Janet Yellen Just visited Ukraine and given that she is the Secretary of the Treasury Department guess which he did, she brought the money bags with her. That's right, she took a train right into Kiev just like Joe Biden did. When Joe Biden showed up, they made sure to run those Air Raid Sirens to make Americans at home watching CNN feel bad to send more money over to Ukraine But this isn't an argument to be political. this is an argument to say hey, why was Janet Yellen in Ukrainian Was she actually delivering more money? Why yes, she was.

Let's talk about exactly that, because it's worth noting that tensions in the world are getting tougher and not weaker, and that's bad because it increases the risk of worldwide conflict. Consider the fact that the Wall Street Journal is now recording that on nearly a daily occurrence: U.S Fighter jets are being intercepted by China over the South China Sea as China increases its aggressive posture towards the United States not only intercepting our fighter jets, but now potentially threatening to supply lethal arms and ammunition To Russia in their support in the fight against Ukraine China Also being the same country who got the permissive heads up that hey, we're going to invade Ukraine and of course, China is now widely believed to have said hey, hey, you gonna do that, Can you at least wait until the Olympics are over And golly, that's exactly what ended up happening Now At the same time as this tension is going on with China, you've got Iran looking to set up a lethal drone making facility just outside of Moscow to manufacture billions of dollars worth of Kamikaze drones that are faster and stronger to send straight into Ukraine with no chance that they get confiscated because it'll go from Russian territory right into the battlefield. This is in sharp contrast to the weapons that are being supplied from Iran to Yemen. So that way the Houthis can continue their fight against surrounding countries like the United Arab Emirates the United States stealing, well stealing seizing.

I should say those weapons from those who the rebels now threatening to send those weapons to Ukraine against U.N conventions to continue this essentially proxy World War But we have to listen. Janet Yellen Just went to Ukraine last week Biden made the announcement that he's going there and Janet Yellen just went there as well Janet Yellen What did she do when she was there? She just announced 1.25 billion dollars of another 10 billion dollar Aid package to Ukraine more money for Ukraine. Now one of the issues that you have with Ukraine is the fact that Ukraine's Financial competence is potentially being called into question. There are multiple allegations of rampant corruption in Ukraine.

Take for example this p peace from the Wilson Center fighting corruption in Wartime Ukraine and to some regards, you can't blame that there will be some level of corruption everywhere, After all, on a ranking of the 190 countries in the world, the United States Falls at somewhere around position number 26 which means even the United States is deemed to have a level of corruption in. But when you look at corruption surveys, there is no European country that is deemed by the public to be more corrupt than Ukraine. That's not me saying it, it's the European public saying that. So it's worth noting that we've had multiple instances and also resignations, uh, or firings of people who have potentially engaged in corruption.

Ukraine Now that's not saying that. Hey, if you know there's one rotten apple, everyone is. and it's not saying that we shouldn't support Ukraine It's just suggesting that we want to be careful about what is happening and we want to be aware of the additional spending and where it's going and potentially try to be more careful about how money is being allocated in Ukraine Look for example here, the ministry uh, the Ministry of Defense was accused of purchasing uh food at prices well above usual retail prices. This was from a January 21st expose by the Weekly Mirror.

The investigation resulted in the resignation of the Deputy Minister of Defense was responsible for logistics for the Army and the firing of someone else at the ministry of Defense who had signed the contracts with the suppliers. The Ministry of Defense then quickly distanced themselves from those individuals. There are multiple other counts and allegations here of avoiding taxation, tax fraud, of potential Uh, malicious contracts signed with Airbus, the French company and potentially other contracts being signed with Ukrainian aircraft engine companies uh, and these companies potentially being ironically suspected of providing funding and support to Russian proxies in terrorists. So in other words, Ukrainian companies potentially sending money to to Russian proxies.

