US Preparing $400 Million Weapons Aid Package for Ukraine – Reports
WASHINGTON (Sputnik/Prime) – The United States is preparing a $400 million aid package of weapons for Ukraine after a nearly three-month-long pause since the announcement of the latest military aid package for Kiev, Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing US officials.
The last time the United States announced a new package of military assistance to Kiev was at the end of December 2023. The $250 million package completely depleted funds for military support for Ukraine approved by Congress a year earlier.
Meanwhile, US lawmakers to date have not passed a $118 billion national security supplemental package that includes $60 billion for Ukraine, $14 billion for Israel and border policy reforms.
Western countries have provided hundreds of billions of dollars worth of aid to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s special military operationin February 2022. Aid shipments began in 2022 with artillery munitions and training and have escalated to include tanks, advanced air-defense systems, missiles and cluster munitions.
The Kremlin has consistently warned against the West’s continued arms deliveries to Ukraine, saying that they only prolong the conflict, adding that Western military equipment will be eventually destroyed. Moscow also cautioned that NATO countries “are playing with fire” by providing Kiev with arms.
Key Biden’s 2025 Budget Proposals:
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) March 11, 2024
? $850 billion for pentagon in FY2025, a $34 billion increase from the 2023 enacted level.
? $7.8 billion for the Artemis programme in FY2025.
? $100 million for military assistance for Taiwan.
? Over $4 billion for Indo-Pacific… pic.twitter.com/Zpx8yKKyDC
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov emphasized that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. According to him, the US and NATO are directly involved in the Ukraine conflict by supplying weapons and training soldiers in the UK, Germany, Italy and other countries.
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Globalists Target Haiti For Destruction After $20 Billion in Gold Discovered
During his Wednesday show, Alex Jones took calls from X’s Spaces. One caller reported that in 2012 there was a discovery of gold in Haiti, a desirable asset for those who can establish control in the crumbling third world nation.
“In 2012 there was a discovery of gold in Haiti to the tune of $20 billion, that’s worth about $30 billion of gold in today’s terms,” X user Rad said.
Rad went on to say whomever controls Haiti will reap the spoils of the precious metal.
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Young French Voters Are Flocking to The Right Ahead of EU Elections
An increasing number of young French voters are preparing to vote for right-wing parties in the upcoming European Parliament elections in June, the latest polling has revealed.
According to an Ipsos survey published on Tuesday, 31 percent of 18 to 24-year-olds in France are lending their vote to Jordan Bardella’s National Rally (RN) — the anti-immigration party still heavily influenced by nationalist firebrand and former presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.
A further 3 percent of young people in France are backing Éric Zemmour’s hard-right Reconquête, for whom Marion Maréchal, the niece of Le Pen, is the party’s lead candidate.
National Rally’s popularity among young voters has risen considerably since the previous polling from December, with the party up 9 percentage points, while Reconquête has fallen from 8 percent to 3 percent.
France, Ipsos poll:
European Parliament election
Among 18-24 year-old voters
RN-ID: 31% (+9)
EELV-G/EFA: 18% (+2)
LFI-LEFT: 17%
PS/PP-S&D: 9%
LR-EPP: 6% (+2)
PCF-LEFT: 6% (+1)
Bd’E-RE: 4% (-6)
REC-ECR: 3% (-5)
PA-LEFT: 1% (n.a.)
LO-*: 1% (-3)
PRG~S&D: 1%
AR-*: 1% (+1)… pic.twitter.com/pX6w2s9B3P— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) March 12, 2024
Bardella’s RN currently sits with the Identity & Democracy (ID) parliamentary grouping, which is made up of conservative parties across Europe including Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Netherlands, Matteo Salvini’s Lega party in Italy, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), and Herbert Kickl’s Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ).
The key takeaway from the current polling is the disillusionment with establishment parties felt among French youth as young voters drift towards both the left and right of the political spectrum.
French President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party is expected to attain just 4 percent of the vote — a clear rejection of the governing centrists — while 41 percent continue to support the long-held tradition of young voters being left-wing by backing far-left parties such as the Greens, LFI, and the Communists.
