Has Trump Seen Proof that Funds For Ukraine Were Stolen?
Have ill-equipped Ukrainian soldiers been sent to die while fat cats siphon money and sell weapons on the international market?
Yesterday I watched two videos. The first was President Trump’s interview with Maria Bartiromo in which he declared that Zelensky took money from Biden like “candy from a baby.”
The second video I watched was of what appeared to be a Ukrainian soldier crying as hard as I have ever seen a grown man cry. And he wasn’t just any grown man, but an extremely tough looking one.
With so much propaganda being slung around on the internet, I hesitate to share it. I believe he was speaking Ukrainian and not Russian, and amid sobs, he was raging at the men who run his country, including Zelensky. His grief-stricken rant did not include much exposition. He seemed to assume that his audience would understand precisely what he was talking about. His overall lament was that he and his friends had been screwed.
Have the ordinary soldiers of Ukraine been screwed—that is, sent ill-equipped to the front while the oligarchs who run their country and their senior officers have siphoned much of the money and sold many of the sophisticated weapons on the international market?
The crying soldier reminded me of Siegfried Sassoon’s World War I poem, “Base Details.”
If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath, ...
I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,
And speed glum heroes up the line to death.
You'd see me with my puffy petulant face,
Guzzling and gulping in the best hotel,
Reading the Roll of Honour. "Poor young chap,"
I'd say—"I used to know his father well;
Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap."
And when the war is done and youth stone dead,
I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.
It’s an ancient soldier’s lament. The senior officer class, the lords, and their banker friends live exceedingly well while the “glum heroes”—i.e., ordinary soldiers, get run into the meat grinder.
I don’t have proof, but I have a strong hunch that a great deal of the money and weapons that our Glorious U.S. Government has sent to Ukraine have been stolen. Multiple international watchdog organizations have long characterized the country as one of the most corrupt on earth. For years, a small number of billionaire oligarchs have owned all of the assets in a nation in which the median household income is about $1,000 per annum.
I get the impression that President Trump has been presented with documentary proof of what has, for me, been a mere hunch. Someone has shown him evidence that billions of American funds have been siphoned off by shady players in Ukraine.
The gigantic flow of weapons from the U.S. to Ukraine raises the suspicion that the country has become a supply depot for international arms dealers. Years ago, when I lived in Vienna, I used to go to a place called the Broadway Bar owned by a Hungarian pianist named Bela Koreny, and there I would occasionally bump into a glamorous Israeli who once told me after a few drinks that he was an arms dealer. I didn’t really believe him—I figured it was just a cool-sounding thing to say to impress girls. On the other hand, I’m not a girl, and he seemed to know a lot about international arms dealing. Curious to learn more, I read a few books about the trade.
Some of the most notable arms dealers in history were Iranians such as Adnan Khashoggi, Manucher Ghorbanifar, and Cyrus Hashemi. Most Americans today probably don’t remember the Iran Contra Affair that involved U.S. arms trafficking to Iran between 1981-1986. The harebrained reasoning—both in Washington and in Tel Aviv—was that it was a good thing to maintain the war that was then raging between Iraq and Iran.
Thus, while at the exact same time the Reagan Administration was publicly declaring that no one should sell arms to Iran, it was secretly working with Israeli agents to sell arms to Iran — about $2 billion per annum worth between 1980 and 1985.
This shady traffic culminated in 1985, when National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane—a typically naive Washington knucklehead—was talked into a deal whereby the Iranians would get Hezbollah to release U.S. hostages being held in Lebanon in exchange for 100 U.S. TOW missiles.
Wikipedia provides a pretty good summary of the Affair.
The idea behind the plan was for Israel to ship weapons through an intermediary (identified as Manucher Ghorbanifar) to the Islamic Republic as a way of aiding a supposedly moderate, politically influential faction within the regime of Ayatollah Khomeini who was believed to be seeking a rapprochement with the US; after the transaction, the US would reimburse Israel with the same weapons, while receiving monetary benefits.
Secret Israeli arms sales and shipments to Iran began in that year, even as, in public, "the Reagan Administration" presented a different face, and "aggressively promoted a public campaign [...] to stop worldwide transfers of military goods to Iran". The New York Times explained: "Iran at that time was in dire need of arms and spare parts for its American-made arsenal to defend itself against Iraq, which had attacked it in September 1980", while "Israel [a US ally] was interested in keeping the war between Iran and Iraq going to ensure that these two potential enemies remained preoccupied with each other".
