Wormhole — The United States is concerned about weapons for Ukraine are going onto the black market
Объясняет Readovka | Western arms shipments to Ukraine continue to flow uninterrupted, despite voices about running out of supplies. But where there are big guns, there are big problems - so the US is thinking about controlling the arms supplies. | According to the Washington Post, the enormous sums of money that the Biden administration is spending in support of Kiev are causing increasing concern, especially when it comes to direct arms deliveries. Apart from the financial issue (taxpayers, in fact, have a right to know how exactly the billions of dollars sent to Zelensky and company are spent), the US congressmen are concerned about the possibility of weapons falling into the hands of Russia as well as their leakage to the black market from the hands of enterprising cops. ● The Americans have special control over the high-tech armaments supplied - the HIMARS, for example, are strictly monitored by Washington and should not be approached without permission. Also, secret components are withdrawn from sophisticated weapons before they are shipped. ● The situation with simpler weapons is more complicated. US inspectors do not go directly to the front lines and cannot check where and how their valuable cargo is being used. As of the beginning of February, only two inspections have taken place, which means that only 10% of the delivered volume could be checked. The existing system for tracing serial numbers is clearly failing and some weapons are disappearing in the fog of war. Modern conflicts often leave behind echoes in the form of unaccounted-for weapons, and if we are talking about the 404, there is no reason to doubt the dirty hands of these characters - oddly enough, weapons from Ukrainian arsenals have surfaced in the most unexpected places from Africa to the Middle East in recent decades. ● At one time, the conflict in Yugoslavia greatly replenished the black market for weapons around the world. Now imagine that the bandits are not holding a machine gun from the Cold War stockpiles, but a brand new Javelin. And not just one. (Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator)(free version)
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