{"id":1469729,"date":"2024-06-06T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1469729"},"modified":"2024-06-06T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T14:55:00","slug":"us-ramps-up-rate-of-ukraine-arms-packages-whats-another-225-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/us-ramps-up-rate-of-ukraine-arms-packages-whats-another-225-million\/1469729\/","title":{"rendered":"US Ramps Up Rate Of Ukraine Arms Packages&#8230; What&#8217;s Another $225 Million?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">US Ramps Up Rate Of Ukraine Arms Packages&#8230; What&#8217;s Another $225 Million?<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The United States is preparing to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FirstSquawk\/status\/1798444207721644080\">announce<\/a> a <strong>new $225 million weapons package<\/strong> for Ukraine this week, coming two weeks after the last package, which <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ukraine-russia-war-us-military-aid-cdbbdbd05c38741b934cc5e63a1bc39c\">was at<\/a> $275 million and featured badly needed artillery rounds. And a\u00a0few weeks prior to that, in early May, the US administration rolled out with $400 million in defense aid\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>thus it appears the White House is <strong>planning to apportion new packages about every two or three weeks<\/strong>, drawing from Biden&#8217;s $60 billion in recently approved total funding for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Ukrainian soldiers are <strong>resorting to literally trying to find leftover, unexploded artillery shells scattered in the ground<\/strong> at prior battle sites.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/europe\/ukraine-mad-max-shells-minefields-6f3b1243\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>\u00a0recently underscored this severe lack of ammo along Ukraine&#8217;s front lines in writing that\u00a0&#8220;Kyiv\u2019s ammunition shortage is so acute that a soldier who hunts for Russian shells\u2014and makes his own bombs\u2014has become an important supplier for some units.&#8221;<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The dangerous trend can be summarized as follows: the more desperation there is on the ground as Ukraine loses more and more ground along frontline positions, <strong>the greater the bellicose posturing on the part of NATO and the West<\/strong>. Western publications are even openly airing contingency plans for US troop movements in Europe in a WW3 scenario involving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/report-details-us-troop-land-corridors-event-ww3-russia-heart-europe\">war with Russia in the heart of Europe<\/a>. As another alarming and somewhat absurd example of this trend, <strong>look what European Commission chief is <em>positively boasting about<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This is fantastic news! Congratulations on having brought Europe to this point. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ygRBLgR2ni\">https:\/\/t.co\/ygRBLgR2ni<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Szamuely (@GeorgeSzamuely) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeorgeSzamuely\/status\/1798300362962882806?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 5, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a preview of the $225 million arms package via <em>Reuters<\/em>, &#8220;The United States is expected to announce a new $225 million weapons package for Ukraine this week, sources said on Wednesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Details of the latest package emerged as President Joe Biden planned to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday in Normandy at the 80th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day invasion. It was unclear if the package would be announced then or on Friday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Thu, 06\/06\/2024 &#8211; 06:55<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/us-ramps-ukraine-arms-packages-whats-another-225-million\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/us-ramps-ukraine-arms-packages-whats-another-225-million<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Ramps Up Rate Of Ukraine Arms Packages&#8230; What&#8217;s Another $225 Million? The United States is preparing to announce a new $225 million weapons package&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}