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Pentagon Again Applies Budget Lies To Deliver More Weapons To Ukraine
Whenever the Pentagon runs out of money designated by Congress as aid to Ukraine it starts to use creative accounting to free up some additional money from its general budget. The 'accounting errors' used therein are always in favor of more weapons to Ukraine.
Exclusive: Pentagon accounting error overvalued Ukraine weapons aid by $3 billion – May 19 2023, Reuters
The Pentagon overestimated the value of the ammunition, missiles and other equipment it sent to Ukraine by around $3 billion, a Senate aide and a defense official said on Thursday, an error that may lead the way for more weapons being sent to Kyiv for its defense against Russian forces.
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Pentagon accounting error provides extra $6.2 billion for Ukraine military aid – June 20 2023, AP
The Pentagon said Tuesday that it overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion over the past two years — about double early estimates — resulting in a surplus that will be used for future security packages.
Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said a detailed review of the accounting error found that the military services used replacement costs rather than the book value of equipment that was pulled from Pentagon stocks and sent to Ukraine. She said final calculations show there was an error of $3.6 billion in the current fiscal year and $2.6 billion in the 2022 fiscal year, which ended last Sept. 30.
As a result, the department now has additional money in its coffers to use to support Ukraine as it pursues its counteroffensive against Russia. And it come as the fiscal year is wrapping up and congressional funding was beginning to dwindle.
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Pentagon finds another $2 billion of accounting errors for Ukraine aid – July 14 2024, Reuters
The Pentagon has found $2 billion worth of additional errors in its calculations for ammunition, missiles and other equipment sent to Ukraine, increasing the improperly valued material to a total of $8.2 billion, a U.S. government report revealed on Thursday.
In accounting an entity can generally use one of several methods to account for stock material. Using (ever increasing) replacement costs or (ever decreasing) book value are two arguably valid methods. What is a no-no though is to change horses during race. One either uses one or the other. One never-ever changes the applied accounting method during the accounting period.
Any commercial company doing what the Pentagon is doing here would be asking for serious trouble.
One wonder if and when Congress will wake up to this.
Follow the money.
1) you work and pay taxes, the rich don’t work and have offshore to escape taxes;
2) you vote and are covninced that you chose, while the rich just use their billions to buy the politicians, rig the elections, control the media, and make sure nothing really changes;
3) the corrupted politicians then use your taxes to make contracts with the companies owned by the rich that financed their campaigns. In other countries thisnis simply corruption. In the West it is the legalized “lobby” and results in war, because those companies owned by the oligarchy manufacture weapons;
4) in the vassal regimes, those that play this game and repeat the words of their master, get to eat a piece of the cake, through “USAid”, or “NED” or any other bullsh*t like that. The honest people not only don’t eat the cake ($€£), they are also attacked by he oligarchy’s MainStreamMedia.
The more this system is kept, the more money it deals with, the more corrupt it is, the lesser chance there is of this ever changing. It only gets worse, year after year, like a snowball. At one point, it was only about a beach in Cuba, now it might be 3rd (and last) world war with nucleqr weapons.
I have just summarized 80 years of NeoLiberal Capitalism, aka Fascism pretending to be “democracy”, and genocide prerending to be “human rights”, and mass brainwashing and cancellation pretending to be “freedom”.
This system is how you get rid of a people’s representative like Jeremy Corbyn, and guarantee the fraud election of a vassal of such imperial oligarchy called Keir Starmer.
This system is also how you end up calling “nazi” to Putin, while your side is the one actually collaborating with nazis and genocidal lunatics.
This system is how you entertain near 1 billion westerners and make them believe it was “necessary” to invade Serbia, Libya, Iraq, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc.
This system is what makes lunatics with “they/them” as pronouns to think that they are “Left” wing, when in fact they support Fascist/NeoLiberal economics with pornographic inequality.
This system is what George Orwell wrote about in “1984”. But not even he was able to predict how globalised mass brainwashing MaindStreamMedia, oligarchs’ “social” media, and other PsyOps and lies and manipulation, would be able to convince successfuly the vast majority of western citizens to call “freedom and democracy” to all this genocidal naZionist imperialism.
The reality is like a “V for Vendetta” movie where the people are so brainwashed that they actually support the dictator instead of being able to understand that the regime is rotten and needs change.
In other words, reality is now the “Idiocracy” movie, Kamala or Trump is the new “President” that seller of the “Brawndos got electrolites”, but the difference is that in reality this is a tragedy and not a comedy with a happy ending.
Some naive people are even worried about Trump’s assassination attempt, when in fact they should be worried that Trump, Biden, their teams and parties, all of the Congress, Pentagon, Langley, WallStreet, etc, are all still alive. Thats the real problem! The fact that the monsters are still alive and getting richer. Not an injured ear of an orange fascist naZionist that has already declared war against Iran and will also do that against China.
So here it is the “democratic” choice given to USAmericans: either war with Russia, or war with Iran and China.
Those with eyes can see: the choice is an illusion. The regime (or the oligarchy, or the DeepState, call ot what you wanr) has already made sure their forever war + MIC’s guarantee profits will continue unchanged, whatever you chose in the “elections”.
Considering this, the Pentagon’s accounting errors are just a meaningless joke to keep you entertained discussing nothing and changing anything.
You should be sharpening the pitchforks and preparing the guillotines, but instead your are all divided between blues and reds, greens and pinks, etc, while the genocidal warmonger oligarchy laughs and conquers.
Posted by: Carlos Marques | Jul 27 2024 1:37 utc | 81
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