"In 2015, when he was vice president, Mr. Biden pleaded with Ukraine’s parliament to stamp out “the pervasive poison of cronyism, corruption, and kleptocracy.”As much as we believe we're on the right side of this war with Russia, we owe it to ourselves as a nation to be far more responsible than we have been so far in throwing money --- billions of dollars in cash and billions more in weapons -- to an impoverished nation. We did precisely the same in Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979 -- pumping weapons and money -- and then abandoned the country after the Soviet breakup a decade later, giving rise to the Taliban. Same in the 1980s war between Iraq and Iran where we supplied arms to both sides.Just because American soldiers are not at risk does not mean we simply fuel the war without safeguards. Regardless of how this war ends -- and we have no plans to end it -- Ukraine will become another Lebanon, another Afghanistan, another Iran -- either a lawless nation with corrupt militias ruling segments of it, or a nation that becomes antagonistic to our interests.The Biden administration, and Congress, should demand that a percentage of our aid to Ukraine is spent on Western officials stationed in Ukraine who closely monitor that cash and weapons do not fall in the hands of the corrupt and fascist segments of that country.

"In 2015, when he was vice president, Mr. Biden pleaded with Ukraine’s parliament to stamp out “the pervasive poison of cronyism, corruption, and kleptocracy.”As much as we believe we're on the right side of this war with Russia, we owe it to ourselves as a nation to be far more responsible than we have been so far in throwing money --- billions of dollars in cash and billions more in weapons -- to an impoverished nation. We did precisely the same in Afghanistan after the Soviet invasion in 1979 -- pumping weapons and money -- and then abandoned the country after the Soviet breakup a decade later, giving rise to the Taliban. Same in the 1980s war between Iraq and Iran where we supplied arms to both sides.Just because American soldiers are not at risk does not mean we simply fuel the war without safeguards. Regardless of how this war ends -- and we have no plans to end it -- Ukraine will become another Lebanon, another Afghanistan, another Iran -- either a lawless nation with corrupt militias ruling segments of it, or a nation that becomes antagonistic to our interests.The Biden administration, and Congress, should demand that a percentage of our aid to Ukraine is spent on Western officials stationed in Ukraine who closely monitor that cash and weapons do not fall in the hands of the corrupt and fascist segments of that country.

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