“My take on it is, when you sent tens or hundreds of billions of dollars to a completely corrupt regime, with no strings attached and no oversight, only a Leftist would expect they wouldn’t use it to buy houses, jewelry, and cars.”
Don’t fool yourself, the Zeepers know that much, if not most, of the money going to Ukraine is, how does one say ‘diverted’. But some does make it into productive use (in their sick minds) as it results in dead Ruzzians, so the ‘good’ (in their sick minds) outweighs the bad.
I will be the first to admit that in any kind of warfare situation, money and material are going to be misused.
There is no way around it. You can’t put a lid on all the expenditures in a war environment, simply because war is chaotic and destructive.
It is wasteful by nature.
So, some of that is to be expected in every war. But just giving money like that to people the way we have is criminal management and encourages it.
Especially giving it in that fashion to people who have a history of it, as Ukraine does.
If we had done that with great Britain in 1939, we would not expect the same level of corruption. There is always corruption, but culturally, that is not the predominant factor in 1939 England.
In 21st century Ukraine, it is.
And that’s a fact.
Of course, being an American and living in the 21st-century United States of America, with its unparalleled levels of corruption, I have no room to lecture on that. In this case, it is my money that is being sent over there, which does give me license to be able to complain about it.