Tuesday, February 11, 2025

Is Ukraine selling US weapons to cartels and on the black market???

 

Tucker Carlson thinks so.  Here he discusses the possibility with retired LtCol Daniel Davis.  The video is keyed to start and end at the appropriate segment of their conversation, which is about five minutes in length.




That's a terrifying thought.  What if a drug cartel, or a well-funded terrorist movement, bought a few MANPADS (man-portable ground-to-air missiles) and used them to bring down an airliner or two?  They could shut down the entire commercial air market in a country, or even more than one country.  The damage that would do to the world economy is catastrophic, to say the least.

I'm looking for more evidence to substantiate Mr. Carlson's claim that Ukraine is selling weapons on the black market.  I'm not talking about rumor or innuendo - I mean hard evidence, like matching up serial numbers of weapons against shipments.  If any reader has more information about that, please let us know in Comments.

Peter


11 comments:

Fredrick said...

Of course they are. The moment they left our hands they left our control. Just like our $

Francis Turner said...

Tucker Carlson is being an idiot.
First, thanks in significant part to the Biden maladmistration's deliberate slow-walking of promised aid, Ukraine doesn't have stuff to sell
Second, and relatedly, it seems almost certain that the majority of the corruption in aid to Ukraine has occurred either in the US/Europe where things are "refurbished" or in moneys via USAID and the like.

Now did they do a deal with the Syrian rebels? probably. But that was Ukraine developed drones not US weaponry. And it looks like that has netted them some significant aid in return in addition to cutting off Russia's African adventures. But they would have no interest in generic weapons sales of US weapons because they need to use them to fight the Russians

Dan said...

Ukraine....it's government, is corrupt. Every bit as corrupt as Moscow and the Demonrat party here. So if they can make some money selling the weapons they were given and pocketing that cash you can bet the farm they will do so.

Anonymous said...

A Great Reckoning is coming, and it's name is Donald Trump. We've already seen how ruthless he has been with our domestic government criminals; just think how bad it will be for these foreign leeches that have stolen our treasure. It will be Biblical, and I'm grateful to be alive in this moment to watch it all unfold.

Grog said...

Having or getting firm evidence of this will not be easy, Peter, as you most likely know already, because the people that could provide it don't want to lose their security clearance for providing it, and given the atmosphere of the black market weapons network, wouldn't want to end up outside the circles of influence, so to speak. For all we know, manpads or other weapons were brought into the country several years ago.

0007 said...

And the little Jewish comedian running that country just recently bought his wife a four million dollar Bugatti. Wonder where that money came from???

riverrider said...

of course they are. don't you remember that uke transport plane that went down early in the war? full of our guns, outbound. heck, the ukrainian army is operating in africa while we defend ukraine. i suspect the cia was paying them but i'm not sure on the who. our weapons are turning up all over the world, and not just the ones we left in the stan.

Peter said...

@0007: That Bugatti story is false. It was made up by Russian propaganda specialists, and has been debunked by several investigations that proved there was no such transaction. As for "Jewish comedian" . . . what has his religion (if he practices any at all - I don't know) got to do with it?

McChuck said...

There were numerous reports from the field, back in 2023, of Ukraine dividing up arms shipments right after receiving them. One third went to the front, one third to the reserves, and one third for export.

Mind your own business said...

Remember Beghazi was all about the State Department trying to recover MANPADS (Stingers) they gave (without Congressional authorization) to Islamic radicals to foment color revolutions on the Arab Street that were starting to show up in Afghanistan.

So of course US weapons are being sold by Ukraine on the Black Markets. I don't need that much hard evidence. I don't need to count the tiger's teeth ripping me apart to know I'm being attacked. I know how the world works and I've seen it before. I have enough mental wherewithal to draw inferences, and make logical connections. That's how the human mind works. Even a court of law doesn't require 100% certainty ... a preponderance of the evidence or beyond a reasonable doubt are enough to convict. When there isn't a cloud in the sky, I'm being pissed on, not rained on.

STxAR said...

I figure if the Ukes don't the Taliban will or either have already. That's why The President wasn't on his own plane during the last of the race.