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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 21 hours ago

How Ukraine lost hundreds of millions on arms deals gone wrong

www.ft.com

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How Ukraine lost hundreds of millions on arms deals gone wrong

www.ft.com

☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 21 hours ago
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Desperate to source munitions, Kyiv paid foreign brokers for weapons and shells that were sometimes unusable or never arrived

https://archive.ph/iiQLJ

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  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Maybe I’m just ignorant to the ways of military procurement but why is some small business dipshit in Arizona being contracted to supply millions of dollars of ammunition?

    Wasn’t there a Jonah Hill movie about this?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOP
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      Well if you have better suggestions for how to embezzle millions of dollars then I’d love to hear it.

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    Never arrived? Or, Ukrainian military officials marked them as “not received” and then sold them on the black market?

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      You’re telling me that hundreds of millions worth of weapons could simply disappear in one of the most corrupt countries in the world?

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        Whoa, we don’t use terms like ‘corrupt’ for them sweety, you need to refer to the map international-community-1international-community-2

        • MemesAreTheory [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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          Ironically, Ukraine is not marked as green on that map.

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            Map was made before the ‘War of Russian Aggression’, they’re an honorary member now*

            *Provided they privatize everything and sell it to western capital at discount

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            They don’t have enough golf courses yet, making them an Emerging Democracy ™

          • whatdoiputhere12 [any, he/him]@hexbear.net
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            Neither is Poland or the baltics, and for some reason Finland.

            However if this map gets updated, should the balkans be added?

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        sans-shrug

    • Evilphd666 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      DOGE can’t audit the Pentagon. Must only slash social services,

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    …lost …

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