>The Pentagon has sent $10 billion worth of weapons to Ukraine that it still does not have the money to replace due to congressional gridlock, according to a top Defense Department official.
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>DOD officials expect funding to replenish the equipment the U.S. has already sent to Ukraine to be included in President Joe Biden’s supplemental request, which provides billions of additional dollars in aid for Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel. But that legislation has languished on Capitol Hill for months amid partisan bickering.
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>If DOD does not get the funding to backfill its stocks, the impact of that “ongoing hole” will ultimately be felt by the U.S. military’s own forces, said a senior DOD official, who was granted anonymity to speak ahead of an announcement.
Translated: of the sixty billion that’s about to be voted on (which isn’t nearly enough to begin with), ten billion will go straight to the Pentagon to pay for weapons that have already been shipped.
Fork it over chucklefucks
Depending on the weapons in question, we don’t actually need to replace everything that is sent to Ukraine.
Good replenish our stock while we send old stock to Ukraine 🇺🇦
They were mostly excess mothballed. Pentagon double dip
Someone know, how much money from $805B that USA spent on WW2 Lend Lease was spent on weapon replacement?
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“We understand that Britain need weapons, but we still cannot give more than 1,5% of our weapons because we needed them in case Britain will lose and Nazis would attack us!”
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>The Pentagon has sent $10 billion worth of weapons to Ukraine that it still does not have the money to replace due to congressional gridlock, according to a top Defense Department official.
>
>DOD officials expect funding to replenish the equipment the U.S. has already sent to Ukraine to be included in President Joe Biden’s supplemental request, which provides billions of additional dollars in aid for Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel. But that legislation has languished on Capitol Hill for months amid partisan bickering.
>
>If DOD does not get the funding to backfill its stocks, the impact of that “ongoing hole” will ultimately be felt by the U.S. military’s own forces, said a senior DOD official, who was granted anonymity to speak ahead of an announcement.
Translated: of the sixty billion that’s about to be voted on (which isn’t nearly enough to begin with), ten billion will go straight to the Pentagon to pay for weapons that have already been shipped.
Fork it over chucklefucks
Depending on the weapons in question, we don’t actually need to replace everything that is sent to Ukraine.
Good replenish our stock while we send old stock to Ukraine 🇺🇦
They were mostly excess mothballed. Pentagon double dip
Someone know, how much money from $805B that USA spent on WW2 Lend Lease was spent on weapon replacement?
​
“We understand that Britain need weapons, but we still cannot give more than 1,5% of our weapons because we needed them in case Britain will lose and Nazis would attack us!”
How low the West has fallen…
All of this is just making China lick their chops