New US Arms Package for Ukraine Uses Money Made Available by Pentagon ‘Accounting Error’

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1. As usual.

2. US leadership believes, those investments are good because it makes Russia weaker. The reality is: this war makes Russia stronger. Russian military industry never developed so fast as in the last 18 months. What is remarkable, Russian civil industry is also developing fast.

   1. The Russian military is falling apart. (Your Putin talking points are showing.)

      1. Hilter thought the same thing how wrong he was , he made the classic Chess mistake , under estimating his opponent , any General will tell you by doing that it will be FATAL .

         1. And yet, the Russians are still losing ground.

            1. Am I mistaken the Ukrainians evacuated the railroad town that shelled Donetsk? I think it’s Chkelovs’ke.

            2. There’s been a back-and-forth in the Northeast. It looks like the Ukrainians are targeting the Southern axis (Melitopol, probably).

               Tokmak next; then on South. (Unless that bridgehead over the Donipro is expanded.) It appears the Strykers, Marders, and Challengers have been sent to that sector. (Even reports of destroyed Stryker today.)

            3. Time will reveal more.

   2. I believe they saw the writing on the wall 30 years ago, and have been preparing for the inevitable.

   3. Precisely , the same thing happened in WW2 when Hitler invaded Russia it was virtually defenceless with America / Britain supplying weapon , in the mean time Stalin had all heavy manufacturing dismantled and transported East to safety it wasn`t long before production was at full steam producing tanks by the thousand planes ect ect ect , so it was a classic what nearly kills you makes you stronger .

3. The Pentagon said this “error” freed up an additional $6.2 billion for spending on military aid to Ukraine.

   Pentagon Practicing what it does the best… Making Errors…!

   1. Nope. Cooking the books and money laundering with no oversight.

      I finally figured out that $50k toilets aren’t a mistake, but an act of cya. They’d rather you think they are dumb than deeply corrupt.

      1. The Biden’s know their way around that laundry.
         Joe is a evil one to make a son with the issues his son has, to be lead salesman for the Joe Biden influence sales operation.
         A good Father would have gotten him help instead of using him to sell Biden branded influence to whoever/wherever Obama had Joe running.

         1. Yeah. That’s how it works! Tool!

         2. Yeah. After reading the latest on texts and emails it has the appearance that Joe set up Hunter with lucrative jobs so he could pay Joe’s expenses. No wonder Hunter became drug addicted. If true, that’s a pretty phucked up position to put a son in. And now leaving him hanging out to dry while Dems argue to go after Hunter, Joe’s not at fault.

            But the MIC has probably been at it (laundering) longer than we’ve been alive.

            1. I would say the CIA are masters of money laundering from supporting the drug cartels to the poppy fields of Afghanistan , i read a story about how the CIA was delivering USD by the pallet load to Afghanistan for war lords ect .

            2. I consider the CIA part of the MIC.

   2. The Pentagon is totally CORRUPT that`s why JFK was going to close in down but they killed him first .

4. 200 mil is pocket change. They just needed something else to talk about, how the US is “helping” Ukraine once again. Into deeper suffering and early shallow graves.

   1. Meanwhile:

      https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8/15/russias-central-bank-hikes-rates-to-12-percent-to-halt-roubles-slide

      1. And my interest rate on my home equity line of credit just hit 8.75%. My car insurance went up 30%. My property taxes went up 25%. My grocery bill doubled. My government’s military isn’t suffering.

         1. But, but, but…. Ukraine.

         2. And none of what you said went up has anything to do with your taxes, car insurance, grocery bill, etc. (That’s corporate greed.)

            1. Wasn’t my point. You posted an article about how poorly the Ruble is doing as a reply to a comment about Ukrainians being sent to early graves. I was just pointing out how the hardships of citizens isn’t going to slow the military. Russia’s priorities will be no different than ours. So, I didn’t think your link was really relevant.

            2. No. I responded with an article to the implication that Russia can’t pay its troops. I offered a possible explanation.

            3. Were people supposed to read your mind? There was no implication that Russia can’t pay their troops to be found. Not in the article you posted. And not in the comment you replied to.

