"I think the GOP had been promising hearings like this since before the November election, so after the Republicans gained a slim majority in the House, it was expected," Karen Kwiatkowski said. "Congressman McCaul, an anti-Russia hawk and Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has been talking about this himself since last year – but always in the context of more weapons for Ukraine. McCaul sees oversight as necessary to justify to the American people continuing support for the Ukrainian military (…) Given the Pentagon has never to date successfully completed an audit itself, and has no idea where US weapons are in US territory, or how the money flowed in any given period does not bode well for trying to find out what the Ukrainians are doing with materiel, cash and weapons the Pentagon dumped there in reactionary haste over the past 18 months."
"Even if Ukraine ends up fractured, under a US-selected military commander, permanently polluted with mines and depleted uranium dust, with a collapsed infrastructure and half of its prior population - even then, Ukraine can still be seen as an American forward base in the coming decade. It cannot be spoken - but that is the 'win' scenario for the Pentagon and US defense contractors, and it is quite achievable – and creative politicians and strategists will claim that this "successful outcome" was created for them by Russia's SMO," Kwiatkowski noted.