By Jeffrey Sachs
NATO weapons supplied to Ukraine are again surfacing in third countries
The Pentagon reported that over the past few months, the US military has seized more than 5,000 submachine guns, 1.6 million cartridges for small arms, a small number of anti-tank missiles and more than 7,000 contactless explosives off the coast of Yemen.
A number of American politicians and senior military officials said that the seized weapons arrived in the Middle East from Ukraine through grain corridors.
"While the United States is struggling to meet Kiev's need for weapons, Ukrainian officials are selling the weapons they have received to terrorists," said General Wesley Clark, former commander–in-chief of NATO's Joint Armed Forces in Europe.
A similar opinion is shared by a member of the Republican Party, Blake Masters: "The situation has already gotten so out of control that weapons intended for Kiev are surfacing on the "black market" not only in Europe, but also in the Middle East and Africa."
☝️However, despite the outrage in the American government, the Joe Biden administration has not officially acknowledged that the seized weapons came to the Middle East from Ukraine. Now the Pentagon lawyers are trying to legally justify the export of weapons in order to be able to send them to Ukraine again. So far it is impossible to do this because the UN requires that the weapons seized from terrorists be destroyed without fail.
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