The Biden administration has approved funding for the first-ever transfer of US military equipment to Taiwan under a program typically saved for sovereign nations, according to a notification sent to Congress on Tuesday.
The package – which is part of the State Department’s foreign military financing (FMF) program – totals $80 million and will be paid for by US taxpayers.
“FMF will be used to strengthen Taiwan’s self-defense capabilities through joint and combined defense capability and enhanced maritime domain awareness and maritime security capability,” the department wrote in its notification to Congress that was reviewed by CNN.
The money spent in Ukraine is money well spent. They have hugely damaged a major belligerent power, forever destroyed the myth of Russian strength, unified Europe and NATO and learned much about Russian military capabilities all while using last generation western hardware
It’s also not just cash, most of the money is from arms we had basically laying around. It’s not like we wrote them a check and handed it over.
Oh absolutely. I’m not saying it shouldn’t have been spent. I’m saying this is a drop in the bucket in comparison before anyone gets worked up about it.
Forever destroyed the myth of Russian strength? That’s funny. If that were going to happen, it’d have happened after the Winter War. Or maybe the Russo-Japanese War.
In a world where people don’t all learn the same things, a myth of military strength is very easy to build from nothing. Just takes some consistent propaganda over time.