US accidentally refueled Saudi warplanes over Yemen for free - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/us-accidentally-refueled-saudi-warplanes-over-yemen/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Amid a push by the Senate to vote on ending US support for the Saudi-led coalition waging war in Yemen this week, a new report indicates that American tankers have been refueling Saudi coalition jets with gas paid for by US taxpayers because of “errors in accounting.” Millions of dollars have likely been drained from US coffers to support the Saudi-campaign, according to the report. Though Washington “believed” Riyadh and the United Arab Emirates “had been charged for the fuel and refueling services, they in fact had not been charged adequately,” wrote William S. Castle, principal deputy general counsel at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in a November 27 letter obtained by The Atlantic. In the letter, one of the Pentagon’s top attorneys acknowledges that free refueling services for the Saudi coalition cost more money than he could calculate. While one might think that someone at the 3 million-person organization that is the Pentagon would know exactly how much the US is owed, Castle said in the letter that the department is “currently calculating the correct charges.” Tens of millions of dollars is probably a decent estimate of how much US taxpayers have contributed to the Saudi campaign, according to The Atlantic. A spokesperson from the Pentagon confirmed the letter’s contents and its authenticity to the publication late last week. “Although DoD has received some reimbursement for inflight refueling assistance provided to the Saudi-led coalition (SLC), US Central Command recently reviewed its records and found errors in accounting where DoD failed to charge the SLC adequately for fuel and refueling services,” said Commander Rebecca Rebarich, speaking to The Atlantic.

"Accidentally"

We cannot get off oil fast enough.

We don't even get most of our oil from the Saudis though.

But those weapons contracts

And you wonder why people don't like to pay taxes... Taxation is necessary for macro society to function and under-the-table deals like this shit erodes the fuck outta that.

Actively supporting one of the worst humanitarian crises in modern history, and can’t even get the accounting right. I guess exterminating human life is something you can’t put a price on.

Money talks louder than people's lives and "we have to protect those weapons contracts" that stopping one the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history. and who's gonna try to stop the Saudis when you've got USA as a friend.

I eagerly await the day that the oil money runs out for the Saudis, the oil and the fact that they/OPEC has everyone's balls in a vice is the only thing allowing them to keep up the illusion of being a civilized state, and that Shia rebellion shaped house of cards is coming down the fucking moment the money dries up, and i'll do nothing but laugh, watch the fireworks and morn the loss of all those bitchin' cars.

https://twitter.com/samueloakford/status/1073327406784634880 https://twitter.com/samueloakford/status/1073327767574450176

warplanes and jets in general will probably never get off oil, but their impact can be offset as opposed to the hundreds of millions of cars and hundreds of coal powerplants out there.

I meant that as in we need to stop being Saudi Arabia's little bitch. They tell us what to do because we're "allies".

https://i.redd.it/nfnea7d1xz321.png