I fear that this is the kind of shady deal that has been going on in Ukraine, only on a much bigger scale. What is especially terrifying about it is the possibility that many people in the U.S. government will work hard to conceal the reality of what has been going on with U.S. money and weapons.
To make matters even more complex, I suspect that the Russians could provide Trump with good intelligence about the fate of U.S. arms and money in Ukraine. The trouble with this is that the Americans have been heavily conditioned by our corrupt and lying intelligence agencies to believe that any intelligence coming from the Russians is necessarily disinformation.
We saw this in the case of the Wikileaks Clinton-DNC-Podesta emails and in the case of Hunter Biden’s laptop. Whenever corrupt U.S. intelligence agencies want to cover for Washington’s corrupt political establishment, they claim that the evidence thereof is “Russian Disinformation.”
It’s possible that President Trump is now in a position to end this corrupt horror show, but he faces enormous resistance to doing so.
Zelensky is a criminal and I have no doubt his soldiers were sent to die without proper clothing, food or ammunition while those that control the country got fat and rich. I also believe some in our own government got some of that money and that includes Biden and Obama and his crew. Probably some others sitting in Congress that approved the funds. Just sayin. My opinion and I am sticking to it. If Trump has the receipts he needs to use them. He needs to spill the beans.
Tucker Carlson very recently has reported that he is in Switzerland and all the Ukrainian oligarchs are there (he didn't say which city, but sounded like Davos - a highly expensive ski area) and the rich Ukrainians are spending millions of dollars having a great time. Tucker is pretty sure it's US tax dollars being spent so lavishly. Tucker also says he knows - knows, and not speculates, he says - that the weapons and equipment we have provided to Ukraine are being sold, about 50% of them, sold at ten cents on the dollar, to terrorists and to our enemies, including being sold to the cartels at our Mexican border. Considering that what we give is not serving the intended perhaps, every bit of it should be stopped immediately, which apparently has been done since the Oval Office meeting. Tucker said something to the effect that, "If I know all this stuff, the CIA knows also." And he believes the CIA may be complicit. Some have speculated that Lindsay Graham may know something about this by now since he was seemingly quite a Zelensky fan, and he has recently been extremely negative on Z.
One other thought is that on X, I saw a video in which Zelensky has said if he can just get Ukraine into NATO, his mission will be finished, and I had also heard him say before, he would be willing to give up being President if he could just get Ukraine into NATO. Some have interpreted that as - he has been tasked with getting Ukraine into NATO for the purpose of keeping the war going and/or initiating World War III, that he is more interested in just keeping the war going or escalating it. It may be that because of all the corruption, all the money being gone, the weapons gone, and the biolab situation - that someone wants the evidence destroyed or lots of distraction from finding evidence. Because it sounds like there has been a tremendous amount of corruption.
I thought also from the beginning that the Bio-labs were part of it. I had seen a map showing 20 or so US Bio-labs on the Ukrainian - Russian border, and had seen reports that there were sometimes unusual diseases in Russia near the border, and that Putin had complained many times about the labs, complaining to the United Nations. Considering what our tax dollars paid for at Wuhan, I thought we might indeed be doing some gain of function research in Ukraine, and some have alleged the CIA was involved in these labs. The official US story is that the labs weren't even being used, nothing was happening at those labs and there was no reason to even think about those labs. But I did notice a Senator mentioning the biolabs briefly during Dr. Battacharya's confirmation hearing, so others besides me have noticed the labs and thought about them. That alone, if I were Putin, would have made me think about invading particularly since repeated complaints were ignored, and there are still labs at the border.
But before the invasion, Putin had sent a treaty to NATO to request an agreement not to further expand NATO, and if no agreement, then he would invade. They ignored it and did not choose to negotiate at all, and thus, the invasion. So, this would be evidence that Ukraine's desire to enter NATO, and apparently NATO's willingness to entertain this and keep that option open was clearly a cause of the war, but the Biolabs may well have been part of the reason.
My impression is that we should not be helping Ukraine at all at this point, and good that Trump has in fact stopped all help. But I think it is incorrect to blame Putin as the sole cause of this, and our own government has been complicit. I understand that within 7 days of the war, Putin offered good terms to Z, but Biden told him to keep fighting - the Biden-Obama administration wanted this war and it is a mistake to blame the whole thing on Putin. We didn't like it when Kruschev put missiles in Cuba, and JFK got Kruschev to remove them, and likewise, Putin would not have wanted NATO missiles aimed at him along his border, along with the Bio-labs that were reportedly associated with the CIA.