Linda Griffin, a senior missile assembler at the Lockheed Martin weapons plant in Troy, Alabama, took the stage with President Joe Biden on Tuesday and celebrated her work on the Javelin weapon systems that are being supplied to Ukraine in the war against Russia.
Ukraine war is ballooning United States’ Military Industrial Complex as Washington has spent billions on weapons for Ukraine since Russian military operation in country.
I m jonathan lemire. president biden travels to alabama today, to tour one of the factories manufacturing weapons that are being provided to ukraine. the lockheed martin plant is producing high powered weapons including jat javelin antitank missiles. the u.s. and allies have provided billions of dollars of aid to ukraine to defend from the russian invasion. the united states is warning that russia may try to claim more ukrainian territory as its own in the coming days. in a briefing yesterday, the state department officials point to u.s. intelligence that reportedly shows that russia has plans to hold fraudulent referendums in the separatist-controlled cities of donetsk and kherson and citizens would express support for becoming part of russia, before moscow would install kremlin-backed leaders in elected positions. in late february, one day before
Despite facing the pandemic and keeping the peace at protests around the country in the summer of 2020, the Georgia National Guard still had several deployments to the Middle East, Georgia, Morocco, South Korea, Brazil and Argentina.