Pentagon Admits There is No Evidence Kiev is Tracking All the Weapons They Send

Here’s the fact: the Ukraine military doesn’t have enough trained men to use all these weapons. Most of their army is made up of goofballs pulled out of the village. Aside from US PMCs, they have a special forces unit that is doing the heavy fighting, and they can’t use all these weapons. Even most of them are only trained in Soviet gear, and even if they all had training, it would still be too many weapons.

So, most of this stuff is disappearing into a black hole, presumably being sold to terrorists. I don’t think any legitimate government would buy the stuff, other than maybe some African countries. The Ukrainians are selling it at a huge discount, but it’s still a lot of money.

RT:

The Pentagon’s acting Inspector General Sean O’Donnell told Bloomberg on Thursday that his office will test the effectiveness of the system that tracks US weapons shipped to Ukraine as part of the Defense Department’s multi-billion dollar military assistance program.

“As far as we can tell, right now, everything that is supposed to shoot and go boom, they are using every bit of it,” the official said, adding that the system needs to be double-checked as the Ukrainians use “hand receipts” to trace supplied arms.

“I don’t think they have much fidelity” as to where it ends up, O’Donnell said.

So, “as far as we can tell” means “I’m just guessing.”

The IG’s office will be looking into the weapons shipments to ensure that they are not being diverted to the black market, according to the report. Concerns over such risks have been voiced by various European and international law enforcement agencies, following evidence that at least some easier-to-smuggle Western arms have ended up in the hands of gunrunners offering them to clients online.

American and Ukrainian officials have given assurances that all Western weapons sent to Kiev are traced and used as intended to fight Russia. Reports to the contrary tend to be harshly criticized by Kiev and its allies.

CBS News this month agreed to remake a documentary about corruption in Ukraine and how it affects foreign aid. The film originally featured remarks by the founder of an organization that has been sending various items to Ukrainian soldiers for years. He said getting equipment to the frontline in Ukraine required navigating a network of “power lords, oligarchs [and] political players,” trying to capitalize on the supplies.

Yeah so, if the US government is shutting down media for saying the weapons are going to the wrong place, you’re not going to get a Pentagon report admitting that – at least not a public one.

The closest thing you’re going to get is the Pentagon admitting that they don’t have any evidence that the weapons are going to the right place.

The CBS documentary was deleted from everywhere after the government demanded it, but I still have a copy:

Again, that was removed not because they did new reporting, but because after it was released everyone started talking about it and the government called up CBS and told them it was wrong. CBS said that they took it down after being contacted by the government about it. Even if there wasn’t a direct threat, there is an implicit threat when the government tells you to do something.

At some point, these weapons are going to start turning up amongst Moslems in Europe. That’s just an obvious fact of reality.