Thomas Friedman bashes Ukraine: "Ukraine was, and still is, a country marbled with corruption."

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14. Friedman is right.

Corruption is endemic is both Russia and Ukraine. And no, the U.S. does not even remotely compare. The Defense Dept has said they have no idea where most of our aid is going once it hits the ground.

Yes, we need to continue aid but with both eyes open. Ukarine can't become a U.S. protectorate.

What happens to weapons sent to Ukraine? The US doesn't really know

In the short term, the US sees the transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of equipment to be vital to the Ukrainians' ability to hold off Moscow's invasion. A senior defense official said Tuesday that it is "certainly the largest recent supply to a partner country in a conflict." But the risk, both current US officials and defense analysts say, is that in the long term, some of those weapons may wind up in the hands of other militaries and militias that the US did not intend to arm.

"We have fidelity for a short time, but when it enters the fog of war, we have almost zero," said one source briefed on US intelligence. "It drops into a big black hole, and you have almost no sense of it at all after a short period of time."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/index.html