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**Rewriting reality. Perception management at work.
Accounting “errors” Cooking the books**.

**All being done so more weapons can flow to Ukraine and Biden can manage the debt ceiling issue** **to save political face.**

[MalayMail](https://www.malaymail.com/news/world/2023/05/19/pentagon-accounting-error-overvalued-ukraine-weapons-aid-by-us3b-says-sources/69920)

WASHINGTON, May 19 — **The Pentagon overestimated the value of the ammunition, missiles and other equipment it sent to Ukraine by around US$3 billion** (RM13.64 billion), a Senate aide and a defence official said on Thursday, **an error that may lead the way for more weapons being sent to Kyiv for its defence against Russian forces**.

> **an error that may lead the way for more weapons being sent to Kyiv for its defence against Russian forces**.

> **The error was the result of assigning a higher than warranted value on weaponry that was taken from US stocks and then shipped to Ukraine,** two senior defence officials said on Thursday.

> **“We’ve discovered inconsistencies in how we value the equipment that we’ve given” to Ukraine one of the senior defence officials told Reuters.** The officials and the Senate aide spoke on the condition of anonymity. Congress is being notified of the accounting adjustment on Thursday, the sources said.

> **The defence official said it is possible the amount of overvalued weaponry could grow beyond $3 billion** as the Pentagon examines the situation more thoroughly.
> 
> In its accounting, the Pentagon used replacement cost to value the weapons aid, instead of the weaponry’s value when it was purchased and depreciated, the senior defence officials said.
> 
> **Since August 2021, the United States has sent weapons valued at about US$21.1 billion to Ukraine from its stockpiles.**
> 
> **Changing the valuation of the equipment could delay the Biden administrations’ need to ask Congress to authorise more funds for Ukraine as the debt ceiling fight intensifies.**

**Well that’s convenient- no need to ask Congress to authorise more funds for Ukraine when you, allegedly, haven’t used up the funding already allotted.**