Over $1 Billion In Ukraine Military Aid
Was Poorly Tracked—Creating Concerns
Over ‘Risk Of Theft,’ Pentagon Says
Forbes,
by
Ty Roush
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
1/11/2024 12:20:31 PM
TOPLINE U.S. and European government officials have poorly tracked military aid for Ukraine worth more than $1 billion, creating concerns the weapons have been stolen, according to a Defense Department report released Thursday, amid contested efforts by American lawmakers to provide additional funding for Ukraine’s war against Russia. KEY FACTS
Just over $1 billion of the estimated $1.69 billion worth of weapons sent to Ukraine are considered “delinquent,” which was likely caused by “an inability to maintain complete accountability” of the inventory in government databases, according to a redacted report by the Defense Department’s inspector general Thursday.
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Really?? No sheet
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 1/11/2024 12:30:27 PM (No. 1634027)
What they are calling Risk of Theft, could rightly be called Outright Plunder! Get a grip.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
jalo1951 1/11/2024 12:32:12 PM (No. 1634029)
Duh, yeah think? How much has made its way into personal accounts abroad and HERE? How much has Biden banked and all the other politicians, Republican and Democrats? War allows money to be made on many different levels. Peace, not so much.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Quigley 1/11/2024 12:44:26 PM (No. 1634037)
Did they look at "Herr Doctor" Jill Bidet's check register?
Jack and jill went up the stairs
To fetch a bag of money
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And huncher did the crack.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Birddog 1/11/2024 1:00:58 PM (No. 1634046)
"Nearly 2/3 of $1.69Billion gifted/grifted to Ukraine goes missing"
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Noj15 1/11/2024 1:01:08 PM (No. 1634047)
How do you think the Kenyan bought his Martha's Vineyard house? You don't seriously think he worked for it do you?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
daisey 1/11/2024 1:07:41 PM (No. 1634053)
Biden family retirement fund.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Hazymac 1/11/2024 1:08:07 PM (No. 1634054)
Poorly tracked? How about not tracked at all? Most of it was stolen and sold, with some of the funds, I would bet, finding their way into the shell corporations of American politicians. Telling American pols not to touch that pile of cash is like telling a turkey buzzard not to eat carrion. It's what they live on.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Luandir 1/11/2024 1:29:50 PM (No. 1634061)
Ya think?!?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 1/11/2024 1:50:44 PM (No. 1634080)
And $50 billion in military "aid" to the Taliban was.....NOT TRACKED at all.
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"Risk of theft," huh. Does that included Madam Zelensky's shopping in Paris?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/11/2024 2:28:07 PM (No. 1634116)
I worried that many of those weapons will or have already found their way back into the USA with all the military aged 'migrants!'
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
rochow 1/11/2024 3:59:11 PM (No. 1634189)
NO!!!! Is that a fact? Who would have guessed? You might want to look under the bidet's mattress or some foreign accounts that he has and what has been added during the last 3 years.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/11/2024 4:23:51 PM (No. 1634214)
Multiply that by 20 or 30 and you may get closer to the real number. Ukrainian government officials padded their retirement accounts and even sent Mrs. Zelenskyy on a Parisian shopping spree. US weapons sent to Ukraine have turned up on black markets all the way to South America. No wonder they keep begging for more, they have a stupid rich uncle who will give it to them.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/11/2024 4:52:14 PM (No. 1634239)
Presume 10% went to the "big guy" though.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Geoman 1/11/2024 8:51:35 PM (No. 1634369)
I bet I know where ten percent off the top went.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 1/11/2024 10:47:09 PM (No. 1634393)
Leave it to Biden and his buddies. Round robin once again.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
judy 1/12/2024 12:04:57 AM (No. 1634405)
No worry….Biden will give them another billion!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mifla 1/12/2024 5:27:37 AM (No. 1634457)
Not to be confused with the rest of our government budget, which is also poorly tracked.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
broken01 1/12/2024 7:40:30 AM (No. 1634515)
"Surprised?"- Yoda to Emperor Palpatine aka Darth Sidious, Star Wars: Episode III- Revenge of the Site, 2005.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 1/12/2024 7:42:40 AM (No. 1634517)
Congress to Pentagon: "Until you find and recover that money, you will not be receiving any further funding."
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
janjan 1/12/2024 8:39:24 AM (No. 1634583)
Nothing we have sent to Ukraine has been tracked. No audit has ever been done. I don’t doubt that a lot of it is sitting in offshore accounts owned by Zelensky and his corrupt government. This so-called war is a joke. Russia is slowly taking Ukraine back. And no one in DC will ever be held accountable for the taxpayer dollars that were wasted over there. That’s how it works.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
edgar 1/12/2024 8:48:18 AM (No. 1634596)
It's the design of the aid package. DC grift with Ukraine grift. I'm shocked I tell you. Shocked.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/12/2024 8:58:30 AM (No. 1634607)
Shocking.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Zigrid 1/12/2024 10:46:56 AM (No. 1634703)
Surprise...surprise....WE all know that some fat cats are getting richer...obama/biden has an extra 10% to play with....
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Miceal 1/12/2024 11:29:26 AM (No. 1634734)
Risk of theft? How's about risk of lining the pockets of American Politicians...!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 1/12/2024 1:19:22 PM (No. 1634796)
And in the meantime, the young men, a generation of young men, in Ukraine have died. And Biden/Obama and the Military Industrial Complex have their blood on their hands. And for what? Why are we involved in this territorial dispute with two corrupt leaders? President Trump is right. This should never have happened and it wouldn't if he were in office.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 1/12/2024 1:54:55 PM (No. 1634822)
Yeah, I guess that ~$150 billion is "Over $1 Billion ".
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
nwcudagal 1/12/2024 2:04:28 PM (No. 1634824)
Mrs. Z purse.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/12/2024 8:31:15 PM (No. 1635007)
The REAL Reason there is No Audit/Tracking is that way we, the taxpayers, would see where all the Bribes are GOING!
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