The Pentagon needs $10 billion to replace weapons in US military stockpiles that have already been sent to Ukraine, a Defense Department official has told POLITICO.
The $60 billion President Biden is seeking includes funding to replenish US military stockpiles. The Senate has approved the spending, which is part of a $95 billion foreign military aid bill, but it’s unclear if the House will bring it to the floor for a vote.
The official said that if the Pentagon doesn’t get the money, it would hurt the US military. “It would come back on our own readiness on our own stockpile to a certain extent if we can’t get new funding,” the official said.
US officials have said the Pentagon has been unable to give Ukraine any more military equipment this year. The Pentagon still has over $4.1 billion in presidential drawdown authority for Ukraine, which allows shipments directly from US stockpiles, but the authority hasn’t been used since there are no funds to replenish the weapons.
The last US arms package that the US provided Ukraine was announced on December 27. At the time, the Pentagon said it had pledged over $44 billion in military equipment for Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022. The US has spent at least $113 billion on the proxy war, which includes financial assistance and other types of aid for Ukraine.
Biden’s struggle to get more funding for the war and Ukraine’s failure on the battlefield demonstrates how time is on Russia’s side in the conflict. Ukrainian officials have also said that even if the West gives them all the weapons they need, they don’t have the troops to use them, as Ukraine is facing a significant manpower shortage.
Take it out of their budget
Either way, we still would be paying.
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“Biden’s struggle to get more funding for the war and Ukraine’s failure on the battlefield demonstrates how time is on Russia’s side in the conflict. Ukrainian officials have also said that even if the West gives them all the weapons they need, they don’t have the troops to use them.”
Hey, Decamp. Your source is a Time article written by a RUSSIAN in October. And he was lying his ass off. So are you.
DeCamp is a hack who constantly peddles Russian propaganda. Pay no attention.
The same propaganda that US and Ukrainian officials have been peddling. It’s not like it’s a secret that Ukraine is running low on troops. That happens when you’re fighting a war with a country that has a population of over 100 million more than you do. Still struggling with the idea that a war of attrition favors Russia I see.
How many Ukrainians have died? Find that out and I’ll agree with your assessment.
Who knows? But this was probably written by some other “hack” peddling Russian propaganda.
The World Economic Forum recently estimated that the cost of Ukrainian reconstruction will reach $1 trillion. Still more, “Approximately 20% of the country’s farmland has been wrecked and 30% of land either littered with landmines or unexploded ordnance.” Casualty estimates are known to be among the most closely held state secrets during wartime, but some, like former Ukraine prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko, have estimated Ukraine suffered a combined 500,000 dead and wounded in its war with Russia. Meanwhile, the population of Ukraine has plummeted from 45.5 million in 2013 to an estimated 37 million today.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/maidan-ukraine/
The problem is Yuriy Lutsenko can’t be trusted. He’s the guy Biden wanted prosecuted and that caused Trump and Rudy to lose their minds.
Yuriy isn’t the only one who has thrown those numbers out there. And with more cluster bombs coming, that 30% of land either littered with landmines or unexploded ordnance will only increase. Such a bright future, but fight on Ukraine you’re weakening Russia.
“Thrown those numbers out there” is the operative phrase. Makes it sound like he pulled them out of his a**.
It does if you’re in the state on denial. Odd that Zelensky threw that same number out there when talking about needed recruits.
OK. Still not proof though.
Simon Shuster was born in Moscow in 1989. After his family emigrated to the United States, he lived in San Francisco and studied at Stanford University.
He wrote an article titled “In Russia, Crime Without Punishment” about the downing of the Malaysian Boeing 777 near Donetsk, after which he was banned from entering Russian territory.
It’s worth noting that Simon Shuster received a state award from the President of Ukraine. In 2022,Volodymyr Zelenskyy honored the American journalist with the Order “For Merits”
Bless their little hearts, the Pentagon will need to have a can & bottle drive, and maybe a cake sale, in order to scrape together some much-needed cash..
Now, wait a minute…. The money allocated to Ukraine was to pay for weapons taken from the US military stocks, to pay for replenishing said stocks…. And now, somehow, someone has to pay a second time to have these weapons replaced??? Where are the initial funds?
US money going to US firms. (You may not agree with it — or like it — but it’s a US jobs program.)
In the Pentagon, which has never met its obligation to pass an audit, $10 BN is an accounting error. That number has about as much credibility as a scholar claiming he knows how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
Liars All.
Why? Biden has assured us that Ukraine is winning. I’m sure they’ll pay us back any day.
As far as the manpower shortages go, I’m sure there are plenty of Biden Democrats who want to volunteer to go there and fight for freedom and democracy.
We have troops there.
Of course we do, and likely have had since 2010. My comment was pure acid.
I look for nothing good out of our so-called political system. I have no faith left in the US government when it comes to undermining every nation which proposes to be an equal partner.
Ukraine is a black hole and Biden has led us into it. Perhaps when war reaches our shores, Americans will stop watching TV and take notice. Perhaps they’ll even be concerned, but I doubt it, especially if what they’re watching distracts them and makes them laugh.
Pentagon should not get a dime…! Ask MIC to cover it up…!
What is that $10 billion . . . 3 hammers and a torque wrench?
Nobody is better at using smoke and mirrors than we are. We call it “Creative Accounting.”
Biden had them say this so that there would be more pressure on the Congress to hurry up and pass the 60 billion for the rat hole in Ukraine.
Added to the guilt trip card. Ukrainians are dying because they won’t let the aid through. And this while knowing full well that when the aid does finally go through, even more Ukrainians will die. We just don’t tire of using those poor souls as fodder.