{"id":127463,"date":"2022-08-06T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T21:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=127463"},"modified":"2022-08-06T17:31:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T21:31:33","slug":"con-of-the-year-armaments-sent-to-ukraine-are-being-sold-on-the-black-market-not-reaching-the-front-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=127463","title":{"rendered":"CON OF THE YEAR: Armaments sent to Ukraine are being sold on the black market not reaching the front lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Submitted by Harold Saive<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Arming Ukraine | CBS Reports &#8211; 8\/4\/22<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><b><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Note: This documentary remains silent on the issue of Azov neo-Nazis and how Israel is supplying them with assault rifles and other weapons.<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5sJLNjS9stg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/youtu.be\/5sJLNjS9stg&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1659907751294000&amp;usg=AOvVaw205XHpBa4V9ANSf9NoKEOb\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/5sJLNjS9stg<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Estimates are that only 30% of armaments sent to Ukraine are reaching front-line troops. Oligarch power-plays and black market re-selling of arms are discussed.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Flooding a country with advanced weapons can have grave consequences, even when done with the best of intentions.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This CBS Reports documentary goes inside Ukraine to get a firsthand look at how military aid gets from the border to fron-tline soldiers, and explores the difficulties of getting the aid to the fighters who need it<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}