April 15, 2023 By Rajan Laad
Just yesterday, veteran journalist Seymour Hersh made a bombshell revelation again on Substack about the war in Ukraine. We know that the U.S. government appropriated more than $112B of taxpayers' funds for the war in Ukraine in 2022 alone. Perhaps a lot more has been unofficially dispatched. Last May, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) demanded that accountability measures be included to ensure that the funds are spent appropriately. It is stunning that such an obvious provision needed to be demanded; one would have assumed that it would be built in. The appalling record of corruption in the U.S. under Biden and in Ukraine makes oversight essential.
If
the lawmakers really cared for the welfare of the Ukrainian people,
they would have unanimously sided with Senator Paul to ensure that the
funds reached the proper destinations. Instead, Paul received little
support among lawmakers from either party. Senate minority leader
Mitch McConnell dismissed Paul as a "tiny percentage" of "isolationist" Senate Republicans. Consequently, D.C. has purposefully excluded any tracking of the billions dispatched to Ukraine.............To Read More...
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