Sweet smell of American corruption — Ukraine

© 2022 Peter Free

 

24 August 2022

 

 

When people are pressured to obliterate truth . . .

 

. . . it is generally easy to figure out, who is benefiting from its suppression:

 

 

CBS News retracted a documentary it briefly released on Sunday after pressure from the Ukrainian government.

 

The original documentary (watch it here) CBS put out examined the flow of military aid to Ukraine and quoted someone familiar with the process who said in April that only 30% of the arms were making it to the frontline.

 

“All of this stuff goes across the border, and then something happens, kind of like 30% of it reaches its final destination,” said Jonas Ohman, the founder of Blue-Yellow, a Lithuania-based organization that CBS said has been meeting with and supplying frontline units with aid in Ukraine since the start of the war in the Donbas in 2014.

 

Ohman described the corruption and bureaucracy that he has to work around to deliver aid to Ukraine.

 

“There are like power lords, oligarchs, political players,” he said.

 

Other reporting has shown that there is virtually no oversight for the billions of dollars in weapons that the US and its allies are pouring into Ukraine. CNN reported in April that the US has “almost zero” ability to track the weapons it is sending once they enter Ukraine.

 

One source briefed on US intelligence described it as dropping the arms into a “big black hole.”

 

© 2022 Dave DeCamp, CBS Removes Documentary on Ukraine Military Aid after Pressure from Ukrainian Government, AntiWar (08 August 2022)

 

 

The moral? — What else is new?

 

For American Government, it is entirely about keeping oligarchs and the Military Industrial Complex happy.

 

The more weapons that go missing (wherever that might be), the more that need replacing — and the more geopolitical instability — which itself 'requires' still more weapons to be produced and 'infused' — results.

 

The rich Lords of Death-Mongering benefit at every turn.

 

When Truth somehow slips out, the Establishment suppresses it with money, influence, lies and threats.

 

Consider — for barfing emphasis — that Ukraine's literal Nazis are wagging the (now rabidly) pro-Nazi American dog.

 

Delicious.

 

One has to wonder why our obviously so-mistaken ancestors fought and died in World War II.