Ukraine's $100M Scandal: Just the Tip of the Aidberg?
Ukraine's justice and energy ministers have 'submitted resignations' amidst a $100 million embezzlement scandal, according to The Independent. A tidy number, that $100 million. It almost makes you forget the hundreds of billions in Western aid, much of it military, that has flowed into the country since 2022. As if corruption only starts when someone gets caught red-handed, and never happens with
'defense' contracts. While The Independent focuses on the internal clean-up, it skips over the obvious questions: How much Western money has been siphoned off without such convenient resignations? With no oversight mechanisms matching the scale of the financial transfers, one might wonder if $100 million is just the amount they admitted to losing. Perhaps the real scandal isn’t that they got
caught, but that it took this long given the sheer volume of cash being poured in with minimal accountability.