{"id":18652,"date":"2025-05-01T14:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=18652"},"modified":"2025-05-01T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:55:08","slug":"another-50-million-for-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=18652","title":{"rendered":"<h1><i>Another $50 MILLION for Ukraine?!?!?!<\/i><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18657\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Shot-2025-05-01-at-1.22.07-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Shot-2025-05-01-at-1.22.07-PM.png 603w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Screen-Shot-2025-05-01-at-1.22.07-PM-238x300.png 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The US State Department has sent notice to Congress that they have CERTIFIED a proposed license under the Arms Export Control Act for another $50 Million worth of &#8220;Defense Articles&#8221; for . . . Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Record today shows the following notice:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/senate-communication\/119th-congress\/executive-communication\/859\">EC-859<\/a>. A communication from the Senior Bureau Official, Legislative Affairs, Department of State, transmitting, pursuant to section 36(c) of the Arms Export Control Act, the certification of a proposed license for the export of defense articles, including technical data, and defense services to Ukraine in the amount of $50,000,000 or more (Transmittal No. DDTC 25-027) received in the Office of the President pro tempore; to the Committee on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n<p>What happened to &#8220;no more aid to Ukraine?&#8221;\u00a0 What happened to negotiating a ceasefire or a peace deal?\u00a0 What happened to all the ongoing meetings between the US and Russia?<\/p>\n<p>The notice describes $50 million &#8212; OR MORE &#8212; in &#8220;defense articles&#8221; without saying what those defense articles actually are.\u00a0 What are they?<\/p>\n<p>Since they require a license under the Arms Export Control Act, it seems logical they are more weapons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why are we sending more weapons to Ukraine?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Is this just some song and dance from government; they\u00a0say\u00a0we&#8217;re working toward peace, they\u00a0say\u00a0we&#8217;re negotiating with the Russians, and now, (surprise!) we&#8217;re sending more weapons????<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s starting to look as though we&#8217;re being &#8220;slow walked in a circle&#8221; so that after all the talk for weeks and months is done,\u00a0<strong>we are right back where we started<\/strong>, still doing exactly, precisely, the same thing we were doing when this trouble all began.<\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/halturnerradioshow.com\/index.php\/news-selections\/world-news\/another-50-million-or-more-for-ukraine\">https:\/\/halturnerradioshow.com\/index.php\/news-selections\/world-news\/another-50-million-or-more-for-ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}