Amazon Prime? nt

[bemildred]

6. Any more cookies? nt

[jakeXT]

7. Maybe

... Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula annexed by Russia a year ago, was "suffering a reign of terror," Nuland told a congressional hearing on Ukraine, adding that the White House was still considering whether to arm Ukraine's military.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/10/us-ukraine-crisis-congress-hearing-idUSKBN0M61UB20150310

[bemildred]

10. Yeah, Parry was incensed about that.

I just think it means she has been forced further out in the windstream to defend her policies and this debacle she has created, again. I predicted in Nov. 2013 this would be the result, just because it was a Neocon project and this is what they do. It's not a rule, but it is a fucking great heuristic: "If it's a Neocon project, the result will be a bankrupt banana republic, a bankrupt failed state, or a set of new bankrupt client states." And those are the good outcomes. The bad outcomes look like ISIS and al Qaeda. They always like the bankrupt part, the Neocons, they will always bankrupt you, that's their version of "success." We've been doing it forever in Latin America, but they have mostly kicked us out now.

[Fred Sanders]

11. Ukraine is more of an economic basket case than Greece, but look who gets all the loving - Oligarths

[DeSwiss]

8. Fucking warmonger/job-creator.

- The US's primary source of income today, outside of oil futures, GMO corn, and Wall Street ponzi-schemes; is the arms & protection racket. We'll either arm you to the teeth, or you can buy the deluxe package. That package comes with aircraft carriers, drones and boots-on-the-ground options.

But that package requires that you sell yourself to us - first. And we have to want you......

K&R