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You’ll be happy to hear that the Pentagon has found another $2 Billion for Ukraine, and via such a weird thing as an ‘Accounting error’. I know, this happens to all of us when we make accounting errors with our finances. One day we’re broke, the next day we’re billionaires.
via antiwar.com – by Connor Freeman
The Pentagon discovered $2 billion in additional accounting errors regarding its valuation of missiles, ammo, and other equipment provided to Kiev, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found on Thursday. The Defense Department made a similar claim last year, saying it availed Washington of $6.2 billion in weapons to fuel the Ukraine proxy war with Russia.
This should be comforting to all the poor and homeless and displaced and even middle class folks who are struggling to find the money to put food on the table – doing their part contribute to American exceptionalism abroad. And of course, taking that money and investing it in our energy needs, crumbling infrastructure, outdated grid and other important ‘everydays’, well, why would that even be considered. War must continue to be waged as war is profitable…for Washington’s war machine.
In April, prior to the passing of the $95 billion foreign military aid bill, the Office of Management and Budget revealed the White House had severely undercounted its total spending on the Ukraine war by at least $14 billion. Therefore, Washington has spent a total of $186 billion in its effort to “weaken” Russia using Ukraine as a proxy force. Since the invasion, it has been estimated that approximately 500,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed or injured.
And related, that too many refuse to see, and sadly, wouldn’t care about even when seeing it:
Netanyahu’s Speech to a Groveling US Congress Was so Bad that even the New York Times Complained – paulcraigroberts.org
“History will cast Mr. Netanyahu’s visit in deservedly ugly tones. He’s not a guest we should aspire to host, but he is a visitor we deserve. Gaza is our war, too, thanks to the indispensable military aid and political cover the US government has lavished on Israel as the death toll climbs… What exploded as a war of retribution against Hamas has looked increasingly like a broader campaign of annihilation — the slaughter of trapped civilians; the excruciating deaths of thousands of children; the destruction of hospitals, schools and much of the civilian infrastructure.” — Megan K. Stack, New York Times
John V. Whitbeck expresses his outrage over American obeisance to Netanyahu:
“I have just witnessed the most pathetic and humiliating hour which I, as an American, have experienced in my lifetime.
After virtually every sentence uttered by the notorious war-criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, no matter how inane or blatantly false, virtually all the attending political prostitutes infesting the U.S. Congress rose (53 times!) in a loud standing grovel of homage to their puppet-master, most long and loudly when he condemned pro-justice and anti-genocide protestors on American campuses and on the streets of Washington during his speech as “useful idiots” financed by Iran.“Anyone watching this obscene spectacle could only conclude that the United States of America has ceased to be a respectable independent country and is now, as, indeed, it has been for many years already, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the State of Israel, with shared values which are rightfully rejected by the overwhelming majority of mankind.
“By their venality, cowardice, moral bankruptcy and near-treason, the American political class is flushing a once great country down history’s toilet, and the Global West, if it does not soon liberate itself from domination by the Israeli-American Empire, risks a similar fate.”
Philip M. Giraldi sums it up:
“And so ends another exciting week in what once passed for the Capital of the United States of America. The visit by Netanyahu benefited certain politicians since to be qualified as an American presidential or vice-presidential candidate, you need to be photographed embracing a grinning genocidal psychopath from Israel. It keeps the cash flowing and the newspapers are empowered to tell lies on your behalf. Unfortunately, when the Israeli monsters are being received by their groveling hosts it also speaks most clearly to what we have become as a country while serving as the Israeli lapdog. Washington must finally confront the reality that its bloody close embrace of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza is not advancing any US interests or promoting regional stability. In fact, it is doing the opposite. What has happened to America is the real tragedy.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/war-criminal-netanyahu-us-congress/5863708
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Tonight’s musical offering:
Dispatches from the Asylum 