            4. I’m gonna have to assume the original comment was removed.

            5. “200 mil is pocket change. They just needed something else to talk about, how the US is “helping” Ukraine once again. Into deeper suffering and early shallow graves.”

               That’s the comment you replied to. So, no.

            6. No. It’s not.

            7. Sure it is. And his comment wasn’t edited.

               nhmakingwaves
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               200 mil is pocket change. They just needed something else to talk about, how the US is “helping” Ukraine once again. Into deeper suffering and early shallow graves.

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               Meanwhile:

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            8. Stalin didn`t pay his troops either didn`t stop them beating the shit out of Germany and winning WW2

   2. Paper money is on it`s way out we are heading for a digital currency like China , check this news site out , the light the uncensored truth lightpaper.co.uk , it tells you how they plan to take total control of every one money and turn us all into slaves , it will make China look positively Democratic

5. Just another day in the Empire Of Lies …

   1. “Empire Of Lies” good one i am going to steal that one

6. Hey, it worked before. A near trillion-dollar defense budget barely gets a whisper, why not run with the “accounting errors” as long as you can?

   1. Wish I had “accounting errors” to pay my debts.

   2. It’s what crooks do, so no surprise.

7. Dianne Feinstein, you may remember her from cave drawings, just turned over power of attorney to her daughter, but she can still abuse her power in the senate by voting for this corruption.

   Its a Kakistocracy. a state or society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens.

8. a mere $6.2 billion ? = pshaw

9. Zelensky recently met with the notorious first Commander of the Azov Battalion, Andriy Biletsky.

   During the Euromaidan events, members of the Biletsky’s Patriot of Ukraine were among the founders of Right Sector, an openly neo Nazi paramilitary organisation.

   1. Votes matter.
      This is the Democrats’ war.

      1. I’m not apologizing for Biden, I loathe the man. But war is the son of both parties. People like Nuland or Bolton continue in government no matter who is elected and you can’t vote them out. McCain and Graham were deeply invested from the get in warring with Russia and egging on neo nazis.

         1. no man, if you look real closely you will discover that the republicans sh*t don’t stink

            1. Particularly George W. Bush’s. Whiling away at his ranch, painting, enjoying the fruit is life. Never mind the hundreds of thousands of Afghans who died over the period of 20 years. Never mind his withdrawing the U.S. from the ABM treaty with Russia. Just a nice, former President, painting away at his ranch.

            2. Jeez, saying Bush without saying “IRAQ” just can’t be allowed. At least the bullshit invasion of Afghanistan was based on lies the public still believes.

            3. Ones default position should be that the government is lying.

         2. This war began with the ideas of generals, like Patton, who, after the war ended, wanted to attack the Soviet Union. While it was “weak”. Sound familiar?

            1. Not quite true at the end of WW2 Churchill also wanted to make war on Russia altho Russia had just won WW2 however it was pointed out that Stalin had 10 Divisions of battle hardened troops in the East waiting to go he had a rethink , Patton was sent States side for the same reason , Stalin at that time could have if he so wished taken all of Europe there wasn`t anyone to stop him , however when asked if he had ever thought of taking Europe he said he had never thought about it , his main objective was to make sure Russia was never invaded again .

            2. How come whenever it’s something bad, “that wasn’t Russia, it was the Soviet Union, not the same thing,” but when it’s something good from the same period, oh, that was Russia?

   2. Neo-NAZIs are training right here, in Maine. To join with their brothers in Kiev. https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/american-neo-nazi-training-forces-in-maine-to-fight-for-ukraine/ But of course, it is OK because they will be fighting for truth, justice, the American way, against those “commies”.

   3. Like, Share, Recruit: How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members
      https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/

      Ukrainian police had long treated his organization, Patriot of Ukraine, as a neo-Nazi terrorist group. Biletsky’s nickname within the group was Bely Vozhd, or White Ruler, and his manifesto seemed to pluck its narrative straight from Nazi ideology. Ukrainian nationalists, it said, must “lead the white nations of the world in a final crusade for their survival, a crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen,” a German term for “subhumans” with roots in Nazi propaganda.

      Funny how mainstream western media once actually reported facts.

