The U.S. authorized Ukraine’s military to use the ATACMS missile system to strike inside Russia’s borders on November 17th, 2024.
Today marks 47 days until the inauguration of Donald J. Trump, the 45th and 47th President, who won both the electoral college and the popular vote in historic fashion on November 5th.
With President Trump set to take back the Oval Office with a “I want everyone to stop dying” objective and pledge to end the war within 24 hours of taking office, the scurry to increase funding and extend the timelines for said funding beyond the Biden administration is in full swing.
On Monday, when asked what the Biden administration is telling Ukrainian counterparts about what will happen once Biden leaves office, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan told ABC This Week:
Well, first what I’m saying is we’re going to do everything in our power for these 50 days to get Ukraine all the tools we possibly can to strengthen their position on the battlefield so they’ll be stronger at the negotiating table. And President Biden directed me to oversee a massive surge in the military equipment that we are delivering to Ukraine so that we have spent every dollar that Congress has appropriated to us by the time that President Biden leaves office.
That’s first and foremost what we’re focused on. And then, I’ve encouraged the Ukrainian team to engage the incoming team, as well as to engage all of our allies and partners because, again, on January 21st, the war in Ukraine doesn’t just go away. Obviously the new team will have its own policy, its own approach, and I can’t speak to that. But what I can do is make sure we put Ukraine in the best possible position when we hand off the baton.”
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
The Biden administration is frantically scrambling to ensure that the U.S. sends as much money and equipment as possible to Ukraine before the transition takes place on January 20th, 2025.
On November 17th, Biden granted Ukraine permission to use the US-supplied ATACMS on targets inside Russian borders for the first time in since the war began in February 2022, a dangerous escalation by a lame-duck President who’s party failed to win reelection just two weeks earlier. This escalation would require U.S. personnel to either provide or confirm coordinates for targets using the rockets provided by the U.S., as reported by the Washington Post. This would include the ATACMS missiles, which can be fired using the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS).
The Washington Post also reported in that same February 2023 article that:
Ukrainian officials also have sought the Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, a munition that can be fired from the same launcher and travel up to 185 miles. Biden administration officials have declined to provide that weapon, which is in limited supply and seen by senior U.S. officials as an escalation that could provoke Russia and drag the United States directly into the war.
Yesterday, The Gateway Pundit published an article from Unleashed News about a NATO communications cable that was cut just hours after the Biden administration made that decision, potentially thwarting the ability for the proper implementation of the ATACMS weapons system and thus subverting an escalation in the war beyond the Ukrainian border.
Announcements of funding and resource allocations to Ukraine have also escalated as of late. Yesterday, the Biden administration announced a $725 million aid package consisting of counter-drone systems and anti-personnel mines.
That same day it was reported that Biden had asked Congress for an additional $24 billion to “replenish U.S. weapons stockpiles” with $16 billion going to restocking U.S. weapons under the Pentagon’s presidential drawdown authority and $8 billion to “manufacture weapons under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which focuses on supplying Kyiv’s long-term defense needs,” according to VOA News.
With a lame-duck regime squandering U.S. weapons stockpiles and funding weeks before a new regime takes over and in a fashion that could provoke a massive escalation in the war, one must ask, “Where is Congress to reel in this rogue, lame-*duck administration?”
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