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NEW PENTAGON POLICY COULD DIVERT WEAPONS BUILT FOR UKRAINE BACK INTO US STOCKPILES
>Last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth paused a large package of weapons shipments to Ukraine. At the time, Hegseth was acting in accordance with the Pentagon memo, written by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Elbridge Colby, a noted skeptic of arming Ukraine.
>While sources said weapons don’t appear to have been diverted yet, the provision could rob Ukraine of billions of dollars worth of US-made materiel expected to be delivered over the coming months and years.
"rob" lol. Ukraine not getting free materiel from the US is the US "robbing" Ukraine.
>The Colby memo, which Hegseth approved, remains the department’s policy, the sources said. It categorizes US stockpiles into “red,” “yellow” and “green” categories, the sources added. The red and yellow categories include weapons the Pentagon assesses to be in short supply, and now require explicit signoff by Hegseth before they are sent anywhere else.
>Interceptor missiles for Patriot air defense systems, for example, are in the red category, the sources said. The weapons package that was paused by Hegseth last month included dozens of interceptors, but Trump ordered Hegseth to keep those flowing after finding out about the pause, CNN has reported. The Defense Department has broadly been following that directive to send the interceptors, the sources said.
>But other weapons in the package were also in the red category, the sources said. It is not clear whether they have been delivered, despite the country’s continued need for layered air defenses to protect its cities from daily Russian missile and drone attacks.
>A source who has read the memo said “anything short of the President saying go ahead might not get through.”
LMAO the impotent seething of the Westablishment, as exemplified by the visitors to this bread, is so, so delicious.
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