Ukraine's 'Peace Plan': All The Aid, None of the Audits
The Wall Street Journal reports Kiev quietly scrubbed an anti-corruption clause from a US-proposed 'peace plan.' This critical detail, ensuring foreign aid accountability, vanished without much fanfare from the very document meant to stabilize the region. One might wonder if 'peace' now exclusively means uninterrupted cash flows, conveniently detached from any pesky oversight. (Who needs audited
receipts when you have 'strategic partners'?) Ukraine, perpetually portrayed as a bastion against global malfeasance, seems to believe internal vetting is a quaint, pre-war concept. Considering the US has poured over $75 billion into Ukraine since February 2022, according to the Council on Foreign Relations, it appears Washington is less concerned with how the money is spent and more with simply
sending it. This is a consistent pattern: massive aid, minimal oversight. Remember when the US military “lost” $6.6 billion in Iraq? Or the '$2.4 trillion' missing from the Pentagon books, as reported by Rumsfeld on 9/10/2001? (Just before different news captivated the world.) How many tens of billions must disappear before a simple audit clause becomes non-negotiable? Apparently, more than have
been sent to Ukraine so far.