REFERENCE: The Current State (Part II)

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https://www.vox.com/2019/11/12/20954985/impeachment-trump-quid-pro-quo

Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives in December 2019 on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The abuse of power charge was related to Trump’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, including former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

 

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/08/17/did-joe-biden-serve-in-the-military/

So, Joe Biden did not serve in the military. He received five student draft deferments during his time as an undergraduate at the University of Delaware, and at Syracuse University, where he studied Law. Young Joe Biden was medically exempt from being drafted. During a physical assessment in April 1968 he was given the classification ‘1-Y’. This meant he could only be drafted in the case of a national emergency.

 

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/10/15/20849072/joe-biden-iraq-history-democrats-election-2020

The former vice president has a long, complicated, and some would say checkered history with Iraq. Here’s the full story.

 

https://www.factcheck.org/2019/09/bidens-record-on-iraq-war/

It wasn’t until Nov. 27, 2005, that Biden acknowledged on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that his 2002 vote authorizing force in Iraq was “a mistake.”

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/16/fact-check-biden-received-multiple-draft-deferments-vietnam/5809482002/

Based on our research, the claim that Biden received five draft deferments is TRUE. He was granted five deferments as a student before he received a medical exemption for asthma.

 

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/16/biden-familys-military-ties-may-influence-approach-policy-white-house.html

The president-elect never served in the military, but he has experienced the worry and stress that military families suffer watching loved ones go off to war.

 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/03/16/fact-sheet-on-u-s-security-assistance-for-ukraine/

President Biden today announced an additional $800 million in security assistance to Ukraine, bringing the total U.S. security assistance committed to Ukraine to $1 billion in just the past week, and a total of $2 billion since the start of the Biden Administration.

 

https://www.cfr.org/article/how-much-aid-has-us-sent-ukraine-here-are-six-charts

Since the war began, the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have directed more than $75 billion in assistance to Ukraine, which includes humanitarian, financial, and military support, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German research institute ... However, some European governments, such as Latvia and Estonia, are making larger financial contributions to Ukraine relative to the size of their own economies.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61482305

The UK has sent more than 5,000 next generation light anti-tank weapons, or Nlaw, to Ukraine.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian-occupied_territories_of_Ukraine

Before 2022, Russia occupied 42,000 km2 (16,000 sq mi) of Ukrainian territory (Crimea, and parts of Donetsk and Luhansk), and occupied an additional 119,000 km2 (46,000 sq mi) after its full-scale invasion by March 2022, a total of 161,000 km2 (62,000 sq mi) or almost 27% of Ukraine's territory. By 11 November, the Institute for the Study of War calculated that Ukrainian forces had liberated an area of 74,443 km2 (28,743 sq mi) from Russian occupation, leaving Russia with control of about 18% of Ukraine's territory.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kherson#2022_Russian_occupation

On 30 September 2022, the Russian Federation claimed to have annexed Kherson Oblast. The United Nations General Assembly condemned the proclaimed annexations with a vote of 143-5.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol#2022_Russian_siege_and_subsequent_occupation

The siege was also marked by numerous war crimes committed by Russian forces, most notably Russian airstrikes on a maternity hospital and a drama theater serving as an air raid shelter for hundreds of civilians ... By late April, Russian and separatist troops had pushed deep into most of the city, separating the last Ukrainian troops, with the few pockets of Ukrainian troops retreating into the Azovstal Iron and Steel Works, which contains a complex of bunkers and tunnels which could even resist a nuclear bombing. Ukrainian troops in Azovstal held out until 16 May 2022, when its last troops from the Azovstal Steel Plant surrendered and the city fell into Russian control.

 

https://time.com/6183291/russia-tensions-rise-rockets-ukraine/

From the start, Biden has been pushed to send more and more shipments of sophisticated, American-made arms. Every few weeks, he faces the same dilemma: how far can the U.S. go to provide military aid without escalating to open war between its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies and Russia? Finding the right balance is the driving factor.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Russian_strikes_against_Ukrainian_infrastructure

Since October 2022, Russia has conducted multiple waves of missile and drone strikes on infrastructure as part of its invasion of Ukraine. The strikes target civilian areas beyond the battlefield and critical energy infrastructure in particular, which is considered a war crime.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_warfare_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

Russia launched about 85 to 100 missiles at a number of Ukrainian cities. The recent strategic bombing campaign has caused severe shortages of electricity and water in multiple cities.

 

https://caspiannews.com/news-detail/azerbaijan-sends-next-batch-of-power-supply-equipment-to-ukraine-2023-1-14-0/

The government of Azerbaijan on Friday sent the next batch of power supply equipment to Ukraine to help the war-torn country restore the energy supply infrastructure that has been suffering from Russia’s bombardment.

 

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/m2-bradley-fighting-vehicles-will-be-sent-by-u-s-to-ukraine

The announcement that Bradleys and Marders are going to Ukraine came after French President Emmanuel Macron told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday that France will send AMX-10 RC armored combat vehicles to Ukraine.

