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Posted on 01/25/2023 9:33:27 AM PST by Kazan
It’s apparently safe now to make the obvious point that Ukraine is run by fiends and so maybe dumping American taxpayer dollars on the corrupt little nation without any strings attached was a little hasty.
Maybe we’re getting ahead of ourselves, but The New York Times on Tuesday did take time to report the slew of firings and forced resignations of top Ukrainian government officials, a push by President Volodymyr Zelensky(yyy), for the purpose of “reassuring Ukraine’s allies — which are sending billions of dollars in military aid — that his government would show zero tolerance for graft…”
Well, that was kind of him. Maybe now Democrats and even idiot Republicans will stop countering every question about our involvement with Ukraine by declaring their critics to be Pervs for Putin.
The war-loving romantics of Congress haven’t seen a dollar they wouldn’t like to send to Ukraine, even as it’s been rated by foreign aid nonprofits and humanitarian organizations as one of Europe’s most crooked countries for years, over and over.
The firings and resignations substantively mean very little. Zelensky’s administration released no explanation for them, nor are there any official details about specific evidence of corruption, other than that one of Zelensky’s deputies rode around town in a General Motors-donated SUV that was supposed to be for “humanitarian missions” (rather than, say, for attending a Vogue cover photoshoot). There’s also something about using government funds — that is to say, U.S. taxpayer dollars — to buy eggs at an inflated price, raising the grave question: Why were they shopping for eggs in America?
Over the course of nearly a year, the U.S. has spent $113 billion on Ukraine and counting. Every step of the way, anyone with a question about why or for whom or to what end has been shouted down as a Putin sympathizer or dismissed as anti-democracy. And then Zelensky shows up to tell us we’re not doing enough.
At least the Times has come around to acknowledging that Ukraine isn’t the squeaky clean operation that the White House, most of Congress, and all of the corporate media insist that it is. Maybe next we’ll be allowed to openly state that Ukraine and NATO were antagonizers of this war, and funding it indefinitely is probably doing more harm than good.
Corrupt countries don’t fire corrupt officials. Firing corrupt officials is not evidence of corruption, it is evidence of the intolerance of corruption.
Brandon’s kind a town.
Modified limited hangout.
Looks like this latest scam has about run its course.
$113 billion
That’s 11.3 billion for the Big Guy.
and Russia is broke, corrupt, AND a warmongering police state
(the only one in Europe)
That's quite an assumption.
It’s the pedoPIG’s personal pig pen....
It wallows in it, thrives in it....loves the stench of it. /s
And so does its UniParty hack buddies......
Historically. corrupt officials just get replaced with other corrupt officials, unless there is systemic change.
Ukraine still has much of cultural ethos from its Soviet days, when corruption was rampant and accepted as normal. The need to clean it up.
This is not to say that I don’t think we need to help them。 I’m sure the French government was corrupt too before Hitler invaded, and our support of France was not an endorsement of their government, but their nation as a whole.
The same applies here, support of Ukraine against a Russian invasion is not an endorsement of their current government. It’s an endorsement of their people’s right to self-government.
“Maybe next we’ll be allowed to openly state that Ukraine and NATO were antagonizers of this war...”
You’re free to state whatever you want, and we’re free to laugh at you for being a sucker.
US Abrams to be delivered. What a cluster…
Prior to Russia’s war of conquest Ukraine was on path to join the EU and that requires purging corruption from government and normalizing their judicial practices with other EU countries.
It’s part of what Putin fears the most with Ukraine. He’s afraid that a prosperous Ukraine where people don’t have to bribe officials in order to live their lives will be a bad influence on Russians.
Imagine Russians deciding that they too want to have a government where bribery and favoritism is not the way things get done.
My guess is Zelensky wants a bigger piece of the action, so he’s getting rid of the competition.
“US Abrams to be delivered. What a cluster…”
Only when they use grapeshot.
Where’s he hiding all this money?
There’s got to be an electronic trail, somewhere...
Lindsey and Mitch are on board for endless war, defending the most corrupt nation in Europe.
Print more billions for the Ukrainian comedian-in-chief !
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As usual, the NYT is WRONG.
First, the NYT’s FAVORITE marxist’s (aka the Biden Admin) are equally and indisputably as corrupt as Ukraine.
Second, Ukraine is fighting a war of SURVIVAL yet they are taking a time out to fire some crooks.
The NYT would get something right for a change to start naming names of crooks in Biden’s administration (we all know who most of them are!) and demanding their immediate firing and prosecution. At that point, maybe they will have A LITTLE credibility.
“...Russia is broke, corrupt, AND a warmongering police state...”
But not Canada, eh? And Fidel Castro’s illegitimate love child ( aka: that douche Trudeau) is a such a wonderful example of a kind, loving and benevolent dictator.
Give it a rest.
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