Oopsie Daisy Cutter! Pentagon Makes a $6.2 Billion Boner... In Ukraine's Favor

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Whoopsie!

No but what they're claiming is that they "overestimated" the value of weapons the Regime sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion. So now they have an extra $6.2 billion to send to Ukraine.

The Pentagon said Tuesday that it overestimated the value of the weapons it has sent to Ukraine by $6.2 billion over the past two years -- about double early estimates -- resulting in a surplus that will be used for future security packages.

Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said a detailed review of the accounting error found that the military services used replacement costs rather than the book value of equipment that was pulled from Pentagon stocks and sent to Ukraine. She said final calculations show there was an error of $3.6 billion in the current fiscal year and $2.6 billion in the 2022 fiscal year, which ended last Sept. 30.

As a result, the department now has additional money in its coffers to use to support Ukraine as it pursues its counteroffensive against Russia. And it come as the fiscal year is wrapping up and congressional funding was beginning to dwindle.

Well isn't that convenient -- Ukraine needed the money and Congress doesn't want to justify the endless spending on Ukraine, so just like magic, they find $6.2 billion in the Pentagon's couches.

posted by Ace at 05:28 PM

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