US did not properly track more than $1 billion worth of weapons sent to Ukraine, watchdog report finds (www.cnn.com)

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[-] Rom@hexbear.net 21 points 8 months ago

But they still can't find money for healthcare.

[-] MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 8 months ago

They can't find the war assets the Pentagon bought either.

If they can't find the money they spent to kill people, why would they spend more money to heal people? They need to focus on fixing their Pentagon audit issues by not doing anything about the audit issues first!

[-] davel@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 8 months ago

Restocking the European stay-behinds for the incipient austerity era.

[-] FnordPrefect@hexbear.net 16 points 8 months ago

biden-ok-smart-guy "This isn't really our fault. Our "missing" money spreadsheets were in trillions and only configured for 2 decimal spaces, so another billion more or less gets lost all the time!"

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 8 months ago

Comrade Biden said "let 100 9/11s bloom"

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Maybe the mice ate them.

[-] multitotal@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Some of them ended up in the Middle East, some of them ended up in Europe, giving the West an excuse to ramp up "anti-terrorist operations" at home and abroad.

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