Before we get too high and mighty about overseas corruption, we should remember a certain former US president (who’s still revered by 1/3 of the population) came to power after a long history of running a fraudulent charity, a fraudulent university, serial philandering and sexual assault, years of likely tax fraud, and questionable dealings with money laundering gangsters and overseas oligarchs. And we now have a serving member in the House whose entire bio appears to be a fabrication. This same guy also appears to have ties to a Russian oligarch, worked at a firm in Florida that defrauded investors, and, probably committed campaign finance crimes.Of course we should monitor the flow of weapons and money into Ukraine. Hopefully, Ukrainians understand the requirements for continued aid including reconstruction money. It was probably easier after WWII due too well established civil societies in Europe and Japan. To a significant extent, we’ll be helping them build the civil society ‘plane’ while it’s in flight.But this is a fight we and our allies have to win for the sake of human rights and especially to defeat rising threats of autocracy around the world.

Before we get too high and mighty about overseas corruption, we should remember a certain former US president (who’s still revered by 1/3 of the population) came to power after a long history of running a fraudulent charity, a fraudulent university, serial philandering and sexual assault, years of likely tax fraud, and questionable dealings with money laundering gangsters and overseas oligarchs. And we now have a serving member in the House whose entire bio appears to be a fabrication. This same guy also appears to have ties to a Russian oligarch, worked at a firm in Florida that defrauded investors, and, probably committed campaign finance crimes.Of course we should monitor the flow of weapons and money into Ukraine. Hopefully, Ukrainians understand the requirements for continued aid including reconstruction money. It was probably easier after WWII due too well established civil societies in Europe and Japan. To a significant extent, we’ll be helping them build the civil society ‘plane’ while it’s in flight.But this is a fight we and our allies have to win for the sake of human rights and especially to defeat rising threats of autocracy around the world.

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