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Pentagon stopped Ukraine military aid shipments in February without Trump’s approval (www.theguardian.com)

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Roughly a week after Donald Trump started his second term as president, the US military issued an order to three freight airlines operating out of Dover air force base in Delaware and a US base in Qatar: stop 11 flights loaded with artillery shells and other weaponry that were bound for Ukraine.

In a matter of hours, frantic questions reached Washington from Ukrainians in Kyiv and from officials in Poland, where the shipments were coordinated. Who had ordered the US Transportation Command, known as TransCom, to halt the flights? Was it a permanent pause on all aid? Or just some?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Good. Congress literally had to remove a block in arming Nazis in order to send weapons to Ukraine.

We cannot continue arming extremists.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

It is naive to believe that Trump didn't command this himself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Trump’s approval is redundant when Putin’s wishes are already apparent.