Clem72
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In 2023, the United States spent nearly $61 billion on foreign aid. Fully half of that budget has gone to just ten countries:So you don't understand that Jared is not running a bank out of the kindness of his heart right? He is getting paid and is influencing Trumps decisions and Saudi Arabias opportunities should Trump return to the WH.
What you claim is not only not true it is part of day to day diplomacy worldwide. Proving you know nothing about how the world works
"It's true that Joe Biden leveraged $1 billion in aid to persuade Ukraine to oust its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, in March 2016. But it wasn't because Shokin was investigating Burisma. It was because Shokin wasn't pursuing corruption among the country's politicians.
As European and American diplomats pressed Ukraine to clean up its corruption, they focused on Shokin's leadership of the Prosecutor General's Office, which he took over in February 2015.
Mike Carpenter, who served as a foreign policy adviser to the then-vice president, told USA TODAY that Shokin "never went after any corrupt individuals at all" and "never prosecuted any high-profile cases of corruption."
Kupchan said. "He was acting alongside our European allies. Everybody was of a single mind that this prosecutor was not the right guy for the job."
Daria Kaleniuk, the co-founder and executive director of the Anti Corruption Action Centre in Kyiv, Ukraine, credited Biden, the International Monetary Fund — which threatened to delay $40 billion in aid for similar reasons — and others with the prosecutor's removal.
Fact check: Biden leveraged $1B in aid to Ukraine to oust corrupt prosecutor, not to help his son
Despite a Senate GOP investigation that found no wrongdoing by Joe Biden on foreign policy in Ukraine, claims to the contrary continue to circulate.www.usatoday.com
- Ukraine ($16.4 billion) 104th least corrupt of 180 countries
- Israel ($3.3 billion) 33rd
- Ethiopia ($1.95 billion) 98th
- Jordan ($1.65 billion) 63rd
- Egypt ($1.43 billion) 108th
- Afghanistan ($1.19 billion) 162nd
- Somalia ($1.13 billion) 180th AKA MOST CORRUPT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
- Yemen ($1.05 billion) 176th AKA DAMN CLOSE TO MOST CORRUPT COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
- Congo ($987 million) 158th
- Syria ($896 million) 177th AKA ONE BURISMA EXEC AWAY FROM MOST CORRUPT IN THE WORLD
So what I see here is that we give a lot of money to the most corrupt countries in the world, most are more corrupt than the Ukraine (and more corrupt than it was in 2015). Can you show me where the president or vice president has personally intervened in any of these countries (other than Ukraine) and threatened to withhold aid? You say it's their job, what other time have they done this job?