According to one source, the disastrous government of Democrat Joe Biden has permitted Russia to seize US weapons and sell them as a result of the administration’s breach on American weaponry and technology.
If accurate, the situation in the Middle East has worsened since Biden abandoned Afghanistan, leaving behind billions of dollars’ worth of top-tier American military weaponry.
The Pentagon acknowledged that Russia had acquired U.S. weapons. According to a whistleblower, the media is saying that Congress is suspicious of fraud in the gifting of US weaponry to Ukraine, further complicating the situation in the region.
Thursday, Breitbart News reported the most recent status of a congressional investigation into the locations of US firearms.
“There is no evidence any of the billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars spent on weapons and aid sent to Ukraine has been lost to corruption or diverted into criminal hands, the Pentagon’s inspector general said Tuesday, before adding investigations are still at an early stage.
Members of Congress had often questioned how rigorously the U.S. monitors its aid to ensure that it is not prone to fraud.
The AP reports House lawmakers repeatedly questioned Robert P. Storch about any possible fraud findings. According to him, a new hotline has received a number of tips and complaints, but there have been “minimal discoveries” to date, with numerous reports pending.
And the negative news regarding the alleged capture and sale of American weaponry by Russia coincides with the knowledge that Russia is contemplating an intensified attack on energy infrastructures.
🚨#BREAKING: Dutch Intelligence claims Russia is preparing to attack oil & gas pipelines, submarine cables and wind farms in the North Sea.
If true, this is a SERIOUS Russian escalation, possibly a response to all the weapons being sent to Ukraine by NATO pic.twitter.com/WhayjW5iHQ
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 20, 2023
The Libertarian Institute’s Kyle Anzalone reported the following information.
“American weapons provided to Ukraine have been captured by Russia on the battlefield, a top Department of Defense official told Congress on Tuesday. Over the past year, Washington has provided Kyiv with nearly $45 billion in military aid.
Undersecretary of Kyivnr Policy Colin Kahl claimed Moscow was capturing American weapons and selling them on the black market. “Our assessment is if some of these systems have been diverted it’s by Russians who have captured things on the battlefield, which always happens.”
ZeroHedge provided specifics:
After Russian soldiers invaded Ukraine a little over a year ago, the administration of Joe Biden initiated extraordinary arms supplies to Kiev. According to the Kiel Center for the World Economy, the United States has given Ukraine $44.3 billion in military aid between January 24, 2022 and January 15, 2023.
Kahl continued by asserting that “no evidence” suggests Kieasserted is responsible for the guns reaching the illegal market.
In the early months of the war, CNN reported that the US lacked oversight over the arms sent to Ukraine. A source told the outlet in April, “we have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero. It drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time.”
That same month, Jonas Ohman, founder and CEO of Blue-Yellow, a Lithuania-based organization that has been meeting with and supplying frontline units with military aid in Ukraine told CBS News, “All of this stuff goes across the border, and t, when something happens, kind of like 30% of it reaches its final destination.”
In May, the Washington Post reported Ukraine is infamous for black market weapon sales. “The US government is well aware of the country’s challenges with weapons proliferation, though it has been vague in describing the precautions it’s taking,” the outlet wrote.
Congressman Matt Gaetz challenged Kahl regarding the guns congressman In a 2018 Global Times piece, Matt Gaetz addressed Kahled over the use of American armaments by the Azov Battalion, a neo-Nazi organization that was integrated into Ukraine’s national guard. Kahl refuted Gaetz’s inquiry by claiming the assertion was “Beijing’s propaganda.”
More on this story via The Republic Brief:
The Azov Battalion has been photographed with Western-made anti-tank weapons. In March, NEXTA tweeted, “A shipment of NLAW grenade launchers and instructors from #NATO countries arrived in Kharkiv. The Azov regiment was the first to learn about new weaponry.” The post included photos of Ukrainian soldiers wearing Nazi patches on their uniforms.CONTINUE READING…