it cannot be excluded that at least some, if not all, rocket components are being delivered by state actors.
Did Hillary and Obama give them the OK to do this when she SOLD them the Uranium, was this part of their secret deal?
Shouldn’t they be asked these questions.
I'm not sure anyone can even find out how many engines we actually buy from Russia unless they go to the Russian source and people in the US have been batter dipped in lies about Russia so who would believe what the manufacturer said?
Maybe the same Pentagon that can't account for several Trillion dollars can tell us how many we purchased and how many we've used, right?
As far as I'm concerned, the fact that we know Ukraine is desperate for cash therefore it's inexpensive to pay them to look the other way, the factory (owned and controlled by a criminal oligarch) that makes the engines in question is sitting idle with a stash of engines on hand, and Ukraine was trying to sell engines even before the coup took place, points the the talk about Russia or China being involved as nothing by smoke. The mirrors to go with that smoke are in Pakistan where they make an engine almost identical to the one in question for their own IRBMs.
Don't want to upset the Afghanistan opium business with any fuss over the Paks selling engines or the looting of Ukraine with fuss over Ukraine selling them. That's the bottom line which means the most likely suspects aren't the most popular suspects.
JMHo