 

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ukraine-crisis-russia-graves-wagner/

Last month, Reuters reported that the U.S. intelligence community believes that Wagner had approximately 40,000 prisoner recruits deployed in Ukraine as of December, accounting for the vast majority of Wagner personnel in the country.

 

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/the-caesar-howitzers-all-about-the-powerful-french-weapons-sent-to-ukraine

To help in this conflict, earlier this month, French President Emmanuel Macron said that France would deliver six additional long-range self-propelled "Caesar" howitzers to Ukraine.

 

https://www.commentary.org/articles/jason-maoz-2/thirty-six-years-ago-today-richard-nixon-saved-israel-but-got-no-credit/

What is clear, from the preponderance of information provided by those directly involved in the unfolding events, is that President Richard Nixon — overriding inter-administration objections and bureaucratic inertia — implemented a breathtaking transfer of arms, code-named Operation Nickel Grass, that over a four-week period involved hundreds of jumbo U.S. military aircraft delivering more than 22,000 tons of armaments.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_involvement_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

Foreign involvement in the Russian invasion of Ukraine... Additional tanks for Ukraine...Fighter jets for Ukraine.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armoured_fighting_vehicles_of_Ukraine

This is a list of armoured fighting vehicles originating in Ukraine, including the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

 

https://www.dw.com/en/what-type-of-armored-vehicles-are-being-sent-to-ukraine/a-64305881

After months of wavering, Germany and the United States want to supply Ukraine with armored infantry fighting vehicles. France made a start with the promise of armored reconnaissance vehicles.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_War

The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria. The majority of combat between the two sides took place in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights—both of which were occupied by Israel in 1967—with some fighting in African Egypt and northern Israel.

 

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/24/1150943435/president-zelenskyy-shakes-up-ukraines-cabinet-amid-corruption-allegations

President Zelenskyy shakes up Ukraine's Cabinet amid corruption allegations.

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/18/white-house-ukraine-military-lethal-weapons-495169

White House freezes Ukraine military package that includes lethal weapons Officials prepped $100 million worth of arms as Russia massed troops on the border, then put it on pause as the Biden-Putin summit approached.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/13/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-war/index.html

For the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the US is providing Kyiv with the types of high-power capabilities some Biden administration officials viewed as too much of an escalation risk a few short weeks ago. This package stands out from previous security assistance in part because this tranche includes more sophisticated and heavier-duty weaponry than previous shipments. A US official tells CNN that’s by design, arguing that because Russia, which was unable to capture Kyiv, has shifted its strategy to concentrate forces in eastern Ukraine, the US is shifting its own strategy in what it gives Ukraine.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/24/pentagon-send-ukraine-battle-tanks-help-its-war-russia/11112797002/

The Biden administration plans to send more than 30 of its frontline battle tanks to Ukraine, a move intended to unlock Germany’s reluctance to supply its own main battle tank to bolster Ukrainian forces battling Russia, according to a U.S. official.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_of_the_Ukrainian_Army

Tanks of the Ukrainian Army have been used within the military, with their usage and origin after the Cold War; and the modern era. This includes tanks manufactured in Ukraine, leftover Soviet tanks in the Ukrainian Ground Forces today as well as designs imported from other countries and tanks captured in the Russo-Ukrainian War.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62002218

Ukraine weapons: What tanks and other equipment are the world giving? Ukraine has asked Nato countries to send fighter jets such as the US-made F-16 Fighting Falcon. No country has yet agreed. One reason is that it takes a long time to train pilots to fly fighter jets, and they need a lot of maintenance. Nato countries are also worried that if Ukraine used their fighter jets to attack targets inside Russia, it might draw them further into the war.

 

https://www.globalresearch.ca/arms-transfers-ukraine/5792578

Arms Transfers to Ukraine. Detailed Overview of Deliveries, Timeline

 

https://www.defense.gov/Spotlights/Support-for-Ukraine/Timeline/

In total, the United States has committed more than $30.4 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden Administration. Since 2014, the United States has committed more than $32.4 billion and more than $29.8 billion since the beginning of Russia’s unprovoked and brutal invasion on Feb. 24, 2022.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-wins-if-russia-conquers-ukraine-putin-xi-meeting-moscow-territorial-dispute-weapons-asia-a83d22c4

Mr. Biden says the U.S. stands with Ukraine, but he has consistently let Russia seize the initiative. He encouraged the invasion by surrendering in Afghanistan and by saying a “minor incursion” into Ukraine would be OK. He has failed to send Kyiv the support it needs, when it needs it. He has even given Ukraine money without accountability when he should have sent weapons and military equipment. Ukrainians clearly have the will to win. But Mr. Biden has given Ukraine only enough to slow the Russian advance, not to repel it ... Mr. Biden’s hemming and hawing is consistent with his history on national security.

 

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