CardanoKarma

I absolutely love this one: “Ukraine is the most corrupt country in the world” and “all Western aid gets stolen.” And yet, somehow, Ukraine is about to enter the sixth year of its full-scale war against Russia, which not only has failed to defeat it all this time, but is now itself taking strikes on its own territory all the way to western Siberia. Apparently, some people seriously believe that you can fight a years-long war of attrition against the entire military and economic might of Russia and its totalitarian allies, such as the Iranian regime and North Korea, in roughly the same way roads get built in the world's truly most corrupt places: you get, say, a million monies from the corrupt authorities' budget. You kick back 30% to the officials who gave you the contract, pocket another 50% yourself, and then use whatever crumbs are left to “build a road,” however the hell you feel like it, with the quality you'd expect. Well, no, my dear friends. Ukraine as a state is extraordinarily far from perfect, and not just when it comes to fighting corruption. But I'm sorry, the “most corrupt countries in the world” would never have managed to stay on their feet, let alone put up a fight against a giant as overwhelmingly powerful as Russia, even if the entire West had handed over its entire GDP to them in one go.