Pentagon Claims $10 Billion in Additional Weaponry is Needed to Replenish Supply After Arming Ukraine for Years
Shane Trejo
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The Pentagon is claiming that it will need an additional $10 billion in weaponry in order to replenish their supply after sending many stockpiles of weapons over to Ukraine in recent years to fight their endless proxy war against Russia.
The U.S. Senate has approved the additional $10 billion to the Pentagon as part of a $95 billion bill to enhance foreign military aid, but the legislation has not yet been picked up by the U.S. House. The Pentagon is nervous as a result of the bill’s stalling and are very predictably claiming that the U.S. military will be harmed if the taxpayer money is not spent.
“It would come back on our own readiness on our own stockpile to a certain extent if we can’t get new funding,” a DoD official told Politico. The Pentagon still has the ability to send over $4.1 billion to the Ukraine as part of the presidential drawdown authority. They have reportedly given at least $44 billion to the country since the war with Russia started in Feb. 2022.
In addition to what has been spent by the Pentagon, Ukraine has received an additional $30 billion in military from the European Union with much more to come, as Big League Politics has noted:
“According to an internal document crafted by the European Commission and the European Union diplomatic body, the European Union sent €28 billion of total military aid to Ukraine thus far and are set to send roughly €21.2 billion more for 2024.
“This [€28 billion] figure is expected to increase in the coming period, as concrete deliveries will be further confirmed,” the document stated. The figures reflect aid deployments from European capitals and via mechanisms that are under the direct control of Brussels.
The document highlights that the €21.2 billion number for 2024 is a “preliminary” projection based on details put forward by a “limited number” of EU nations.
As the most recent US aid package for Ukraine is blocked in the Congress, the burden to assist Ukraine in staving off Russia’s invasion is now going to have to be assumed. In an op-ed that was published on January 31, 2024, leaders from five EU nations — Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, and the Netherlands — called on Europe to support Ukraine for the long haul.
Europe should know better than to follow the DC/London neoconservative agenda on foreign policy.”
The insanity will never end because it’s too lucrative and beneficial to corporate and political elites. The War Machine has gone mad with hubris, and the world may be completely destroyed as a result.
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