A Day Late And $113 Billion Short, New York Times Acknowledges Ukraine As A Broken And Corrupt Nation

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 It was time to report on the string of firings, including forced resignations, of top Ukrainian government officials. The move by President Volodymyr Zelesky(yyy), was for the purpose “reassuring Ukraine’s allies — which are sending billions of dollars in military aid — that his government would show zero tolerance for graft…”

He was being kind. Perhaps now, Democrats and even idiot Republicans won’t be able to counter every question about Ukraine’s involvement by declaring that their critics are 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 many years over over.

It is not clear what the resignations and firings actually mean. 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” Instead of, say, attending a Vogue party, 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?

In the space of almost a year, the U.S. accumulated nearly $1.5 trillion. $113 billion There are many more stories about Ukraine. Anyone who has ever asked why, for whom, or how it all ended was dismissed as anti-democracy or called a Putin sympathizer. 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.

Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist. He also wrote “The Federalist”.Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone.”