The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new $250 million arms package for Ukraine that includes HIMARS ammunition, AIM-9 missiles, artillery rounds, and various types of other military equipment.
The $250 million package is being paid for using funds made available by an “accounting error.” The Pentagon claimed that it overvalued arms it had been sending to Ukraine, freeing up an additional $6.2 billion to spend on fueling the proxy war against Russia. The first arms package using these funds was announced on August 14.
The arms package announced on Tuesday uses the Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA), which allows the US to arm Ukraine with weapons directly from Pentagon stockpiles.
According to the Pentagon, the package includes:
- AIM-9M missiles for air defense
- Additional ammunition for HIMARS
- 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds
- Mine clearing equipment
- Tube-Launched, Optically-Tracked, Wire-Guided (TOW) missiles
- Javelin and other anti-armor systems and rockets
- Hydra-70 Rockets
- Over 3 million rounds of small arms ammunition
- Armored medical treatment vehicles and High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) ambulances
- Demolitions munitions for obstacle clearing
- Spare parts, maintenance, and other field equipment
The Pentagon also released a fact sheet that said the US has pledged over $43 billion in military equipment to Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24, 2022.
Congress has authorized a total of $113 billion in spending on the war, which also includes economic aid, money for the Pentagon to replenish stockpiles of weapons that have been sent to Ukraine, and funding for US troops deployments in Eastern Europe. The White House recently asked Congress to authorize another $24 billion in spending on the proxy war.
Boy, I’d love to claim a $6.2B accounting error to the IRS…they’d be at my door with submachine in a heartbeat.
It’s like playing monopoly, when you run out of money to buy properties, play the role of the banker to buy more.
The Pentagon “overvalued” it’s arms. Too Funny. There is NOTHING the Pentagon buys that it didn’t “overvalue”; the Pentagon is the poster boy for “money laundering”. Brings to mind the saying “if I could buy it for what it’s worth, and sell it for what the Pentagon thinks it’s worth, I’d be rich”.
Cooking the books.
Anyone old enough to remember “the $435 for a hammer, $600 for a toilet seat, and $7,000 for an aircraft coffee maker?” …No? That’s funny. That all turned out to be “ACCOUNTING ERRORS” and have all been DISPROVEN as FALSE–NEVER HAPPENED! I can already sense the memories leaving my brain as we speak! If any memories remain, someone here is gonna straighten it out with a “$435 hammer” to the side of my head. (Sarcasm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packard_Commission
$900 toilet seat. Try and get it right.
LOL. I thought so but I was questioning my memory since the entire thing supposedly never happened–right? (Sarcasm)
Mine clearing equipment
That would be replacing the previous mine clearing equipment. They buried those bodies.
“They buried those bodies.” Those were the lucky ones. They don’t all get to enjoy the ornate and vibrant yellow and blue coffins. Most are left dismembered to rot in the open.
(Sarcasm)
Good point. I wasn’t graphic enough. That paints a truer picture.
No problem, brother. Too bad I couldn’t include the “smell of rotting corpses” along with the picture for a truer life experience. (Sarcasm)
If you or I make a mistake on our taxes we pay a fine or get jailed. if the Govt makes a mistake they just print more money and feed the arms manufacturers,
Well onething is for sure the Citizens of the USA must be rolling in money when their so called elected government can spend their taxes like this .
Federal Gov.,,the true enemy of a free USA citizen!
Only 250 million?