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That’s a loaded headline. It makes it sound like all of the missing funds went to Zelensky but that’s just a guys opinion.
As someone who’s witnessed the US Military’s “use or lose” budget in action, I’d put $100 on a lot of it being jammed in a closet, sitting at the bottom of an ocean, or conveniently lost to fire in a desert somewhere.
Or lost somewhere in a logistics facility unaccounted for.
It's a very big closet.
This is just a GOP propaganda hit piece. The DOD does need a audit, but don't act like it all went to Ukraine.
Or even like the GOP would ever even CONSIDER cutting it's funding down.
Especially considering it's been a DoD problem for many, many years now. The audits they talk about in the article date back to as far as 2017... this isn't a new issue.
Sheesh, one of the conspiracies about 9/11 was that the location of the pentagon hit was where they had just failed an audit. It's a gigantic pit we've been 'losing' money in for decades, if not a full century.
The state of the DoDs finances is a legitimate concern, but OP and the ‘Pub the article cites are just bad faith trolling.
The truth is that in 1990, Congress passed a law directing all federal agencies to produce regular, audited financial statements. More than thirty years later, the Department of Defense is the only agency that has never passed a single audit. That’s under both Dem and Pub administrations.
The shot at Zelensky and the current geopolitical situation is just silly, stupid, and frankly the kind of thing a tankie would say 🙄
It’s probably some sort of psy op to get liberals and lefties on board with giving these guys more money even though they clearly should not get it.
Based on this thread it seems like it worked
imagine giving an organization that can't account for almost two thirds of its assets a fucking TRILLION DOLLARS
Hasn't it been this way since, well, forever? I seem to recall these headlines in the 90s and 00s too, but somehow the defense budget grows every year...
Wait. Since when are Republicans so anti-military and pro-Russian oppression? Saint Reagan is weeping over this cruel betrayal.
Damn if Zeleksnky got all that money.... Does it mean elon no2?
As Ricky bobby would say...
Hey look, another op-ed positioned as news! Let’s watch everyone lose their minds!
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