Posted on 11/18/2022 9:49:12 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department spent more than $2.6 billion between May and October of this year replenishing stocks of key weaponry and equipment dispatched to Ukraine to support its ongoing fight against Russia — but it will still take “multiple years” for the US to be fully resupplied, according to a fact sheet obtained by The Post.
“Replacement contracts are expected to deliver over multiple years, as many capabilities delivered to Ukraine, such as advanced munitions, have two-to-three-year production times,” the Pentagon said.
The money comes from a pot of more than $14 billion Congress approved earlier this year to top up Pentagon stocks, according to the fact sheet and an Oct. 21 Congressional Research Service report. To date, the Pentagon has decided how it wants to spend about $7 billion of the funds.
The biggest replenishment expense over the May through October period was $663 million paid to Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Javelin Joint Venture for new Javelin anti-tank weapon systems, according to the fact sheet.
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Wish I had a company that made HIMARS missiles. It could take up to 3 years to produce all the missiles being sent to Ukraine. And, after seeing how effective they are, countries all over the world (including NATO members) are ordering them by the dozens.
Ping.
Ukraine is not ours. Dump the obsession with this problem.
Even if you don’t care about the money, depleting stock is irresponsible.
We might need that stuff to defend actual US interests in the intervening period.
Shush....the democrats got this....what could go wrong?
I think we’re over $1 trillion cost for some other country’s war
Ukraine is a money laundering scheme to funnel tax payer money through Ukraine back to politicians and their friends in the Defense industry.
It’s obvious to anyone who is honest.
Afghanistan dried up, so the military industrial complex needed another honeyhole.
Tell me I’m wrong.
All you have to do is buy stock in LMT...a publicly traded company.
Please link to that $1 trillion spent
Nathan _in_Arkansas wrote: “Ukraine is a money laundering scheme to funnel tax payer money through Ukraine back to politicians and their friends in the Defense industry. Tell me I’m wrong.”
You’re wrong.
I knew I should have invested in Defense Contractors.
Stifle yourselves, Putin dupes and clowns. SLAVA UKRAINI! ! !
Now tell me you actually believe I’m wrong.
Military industrial complex has to keep spending the money that’s no longer spent in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It's corporate welfare for the "defense" industry. Defund and dismantle. The USA is finished anyway.
GIBS-ME-DAT and DEPLETE YOUR VITAL SUPPLIES.
Nathan _in_Arkansas wrote: “Now tell me you actually believe I’m wrong.”
You’re wrong. If you really think “Ukraine is a money laundering scheme to funnel tax payer money through Ukraine back to politicians and their friends in the Defense industry”, then you also have to think that Putin launched the invasion to make US politicians rich and bolster the US defense industry. Since that is absurd, you’re wrong, really, really wrong.
You’re absolutely right.......
<><>Ukraine gets billions in Us tax dollars
<><>Zelensky and his pals take a cut
<><>the rest is deposited in an offshore bank for BIDEN, etc
You are naive to think that the MIC and the world elite couldn’t have possibly set the conditions to provoke a madman like putin into the desired response in order to launder billions while attempting to disrupt the Russian energy supply while we sabotaged our own energy supply.
I wish this were simply putin acting like a fool, but it’s bigger than that. He was a useful idiot to the globalist.
Look further than the first six inches in front of your face.
If you’re not at least skeptical, you trust the government and media too much.
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