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k20350 t1_j6fc9eg wrote

I'm not a Debbie downer or anti anything but a fucking ton of this money will be stolen. Never in the history of fucking ever had the US dumped cash on a country and it didn't result in rampant theft and corruption. On top of that it's Eastern Europe pretty much the capital of corruption at every level. In no way anti Ukrainian it's just the cold hard fact. There's billions upon billions of dollars just "missing" from Afghanistan and Iraq alone.

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nomofica t1_j6ff8fv wrote

That risk is literally why they are making this audit mechanism proposal. Ukraine has been making strides in rooting out corruption, and it was the reason Zelenskyy was voted in in the first place. Much of Eastern Europe is as corrupt as it is precisely because of long-standing Russian interference.

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LetterheadEconomy809 t1_j6g4tvi wrote

Zelensky was in the Panama papers. He is corrupt as they come.

The mechanism is going to be just how many politicians kids they have to hire and pay for the US govt to look the other way.

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Illustrious-Gas2213 t1_j6haeom wrote

This poster never misses an opportunity to bash Ukraine and President Zelensky. Not a peep about Russia and Putin. His posts history confirms his Kremlin bias.

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LetterheadEconomy809 t1_j6hjk6a wrote

Russia and Putin don’t need to be ‘bashed’. Neither is being praised in the media propaganda and we are all very aware of the corruption.

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k20350 t1_j6fg1qm wrote

"We have investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing" C'mon

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degotoga t1_j6fgkik wrote

First sentence of the article:

> Ukraine has proposed creating a mechanism for auditing the aid provided by the United States for recovery projects, together with the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

Come on man. Do better

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MGD109 t1_j6fh3s1 wrote

Well in Ukraine's case from the sounds of it was more "we have investigated ourselves and found the following officials are bent, they were subsequently fired and will be facing criminal charges."

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circ_le_jerk_69 t1_j6g0rjs wrote

> Never in the history of fucking ever had the US dumped cash on a country and it didn't result in rampant theft and corruption.

The same thing happens when you dump a ton of money in the US. NYTimes reported that an estimated 15% of the $800 billion of PPP money was fraud. This is the reason why an audit mechanism is important.

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Certainly-Not-A-Bot t1_j6fiz3k wrote

They're trying very hard to root out corruption because they know that if it comes out that American money was stolen and they didn't crack down on it, they lose all their support. The Ukrainian government needs American support, so they'll implement any sort of anti-corruption measures they need to prevent corruption.

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Baneken t1_j6h7nvz wrote

Not to mention that rooting out corruption is important for their war effort, Ukraine lost Crimea because of wide-spread corruption in the military and nobody in Ukraine wants a repeat of that.

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