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    Who’s the Target? NDAA Demands Pentagon Avoid Russian Gas at German Barracks

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    The US' yearly defense authorization act that passed through the Senate this week contains language that demands the Pentagon to minimize use of Russian energy supplies for US matters inside Germany.

    The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which contains a litany of small, obscure provisions wrapped into one much larger bill stipulating how much the Department of Defense is authorized to spend in the next fiscal year, states that the Pentagon ought to “minimize the use of fuels sourced from inside the Russian Federation.” The lawmakers decided to call this year's NDAA the “John S. McCain NDAA.”

    Lawmakers want to stop the Pentagon from buying energy at a medical facility in southwestern Germany until the military proves that the energy is not originating in , according to a Thursday Stars and Stripes report.

    The new Rhine Ordnance Barracks Medical Center is required to use a diversified range of energy inputs in order to be able to keep up “mission critical operations during any sustained energy supply disruption caused by the Russian Federation,” according to a provision in the NDAA. The new medical facility is scheduled to open in 2023.

    “Our military now has the chance to demonstrate leadership by strategically reducing our own usage of Russian energy,” Sens. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Bob Casey (D-PA) said in a July 25 letter addressed to Pentagon chief James…

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