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By Sept. 4, 2023, the New York Times asked, “Where is the money?” concerning Ukrainian funds. Wow! What a surprise. Money is missing! Giving billions to a known corrupt money-siphoning group of people ended up with money going missing. Where was the New Times when Reuters reported $37 billion missing in Ukraine in 2014? Well, it could have been worse. It only took the New York Times nine years to wake up to reality.
In a February USA Today article, John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, said, “When you spend so much money so quickly, with so little oversight, you’re going to have fraud, waste and abuse.” In fact, concerning this he said there would be “massive amounts.” Ukraine only scored 33 out of 100 in the annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), which is near the worst third of 180 countries.
Of course, the Pentagon has said it made an accounting error and the missing $6.2 billion the Times cited is simply due to the Defense Dpartment overpriced the value of military equipment sent to Ukraine. So, the Pentagon does not know how much equipment costs, so it is overpriced by billions? Boy, doesn’t that make you want to pay taxes? If they can’t get the price right now, what makes you think they ever got the price right? Remember that this is your taxpayer money that funds the Pentagon “budget.”
Additionally, I found that right before the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, $2.3 trillion went missing. Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld “admitted the Pentagon managed to somehow lose $2.3 trillion dollars from its budget,” but this was forgotten when the world witnessed the attacks on the Twin Towers. It has been stated the money was not necessarily stolen; it was just “lost.” I guess a bank robber could just say, “I didn’t steal this money. It was lost, and I was just trying to help it find its way home … at least to my home.”