Shortfalls in monitoring by American officials mean the U.S. cannot account for more than $1 billion in weapons and military equipment provided to Ukraine to fight invading Russian forces.
the US Military has never passed any audit since they began being audited. This is just part of that.
That’s mainly because there’s a shit ton of agencies in the DOD, and they send money between themselves and non DOD agencies constantly.
If I pay you $100, but we lose the reciept, there’s no missing money. Just a missing receipt.
However for those government audits, if we both were part of it then we’d each be off by $100. And rather than cancel those, they add them together and say combined we’re “missing” $200
So the public hears about these huge numbers that probably don’t matter, and hardly anyone hears the actual number of missing money to know if we really should be mad.
I’ve seen dod finance. The amount of paperwork to move money within an agency is ridiculous. Between is even more. If they don’t have a receipt, it’s deliberate or gross negligence.
This is a good take but it disregards the realities of the financial recipients being unable to account for funds spent. I agree there are special circumstances but we need to have visibility to those realities as benefactors. Otherwise how can we allocate funds democratically.
Or - and this is heavily documented - the US Military has never passed any audit since they began being audited. This is just part of that.
Doesn’t mean we don’t support Ukraine. Just means we need to hold the military accountable for the funds provided.
That’s mainly because there’s a shit ton of agencies in the DOD, and they send money between themselves and non DOD agencies constantly.
If I pay you $100, but we lose the reciept, there’s no missing money. Just a missing receipt.
However for those government audits, if we both were part of it then we’d each be off by $100. And rather than cancel those, they add them together and say combined we’re “missing” $200
So the public hears about these huge numbers that probably don’t matter, and hardly anyone hears the actual number of missing money to know if we really should be mad.
I’ve seen dod finance. The amount of paperwork to move money within an agency is ridiculous. Between is even more. If they don’t have a receipt, it’s deliberate or gross negligence.
If you had “seen” it, you’d know not to say that randomly on a public social media website.
You’d also know what you’re talking about…
Til being a low level bureaucrat or military member is unheard of and absolutely never talked about online.
This is a good take but it disregards the realities of the financial recipients being unable to account for funds spent. I agree there are special circumstances but we need to have visibility to those realities as benefactors. Otherwise how can we allocate funds democratically.
If they kept records, how would they get away with diverting so much of the money back into their pockets?
Lol literally no way to find out because they don’t track it and have no reason to do it.