Among the electorate as a whole, RN continues to enjoy mass support and remains the frontrunner as it successfully taps into wider concerns about mass immigration, economic woes, and the culture wars. At 31 percent among all French voters, Bardella’s party is 13 percentage points ahead of Macron’s coalition parties, which have fallen by 4 percentage points in the last three months.
On the RN’s candidate list for the June election is Fabrice Leggeri, the former director-general of the EU’s border agency Frontex, who recently blew the whistle on the European Commission’s commitment to mass immigration in an exclusive interview with Remix News.
“Migrants come out of love, and your job is to welcome them. Europe is an aging continent, and whether you like it or not, you have to welcome them,” Leggeri claimed he was told by European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson during his tenure at Frontex
“I chose Marine Le Pen’s National Rally to enter politics because I want to be in opposition to Ursula von der Leyen’s Commission, which was installed by President Macron. I am resolutely in the opposition to von der Leyen and Macron,” he told this site.
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German Army Short of ‘Everything,’ Partly Due to Supplies to Kiev – Official
BERLIN (Sputnik) – The German armed forces lack equipment, personnel and “everything” in general, with stocks depleted by military deliveries to Ukraine, the parliamentary commissioner for the Bundeswehr, Eva Hoegl, said Tuesday.
“Unfortunately, I have to admit that the Bundeswehr still has too little of everything. There is a shortage of ammunition, spare parts and radio equipment. There are not enough tanks, ships and aircraft,” Hoegl said presenting the annual report on the state of the German military.
The commissioner praised Berlin for doing an “outstanding” job in supporting Ukraine in the conflict. However, supplying military aid to Kiev means that the German armed forces now have even less of everything, even more so two years into the conflict, she added.
Germany continues to procure equipment to modernize the Bundeswehr under a special military fund worth 100 billion euros ($109 billion), Hoegl said, adding that two-thirds of it are already earmarked for specific purchases.
“As for personnel, I have no good news or messages here because the Bundeswehr is aging and shrinking,” Hoegl said, adding that the number of applications and recruits last year was the same as in 2022, while 20,000 posts remain vacant.
A total of 181,514 people were serving in the Bundeswehr as of the end of last year, with the average age of a German soldier being 38.8 years.
The 100 billion euro fund was announced by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to improve the country’s defense capabilities shortly after the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine in February 2022. The fund was approved by the German parliament in June of that year.
Only half of Germany’s 600 Taurus cruise missiles are ready for use, Welt writes.
The government of the country decided to modernize them and bring them to combat readiness, the magazine reports.
The information appeared amid the criticism regarding the supply problems of… pic.twitter.com/0u0MhZIs3m— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) March 12, 2024
In January 2023, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told the Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper that the special defense fund would not be enough for Germany to modernize its troops and cover maintenance costs for military equipment. Pistorius then called for an increase of 10 billion euros per year in the German defense budget.
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Haiti Now Under The Rule Of Ruthless Cannibal Gang
The violence in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince was ramped up once again over the weekend. Heavily armed gangs attacked the National Palace and set part of the Interior Ministry on fire with petrol bombs. The […]
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Visualizing All of The US Currency in Circulation
Every year, the U.S. Federal Reserve submits a print order for U.S. currency to the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP). The BEP will then print billions of notes in various denominations, from $1 bills to $100 bills.
In this graphic, Visual Capitalist’s Marcus Lu used the latest Federal Reserve data to visualize the approximate number of bills for each denomination globally, as of Dec. 31, 2022.
Breakdown of U.S. Currency in Circulation
The following table lists all of the data we used to create the visualization above. Note that value figures were rounded for simplicity.
*$500-10,000 bills are listed as a range, and a total circulation of 0.0004 billion. Not included in graphic.
From these numbers, we can see that $100 bills are the most common bill in circulation, even ahead of $1 bills.
One reason for this is $100 bills have a longer lifespan than smaller denominations, due to people using $100 bills less often for transactions. Some businesses may also decline $100 bills as payment.
Based on 2018 estimates from the Federal Reserve, a $100 bill has a lifespan of over 20 years, which is significantly higher than $1 bills (7 years) and $5 bills (5 years).
If you’re interested in more visualizations on the U.S. dollar, consider this animated chart which shows how the dollar overtook the British pound as the world’s most prominent reserve currency.
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