US military aid to 🇺🇦 will determine the outcome of this war. Congress has already appropriated & authorized significant sums, but the Biden Admin has continuously slow walked & rationed every major weapon system delivered. Let's review the past, and then look forwards. 🧵(1/24)
@QvintusJohan@Skerhetschefen1 Sedan vet jag inte om de siffror som rör USA har korrigerats med deras "bokföringsmiss" när DoD initialt rapporterade ersättningspris (som sedan sänktes). Eller att afaik mkt av biståndet går direkt till inhemska projekt. Se tex https://t.co/SO1YAVX74V
i have a theme today (if you have not noticed).
yes i am pissed at the slow walking of gear to ukraine...
and im being attacked by a small number of biden supporters... to be clear i think that both biden and trump are crooks that should never hold office again.. we have 350 million people in this country... and we dont need someone in office now that "has got every foreign policy decision wrong in the last 40 years"... its not me saying that its most of the obama admin that said that. i can say they are BOTH idiots and are not helping ukraine to win the war quickly with as few deaths (on both sides) as possible.
ok but how would I fix things?
simple
1. use the money that congress gave me, returning it makes no sense (biden returned 2+ billion he did not use) ... period!!!
2. instruct the DOD/DLA disposition services to give a TRUE value of the items we are sending.. if its being sold as scrap in the US then it should NOT be listed as a vehicle.. sell it as scrap...
3. outdated ordnance we are paying to scrap and now sending to ukraine should be listed as a NET SAVINGS.. and not a donation. (stingers, M26 rockets, old PAC 2 rockets, etc..)
4. instruct the DOJ to direct local law enforcement that they can sent all confiscated "assault rifles, pistols and ammo" to ukraine and get a credit to next years fed budget... Miami FL is doing that now.
5. instruct the DLA/DOD to do a walkthrough of every military storage area world wide (not WMDs). a rep of the state department, DOD, ukrainian military rep, and the admin should be on the ground. every system that is not in use and not planned to be used, or a contingency item should be tagged as excess, and offered to the ukranian rep on the spot.
6. biden needs to get on the TV and tell everyone the truth.. that of the 44.5 billion in military aid that has been budgeted to ukraine 19 billion was used in the US to make jobs here to replace old items with newer and better ones for a possible fight with china. 2 billion was returned and never used, and of the remaining 23 billion much of it was over valued.. and this is the best use of tax payer money in a long time. and stop having members of the admin lie "12 old F16s will cost 1.5 billion" fake, "ukraine has everything it has ask for" fake...
7. stop using US peace time rules. get the agencies out of the way and expedite the transfer of items and gear to ukraine... get the DOD, state department, EPA, OSHA, etc to realize that the goal is to get ukraine to the finish line... not some grand plan of back room deals or a chance to make more regulations. this will speed everything up.
the 7 steps outlined provide ukraine with gear we dont need, tells the american public the truth and takes the wind out of the sails of the anti ukr crowd, and costs the USA NOTHING, NOT A DIME.
if we dont want ukraine to win, we should probably say so openly...
it will also tell europe we stand with them and we are using the weapons that were to defend them defending ukraine... the well will be dry for a while.. time to step up.
again its simple and easy.. just do it. lets give them the gear to win
@wisemanswisdoms @DanielH98606542 Uppges dock som ursäkt här https://t.co/bumIl0t76R - med nån tweet som referens som jag inte lyckades hitta på några sekunders letande.
I dag var vi i Kupjansk för att leverera förnödenheter till folk. Vi var sju personer: svenska Tilde från Operation Aid, tre britter och en australiensare - alla fd militärer som annars jobbar med evakueringar i Ukraina - en kroatisk journalist och jag. 🧵