Trump has no idea where most of the Ukraine aid went – and honestly, who does?

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Throwing billions upon billions of cash at Kiev turned out to be such a massive scam no one seems to even know the exact amount

The “Ukraine aid” cash laundering machine is now such a prominent feature of European democracy that it’s what caused Germany to recently require premature national elections. Chancellor Olaf Scholz had wanted to hand over another €3 billion in military aid “for Ukraine” to the benefit of the German stock exchange’s star student, weapons-maker Rheinmetall, but his finance minister wanted instead to just hand over some of the old junk in their military attic to Kiev for which they could bill Brussels and get some of their own donated cash “for Ukraine” back from the giant EU recycled weapons slush fund. But because the hand-me-downs were long range Taurus missiles capable of hitting Russia, the same Ukrainian troops that were already FUBARing German tanks by attempting to “repair” them could do some real World War III grade damage if left unsupervised. The disagreement ultimately blew up the traffic light coalition.

Trump has no idea where most of the Ukraine aid went – and honestly, who does?

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