Pentagon Accounting Error Allots Extra $6.2 Billion for Ukraine Military Aid

The Pentagon announced on June 20 that it had overestimated the value of American weapons sent to Ukraine over the past two years, making it possible to send another $6.2 billion worth of weapons without further congressional authorization.

Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh noted that the United States military originally used replacement costs rather than the book value of the equipment. Therefore, Defense Department accountants did not factor in $3.6 billion in depreciation on the equipment sent to Ukraine in 2023 and $2.6 billion in depreciation on the equipment sent in 2022.

Creative accounting: Based on previous estimates, the U.S. military has sent more than $40 billion to Ukraine since Russia invaded. Using new calculations, the military has only sent $34 billion to Ukraine and can send roughly $6 billion more before tapping into the other $73 billion Congress approved for Ukraine’s armed forces. Despite these multi-billion-dollar aid packages, Ukraine and Russia are still locked in a stalemate, while Republicans bent on slashing future aid packages gain ground in Congress.

Spent in vain: A sobering prophecy in Leviticus 26:20 warns that if the end-time Israelites (America, Britain and the Jewish nation in the Middle East) turned away from God, their “strength shall be spent in vain.”

The U.S. military spent at least $757 billion in Iraq, yet Iran is still taking over. The military also spent more than $849 billion in Afghanistan, yet still surrendered to the Taliban. It seems unlikely the $113 billion Congress has earmarked for Ukraine will make much difference.

It is like the late Herbert W. Armstrong wrote in the October 1961 Plain Truth, “Unless or until the United States as a whole repents and returns to what has become a hollow slogan on its dollars: ‘In God we trust,’ the United States of America has won its last war!”

Learn more: Read “Not Much Bang for the Buck.”