Quote: [Excess defense articles are DoD and U.S. Coast Guard-owned articles no longer needed and declared excess by the U.S. Armed Forces. This excess equipment may be offered at reduced or no cost to eligible foreign recipients on an “as is, where is” basis in support of U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives. Section 516(b)(1)(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act states that EDA transfers shall not adversely impact the U.S. national technology and industrial base, nor reduce the opportunities of U.S. industry to sell new or used equipment to the proposed recipient.]
MAGA lawyers will claim the EDA free transfers are illegal. They will claim the equipment is needed and giving it away for free adversely impacts the US . Then MAGA will likely carry out a second frivolous impeachment of Biden claiming that the President has exceeded his authority and broken the law.
Trump and his lackeys will do everything they can to block military aid to Ukraine. How can I be certain? Because Trump and his lackeys are doing everything they can to block military aid to Ukraine.
Biden can easily declare older assets to have zero value and donate as much of them as he wants. The AT4, 105mm and even the 155mm cluster. It is absolutely within his purview to zero out their asset value vis-a-vis usage by the US military and ship every last round and item to Ukraine with no contravention of any guidelines or laws.
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Stop “considering” and do it.
I think they misspelled billion…126mm is probably a week’s worth, if that.
Quote: [The money is to be provided under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. The U.S. government does not disclose how the funds will be spent.]
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Assistance_Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Assistance_Act)
Quote: [Excess defense articles are DoD and U.S. Coast Guard-owned articles no longer needed and declared excess by the U.S. Armed Forces. This excess equipment may be offered at reduced or no cost to eligible foreign recipients on an “as is, where is” basis in support of U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives. Section 516(b)(1)(e) of the Foreign Assistance Act states that EDA transfers shall not adversely impact the U.S. national technology and industrial base, nor reduce the opportunities of U.S. industry to sell new or used equipment to the proposed recipient.]
MAGA lawyers will claim the EDA free transfers are illegal. They will claim the equipment is needed and giving it away for free adversely impacts the US . Then MAGA will likely carry out a second frivolous impeachment of Biden claiming that the President has exceeded his authority and broken the law.
Trump and his lackeys will do everything they can to block military aid to Ukraine. How can I be certain? Because Trump and his lackeys are doing everything they can to block military aid to Ukraine.
Biden can easily declare older assets to have zero value and donate as much of them as he wants. The AT4, 105mm and even the 155mm cluster. It is absolutely within his purview to zero out their asset value vis-a-vis usage by the US military and ship every last round and item to Ukraine with no contravention of any guidelines or laws.