Less than $20 billion is for Ukraine. The rest is for manufacturing and R&D here in the USA after seeing how Obama wrecked the defense manufacturing sector.

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Posted by WeeWee

Member since Aug 2012

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Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:12 am to CitizenK

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US purchased 81 Soviet-era combat aircraft from Russian ally Kazakhstan, Kyiv Post reports. Kazakhstan, which is renewing its aircraft fleet, auctioned off 117 Soviet-era fighters and bombers, including MiG-31 interceptors, MiG-27 fighter-bombers, MiG-29 fighters and Su-24 bombers from the 1970s and 1980s. The declared sale value was one billion Kazakhstani tenge, said the Post, or $2.26 million, equalling an average value for each plane of $19,300. The US purchased 81 of the aged, unusable warplanes, said the Ukrainian Telegram channel Insider UA, per the Post.

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Damn < 20,000 USD for a plane. Looks like the planes are not in flying condition, but the spare parts will be important for Ukraine’s planes. I wonder how Putin feels about his decision to bail out Kazakstan? First Kazakstan doesn’t send troops to help Russia when it asked, it’s not helping Russia avoid sanctions, and now it’s selling military equipment to the USA which is obviously going to end up with Ukraine.

ETA: Kazakstan is now denying the report so take with a grain of potassium. Be sure to use Kazakstan potassium because all others have inferior potassium.

This post was edited on 4/29/24 at 1:17 pm

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Posted by AU86

Member since Aug 2009

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Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:15 am to CitizenK

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after seeing how Obama wrecked the defense manufacturing sector.

I agree with you regarding Obama, but what happened to all of the money Trump spent on the military? That was a huge sum. Trump use to brag about it all of the time.

And the aid package is still totally deficit spending.

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Posted by Lima Whiskey

Member since Apr 2013

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Posted on 4/29/24 at 8:53 am to CitizenK