I would think it would be easy to conclude that your law makers have a spending problem but that has become a cliche and too easy to accept.
That would be correct, our politicians live in a bubble.
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Proof???
32 trillion and climbing.
Choice of narratives is always there unless you can do the work to arrive at your own conclusion.
Scott Ritter is the lone voice in the wilderness.
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No more “country Ukraine”?
(Will it be just a province of Russia?)
Patrick Lancaster reporting from actual combat site
How remarkably convenient that US Weapons that were originally imported to Ukraine is showing up all over the world through the black market.
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Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. The generals and politicians there make a killing out of such deals.
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NATO Stoltenberg idiocy
Something big is going to happen this month.
Many of the weapons appearing round the world are sold by the Taliban from the stocks pile abandoned by Biden in Afghanistan.
U.S. arms left in Afghanistan are turning up in a different conflict
Since falling into the hands of the Taliban, some of the weapons have been seized from militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir in what experts say could be just the start of their global journey.
Afghan Arms Dealers are Now Selling Abandoned American Guns
Experts are worried about who might be buying them.
Gun dealers and merchants are peddling American-made firearms in provinces throughout Afghanistan, and in some cases smuggling them across the border to Pakistan, where demand is high.
In Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, the going price for a U.S. M4 carbine assault rifle is about $4,000 – especially if it comes fitted with an under-barrel grenade launcher or laser sight.
This is according to gun merchants in Kandahar, who are now openly selling caches of American-made pistols, rifles, grenades, binoculars, night-vision goggles, radios and other military accessories, as reported by The New York Times. The various pieces of equipment were issued to the Afghan military during the United States’ failed 20-year occupation, and left behind following their evacuation.
There was a time when the merchants’ primary customers were Taliban militants; fighters engaged in open combat with Western forces who were all too willing to pay the price for American-supplied weapons and gear. But the war is over. Now the bulk of their buyers are Afghan entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens.
“American-made weapons are in great demand,” one merchant told the paper, “as they work very well and people know how to use them.”
Taliban fighters have, in many cases, sold these weapons on to gun dealers and merchants, who are now peddling them in provinces across the country and in some cases smuggling them across the border to Pakistan, where demand is high. As one dealer told France24: “We bought all these things from the Taliban after they conquered the Afghan army base. Now we bring them to the market to sell.”
That is just a recent phenomenon, Ukraine has been the hub of selling weapons on the black Market for years.
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Ukraine is beyond corrupt and the US has zero oversight on money and materials sent to Ukraine.
US war material is available to any country via both sources.
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It was designed that way. Why do you think its benefactors of money laundering needed to impeach a sitting president twice within a single term? I think the answer is pretty obvious!
So the anti-Putin Russian fighters launched a cross-border raid from Ukraine? Really?
It begs the question what kind of “Russian fighters”?
Citizens of the Russian Federation who turned against Putin and joined the attack force?
— Highly unlikely.
The members of the attack force spoke perfect Russian. But there are millions of Russian speakers in Ukraine (inclusive of Zelensky) still loyal to Kiev. So such Russians from the Ukraine army could have been selected to join the attack.
One miscalculation Putin and the Russian leaders made early in the Special Military Operation was that ethnic Russians do not necessarily support the Russian army. At the same time, ethnic Russians in the Donbass refused to cooperate with the Russian military for fear of Kiev’s reprisals, once the Russians leave. (It was known what the Kiev Nazis did to the residents of Bucha near Kiev.)
God knows how many ethnic Russians and foreign fighters (mercenaries from the west) were killed along with regular Ukrainian troops defending Bakhmut.
You mean the Russians who speak polish?
https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1665276056679378944?s=20
Proof the war is escalating.
BREAKING:
The Polish Volunteer Corps has published pictures, confirming it participated in the first armed raid into the Belgorod region, Russia, together with the Russian Volunteer Corps
Russian soldiers claimed earlier they heard some of the enemies communicating in Polish
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