Report: US military may run out of money for Ukraine

The US military may run out of money for the Ukraine conflict as Republicans are planning to cut Pentagon appropriations for Ukraine, according to a report.

Citing US Department of Defense internal documents and officials familiar with the matter, Politico magazine reported on Saturday that Congress has until December 16 to pass a full-year defense stopgap bill, known as a continuing resolution, or a CR, as Republicans and Democrats debate appropriations.

The resolution is supposed to cut Pentagon funding by $29 billion compared to what the Biden administration requested for the fiscal year 2023, the report said.

This means that the Pentagon would have to abandon certain projects, including unchecked military aid to Kiev to fund its war with Russia.

Pentagon’s chief financial officer Michael McCord reportedly said on Saturday that the US would have problems transporting new munitions to Ukraine as the funds marked by Kiev would run out in spring.

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Meanwhile, US House Armed Service Chair Adam Smith on Saturday rejected Republican arguments that there isn’t enough oversight of American military assistance to Ukraine.

The Washington state Democrat said the GOP claim that tens of billions in Ukraine aid isn’t overseen properly “makes me a little crazy.”

He also claimed that those assertions are part of the Russian disinformation campaign.

“Number one, the focus on that is part of Russian propaganda. All these stories about how the money isn’t being spent wisely,” Smith said during a panel.

“Second, Ukraine is spending the money really well,” Smith said. “That’s why they’re winning.”

US Congress has allocated a total of $65 billion in funding for Kiev since Russia began its military operation in Ukraine in late February, according to an NBC News report.

The US State Department however said recently that the Biden administration’s total commitment to Kiev was nearly $19.7 billion.

US President Joe Biden has said he expects American aid to Ukraine will continue without interruption despite opposition by Republicans, who are expected to use their new majority in the House of Representatives to monitor the flow of aid.

Russia has repeatedly warned that supplying Kiev with more and more weapons will only exacerbate the conflict, which is now in its ninth month.

Continuously flooding Ukraine with weapons "will only drag the conflict out and make it more painful for the Ukrainian side, but it will not change our goals and the end result," the Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said earlier this month.

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Peskov insisted that the US was in reality engaged in the Ukraine conflict. "The US de facto has become deeply involved," he said.

Meanwhile, a former Ronald Reagan administration official said the United States is using the Ukraine conflict as a tool to weaken Russia.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, who was assistant secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the 1980s, wrote in a recent article that the Biden administration is not at all concerned about the plight of the people of Ukraine and is prepared to sacrifice the country on the altar of weakening Russia.

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