Posted on 02/01/2023 6:18:23 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Ukraine scored 33 out of 100 on corruption in 2022, which puts the country near the bottom third out of 180 countries scored, according to the annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) published this week by non-profit Transparency International.
Out of 180 countries scored, Ukraine was the 116th most corrupt, according to the yearly ranking published on Tuesday.
Ukraine’s score of 33 was one point higher than in 2021, but the same as the year before, 2020.
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And that's the reason Americans don't care whether the slavs murder each other.
Per Wikipedia:
“Transparency International e.V. (TI) is a German registered association founded in 1993 by former employees of the World Bank. Based in Berlin...”
Oh, yeah. Totally legit and non-biased organization based in Berlin and probably funded by Schwab and Soros.
Funny thing - I don't hear many people suggesting that the US should send tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and weapons to Russia.
;^)
"Q. How corrupt was Poland when Germany invaded in 1939?
"A. It doesn't matter. All that matters is that Germany sent tanks across a sovereign border.
"Same applies here."
How do you do with the question of US military involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and many more? Does the same argument apply? How many tanks did we leave for the Taliban within its "sovereign border," is one among many interesting questions.
> How do you do with the question of US military involvement in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and many more? Does the same argument apply? <
That’s a fair question. Afghanistan was a special case, as they attacked us. But my previous argument sure does hold for the rest of the nations you alluded to. Big countries like to play the bully. Find some reason to push little countries around. And if innocents get killed, well that’s just too bad.
In the old days it was the Roman Empire and then the British Empire. Today it’s Russia and the United States. I guess soon it will be China.
So let’s exterminate them.
Good plan.
//sarc
The US has NOT declared war on Russia
The US DID provide war material to Britain
Not until France fell. Up to that point the vast majority of Americans wanted neutrality.
” I don’t hear many people suggesting that the US should send tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in cash and weapons to Russia.”
Probably because Russia is not being invaded by an agressor intent of grabbing territory perhaps? People are kind of funny about nations doing that....
BTW, Trump should come out with his man crush on Putin and promise to join Putins fight against the Globalists. Make a campaign promise that he will give military aid to Putin to fight those globohomos!
“Obama and Nuland the right to overthrow their government”
Ah i see we are now in the twilight zone
I’m more worried about the corruption of conservatism. You literally can’t tell the difference between Trump World and the mass murdering Kremlin these days since they issue the same talking points. “WW3”, “Ukraine is corrupt”, etc. Once Trump leaves the scene our conservative movement will be electorally irrelevant and a smoking ruin unless we change course.
And still wanted it until Pearl Harbor was attacked
You commented on Russian corruption relative to Ukraine (post #7), which suggested that you considered corruption to be somehow relevant. Now (post #30) you appear to be suggesting that corruption is irrelevant. That kind of thing is always entertaining to watch!
;>)
That is an interesting contention, given that this "special case" is now reverted to the same Taliban who governed before the waste of almost twenty years of American lives and trillions of dollars. So the Taliban now get to rule again AND have a massive amount of materiel which we left for them. How's that working out?
As to big nations and bullying, I agree that this is a historical fact, and all seem to be seduced, courtesy of national socialism, international socialism and our own home-grown neo-con "new liberal order" which "we" are supposed to lead as Biden so recently explained.
All such does not bode well for the future, as Russia's ~145 million and the US' ~335 million will be facing 1.4 billion Chinese and 1.4 billion Indians, not to mention the peoples of Africa and South America. Sounds like "order" wanes and is re-forming. The question which I ask is, "what do we as 4 percent of the world's population do about it?" The choices are some version of "bully" and some version of "play nice." With liberty at the root of my thinking, "bullying" on the world stage seems ever more foolish in the long run.
I think the tide did turn somewhat after the Fall of France, I think realistically most Americans by that time understood that eventually we were going to get into it one way or the other.
Americans overwhelmingly supported aid to Britain by the time FDR gave his “Arsenal of Democracy” speech.
What would be really surprising is there anywhere would believe this hogwash rating system. More flavor of the day stuff
The US joined in with the corruption in Ukraine. Encourages and participates in it.
The stench of corruption is easy to smell between the corrupt. Takes one to know one.
The point is Biden is sending a never ending stream of tax-payer funds without even requiring accountability for where the money goes. Over 100 billion dollars to a corrupt hole in the ground. Biden uses the Ukraine as a criminal head quarters as do other deep staters. Maybe that’s fine with you, but the US used to have standards and not deal with liars, thieves, and neo Nazis.
In a war for territory corrupt nation status to me at least seems like a nothing burger
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