The Biden administration has admitted that it massively undercounted what it has spent on the proxy war in Ukraine, The American Conservative reported on Tuesday.
The report said the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) had previously estimated the US has spent $111 billion on the war. For over a year, a group of members of Congress pressed the OMB to figure out the real number and recently found that it was $125 billion, $14 billion more than what the White House had previously claimed.
In a letter sent to the director of the OMB on Tuesday, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), and 15 other members of Congress said that they “now have confirmation from OMB that the total Ukraine spending figure is significantly higher than the administration has ever admitted.”
The lawmakers asked OMB Director Shalanda Young to answer a series of questions about US spending on the proxy and gave her a deadline of April 30.
The Biden administration also still has around $4 billion that could potentially be spent on Ukraine aid in the form of Presidential Drawdown Authority, which allows the US to send weapons straight from Pentagon stockpiles. The $4 billion comes from funds that became available after the Pentagon claimed an “accounting error” freed up additional spending for the proxy war.
The Pentagon hasn’t been using the $4 billion in remaining PDA funds because it says there’s no money to replace the weapons after they’re sent to Ukraine. But the US has been finding ways to continue arming Ukraine.
Last month, the administration announced a new $300 million arms package for Ukraine and claimed the money was found in US Army budget savings. On Tuesday, the State Department announced a $138 HAWK air defense deal for Ukraine using funds included in the annual military spending bill President Biden signed into law last month.
President Biden is seeking another $60 billion to fuel the proxy war even though Ukraine has no chance of beating the Russians on the battlefield. The new aid would bring total US spending on the conflict to $185 billion.
Kiev neo-Nazi regime is ideologically close to US political elite. Besides, much of the money which US government is shoveling into Ukrainian blackhole are terminating on the accounts of American corrupted politicians and their sponsors. It is only natural that some leading American politicians are considering the investment in Kiev regime as extremely profitable.
More BS coming from the Kremlin Neo Nazis.
“Ukraine has no chance of beating the Russians on the battlefield.”
Another bald-faced lie by DeCamp.
All they need is the weapons DeCamp doesn’t want them to have.
Whether Ukraine has any chance of beating the Russians on the battlefield isn’t something it’s possible to “lie” about, because it’s a matter of opinion.
My opinion is that opinions belong in opinion pieces rather than news pieces, but maybe that’s just me.
Friendly fire🤣🤣
They’re seriously short on soldiers to use those weapons, the average age of front line Ukrainian troops is 48 and their press gangs are getting desperate. Unlike Russia the AFU can’t even rotate their soldiers out for extended leave but just keep shoving them back up to the front, and they have to do the same with the wounded, just patch them up and send them back out.
Sad but true. Russia, though utterly inept and hollowed out by the oligarchs corruption, has industrial capacity. In the long run that is what always wins modern wars
Well, inept in the beginning of the war, but unlike NATO they’ve learned and adapted their tactics to the reality of the modern battlefield. NATO is still training AFU leaders in their outdated doctrine which failed so spectacularly in last year’s summer offensive.
Industrial capacity, population, and logistics, Russia checks all the boxes plus they have public support. Russia’s supply line is direct, and a few hundred miles long, Ukraine’s is 5,000 miles long and currently disrupted by diversion of US weapons to the slaughter in Israel (Biden diverted 40,000 155mm artillery shells that were en route to Ukraine almost immediately after the Al Aqsa Flood, and has kept the flow going). Russia is playing this as a war of attrition, Putin’s declared goals are to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine, de-fang NATO, and ensure Ukraine’s future neutrality. So far the neo-Nazi regiments have been decimated, NATO’s ammunition and weapons reserves are drained, and between emigration and casualties Ukraine will not be able to raise an army for a generation.
