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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

As the Republican Party’s blockade of aid to Ukraine drags into its fourth month, the U.S. government under Pres. Joe Biden has found a clever new way to give Ukraine’s forces the weapons and ammunition they need to defend their country.

It is, in essence, an American version of Germany’s circular weapons trade—the so-called Ringtausch. The United States is gifting older surplus weapons to Greece with the understanding that Greece donates to Ukraine some of its own surplus weapons.

Greek media broke the news last week. According to the newspaper Kathimerini and other media, the Biden administration offered the Greek government three 87-foot Protector-class patrol boats, two Lockheed Martin C-130H airlifters, 10 Allison T56 turboprop engines for Lockheed P-3 patrol planes plus 60 M-2 Bradley fighting vehicles and a consignment of transport trucks.

All this hardware is U.S. military surplus—and is available to Greece, free of charge, under a U.S. legal authority called “excess defense articles.” Federal law allows an American president to declare military systems surplus to need, assign them a value—potentially zero dollars—and give them away on the condition that the recipient transport them.

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[-] friendlysoviet@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

They get a pass on colonialism and genocide, but you draw the line at breaking embargos?

[-] _dev_null@lemmy.zxcvn.xyz 2 points 9 months ago

I think the whole Turkey having started buying Russian armaments predates the current embargo. Like, I can recall them buying some Russian anti-air defense shit designed to down NATO aircraft about 5 years ago or so.

So it's been more so about Erdoğan trying to assert some weird ass attempt at displayingf dominance. That fucker's been the president for a decade straight now, looking awfully lot like a despot at this point. And they're a NATO member right there, mmhm. Yup.

[-] friendlysoviet@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

You ignoring the Armenian genocide or the invasion of Cypress is really weird.

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

That fucker’s been the ~~-president-~~ Dictator for a decade straight now

FTFY

[-] doctorcrimson@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

If I spoke for all Americans then the answer would be different.

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