A soldier walks past a line of M1 Abrams tanks at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo. / PHOTO: AP ( Headline USA ) The Pentagon is speeding up its delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine , opting to send a refurbished older model that can be ready faster, with the aim of getting the 70-ton battle powerhouses to the war zone in eight to 10 months, U.S. officials told the Associated Press.
As of late February, the Biden administration was estimated by the BBC to have spent some $112 billion in U.S. tax dollars on Ukraine, about a quarter of which has gone to weaponry and equipment.
However, that only accounts for the active territorial dispute since Russia invaded the former Soviet satellite in February 2022.
The conflict between the two countries had been simmering since a U.S.-backed Ukrainian coup in 2014, under the Obama administration, and America had been providing […]
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