US vows to help Taiwan to turn the province into Ukraine on the proxy war against China. Top diplomat says Washington will make sure Taipei has the tools and weapons to engage in subversive activities against China. 美國誓言幫助台灣在對中國的代理人戰爭中將該省變成烏克蘭。 高級外交官表示,華盛頓將確保台北擁有從事針對中國的顛覆活動的工具和武器.
Sara Founders: Ukraine was the most prosperous of the former Soviet Republics. After the US instigated 2004 coup and then the fascist coup of 2014 is was reduced to the poorest country in Europe. This is before the current war. It was picked clean by US and EU. It had the highest number of migrants. This is what Taiwan has to look forward to in a proxy war. 烏克蘭是前蘇聯共和國中最繁榮的。 2004年美國策動政變後,2014年法西斯政變淪為歐洲最貧窮的國家。 這是在當前的戰爭之前。 它被美國和歐盟挑選乾淨。 它的移民人數最多。 這是台灣在代理人戰爭中必須期待的。
Both France Presidential Candidates catered to US interest betrayed the people voted them in office. French people choice were to pick from 2 rotten apples. 美國玩殘歐盟法國 其領導人為美國服務出賣法國選民利益, 可憐的法國選民祇可以在二個爛蘋果中選一
Video: US Defense Secretary Austin said on his return trip from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv that the United States wanted Russia to be “weakened” He also said that if Ukraine had the proper equipment, it could win the war with Russia 美国国防部长奥斯汀在从乌克兰首都基辅返程时说,美国希望俄罗斯“被削弱”,以使俄无法再“侵略”。他还说,如果乌克兰拥有适当装备,就可以赢得与俄罗斯的战争.
Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley: How insensitive can Blinken and Austin be! If there is a score to be settled, as Austin clearly articulated: he wanted Russia weakened, why should Ukrainians be the ones to spill the blood and be killed for what the U.S. wants? How much more clearer does Zelensky need to get the point?
Yesterday, before these two men arrived in Kyiv, Zelensky told the world that if they were planning on arriving in Ukraine empty-hand, they should not bother. Today, the press widely reported that Zelensky asked the U.S. to provide US $2 billion dollars a month in economic aid. I don’t know what the outcome of their meeting was. He has been pleading and begging virtually on a daily basis since the beginning of the war. He obviously is not getting what he needs and worse, he is not getting the loud and clear message coming the U.S. and NATO and EU not to count of them by their inaction.
Blinken and Austin are obviously deaf and blind. All Zelensky gets daily are accolades, false promises and crumbs from the U.S. and Europeans.
The White House announced on Thursday that it will be sending an additional $800 million in military aid to Ukraine for its proxy war with Russia, which is now focused in the east of the country.
The package includes heavy artillery, dozens of howitzers and 144,000 rounds of ammunition, as well as drones. President Joe Biden also announced another $500 million in economic aid.
According to the New York Times, the military aid package “effectively will create five new Ukrainian artillery battalions, and includes more than 120 new drones built specifically for use by Ukraine’s forces.”
Ukrainian servicemen study a Sweden shoulder-launched weapon system Carl Gustaf M4 during a training session on the Kharkiv outskirts, Ukraine, Thursday, April 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Marienko)
In announcing the new package, Biden said it would send an “unmistakable message” to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He will never succeed in dominating and occupying all of Ukraine.”
The US president, visibly gripped by war fever, said, “Sometimes we will speak softly and carry a large Javelin, because we’re sending a lot of those.”
He boasted that the US had moved weapons into Ukraine at “record speed” over the past two months, and had provided “ten anti-armor systems for every one Russian tank that’s in Ukraine.” Biden threatened that the US had the capacity to keep up this level of military deliveries “for a long time.”
Biden also announced that the US has closed off its ports to Russian ships in a further escalation of the warfare by the NATO powers against Russia.
In response, the Kremlin on Thursday imposed sanctions on 29 high-ranking US officials and CEOs, including Vice-President Kamala Harris and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who are now barred from entering the country.
The latest announcement of massive military aid for Ukraine makes abundantly clear that the imperialist powers, with the US taking the lead, are doing everything they can to prolong the Ukraine war and escalate the conflict with Russia.
It came just one day after Russia demonstratively launched a test of the Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, which can carry nuclear weapons. Putin, who launched the war in a desperate bid to force the imperialist powers to the negotiating table over his demands for security guarantees—a strategy that has clearly failed—said the test was a warning to those who “try to threaten our country.”