      1. Not exactly. Entire propaganda machine works in sync for the same imperial goals. Before Kremlin launched the clean up op in Ukraine, the imperial propaganda heavily promoted nazi ideology. A negative promotion is still a promotion.
         No such thing as reporting facts within Anglo-American propaganda. It’s all lies and spins of lies. You’d have to dig pretty deep into history to find when so-called ‘msm’ reported facts. Certainly before the Operation Mockingbird.

10. We are all paying for this war in Ukraine. It has manifested itself in the form of higher gas, food, and utility prices across the board. The tax revenues generated by these higher prices will go to fund Kiev’s skimming off the top and efforts to thwart Russia. The sustainability of those higher prices however, will reach a tipping point where political change will take effect in the nations of the WEST. Just like we see the economic tumble in Russia. So too will be the eventual plight of the WEST.

    1. Latest report is the Russian economy is growing , oil / gas exports are booming , not to mention Russia was buying up gold by the ton for at least a decade or more .

       1. The Russian economy did finally start growing in the second quarter, after contracting for a year. According to Rosstat, anyway.

          On the other hand, the central bank jacked up rates to 12% yesterday after the ruble finally collapsed to below 100 to the US dollar, its lowest point since before the invasion of Ukraine, and the regime is publicly mulling forcing exporters to sell their foreign currency to the central bank in exchange for those janky-ass rubles.

          So it seems like a mixed bag at best.

          1. At well under 20% debt. to GDP of the Russian government, the 12% interest rate impacts the Russian economy less than the US debt to GDP which stands at 133%. That means the impairment on the Russian economy via government debt is 2.4%. The impairment on the US economy via government debt is just short of 4%.

             Russia is doing better. Btw, the Russian economic growth underestimates the Russian economy which is based on real production, not virtual things like financial services. The US economy is over estimated by double digits. If the virtual US economy fails, the US economy collapses.

             The US relies on imports of nearing $1 trillion/year in deficit. Russia has a $250 billion surplus in trade.

             So, not so much of a “mixed bag” at all.

    2. None of that will occur. The only thing that will happen is the Russian manace will be eliminated.

       Slava Ukraini!

       1. Slava Ukraini! At what cost Sir? How many more young men in Ukraine will need to die for the profit of the WEST and their proxies in Kiev? In America as is in Ukraine the proletariat is duped into ideology, patriotism, nationalism by competing political groups. Country men are then split into competing factions who war against each other for the benefit and enrichment of those politicians in power. You need to understand how the game is played.

          1. Ukraine wil decide how many men and women.

             1. You mean the politico’s who are skimming off the top to enrich themselves will decide. Along with their enablers like you. Eh? While young men and women in Ukraine die. Along with Russian young men and women on the other side. BRAVO I bet you are really proud.

             2. I didn’t start the war, Putin did.

             3. Putin was cornered by the CIA and MI6 in Ukraine and had no choice. They out played Putin the so called master spy. Who considers himself a master geopolitical chess player. Putin is now the bad guy in this political chess game. Although in reality it’s not a game is it? People on both sides of this mistake are dying because of the lack of vision from the leadership in both countries. The people on the street are suffering.

             4. Just because you spew out tankie talking-points, it doesn’t make you correct.

             5. Get over yourself pal. Go read web site like Strategic Culture and get an education.

             6. Wow. You really schooled me just then! You know you’re half-a** reading garbage propaganda and you think you’re informed. You don’t know s**t.

             7. As opposed to reading garbage propaganda promulgated by you? I read both sides and then make my own assessments. Kiev wants to go West. Donbas wants to go East. Crimea always was part of Russia to begin with. The only reason Russia in the beginning did not object to Crimea staying within Ukraine’s national borders was because Russia had assurances Ukraine would not join NATO and stay neutral. However, that didn’t happen did it? The Neo-Nazi puppet regime in Kiev set up by the CIA and MI6 moved West and forced Putin to act. Now the innocent caught in the middle are dying for that stupidity.

11. Joe can keep drinking from that cesspool with a flavor straw, but in the end you are what you drink.

    1. I personally think he does not give a shit

12. Funny but if I make these kind of “accounting errors” in my favor for my taxes…. I would end up in prison. The apparatchiks that make these “mistakes” that are exponentially larger… they get promoted.

