{"id":1822494,"date":"2023-01-24T16:35:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T21:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822494"},"modified":"2023-01-24T16:36:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T21:36:03","slug":"a-day-late-and-113-billion-short-new-york-times-acknowledges-ukraine-as-a-broken-and-corrupt-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-day-late-and-113-billion-short-new-york-times-acknowledges-ukraine-as-a-broken-and-corrupt-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day Late And $113 Billion Short, New York Times Acknowledges Ukraine As A Broken And Corrupt Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-day-late-and-113-billion-short-new-york-times-acknowledges-ukraine-as-a-broken-and-corrupt-nation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822494&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe we\u2019re getting ahead of ourselves, but The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/zWIeW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Tuesday<\/a> 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 \u201creassuring Ukraine\u2019s allies \u2014 which are sending billions of dollars in military aid \u2014 that his government would show zero tolerance for graft\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was being kind. Perhaps now, Democrats and even idiot Republicans won&#8217;t be able to counter every question about Ukraine&#8217;s involvement by declaring that their critics are Pervs for Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The war-loving romantics of Congress haven\u2019t seen a dollar they wouldn\u2019t like to send to Ukraine, even as it\u2019s been rated by foreign aid nonprofits and humanitarian organizations as one of Europe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coe.int\/en\/web\/corruption\/completed-projects\/enpi\/newsroom-enpi\/-\/asset_publisher\/F0LygN4lv4rX\/content\/ukraine-most-corrupt-country-in-europe-after-russia?inheritRedirect=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">most crooked countries<\/a> For many years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2015\/feb\/04\/welcome-to-the-most-corrupt-nation-in-europe-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/ti-ukraine.org\/en\/news\/no-progress-ukraine-s-result-in-the-corruption-perceptions-index-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear what the resignations and firings actually mean. Zelensky\u2019s administration released no explanation for them, nor are there any official details about specific evidence of corruption, other than that one of Zelensky\u2019s deputies rode around town in a General Motors-donated SUV that was supposed to be for \u201chumanitarian missions\u201d Instead of, say, attending a Vogue party, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/28\/in-case-you-werent-convinced-volodymyr-zelensky-is-serious-vogue-is-here-to-tell-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cover photoshoot<\/a>). There\u2019s also something about using government funds \u2014\u00a0that is to say, U.S. taxpayer dollars \u2014\u00a0to buy eggs at an inflated price, raising the grave question: Why were they shopping for eggs <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/01\/13\/biden-media-taunt-struggling-americans-by-insisting-6-5-inflation-is-a-good-thing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in America<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>In the space of almost a year, the U.S. accumulated nearly $1.5 trillion. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crfb.org\/blogs\/congress-approved-113-billion-aid-ukraine-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$113 billion<\/a> 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\u2019re <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/zelenskyy-tells-nato-its-not-doing-enough-to-stop-russia-as-biden-boosts-troop-presence-in-europe-01656507215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">not doing enough<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>At least the Times has come around to acknowledging that Ukraine isn\u2019t the squeaky clean operation that the White House, most of Congress, and all of the corporate media <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/21\/3-corporate-media-shticks-about-ukraine-that-you-should-absolutely-ignore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">insist that it is<\/a>. Maybe next we\u2019ll 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.<\/p>\n<p> Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist. He also wrote &#8220;The Federalist&#8221;.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe now Democrats and even idiot Republicans will stop countering every question about our involvement with Ukraine by declaring their critics to be Pervs for Putin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":1762920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[16296,10179,6564,9696,7660,5752,11156,4339,4126,6991,3859],"class_list":["post-1822494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-16296","tag-acknowledges","tag-broken","tag-corrupt","tag-day","tag-late","tag-nation","tag-short","tag-times","tag-ukraine","tag-york"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}