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Criminal Gangs Are Taking U.S. Shipments of Weapons Meant for Ukraine
townhall.com ^ | 7/23/2023 1215 hrs | Sarah Arnold

Posted on 07/23/2023 9:40:04 AM PDT by rktman

It turns out all of the millions of dollars worth of arms weapons the Biden Administration is sending to Ukraine to fight its ongoing war with Russia are ending up in the hands of criminal gangs.

The U.S. Defense Department’s inspector general report found a lack of accountability in maintaining the equipment it sends to Ukraine.

According to the 19-page report by the Pentagon’s Office of Inspector General through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a group posing as humanitarian aid workers worked to obtain a hoard of U.S.-provided bulletproof vests.

“In late June 2022, the SBU disrupted a group of Ukrainian criminals posing as members of a humanitarian aid organization who distributed bulletproof vests,” the report read. “The group illicitly imported the vests and sold them rather than distributed them to Ukrainian forces. A group member was found with a cache of vests worth $17,000.”

The report was issued last October, and since then, the U.S. has provided over $113 billion in assistance to Ukraine, including military, humanitarian, and financial aid.

Other groups managed to steal weapons stockpiles, hundreds of rifles, and helmets.

“In mid-August 2022, the SBU disrupted a group of volunteer battalion members who took more than 60 rifles and almost 1,000 rounds of ammunition and stored them illegally in a warehouse, presumably for sale on the black market,” the report continued.

The GOP-controlled House of Representatives passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act, which calls for a special inspector general to oversee spending in Ukraine.

Despite the Biden Administration opposing such an act, Republicans have vowed to stop sending millions of U.S. dollars to Ukraine.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Philosophy; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: weaponsofwar
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To: RetiredTexasVet

somebodies gotta defend al those polling stations from MAGA in 2024


61 posted on 07/23/2023 2:22:19 PM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: thinden

“where did that $103 billion go anyway?”

has anyone checked the couch ....?
that’s a lot of $$ to keep track of ... you don’t expect them to know where ALL of it goes do you?

I know my $$ just sort of slips away ...

but really .... the corruption is open and outrageous , I would say ..if the info ever comes out people will hang ... but the info IS coming out ... and .... crickets.. ?

Where do we go from here?
Will we have an other election?
Even if we did and we won ... will the left just burn it all down?
great reset ... ya really great ...
what did communists use for light at night before candles?
...electricity .. 8-)


62 posted on 07/23/2023 3:14:56 PM PDT by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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To: mass55th; All
I'd like to know the total amount of money and lives the U.S. has wasted fighting proxy wars since WWII ended.

Something which is very difficult to know, as the world has been relatively peaceful, and human populations and prosperity have both soared to levels never known before.

63 posted on 07/23/2023 4:25:38 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: rktman

Fast and Furious 2.


64 posted on 07/23/2023 4:27:08 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: rktman

Because that is what criminal gangs do.


65 posted on 07/24/2023 2:00:21 AM PDT by jimfree (My 20 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than Joe Biden.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
the aid meant to help the people was stolen.

Meant to help what people?

66 posted on 07/24/2023 5:30:00 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Then we’ll see what they do with them, how many Border Patrol they kill, and where they go with them. Fast & Furious 2.0.


67 posted on 07/24/2023 5:49:28 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Supposedly the people whose homes and lives were destroyed by the war.


68 posted on 07/24/2023 5:55:31 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (It's science and therefore cannot be questioned!)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Yeah, but congesscritters and MIC are technically “people” too...


69 posted on 07/24/2023 6:05:42 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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