Anonymous ID: 6ea39c June 21, 2023, 3:44 a.m. No.19044114   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Pentagon Says It Made $6 Billion "Accounting Error", Clearing More Aid For Ukraine

 

How could this possibly happen?

 

Due to a massive accounting error, which happened just four weeks after a $3 billion accounting error, the value of weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States was overstated by $6.2 billion over the past two years, according to AP.

 

Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said that a detailed review of the accounting error found that replacement costs were recorded for the equipment, not the actual book value of items pulled from Pentagon stocks and sent to Ukraine, adding that final calculations reveal a $3.6 billion error in the current fiscal year, and $2.6 billion in the 2022 FY, which ended last Sept. 30.

 

https://zerohedge.com/political/whoops-pentagon-accounting-error-means-extra-62-billion-ukraine

Anonymous ID: 6ea39c June 21, 2023, 4:10 a.m. No.19044165   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4170 >>4172 >>4181 >>4206 >>4428 >>4489

Barr Says He’d Testify Against Trump In Documents Case If Asked

 

Former Attorney General Bill Barr says he’d be willing to testify against former President Donald Trump in the ongoing case related to Trump’s handling of classified documents as president.

 

Trump is accused of mishandling an array of classified documents, including documents classified as “top secret,” the highest level of classification. Trump has dismissed the investigation, led by President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice, as “partisan” and a “witch hunt.”

 

Now Barr, who has already been critical of his former boss, said he’d be willing to testify against Trump if asked by Special Counsel Jack Smith, who is leading the federal action against Trump.

 

“If they called me in as a witness, of course I would testify,” Barr said during a June 18 appearance on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” adding that he doesn’t expect to be called in for any such testimony.

 

Barr, a former Trump ally who served as his attorney general, has increasingly sought to distance himself from Trump since the end of the 2020 election. The former attorney general now says he’s “adamantly against” another Trump presidency.

 

https://zerohedge.com/political/barr-says-hed-testify-against-trump-documents-case-if-asked

Anonymous ID: 6ea39c June 21, 2023, 4:19 a.m. No.19044184   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>4199 >>4212 >>4428 >>4480 >>4489

War Is Coming

 

Will Upcoming NATO Summit Launch Forever War In Europe?

 

Pressure is mounting to make some sort of formal declaration over Ukraine’s membership at meetings in Vilnius next month…

 

An article in the New York Times on Wednesday claimed that pressure is building on Biden to announce a timetable for Ukrainian membership in NATO at its Vilnius Summit next month.

 

Supposedly Biden is “isolated” among NATO allies in his reluctance to do so, even though that claim is contradicted by the story’s own last paragraph (the one that Noam Chomsky once quipped should be read first), which acknowledges that “others argue more quietly” that NATO membership “could give Mr. Putin more incentive to continue the war, or to escalate it.”

 

Indeed, since Moscow has already declared NATO membership for Ukraine to be completely unacceptable and an existential threat — the prevention of which is one of its chief war aims — a Vilnius Declaration that Ukraine will join NATO when the war ends will effectively ensure that the war goes on forever. It will also take off the table the West’s central bargaining chip to achieve peace, which is a neutral Ukraine.

 

It’s clear that the “pressure” on Biden is coming from Zelensky and some of the eastern NATO countries, specifically Poland and the Baltic States. Zelensky said two weeks ago that Ukraine would not even attend the Vilnius Summit unless given a firm signal on its eventual membership. Former NATO secretary general Anders Rasmussen, now a consultant to Zelensky, even threatened that “if NATO cannot agree on a clear path forward for Ukraine, there is a clear possibility that some countries individually might take action.” In particular, “the Poles would seriously consider going in,” triggering direct war between NATO and Russia.

 

https://zerohedge.com/geopolitical/will-upcoming-nato-summit-launch-forever-war-europe