Then you've also got suspicion here by the prosecutor's general office suggesting that two former deputy directors of state-owned Enterprises had engaged in the export and in import of military goods and Equipment Basically, uh, let me rephrase that: the prosecutor General's office issued notices of suspension to a particular company that was supplying military goods and Equipment because of fears about either embezzling or just straight up corruption And this piece goes on and on and on. There's no question here that there are absolutely cases where in any government you're going to have levels of corruption. The problem is the United States seems to be sticking its head in the sand. Look here.

On January 31st, the U.S Treasury Department said that the Department the Treasury Department had quote no indication that U.S funds were being misused in Ukraine. You have to be a blind ostrich with your head in the sand to suggest or to lie to the American public that there is quote no indication that funds have been misused in Ukraine. Let's be real. There are indications that funds are being misused in Ukraine and it would be much better in my opinion if we actually had a United States government that said hey, look, you know what? We realize some of the money in Ukraine is being misused and here's what we're doing about it rather than this blind.

nope, nothing's wrong attitude. This is a problem now. Obviously there's an idea that hey, maybe we could make progress over here. But look, here's that data that I was talking to you about.

Transparency International Recently published an index of Corruption Perception for 2022 and it showed that Ukraine despite some improvement, is perceived, is still perceived still as Europe's most corrupt country and is in a 33rd position worldwide. Yikes, That's not great. Unfortunately though, this war continues to rage on and money continues to be spent. You and and this money that continues to be spent makes it very easy for people like Tucker Carlson to make people even more angry about where money is being spent.

Look for example, at uh latest episode from Tucker Carlson And it doesn't help that when you have this kind of talk at the same time as our government saying oh, nope, we don't see any corruption. Well, of course, if you have the government on one hand going, oh, we don't see any corruption in Ukraine and we know there is. Of course you're going to be able to now create this narrative that the U.S is blindly sending money over to Ukraine and isn't actually caring about it. And listen in just for a moment, we'll only listen about 30 45 seconds in rural Alabama burning crosses in the front yards of terrified sharecroppers to amuse ourselves we don't have.

TV Biden gave a speech the other day in 2023 to denounce lynching as if lynching is still happening in the United States It all seems a little delusional. So it was with genuine relief that we saw today one of Biden's top cabinet officials. Janet Yellen who runs the treasury Department sign off for Twitter account finally leave Washington and meet with actual flesh and blood human beings who are suffering. And not only did she meet with them to prove her sincerity, Janet Yellen brought with her a check for a billion dollars and we'll admit partisanship aside, we were happy to see that finally someone in the Bible Administration who actually cares getting on an airplane to show concern.

That's the good news. The bad news is Jenny Ellen was not in East Palestine she was in Ukraine watch and today I'm proud to announce the transfer of an additional amount of over 1.2 billion dollars. That's the first charge of what that 10 billion dollars in direct budget support that the United States will provide him from the months. We love you so much that we will give you whatever you want anything, a new bicycle, a puppy, a pony, it's yours.

We love you billions more for Ukraine your tax dollars. but that money is not going to be going to the newly poisoned communities of Eastern Ohio Who cares about them? It's not going to be earmarked for the hundreds of thousands of American families who have lost loved ones to the opioid epidemic an epidemic that was created by Democratic donors at Purdue Pharma No, that money is going to Zielinski and his wife in Kiev And that money will complement the more than 100 billion in tax dollars they've already received from the U.S treasury. And you've got to think as they watch this tonight assuming they're still TV reception in East Palestine The people who are stuck there are kicking themselves: If Only They had paid Joe Biden's crackhead son 80 grand a month for a no-show job Jenna Yellen might be visiting them today. It seemed like a lot of money at the time, but that turned out to be the best investment those Ukrainian oligarchs ever made.

