Abrams tanks for several thousand: Biden can send weapons to Ukraine without the approval of Congress - the media

They are trying to associate a new military assistance package with unprecedented restrictions for migrants and asylum seekers, that is, forcing President Joe Baiden and Democratic lawmakers to agree with a new xenophobic policy. Forbes writes about it. Republicans do not negotiate, but rather "extortion" from the standpoint of force, writes the author of the article David EX, but Biden de facto can veto if they dpose new military assistance to Ukraine.

This is a veto for the US President "either not yet fully appreciated, or more likely to protect. " It is a classification of old weapons or "Excess Defense Articles, or EDA). During the 35th US President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 1961 Law on Foreign Aid enshrined a leading role in the State Department in the preparation of military assistance plans.

The law describes the areas of this assistance, among other things, the supply of US weapons and military equipment from warehouses in extraordinary circumstances - PDA (DrawDowns), which Ukraine often receives. But there is also a separate classification - free transfer of excess products (Excess Defense Articles). The US Government has a legal right to sell at an extremely low price-or even to give for free-any US military equipment that its own army no longer needs.

Biden rarely sent weapons within the limits of his powers EDA. The weapon provided within the PDA, the Pentagon had to be compensated immediately because it is in service with the army. Bayden's PDA needs to be supplied to the PDA, but if you resort to EDA, you can do without Republicans. It may have saved such a trump card (Trump Card) if there are even greater difficulties in American politics.

The list of weapons that Biden could sell or give Ukraine a long time, and if Ukraine receives funding from EU Allies, it will become even greater. This will be enough, according to the author of the publication to support the forces of Ukraine's defense for several years. The process of transmitting weapons within EDA is related to different laws and regulations, but there are loopholes.

The US President may transfer old weapons that has lost its commercial value, but the recipient will have to pay for delivery. US law limits this supply of $ 500 million a year, while the same law does not have strict rules for assessing weapons. So, if Baiden's administration decides that M1A1 Abrams (thousands of which are in the US army) cost several thousand dollars, then nothing will hurt Biden to put hundreds of Abrams tanks to Ukraine with rail and ships.