13. They lie about everything in this war including the accounting.
    Thank you “progressives” for voting for Biden.
    Just like crime in Democrat run localities, this is the Progressives fault for who they voted for.

    1. Vote for Trump, the man who withdrew the U.S. from two treaties with Russia, the man who sent weapons to Ukraine, the man who withdrew the U.S. from the JCPOA with Iran, the man, the sociopath, who, I believe has so divided and poisoned the minds of Americans that it will take decades to recover from, if ever? You forget about the “accounting errors” in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, other “places”, during the Republican administrations. Both parties are into this war with Russia. Both. The first shot was George W. Bush withdrawing from the ABM Treaty with Russia, a continuation of the “free” world excluding Russia from membership. The MIC has to have boogeymen everywhere. Big ones, small ones. Russia, China, North Korea are big ones. African nations are small ones. All coals to the fires of the perveyors of war.

       1. You assume that Trump had control of US foreign policy. He didn’t. And that’s why I wouldn’t vote for him. He had 4 years and the establishment ran rings around him. He is unqualified for what needs to be done.

          1. I agree he said he was going to drain the swamp he thought there where only Alligators in the swamp he soon found out it was full of SHARKS which tore him to shreds .

       2. And you vote for Biden and support a endless war in Ukraine and the State Department in all those issues you shared about.
          One candidate is hated by the State Department and the military leadership and his name is not Biden.
          It is amazing how some support with their votes what they share they distrust.

14. I would imagine the majority of these weapons will be scrap before they can be used , if the arn`t they should be , American Citizens can end this war just as they did with the Vietnam war .

15. This is not monopoly money we are talking about. This is about the present and future financial health of the US and our citizens that our leaders in goverment are fucking with . I don’t remember consenting to such policy alternatives and neither did anyone else because the subject never came to a vote.

16. Ivermectin is now approved by the FDA for Covid19 treatment. What a bunch of criminals they are.

    They are now admitting that Ivermectin is a treatment for Covid19. At the time they could not have a treatment for Covid19 because then the Emergency Use Application could not be approved.

    They denied us medical treatment because of their corruption. How many died that could of received cheap effective treatment but were denied it?

    1. “Ivermectin is now approved by the FDA for Covid19 treatment.”

       The FDA still recommends against the use of ivermectin to treat COVID-19.

       But “FDA approval” is not required. The FDA approved ivermectin for human use in 1987. Doctors have been able to prescribe it since then for anything they think it might be useful for.

       1. The FDA has changed its position on Covid19 treatment. Previously in America Doctors were de-registered if they were caught prescribing Ivermectin for Covid19 and a massive censorship campaign had thousands banned for mentioning it. Free Speech be damned, the 1st Amendment be damned.

          If a treatment was available then there could not be EUA given, so they all lied.

          Here in New Zealand Ivermectin is still banned for Covid19 treatment. According to MedSafe, the government medical safety authority, 1 person is seriously harmed for every 3,500 vaccines given. One person for every 42 vaccines is harmed.

          Its a crime against humanity. Its abuse of power and corruption on a global scale. Nuremberg trials have already ruled on this and set the codes of practice.

          Its an experimental treatment and there was no informed consent, they lied to us all. Its mass murder.

          1. “The FDA has changed its position on Covid19 treatment.”

             No, it hasn’t.

             “Previously in America Doctors were de-registered if they were caught prescribing Ivermectin for Covid19 and a massive censorship campaign had thousands banned for mentioning it.”

             None of which had anything to do with the FDA. Physician licensing is controlled by state medical boards, not the FDA. Physician prescription-writing licensure is controlled by the DEA, not the FDA.

             “If a treatment was available then there could not be EUA given”

             An EUA given for what? EUAs can be given for “vaccines” even if there are “treatments” available for the disease being vaccinated against.

             1. I stand by my comments above, ill informed people say all sorts of things which are just not true.

             2. “ill informed people say all sorts of things which are just not true”

                As you keep proving.

    2. They were corrupt fools and charlatans. The question is what do we do when the next virus or epidemic comes down the pike?

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