“MASSIVE SURGE” of Military Equipment To Ukraine Before Trump Takes Office

While President Trump is preparing to take the reins of U.S. power via the Presidency in a matter of weeks, the Biden administration seems to be working overtime to thwart his plans at every step.

President Trump has been clear that he intends to use the power of the United States to bring an end to the Russia/Ukraine war.

Check out this quick clip.  Even with CNN’s combative attempt at putting words into President Trump’s mouth, he has consistently been clear about his intent to bring the Ukraine/Russia war to a quick end.

Not only is the Biden Administration suddenly shifting gears, and opening the floodgates of weapons meant for Ukraine that have been sitting in U.S. warehouses all this time — earmarked, but strangely withheld, until now…

But the White House is also asking for billions more, and pushing a “massive surge” of equipment to Ukraine; potentially limiting President Trump’s available options for making good on his word to end the war.

In a statement to ABC News, Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan made no secret about the push to flood Ukraine with heavy weaponry before President Trump takes office.

BIDEN WANTS A MASSIVE SURGE OF WEAPONS TO UKRAINE.

Congress approved the final tranche a few months ago. There are still $7 billion in weapons shipments that haven’t been announced.pic.twitter.com/O5hV3Oe76n

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) December 3, 2024

Did you catch the last thing he said?  The intent of the Biden Administration isn’t to bring the hostilities to an end, nor is it to leave the U.S. in the strongest possible position by which to make that happen.

“Obviously the new team will have it’s own policy; it’s own approach — and I can’t speak to that.  But what I can do is make sure that we put Ukraine in the best possible position when we hand off the baton.”

That’s the National Security Advisor pretending to know nothing about President Trump’s desire to bring both sides of the Russia/Ukraine war to heel.

While he gives lip service to the concept of a seamless passing of the torch to the incoming Trump team, it is obvious that what the Biden administration is intent on doing — at any cost, it seems — is flooding Ukraine with the weapons that will both prolong the fighting, and push the United States even closer to a potential nuclear incident with Russia.

There aren’t trying to put the U.S. in the best possible position in order to bring an end to the war; they are openly focused on putting UKRAINE in the best position possible — apparently even if it increases the risk to the United States.

A new wave of additional aid to Ukraine was just announced, according to a report by the Associated Press.

The U.S. is preparing to send Ukraine an additional $725 million in military assistance, including counter-drone systems and munitions for its High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, which could indicate more of the longer-range missiles are headed to the battlefield.

It was unclear whether the munitions for the HIMARS are the coveted ATACMS — the Army Tactical Missile System — but Ukraine has been pressing for more of the longer-range missiles to strike additional targets inside Russia.

The package, announced Monday by the State Department, also includes more of the anti-personnel land mines that Ukraine is counting on to slow Russian and North Korean ground forces in Russia’s Kursk region.

President Joe Biden has pledged to spend all of the military assistance funds Congress approved this year for Ukraine before the end of his administration on Jan. 20, which before Monday’s announcement included about $7.1 billion in weapons that would be drawn from the Pentagon’s stockpiles.

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Besides the sudden rush to empty U.S. stockpiles into the battlefield, Senator Mike Lee has drawn attention to Biden’s decision to “forgive” billions in loans given to Ukraine.

Joe Biden just gave away 4.7 billion in your taxpayer dollars by unilaterally “forgiving” loans to Ukraine.

Congress must not give him a free gift to further sabotage President Trump’s peace negotiations on the way out the door. Any Biden funding demands should be DOA. https://t.co/xnEu8hUA6P

— Mike Lee (@SenMikeLee) November 26, 2024

Mike Lee was responding to Politico’s Connor O’Brien comment about the 24 billion in aid that Biden has just requested.

That is an additional $24,000,000,000 in aid that Biden is now requesting, according to a report in Voice of America News.

President Joe Biden has asked Congress for an additional $24 billion to support Ukraine and replenish U.S. weapons stockpiles, two U.S. officials tell VOA, as the administration continued Monday to push out new aid packages from the last congressionally approved funds for Kyiv before Biden leaves office on January 20.

Officials who have seen the administration’s request, on condition of anonymity to discuss its details, told VOA, that the new support would include $16 billion to restock U.S. weapons under the Pentagon’s presidential drawdown authority (PDA), along with $8 billion to manufacture weapons under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which focuses on supplying Kyiv’s long-term defense needs.

The Biden administration submitted aid for Ukraine in an anomaly funding bill that also includes spending on other matters rather than in a separate supplemental funding request.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, who will determine whether the bill is brought to a vote in the form proposed by the White House, wrote on X that funding decisions “are for the incoming administration, not the outgoing lame duck President.”

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“The American people resoundingly elected President [Donald] Trump because he promised to bring an end to wars, not prolong them indefinitely,” Johnson added.

According to reports, Speaker Johnson has rejected Biden’s request to add additional Ukraine aid to upcoming spending bills.

Mike Johnson rejects Biden request for $24 billion on new Ukraine aid https://t.co/RgqXG4mmnS

— The Hill (@thehill) December 4, 2024

Here’s a report that just dropped from The Hill with those details.

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday rejected a White House request to pass $24 billion in additional aid for Ukraine by the end of the year, saying any further assistance for Kyiv would be decided by President-elect Trump when he assumes office in January.

“I’m not planning to do that,” Johnson said in response to a question if he would add aid for Ukraine to a continuing resolution to fund the government.

Johnson, speaking during a House Republican Leaders news conference, said Trump’s election victory is changing the dynamic of Russia’s war on Ukraine and that any additional U.S. assistance for Kyiv should be decided under the next administration.

“As we predicted and as I said to all of you, weeks before the election, if Donald Trump is elected it will change the dynamic of the Russian war on Ukraine, and we’re seeing that happen,” he said.

“So, it is not the place of Joe Biden to make that decision now, we have a newly elected president and we’re going to wait and take the new commander in chief’s direction on all that so I don’t expect any Ukraine funding to come up now.”

While that is good news for President Trump and his stated intention to draw down, not ramp up the war in Ukraine, the Biden administration is nevertheless intent on doing all it can to thwart that agenda… while it still has time to do so.

The idea of a legitimate spending bill with a package of new aid attached may be halted for now, but there are other actions available to the Executive Branch under Title 50 scenarios which could see further escalation pushed by Biden — even as a lame duck with his eviction notice in hand.

The only sure cure for halting the U.S. from pouring fuel on the flames of war in Ukraine is the swearing in of President Trump… and that is still slightly more than 6 weeks away.