Anonymous ID: b10365 March 6, 2022, 5:18 p.m. No.15800941   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

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Pondering. . . .

 

The Pentagon seeks a new way to arm the Ukrainians should a larger war with Russia break out. Certain allies โ€” namely Germany โ€” still need โ€œcoaxingโ€ when it comes to a sanctions response. The U.S. might provide Ukraine $1 billion in a sovereign loan guarantee. And as of this morning, the U.S. had 22 total personnel at the evacuated embassy in Kyiv.

 

Thatโ€™s what national security adviser JAKE SULLIVAN told House members in a private call today. The top aide to President JOE BIDEN spent the day updating lawmakers from the House and Senate about the Ukraine-Russia standoff and the Westโ€™s response to it.

 

His 9:15 am unclassified call with top House members, which featured Speaker of the House NANCY PELOSI and the Democratic chairs of national security committees, among others, was mostly a rehash of the administrationโ€™s public talking points โ€” except for four of his comments, per multiple people familiar with the call.

 

The first was that Sullivan said Secretary of Defense LLOYD AUSTIN is looking to provide Ukrainians with military aid via ground delivery โ€” not through air delivery โ€” to assist the resistance after a Russian invasion. Asked for more details by lawmakers, Sullivan answered heโ€™d be willing to discuss the matter in a classified setting instead of over an unsecure phone line.

 

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2022/02/14/inside-jake-sullivans-private-house-call-on-ukraine-00008672