Where are our tax monies going??

[Frederick]

Russia and Ukraine, despite being locked in an armed conflict, continue to trade products and services with each other, a situation that journalist Seymour Hersh described as “quite crazy” in an interview with the TV show ‘Going Underground.’

“Oil and money transcends any sort of rationality, I guess,” Hersh said in the interview on Monday. He added that it wasn’t too hard to find tell-tale signs of Ukrainian corruption.

Hersh elaborated on his recent allegations of rampant graft in the Ukrainian government. He has claimed that the CIA has estimated that President Vladimir Zelensky and his entourage embezzled at least $400 million last year from money provided by the US to buy diesel for the Ukrainian army. Overpriced fuel bought by Kiev allegedly came via the black market from Russia.

“All you have to do is look at the high life in Kiev today,” he said. “There is a really good high life: the fancy restaurants are going, you can find liquor stores with everything in it, there is a lot of money being pushed around.”

Ukrainian officials have a long history of skimming from procurement contracts, and the conflict with Russia has not changed that, Hersh alleged.

“Everybody is going to brokers. Everybody is now getting third parties involved, because it increases the chance for money on the side. And the corruption there is beyond belief,” he said.

CIA Director William Burns raised the issue of corruption during his visit to Kiev in January, Hersh said, citing information he had been given by a source about the meeting. In addition to briefing Zelensky on complaints from Ukrainian generals about the president’s own alleged greed, the US spy chief listed 35 other alleged embezzlers.

The Ukrainian leader later fired 10 of the “most ostentatious” individuals, but others were “left untouched”, Hersh said, describing the crackdown on officials which the Ukrainian government conducted after Burns’ visit.

source: https://eurasiantimes.com/ukraine-w...-by-the-us-for-purchasing-fuel-seymour-hersh/

man i could use a couple hundred Million myself.

we've spent what, 78 Billion so far on Ukraine? or more? the Russians spent 86B on their military in 2022. Where the hell is all that money going?

wonder if some of it went towards the same guy who sold him a house on the black sea

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-election-zelenskiy-property-e-idUSKCN1S7373

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Is that reminiscent of the Obama's purchase of something on Nantucket? Or was it Martha's Vineyard .........

Just asking.

Woody

 

[Billybob]

Aside from Ukraine's long going and continuing corruption issues...
https://www.theguardian.com/news/20...dent-offshore-connections-volodymyr-zelenskiy
https://abcnews.go.com/Internationa...als-depart-amid-corruption-crackdown-96627588
Some companies and their stock holders seem to be doing pretty good...

"...good business for US defense contractors. Among the biggest winners are Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman. Each of their stocks has climbed since Russia’s invasion, with Lockheed up about 38 percent this year."

https://www.vox.com/world/2022/12/1...itary-contractors-money-ukraine-russia-war-us

 

[John6185]

Heck, members of congress invested in Monsanto during the Vietnam War who produced Agent Orange and we vets are paying the price today as are the taxpayers. Then there are supposedly "kickbacks" from Mideast warlords and dictators who received massive amounts of US currency form politicians. Whether that is true or nto, we will never know until Judgement Day.