It was like buying Google stock 20 years ago. Talk about a jackpot and by the way, nobody understands the principles of political. We'll come back. So look.

another 10 billion dollars issued as direct budget support for Ukraine Why? Well, it's because Ukraine expects a 30 billion dollar shortfall for electricity, heat, and water in 2023. So yet again, the United States is expected to pick up the tab. The European Union is also falling behind on its Aid promises. So while the European Union promises to send money to a European Ally who is In fairness not part of the EU but a European Union, the European Union who promises to send money to Ukraine is falling behind on doing so while at the same time Biden and Janet Yellen are visiting Kiev and delivering checks, new and additional 10 billion dollars of direct budget support while at the same time our Treasury Department pretends there's no corruption happening in Ukraine Look, I'm not here to say we shouldn't help, but I'm here to say some accountability and some recognition of accountability should be much more of a priority as should helping Americans where we need it.

Whether it's with an unfunded social security safety net for the people who need it or our disability funds or Medicare funds, or how about homelessness? But no, with politicians who only care about getting reelected like Gavin Newsom whom I ran against for Governor in 2020 and came in second place against recall candidates Gavin Newsom would rather send stimulus checks to people making up to five hundred thousand dollars, then actually give a damn about homelessness or creating additional housing. Even his LA Times mouthpiece has criticized his Sb7 housing law is essentially worthless. But back to Ukraine. What's most disgusting is the fact that the European Union and countries like Poland are saying oh, we'll send you tanks, We'll we'll help you crane They're making these grandiose claims of sending money in tanks, But what do we find out after the promises are made? Europe isn't actually sending the money because they're falling behind according to the Wall Street Journal They're making it very clear in their expose.

hey, Europe you're not fault, you're not keeping up with your promises. And what does Poland say in interviews? Well, zit tanks we promised. We don't know if they actually work. Ah, so Ukraine needs more help and who's paying for it You? Well, the 98 of you in America watching this video are paying for it so much for foreign aid.

It's more like Usaid now. Unfortunately What's sad about this is now you're continuing the proxy war of China supporting Russia more and the United States supporting Ukraine more. Everybody else is kind of watching. It's really turning into a war of the biggest powers.

On top of that you do have in a surprise agreement and this is really to kind of smooth over relations with the United States We have to give credit to Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia has announced a 400 million dollar agreement to support Kiev Now that sounds great, but if we're sending over a hundred billion dollars, thank you Saudi Arabia for the 0.4 percent. Now there is some good news at least in the war in that Russia is trying to prop up oil prices in that they've cut oil production by about five percent in an attempt to raise prices. Unfortunately, since their oil price cut oil prices or oil, uh, production cut, excuse me, oil prices have actually come down. Oil prices are now at lower levels than where they were before the War Began Russia Russia's control over the energy markets fortunately is waning now.

At the same time, our Defense Department and our very strong lobby of the defense industry in the military-industrial complex is doing everything they can to make sure they can now produce weapons directly for Ukraine. This also, according to the Wall Street Journal, where the Wall Street Journal suggests that Lockheed Martin is expected to post Revenue declines ironically this year, but they have over 150 billion dollars of a backlog of production now producing military equipment directly for Ukraine. As we go through our own stockpile and the world starts running out of ammunition, there is now a 150 billion dollar backlog of military equipment production just for Lockheed Martin That's just one of the defense contractors at the same time, Germany is now preparing to start producing fighter jets after Decades of not producing fighter jets because the world doesn't need more weapons or doesn't need less weapons. It needs more and we're producing and going to produce now probably a decade worth of jets, military equipment, and weapons.

and I expect that production will continue even after the war in Ukraine either stagnates, drags on, or even ends. Nobody's going to want to be stuck without a massive stockpile of weapons, which unfortunately just sets up for stresses into the future. so I Hate to say it, but none of this sounds really fantastic and a lot of the fingers, in my opinion, just point to our politicians in Washington who don't seem to care about proper accountability to us as Americans I'm not here to say we shouldn't helping Ukraine but I am here to say that maybe we should be more balanced at how we're spending money and demand better accountability because right now it just seems like we continue to Trend towards World War III And that's the last thing I Want to worry about I Want to worry about stocks and real estate, making sure people can get access to building their wealth in the easiest way possible. That's why I've programs on building your wealth with a flash sale that expires tomorrow linked down below.

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