Posted on 05/14/2022 11:59:08 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Weapons said to be for sale include not just Ukrainian-origin arms such as old Soviet-era AK-47 rifles, but also American-made rifles like the M16 and the M4, along with other NATO member-origin firearms like the ARX 160 A1 manufactured by the Italian weapons company Beretta, newspaper Il Giornale reports.
It remains unclear whether the weapons are being sold by Ukrainians or by Russians who have collected them over the course of the war.
Canadian NGO Project Ploughshares warned earlier this year of the possibility that arms from the West could end up on the black market, with researcher Kelsey Gallagher saying there was a “real threat that the Ukrainian government can potentially not control all of these weapons.”
According to Il Giornale, the illegal arms trade often runs along the same routes as the illegal drug trade, noting that radical Islamic jihadist cells may be tempted to purchase weapons being sold through encrypted apps.
During the early days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Islamic extremists called on jihadists to take advantage of the war, with the Islamic State terror organisation recommending supporters use the conflict to collect weapons that could be used in terror attacks, for example.
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Same as Afghanistan - who could have predicted it. /s
HG you left the cage open again.
Lordy let’s hope he doesn’t start posting memes outside of the Q Exhibit.
I ain't gonna mess with him.
He paid me $350.00 USD to leave him alone and he's
got three more weeks of amnesty. I gotta be honorable.
That seems like kind of an important detail.
Of course they will. Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries on earth.
More like a red herring, but ok.
Yes, right up there with Moscow and the Obama/Clinton/Biden White House.
:)
Who could have seen this coming??
Now go away. I'm trying to figure out why FOX News is so hot about rehabilitating this clown all of a sudden...
Whoever paid you, IF anyone paid you...
wasn’t me.
There you go again, taking things too seriously and literally.
Grow a sense of humor, or at least one of irony.
Bet you still think that I alone am responsible for ALL keywords that make you cry.
Get a job.
I get a week suspension for calling out your brownshirt tactics and tricking
the Mods into providing proof of your part in it, while also proving that we are
forbidden to know if it was just you, or you and a couple others, or you and a mob.
But now I’m taking things too seriously for calling you out on your lie
implying that I would pay you $350 to stop brownshirting me for a month?
Well OK then.
I’d forgotten how tricky you are.
"Lordy let’s hope he doesn’t start posting memes outside of the Q Exhibit."
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Y'all should warn the President.
He posted THIS last night:
~Easy
Please explain why that should be in any way bothersome.
It's not as if it were one of your too-busy cheesy talent-free efforts.
Hey... ain’t that account supposed to have a “blue check” or something?
Looks like you got chumped.
Pretty easily, too.
Dumbass.
You'll find it in this stream, from the real DJT.
(4th Truth/Retruth in his list at the moment.
(Retruths don't bother with the check mark, so as not to confuse Truther versus Rethruther)
Your apology, though owed, is not anticipated.
~Easy
~Easy
~Easy
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