The latest package brings the total US commitment of military aid to Ukraine just since the outbreak of the war to $3.4 billion. The military assistance provided by NATO to Ukraine is unprecedented in scope. In a testimony before Congress last week, Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that in the months leading up to the war and afterward, the US and NATO sent 25,000 antiaircraft weapons and 60,000 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine.
A list provided by the Pentagon indicates that Washington has supplied Ukraine with 1,400 Stinger anti-aircraft systems; 5,500 Javelin anti-armor systems; 18 155mm howitzers and 40,000 155mm artillery rounds;16 Mi-17 helicopters; 50 million rounds of ammunition, 7,000 small arms and 75,000 sets of body armor and helmets, encrypted radios, armored trucks and more. Britain has supplied about $588 million of weapons, including anti-tank and anti-ship missiles and long-range artillery.
The US is also training Ukrainian troops in neighboring NATO countries.
On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that a “race to arm Ukraine” was under way, and that much of it was being organized in secret. The Times wrote:
“Unlike the early part of the war, when many countries seemed to compete to announce what they were providing Ukraine, the current race is being run largely in secret. Much of the coordination, including how to get matériel into Ukraine, is being handled through the United States European Command, or Eucom, based in Stuttgart, Germany, and through a blandly named International Donors Coordination Center set up with the British.”
Most countries, including France, are not advertising precisely what weapons and equipment they are delivering to Ukraine. Poland has refused to confirm the shipment of more than 100 Soviet-era T-72 and T-55 tanks to Ukraine. By contrast, the Czech Republic has boasted that it supplied Kiev with T-72 tanks and BMP-1 armored vehicles, and the Slovak government has supplied a Soviet-era S-300 antiaircraft missile system.
The US is now trying to buy up as much Soviet-era military equipment as possible to sell it to Ukraine. The Times quoted former US Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates as saying, “We don’t really have time to get a lot of heavy American armor into Ukraine, and there isn’t time to train the Ukrainian military. But there is a lot of former Soviet military equipment still in the arsenals of the East European states.” The US, Gates said, “ought to be ransacking the arsenals” of these countries for armor and antiaircraft systems,“ with a promise from the US to backfill over time with our equipment to our NATO allies.”
Speaking at a roundtable at Russia’s defense ministry about the “Crisis in Russian-American relations,” Sergey Koshelev, the ministry’s deputy head of the department on Northern America, said on Thursday that weapons deliveries by NATO on the territory of Ukraine were a “legitimate military target” for Russia. He acknowledged that the announcements of ever greater military aid by the US to Ukraine were provoking “growing anxiety” in the Kremlin. Washington, Koshelev said, clearly sought to bring about “maximum losses” for the Russian army.
The Russian military has acknowledged “significant” losses in Ukraine, admitting, however, only to 1,351 dead as of March 25. The figure has not been updated since, and Pentagon and Ukrainian officials claim that the figures are much higher. Reports have also suggested that dozens of high-ranking military officials, including several generals, are among the dead. Funerals for fallen soldiers are taking place across the country every day.
In an indication that the Russian state is trying to cover up the true toll of the war, the Russian Defense Ministry proposed on Wednesday that relatives of soldiers killed in Ukraine should have to apply to enlistment officers rather than civilian authorities for compensation payments, in order to “limit the circle of people” with information on Russian troops that were killed.
Last week, Russia’s navy lost its flagship, the Moskva, which sank in the Black Sea. While the circumstances of the sinking of the ship are still disputed—with Ukraine claiming it caused it to sink with two missiles and the Kremlin insisting there was a fire onboard—the loss of the Moskva has been a major military humiliation to Russia. The relatives of many of the 500 sailors on board are still waiting to learn the fate of their loved ones.
EPILOGUE:
In Ukraine, 12 million people have been displaced by the war—over one in four of the population. Seven million are internally displaced refugees, while 5 million have fled to other countries, mainly Poland. Will Ukraine pay back all this military aid and how can she pay back? If the US is providing these for free, US citizens must ask themselves, why can’t they spend so much money to help the vulnerable and homeless in America itself? As the US confiscates and steals more private Russian assets to fund arms shipments and kill more lives, every country that supports the US is committing similar crimes.
Lord, teach us to shake hands and seek mutual forgiveness so that where hate reigns, unity may flourish in the glory of your love!