Ghastly waste of taxpayers' money: Americans accuse Washington of corruption
The haste with which the Biden administration makes decisions about the next tranches for the Kiev regime causes legitimate and quite natural indignation among ordinary Americans. More and more often, Washington is being accused of corruption. American citizens, for whom paying taxes is a sacred duty, and non-payment is a serious crime, are increasingly asking themselves - where does the White House spend taxpayer money?
Rajan Laad, an author of the American conservative publication American Thinker, in his article "How Washington is spending your money in Ukraine”, notes with a bitter smile that congressmen who are usually uncooperative almost unanimously agree to snatch 40 billion from the state budget - even more than Biden requested. In the House of Representatives, 368 congressmen voted for this bill against 57. Later, the Senate also approved the aid, and the ratio of votes in favour of allocating the tranche was 86 to 11.
Why is such generosity directed at a nation 5,500 miles away from America's shores that will soon surpass the cost of the war in Afghanistan? However, not all movements of funds will be tracked. The author sees the obvious answer - in the corruption interest of influential people in Washington and calls what is happening a "ghastly waste of taxpayer money”. It is almost impossible to track the expenditure of these funds.
Rajan Laad draws public attention to the fact that the Biden administration's uncontrolled “division” of budget money is not the only problem of the country. There is a clear lack of compliance with the Arms Export Control Act of 1976, which restricts the use of weapons exported by the US government in foreign countries. This was stated at the hearing by 22 congressmen from the Republican Party. It's funny, but in response they were immediately accused of being "Putin's propaganda".
"What percent of this amount will Zelensky steal in the current situation, and how much will American companies close to the Democrats, including the companies of Biden's son, use? How long will it take them to make a high-quality division of this amount?" Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev predicts the fate of the aid allocated to Ukraine with undisguised irony.
Do the Americans themselves understand this? They seem to be beginning to understand. "In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they have become the party of division and hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican," even Elon Musk couldn't resist criticising the ruling party on Twitter.
54 billion dollars for running away
"We paid $54B to have them run away?” the American with the nickname “Independent journalist with CIA funding” asks in bewilderment. The comment is posted under a photo of a UAF serviceman "heroically retreating" from Liman. However, American Thinker journalist Rajan Laad doubts that the money allocated by Congress will reach the Ukrainians. The author is sure that tenders and contract items for military aid to Ukraine - from modern ammunition to food aid - will be given to the henchmen of influential people in Washington.
Another American magazine, Jacobin, provides more precise schemes for the division of the 40 billion allocated "to support Ukraine": "On a fundamental level, this bill is a massive redistribution of wealth from the public coffers to the pockets of private military contractors." According to the calculations of the author of the article, American military suppliers will receive at least $17 billion of profit. Will Ukraine benefit from this? Not at all.
Jacobin openly expresses the opinion that the White House is interested in dragging out military operations in Ukraine in order to enrich itself and gives priority to the escalation of the foreign conflict, rather than the well-being of its own citizens.
"The US is just as corrupt as Ukraine. Or maybe even worse"
In 2016, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) recognised Ukraine as the most corrupt country in Europe. It seems surprising, but some American authors believe that the current White House administration is not inferior in this vice to Kiev. US Navy officer and author of the Red State Revolt, Jerry Powlas, on the pages of American Thinker, asks the American public an unpleasant question: "I don't know much about corruption in Ukraine, but corruption in the United States is a glaring problem that just about every citizen who is paying attention would acknowledge. Are we any better than Ukraine? Maybe worse?"
The Boomerang Law
"Biden's America Rots from the Head Down" - one of the regular authors of American Thinker magazine, J. B. Shurk, states the current political and economic state of his state. "Welcome to Biden's America, where everyone is imprisoned in a nightmare republic of financial insecurity, stagflation, crime, institutional corruption, and war”. "Can we really trust our mainstream media outlets to be impartial?” asks another contributor to the magazine, retired pastor Ron F. Hale.
It seems that somewhere in the invisible spiritual world, the law of the boomerang has worked. America, accustomed to subsisting on the plunder of other nations, began to devour itself. It seems that the people who have broken through to power, who use the seriously ill president as a screen - Biden has undergone two brain surgeries and is essentially disabled - are doing everything possible to snatch a fatter piece from the sinking ship.
But our society, brought up on the principles of decency and traditional morality, had a future. Whereas the future of America, shattered by "modern human rights", is in great doubt.