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The Pentagon’s $2.2 Billion Soviet Arms Pipeline Flooding Syria

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It’s not the money that bothers me. It’s the fact that we’ve fallen so low to believe that breaking the law is ok as long as it’s us. Imagine our outrage if a different country did the same thing. We used to stand for something good.

The defeat of Islamic State in Syria is reliant on a questionable supply-line, funnelling unprecedented quantities of weapons and ammunition from Eastern Europe to some 30,000 anti-ISIS rebel fighters.

Armed with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades fresh from state-owned production lines and stockpiles of the Balkans, Central Europe and increasingly the former Soviet Union, these US-backed troops are spearheading the battle to reclaim Raqqa, the capital of the so-called caliphate, and liberate other areas of Syria held by ISIS. Read more here.