Obama’s and Trump’s sanctions had the unintended effect of prompting Russia to adapt their economy to be far more self sufficient than almost any other modern country. When Biden removed Russia’s access to the SWIFT exchange system (and stole the $330 billion they had in it) they expected it to be a killing blow to the Russian economy, bringing the country to its knees overnight, removing Putin from office, and possibly allowing them to impose a Yeltsin-clone in his place to resume looting the country. Instead employment is up, the economy is doing well, they’re running their highest ever trade surplus, and they exported more petroleum last year than ever before (and none of it for USD).
Straight from the Kremlin! Listen, you’ll find Putin-lovers here who will believe the bulls**t you regurgitate but that’s not everyone here.
If Russia is doing so well, than don’t worry about what happens next. Everything’s fine! Hahaha.
Uncle Joe will get the next package to the Ukes as soon as the GOP MAGA types in congress eat each other up! Also, NATO has been stepping up big time and France is ready to sand ground troops. Strap in, gang!
Personally I don’t think much is going to Ukraine until Israel’s ethnic cleansing project is finished. Almost immediately after the Al Aqsa Flood Biden diverted 40,000 155mm shells from Ukraine to Israel and by the beginning of December had already dumped 25,000 tons of weapons in Israel’s lap (no one seems to know what the total is now).
French troops aren’t even going back into Central Africa, much less Ukraine. Macron is just babbling, his population will never allow it. They remember the last time France attacked Russia, and it didn’t end well.
Yes. Your Napoleonic reference is so recent. It definitely holds more historical weight than anything that’s happened in the last 200 years!
You’ve chosen to ignore what Marcon has been saying. That’s convenient for you. If the Russians are as wise as you seem to think they are, then they’ll be cautious regarding the French military — or are you going to make a WWI/WWII surrender joke here?
Macron is a politician, he’ll say three contradictory things before breakfast, and deny two of them before lunch. More important, he’s an elected politician with a parliamentary government, if the French population says that their soldiers are not going then they’re not going no matter what rhetoric he spouts.
Badly wounded are welcome to the organ harvesting business which is flourishing in Ukraine at the moment. Ukraine is the world leader of black transplants. That is one of achievements of “Revolution of Dignity”.
Yeah, try getting some of that, it’ll make you a real man with big balls.
Wars of attrition aren’t comprehendible by the death to Ukrainians gang.
Since they guys who are sending them to die aren’t at any risk themselves they really don’t give a rip. Zelinskyy has his houses in Miami, London, Geneva and his villa in Tuscany, what does he care? When the gravy train ends they’ll just take their loot and run.
I was talking about the person who made the comment you replied to. He’s like others here who just can’t accept that without US/NATO direct intervention, the weapons being sent to Ukraine will matter little on the battlefield.
I’m sure you get your news from TASS cause that’s a load of garbage.
But please, keep on repeating that, it helps Ukraine when you think they are getting vaporize left and right.
I’d like to say the Ukrainian frontline is only held by 300 Spartans with sticks and stones against close to a million Russians that cannot even take one small village without taking thousands of casualties and that’s not far from the truth.
A Russian General wrote a letter to the Kremlin last year addressing the lies. Basically, all the false reporting from the frontlines going to the Kremlin and all the lies from Kremlin officials to the Russian people are keeping them from winning.
If you are not honest about what is really happening in the frontlines, you will not be able to solve the problem.
But but but, you may get a promotion and perhaps a toilet and a washer machine if you tell that everything is going according to plans.
So go ahead, keep on repeating BS and you may get your american specs toilet.
Well, according to the Pentagon last November the average age was 43, and in January it was 45. If you look at the demographics of the country it doesn’t form the normal pyramid with lots of young people and few old, it’s almost a diamond with the majority between 30-45 and very few under 20. The most generous estimates of the remaining Ukrainian population (those who haven’t emigrated since the rise of the oligarchs) is slightly more than 30 million (most are considerably lower), while Russia’s population is over 147 million. Russia has its intact industrial base (which included weapons, they are the second-largest weapons merchant on the planet after the US), they’re self sufficient in most natural resources and energy, and imports a minimum of foodstuffs. Ukraine has no industry left except assembly of drones, their infrastructure is in shambles, and they’re importing everything but (some) food.
