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Ex-DoD Officer: ’Deliberate Accounting Gimmicks’ Support Biden’s Proxy War Against Russia in Ukraine
Ex-DoD Officer: ’Deliberate Accounting Gimmicks’ Support Biden’s Proxy War Against Russia in Ukraine
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The Biden administration relies on “deliberate accounting gimmicks” to send larger-than-authorized direct military aid to Ukraine, former US Department of Defense officer David Pyne told Sputnik.
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The Biden administration relies on “deliberate accounting gimmicks” to send significantly larger amounts of direct military aid to Ukraine than Congress has authorized, former US Department of Defense officer David Pyne told Sputnik.While Washington remains bent on fueling the West’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, US arms manufacturers “are building at capacity” in an effort to replenish drained US weapons stocks, the ex-Pentagon employee said. In the process, the White House is “further demilitarizing the US military and seriously degrading its ability to fight and win major wars.”The US Defense Department Inspector General has revealed in a new report that the Pentagon overvalued defense equipment given to Ukraine by an additional $1.9 billion."Combined with the previously acknowledged $6.2 billion error, the total of overvalued defense articles provided through PDA is $8.1 billion," it stated.The revelations are just more of the same, after last year’s DoD Inspector General report concluded that the Pentagon faced “challenges” in monitoring all of the US military equipment being funneled to Ukraine. A January report this year laid bare more similar “errors.” US officials failed to properly track more than $1 billion in American weapons sent to Ukraine, concluding that they may have been stolen or smuggled. The US Department of Defense "did not fully comply" with requirements and much of the military equipment sent was "delinquent," the report stated.With Ukraine’s own corruption track record prompting more audit diligence, the text of a bilateral security pact just signed between Kiev and Washington obligates the Zelensky regime to further reaffirm its “commitment to ensuring the security of United States-provided defense articles and technology in accordance with DOD's [Department of Defense] Golden Sentry enhanced end-use monitoring (EEUM) requirements."Ukraine was to conduct “a comprehensive inventory of all remaining EEUM items in Ukraine's possession,” provide the DoD with “access to military installations across Ukraine at which EEUM items are stored,” and “allow for the resumption of all in-person verification activities.”Pyne recalled how former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince told Tucker Carlson in a recent interview that Joe Biden’s Department of Defense has “greatly undervalued the weapons the US has given to Ukraine to maximize the number of arms” being sent.Since House Speaker Mike Johnson “has defected to the neocon wing of the Republican Party approving $61 billion in aid for Ukraine,” the pundit said, there is little chance of him pushing for an investigation into these so-called accounting errors.
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Ex-DoD Officer: ’Deliberate Accounting Gimmicks’ Support Biden’s Proxy War Against Russia in Ukraine
Not only has corruption swallowed huge amounts of funds given to the Kiev regime, but “accounting errors” appear to have plagued aid given to Ukraine, a recent report by the US Defense Department Inspector General has revealed.
The Biden administration relies on “
deliberate accounting gimmicks” to send significantly larger amounts of direct
military aid to Ukraine than Congress has authorized, former US Department of Defense officer
David Pyne told
Sputnik.
“When any discrepancies are discovered in audits, they falsely label them as ‘accounting errors’ in an attempt to conceal their deliberate efforts to exceed congressional mandates in regard to the amount of military assistance they have authorized the administration to send to Ukraine,” the executive vice president of Task Force on National and Homeland Security noted.
While Washington remains bent on fueling the
West’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, US arms manufacturers “
are building at capacity” in an effort to replenish
drained US weapons stocks, the ex-Pentagon employee said. In the process, the White House is “
further demilitarizing the US military and seriously degrading its ability to fight and win major wars.”
The US Defense Department Inspector General has revealed in
a new report that the Pentagon overvalued defense equipment given to Ukraine by
an additional $1.9 billion."
Combined with the previously acknowledged $6.2 billion error, the total of overvalued defense articles provided through PDA is $8.1 billion," it stated.
The revelations are just more of the same, after last year’s DoD Inspector General report concluded that
the Pentagon faced “challenges” in monitoring all of the US military equipment being funneled to Ukraine. A January report this year laid bare more similar
“errors.” US officials
failed to properly track more than $1 billion in American weapons sent to Ukraine, concluding that they may have been stolen or smuggled. The US Department of Defense "
did not fully comply" with requirements and much of the military equipment sent was "
delinquent," the report stated.
With Ukraine’s own
corruption track record prompting more audit diligence, the text of a
bilateral security pact just signed between Kiev and Washington obligates the Zelensky regime to further reaffirm its “
commitment to ensuring the security of United States-provided defense articles and technology in accordance with DOD's [Department of Defense] Golden Sentry enhanced end-use monitoring (EEUM) requirements."
Ukraine was to conduct “a comprehensive inventory of all remaining EEUM items in Ukraine's possession,” provide the DoD with “access to military installations across Ukraine at which EEUM items are stored,” and “allow for the resumption of all in-person verification activities.”
Pyne recalled how former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince told Tucker Carlson in a recent interview that Joe Biden’s Department of Defense has “greatly undervalued the weapons the US has given to Ukraine to maximize the number of arms” being sent.
“According to his estimate, the US has given the equivalent of ‘hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Ukraine to skirt congressional limitations. The way they do that is by valuing the cost of the weapons being transferred to Ukraine at their original purchase rate from twenty years ago which could be said to be accurate for the initial ones they send to Ukraine but not for the new ones they send,” Pyne stated.
Since House Speaker Mike Johnson “has defected to the neocon wing of the Republican Party approving $61 billion in aid for Ukraine,” the pundit said, there is little chance of him pushing for an investigation into these so-called accounting errors.
“Of course, these are not errors at all but a concerted effort on the part of the Biden administration to continue its betrayal of US national security interests in support of Biden’s manufactured proxy war against Russia in Ukraine which President Vladimir Putin has been admirably trying to end with a negotiated compromise peace agreement since March 2022,” Pyne remarked.
