The US Department of Defense has failed its sixth annual audit in a row, but taxpayer money will keep going down that drain.
Recently, the Pentagon admitted it couldn’t account for trillions of dollars of US taxpayer money, having failed a massive yearly audit for the sixth year running.
The process consisted of the 29 sub-audits of the DoD’s various services, and only seven passed this year – no improvement over the last. These audits only began taking place in 2017, meaning that the Pentagon has never successfully passed one.
This year’s failure made some headlines, was commented upon briefly by the mainstream media, and then just as quickly forgotten by an American society accustomed to pouring money down the black hole of defense spending.
The defense budget of the United States is grotesquely large, its $877 billion dwarfing the $849 billion spent by the next ten nations with the largest defense expenditures. And yet, the Pentagon cannot fully account for the $3.8 trillion in assets and $4 trillion in liabilities it has accrued at US taxpayer expense, ostensibly in defense of the United States and its allies. As the Biden administration seeks $886 billion for next year’s defense budget (and Congress seems prepared to add an additional $80 billion to that amount), the apparent indifference of the American collective – government, media, and public – to how nearly $1 trillion in taxpayer dollars will be spent speaks volumes about the overall bankrupt nature of the American establishment.
Audits, however, are an accountant’s trick, a series of numbers on a ledger which, for the average person, do not equate to reality. Americans have grown accustomed to seeing big numbers when it comes to defense spending, and as a result, we likewise expect big things from our military. But the fact is, the US defense establishment increasingly physically resembles the numbers on the ledgers the accountants have been trying to balance – it just doesn’t add up.
Despite spending some $2.3 trillion on a two-decade military misadventure in Afghanistan, the American people witnessed the ignominious retreat from that nation live on TV in August 2021. Likewise, a $758 billion investment in the 2003 invasion and subsequent decade-long occupation of Iraq went south when the US was compelled to withdraw in 2011– only to return in 2014 for another decade of chasing down ISIS, itself a manifestation of the failures of the original Iraqi venture. Overall, the US has spent more than $1.8 trillion on its 20-year nightmare in Iraq and Syria.
These numbers are mind-numbingly large – so large that they become meaningless to the average person. The US defense enterprise is so massive that it is literally a mission impossible to speak of balancing the books. The American people might be willing to shrug off an accounting error or two. But the defense budget equates to American military power and the perceptions of national worth that translate into notions of American exceptionalism.
The fact of the matter is that our cavalier approach to defense spending has resulted in fraud of a massive scale. The American people were sold a bill of goods – a military capable of projecting power world-wide to sustain the so-called “rules based international order” upon which the notion of American exceptionalism has been premised. As it turns out, the US military is as hollow as the numbers on the Pentagon ledgers. The American people have bought an apparatus that is incapable of fighting and winning a major war against any of the potential opponents arrayed against it. We failed to defeat Al Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban. And we are not able to defeat either China or Russia, let alone regional powers like North Korea and Iran. And yet we will simply continue to invest, in seemingly unquestioning fashion, into this enterprise, expecting somehow that a system that cannot pass an audit will somehow magically produce a different result despite the fact that we, the American people, are doing nothing to demand such a result.
In short, the defense budget is the equivalent of “pay-to-play,” in which the American people pay the US government to produce the results necessary to sustain their overinflated sense of self-worth. We Americans have become so accustomed to being the biggest, baddest bully in the global arena that we assume that simply by pouring money into a system that had produced the desired results for more than seventy years that we could keep the good times rolling. But when you allocate money to a system that has been allowed to become conditioned to operate without accountability, don’t be surprised when the shiny mansion on the hill you thought you were buying turns out to be little more than a house of cards.
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Scott Ritter is 100% on course!
https://medium.com/@deborahlarmstrong/scott-ritter-2023-will-be-our-last-year-on-the-planet-197717d216e5
https://www.scottritterextra.com/p/why-i-no-longer-stand-with-israel?publication_id=6892&post_id=137939790&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=1u575z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MnwX49UDiM&t=12s
I have received identical word-for-word U.S. Senate response letters of generalities with regards to supporting the now-confirmed terrorist ‘Nation-State of Israel’, and the ‘unwavering’ support in BILLIONS of U.S. Dollars that American taxpayer money is being sucked into the Zionist War machine of terror, which is now confirmed to be a Genocide, a Holocaust, and a Holodomor that has violated every aspect of International Law and the Geneva Convention.
This is what the Congress unilaterally supports in a repeated ‘un-wavering’ fashion, probably due in part to being bribed, blackmailed, or honey-potted with underage girls by the Deep State Mossad Operatives…
Al-Jazeera is reporting that the most all of the Gaza Hospitals have been attacked, with graphic footage of young children bleeding-out on the floor from having both legs blown-off! There are many other atrocities, however, the essence of ’cause and effect’ that led to the 7 October attack by Hamas was sure to come based on being the Gaza and West Bank being surveilled, imprisoned, shelled, sniped-at and disenfranchised from natural resources by the Israelis FOR YEARS! More so than the 10 years of innocent ethnic Russians being killed in the Donbass by J3wi$h operatives serving a Ukrainian Zionist regime!
This morning, armed Israeli C@terpill@r bulldozers came thru a tent city in southwest Gaza and buried people alive!!! This was videotaped by Al-Jazeera, a network that the MSM conveniently ignores, and have run-out of the U.S..
Note to heavy equipment users; DO NOT PATRONISE C@TERPILL@R TRACTORS, ETC. and boycott the same!