So, Ukrainian “OGs” are defeating the Russian military? OK!
Russian population WAS 147 million. They’re 500,00 less now.
“Ukraine has no industry left except assembly of drones…”
Oh, and what drones they are! Blowing up a good portion of the Russian oil industry and eliminating a majority of the Russian Black Sea Fleet!
I can’t wait to see what happens next!
“Russian population WAS 147 million. They’re 500,00 less now.”
Even taking your numbers at face value, that’s still over 100 million more than Ukraine. And in reality, it’s at best the same number of losses for Ukraine. Plus their infrastructure being heavily damaged and their landscape being contaminated adds to the misery. There is no hope without direct US/Nato participation and that isn’t going to happen. But fight on Ukraine, you can still weaken Russia some more. Never mind the dead.
You again! you Russian toolbag! Provide your sources for your comments or go away.
“So go ahead, keep on repeating BS and you may get your american specs toilet.”
Donald knows toilets; the truck-stop variety is where he scoops up his opinions to smear on here.
Agree, Ukraine beats the Russians daily on the battlefield. They just lack the volume of manpower and equipment but Ukrainian soldiers have proven that pound per pound they are better warriors. They are better trained and equipped and employ better tactics. They are also more professionalized. When the war is over, they’ll be all over NATO and other ally countries providing training.
Just look at the load of trash and the filth the Russian soldiers live in. You can spot them miles away. Zero discipline.
The Black Sea Fleet doesn’t exist anymore and Russia cannot repel attacks within their borders.
It’s just sad to see what used to be called the second strongest army in the world reduced to just cannon fodders fighting in medieval style.
“For over a year, a group of members of Congress pressed the OMB to figure out the real number and [this group (aka, “the Putin caucus,”)] recently found that it was $125 billion, $14 billion more than what the White House had previously claimed.”
The group is led by none other than the Putin-loving J.D. Vance and Marjorie Traitor Greene. LOL. Don’t let them figure your taxes!
“The group is led by none other than the Putin-loving J.D. Vance and Marjorie Traitor Greene. LOL. Don’t let them figure your taxes!”
Doesn’t matter who the group was led by.
For over a year, a group of members of Congress pressed the OMB to figure out the real number and recently found that it was $125 billion, $14 billion more than what the White House had previously claimed.
It was the OMB that did the figuring.
This man is too good to be the president of USA.
HAHAHA. “Alpha Male” D-Bag! Anti-vax s**thead who’s only recognized due to his last name.
“On Tuesday, the State Department announced a $138 HAWK air defense deal for Ukraine using funds included in the annual military spending bill President Biden signed into law last month.”
$138’s a helluva deal; Amazon’s best price on a mint-in-box HAWK rig is $265 with an $11 import fee and $55 shipping on top of that.
The slush funds available to any president are far too high. They promote the President’s ability to wage war without the expressed approval of Congress. We have got to get these funds under control if we ever expect the clear intent of the Constitution to be enforced.
Everyone knows they’re going to get the $61 billion as well. And once the real total of how much time and effort the US government as a whole has spent on the war – outside of the direct Congressional assistance, i.e., from the Pentagon’s direct resources in spy drones, etc. – is known, if ever, it will probably be close to $250-300 billion.
Corruption and Mendacity in Ukraine and more so in the US! A $Billion here and a $Billion there and soon you’re talking serious money!
Joey Biden Has Under counted Ukraine Spending By $14 Billion. Of course, we all know that Biden can’t count and he certainly can’t think.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-41124-zelensky-in-shock-as
SITREP 4/11/24: Zelensky in Shock as Kiev’s Largest Power Plant Wrecked in Massive Strikes