{"id":54725,"date":"2021-03-03T10:32:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54725"},"modified":"2021-03-03T10:32:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T14:32:58","slug":"did-the-biden-crime-family-just-give-another-125-million-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=54725","title":{"rendered":"Did the Biden Crime Family just give another $125 million to Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Pentagon Announces $125 Million in Military Aid for Ukraine<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>The money will go towards armed patrol boats<\/h3>\n<p>Dave DeCamp<br \/>\nAnti-War.com<\/p>\n<p>On Monday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/Newsroom\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/2519445\/defense-department-announces-125m-for-ukraine\/\">the Pentagon announced a $125 million military aid<\/a>\u00a0package for Ukraine. The $125 million package includes two armed Mark VI patrol boats, giving Ukraine a total of eight such vessels provided by the US.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon said the package also includes \u201ccapabilities to enhance\u00a0the lethality, command and control, and situational awareness\u00a0of Ukraine\u2019s forces.\u201d This means additional counter-artillery radars, other tactical equipment, continued support for satellite systems, and some medical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>This package is the first part of the $275 million approved by Congress for Ukraine in the 2021 fiscal year. As per the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, the additional $150 million is contingent on Ukraine reforming its military. The Pentagon said it will work with the State Department to certify \u201cthat Ukraine has made sufficient progress on key defense reforms this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the 2014 US-backed coup in Ukraine that sparked the war in the eastern Donbas region, the US has provided Kyiv with $2 billion in military aid. Despite the controversy around President Trump and aid to Ukraine, he took a step the Obama administration was not willing to take and<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-admin-approves-sale-anti-tank-weapons-ukraine\/story?id=65989898\">\u00a0sent Javelin anti-tank missiles to Kyiv.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2021\/02\/26\/biden-says-us-will-never-accept-russias-annexation-of-crimea\/\">President Biden released a statement<\/a>\u00a0on the seventh anniversary of Russia\u2019s annexation of Crimea and said the US would \u201cnever\u201d accept Russian sovereignty over the peninsula. He said the US \u201cwill stand with Ukraine against Russia\u2019s aggressive acts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like the war in the Donbas, the annexation of Crimea was also sparked by the US-backed coup in Kyiv. The largely ethnic Russian populations of Crimea and Donbas rejected the nationalist post-coup government in Kyiv, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/consortiumnews.com\/2015\/03\/22\/crimeans-keep-saying-no-to-ukraine\/\">the majority of Crimeans favored joining Russia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2021\/03\/01\/pentagon-announces-125-million-in-military-aid-for-ukraine\/\">https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2021\/03\/01\/pentagon-announces-125-million-in-military-aid-for-ukraine\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon Announces $125 Million in Military Aid for Ukraine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}