Consider
a hypothetical situation where you learn of a friend living in a faraway
country who is seriously unwell and his medical bills have drained most of his
savings.
When
you decide to help this friend out financially which fund transfer service
would you choose?
A:
The service which has a proper tracking mechanism to ensure that each and every
penny reaches your friend
Or
B:
The service that has no tracking mechanism or guarantees that even a small
percentage of the amount will reach your friend.
The
answer is obviously A since the goal is to help your friend in desperate need.
According
to D.C., this friend in need is Ukraine and the benefactor is the US government.
Last
May, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blocked the Senate from passing a $40
billion aid package for Ukraine because he wanted a provision to
be added to the bill that would ensure tracking of billions being dispatched.
The
appalling record of corruption in the US under Biden and in Ukraine makes
accountability and oversight essential.
But
Paul received little support among lawmakers.
Worse,
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dismissed Paul, who
is his junior colleague and a fellow Kentuckian Republican as he belonged to “a
tiny percentage” of Senate Republicans” who are “isolationists”
Following
that McConnell and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer led a rare instance of
bipartisanship to immediately pass the bill.
Despite
the claims in D.C. that defending Ukraine is their ‘number one priority’ and
pledges to do ‘whatever it takes’ to defend Ukraine, those who have dispatched
more than $111 dollars of aid and arms to Ukraine didn’t care to ensure that
the items they dispatched actually reached their intended destination and in
its entirety.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7Y1G7MjD88
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bdrj_XtPZnw
This
was recipe for disaster and we are seeing proof of that.
Just
yesterday during a House Armed Services Committee’s hearing Pentagon Inspector
General Robert Storch refused to say if the Department of Defense complied with
existing rules regarding end-use monitoring for weapons sent to Ukraine
Rep.
Matt Gaetz (R-FL) asked Storch in myriad ways whether the DOD has complied with
the Arms Export Control Act of 1976, meant to make sure U.S. weapons transfers
do not fall into the wrong hands.
Storch
claimed that his team is conducting “a series of evaluations that look at the
controls that DOD has in place to ensure that they are taking the steps that
are required.”
When
Gaetz asked about DOD monitoring in the past, Storch claimed “some of that gets
into the classified report that we issued previously.”
This
is a ploy used by D.C. to hide their wrongdoings. They classify the evidence
and if compelled to release classified material documents they redact most of
the text, rendering the exercise meaningless.
Storch
claimed, that a hotline set up for whistleblowers to report diverted American
aid has received “all sorts of types of allegations.” No more specifics were
provided.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=369Qcid0vcE
Also
during the hearing, Pentagon’s top policy official, Colin Kahl, first said that
the DOD was not seeing “any evidence of significant diversion” of weapons sent
to Ukraine.
Kahl
said that their “assessment is if some of these systems have been diverted,
it’s by Russians who have captured things on the battlefield.”
He
added that “there’s no evidence that the Ukrainians are diverting it to the
black market or some other things.”
This
is also a standard ploy to falsify when under oath. The respondent doesn’t deny
that wrongdoing is occurring, but instead, they claim to have not seen any
evidence of wrongdoing occurring. This gives them ample space to change their
claim later without perjuring themselves.
The
other trick is to claim to have ‘no recollection’.
Kahl claimed that Ukrainians were asking for more
weapons because “they are using everything that we have provided them.”
Regarding
tracking measures, Kahl claimed that equipment is scanned before and after
being given to the Ukrainians. He claimed the DOD provided Ukrainians with
scanners that transmit data back to the DOD and NATO’s standard inventory and
logistics software.
Kahl
also added that since Ukraine is “an active war zone’, there are occurrences
that they don’t ‘know are happening or don’t see’. Another ploy of concealment
and falsification.
Kahl
once again used the ‘no evidence seen’ ploy regarding the ‘systemic diversion
of the equipment that the United States’.
These
cover-up ploys reveal that something very fishy is occurring in Ukraine.
The
Pentagon has spent over $31 billion in military assistance since the war in
Ukraine began. The weapons systems and ammunition were from its US stocks.
This
is a perilous situation.
Recently
a number of top
Ukrainian officials were sacked for involvement in corruption linked
to food and weaponry supply to the Ukrainian military.
Last
year Breitbart reported
that advanced weaponry meant for the war in Ukraine was put up for sale on
Telegram channels. It remains unclear who the sellers were, but given the
record of Ukrainian officials, anything is possible.
The
war in Ukraine has also attracted over 20 thousand foreign
fighters, who obviously haven't been properly vetted.
Breitbart
reported that an al-Qaeda sympathizer the conflict in Ukraine as a
“divine gift”
Perhaps
some among the ‘fighters’ joined the war with the goal to pick up advanced
weaponry either for further use or sale in the black market to the
highest bidder.
If
some among the ‘fighters’ or the black market buyers turn out to be terrorists,
the Biden administration could inadvertently end up funding an attack perhaps
even on their own soil.
It
is also ironic that the Democrats have no compunctions to arming foreign
nationals and terrorists, but want to confiscate arms from law-abiding citizens.
In
a Democracy, whenever any nation gets involved in a foreign conflict, it
requires a debate.
Funding
the war in Ukraine certainly deserved a debate in Congress and tough questions
from the media. Representatives should have consulted with their constituents.
But
nothing of a kind occurred.
The
staunch advocacy for the war and the lack of any tracking measures for the
funds dispatched makes it obvious that all those pushing for this war stand to
profiteer from the conflict in some way.
The
small number of lawmakers and media people who asked the right questions were
dismissed as agents of Putin
propagandists by both
parties while the mainstream media was and is cheerleading this war.
Politicized government agencies also joined the warmongers with the utmost
eagerness instead of enforcing regulations.
The
result of this serious dereliction of duty by all is that the world is coming
closer to a third world war.
We
revisit the following astute observation that Albert Einstein allegedly made:
“I
know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,
but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
President
Trump is among the very few leaders in the US to demand a peaceful solution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VQ6igy3P2U
It is
important to not conflate the theatrics during yesterday’s hearings for actions.
It is still a step in the right direction but there are many miles to go…
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