The Jews certainly scream out about the Warsaw Ghetto, the Holocaust, and being under incessant attacks both politically, verbally and occasionally militarily, but ignore their imposition of the same conditions imposed upon Gaza by now-confirmed criminal State of Israel! ‘Never Again’ only applies to the J3w$, and no one else! The same was true of the mass starvations in the Ukraine and Russia in the 1930’s when the J*****-led Communist Bolsheviks stole the grain harvest from the Zeks, murdered those who had hidden food, and followed that act on with the Red Terror with 65 million dead!
Former Israeli PM Shulamit Aloni said of the Holocaust; “It’s a trick- we always use it when things are not going our (the J***) way!”.
I demand that both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate censure the Biden Cabinet, begin Presidential impeachment proceedings, and immediately with-hold ALL U.S. Taxpayer Money going to Israel..!
I would also go further to demand that the U.S. Carrier task Forces leave the area and NOT support the now well-defined criminal ‘Nation State of Israel’, lest the Israelis attack the two CTF’s in the same manner that the USS Liberty was attacked, and then the blame gets shifted onto an Arab / Moslem Nation as an excuse to drag the U.S. into a hot war for the purpose of the Israelis stealing the resources of the Middle East overall!
Rest assured, that after the last stolen election where barely anyone in the U.S. Senate or the U.S. House of Representatives spoke out about the vote fraud and vote swapping, I found my absentee vote cancelled or illegally swapped as evidenced by the many sworn affidavits that even the Supreme Court ignored!
I am also boycotting Israeli and Jewish-owned businesses where I currently live. The lovely thing about this is that there is NOTHING anyone can actually do about it! That includes Pep*#co entities,, Unil*v*r, St@rb^cks, and Text*on!
The U.S. was compromised by rabid Zionism via the 1913 establishment of the privately-owned Federal Reserve (Rothschild) Banking System. It has been further compromised by the Zionist Agenda that most all of the U.S. so-called ‘elected’ representatives have either wantonly and/or with great ignorance support were caught in an act of being compromised by the Mossad / CIA / FBI / Alphabet Agencies and blackmailed into supporting Israel with ‘unwavering commitment”. We will ALL soon be treated like the Palestinians by the so-called ‘superior race’ of small hatters and yamulk wearers as most of law enforcement in the West are trained by the Israelis.
When Gaza and the West Bank have been totally destroyed, Israel will then go into both Lebanon and Jordan, as per the announcement by the Israeli Defence Minister as of this morning, and when that is finished, then they will launch attacks on the weaker Eastern European Nations in their quest to re-establish Khazaria, as Zelensky has failed in that J***** venture!
By that time the U.S. invasion will have gone hot, and will run coincidentally with Civil War ll.
Every race of people has an intelligentsia: people who are very educated and, who understand chemistry, physics, aerodynamics, engineering, mechanics, biochemistry, advanced math etc and therefore have the know-how to put stuff together (e.g. IEDs) in order to defend their homeland.
Palestinians are defending their homeland similarly to how Iraqis were defending their homeland when invaded. Did that make the Iraqis terrorists or “Al-Qaeda”? No. Neither are Palestinians who are fighting for their survival terrorists or “Hamas”. Both “Al-Qaeda” and “Hamas” are non-existent made-up of purely imaginary boogeymen groups used to justify terror and dehumanization against a targeted population.
9/11 was an inside job carried out together with and ultimately masterminded by Mossad and their ‘dual-citizen’ Zionist agents. An imaginary group called “Al-Qaeda” was then blamed in order to justify the invasion and dehumanization of Iraq etc.similar to Hillary Clinton’s brainchild called ISIS. The U.S. Army War College has now confirmed this via their team of professors that the Mossad planned and carried-out the 9-11 attacks.
In the aftermath of 9/11 the US media showed an out-of-context video segment of Palestinians dancing, and laughing. However it was dishonest. The full video clip actually shows Jews holding candy and telling the Palestinians to dance, celebrate, and laugh; the Jews then throw candy at them.
So the first portion of the video which shows the Jews holding candy and telling the Palestinians to dance, laugh and celebrate, was NOT shown by the US media; neither was the last portion of the video clip which showed the Jews throwing candy at the Palestinians. Palestinians have been victim to enormous defamations and an avalanche of unsubstantiated allegations from their enemies (similar to how the Bush administration said Iraq was harboring the “Al-Qaeda” terrorists and weapons of mass destruction).
Palestine would never ever attack the invaders to provoke them. Israeli settlers themselves have stated that IDF troops killed Jewish settlers via confirmed post-mortem ballistics recovered by the coroners. The Palestinians are being falsely accused in the same way Assad was falsely accused of using chemical weapons against his own people even though the US said it was a red line (many dis-proven unscientific fake videos were staged of fake victims but eventually NATO and its imported terror groups did use chemical weapons against Syrians and it was blamed on Assad). No attack happened against the invaders/occupiers.
RT, “Pentagon paid PR firm $540mn to make fake terrorist videos,” 2 Oct. 2016 ( https://www.rt.com/usa/361385-pentagon-pr-firm-terrorist-videos/
For too long the American People have tolerated Noahide Law over-riding the U.S. Constitution, and the employment of Israeli-trained U.S. Law Enforcement that now terrorizes the American People using Talmudic guidelines to do the same! Americans, and especially Veterans, are targeted as ‘Potential Terrorists’ and are in the PRISM databases.
Scott Ritter is absolutely correct; but he has access to Russia where he will probably end-up seeking political asylum away from the tyrannical U.S. of A without fear of being extradited, like Ed Snowden, Patrick Lancaster, and John Mark Dugan. One can only hope that Julian Assange and Kim Dotcom can make their way to Russia also so that all decent people like them can be safe and free.
https://ourcountryourchoice.com/
Flight 77 (Pentagon)
http://whale.to/b/flight_77.html
Strange Scott mentions $2.3t?
Just about as strange as the jet engines
The hardest substance known to man
That were never found