‘STUPID AMOUNTS OF MONEY’: State Department Official Admits ‘Mistakes’ in Ukraine; ‘Unaccounted’ US financing

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KEY QUOTES: DAN FITZGERALD, COUNTRY COORDINATOR, US DEPARTMENT OF STATE

• “We are accepting stupid amounts of money and what do we get in return? “I really couldn’t tell you.”

• “So a lot of people who go to places like Ukraine… make a stupid amount of money and then they come back and buy all these houses and you go and do whatever you want.”

• “100% (there are mistakes in Ukraine).”

• “(US funds are) financing the entire Ukrainian government and half of its power grid that Russia keeps blowing up.”

• “They want to move so quickly to see results, which is typically not how foreign aid should work.”

While ordinary Americans face continued economic challenges and sky-high inflation at home, a current national coordinator for the US State Department stated in an undercover Project Veritas recording that most Americans are unaware of the “stupid amounts of money” flowing from American taxpayers to Ukraine. “thousands of millions” admits it is used to shore up the Ukrainian power grid and pay attractive salaries.

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has now surpassed two years, and one State Department official appears skeptical that the billions in U.S. foreign aid supporting Ukraine are well spent.

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Daniel Fitzgerald, who has spent almost two years in the US State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance, revealed that the US funds will “finance the entire Ukrainian government and half of its electrical grid.” As he says, “stupid amounts of (American) money” are used just to keep the lights on.

Fitzgerald shared that mistakes have been made in Ukraine and that some U.S. funds are “unaccounted for,” a troubling admission about a nation with a long history of institutional corruption.

“They want to move so quickly to see results, which is typically not how foreign aid should work,” Fitzgerald admits.

A Pentagon report in January showed that the Defense Department failed to track more than $1 billion in military aid to Ukraine, leaving questions about where it all ended up.

Injections of American foreign aid at a time when American citizens are struggling economically have become controversial. Americans increasingly say the United States is providing too much aid to Ukraine, according to a May Pew Research survey reported by Breitbart. In total, the United States has sent 175 billion dollars to Ukraine.

Due to the hidden treasure affecting Ukraine in the billions, Fitzgerald shares that the State Department is now expediting the hiring of additional US foreign service officers to go to Ukraine to guard the funds.

These officials, Fitzgerald says, will make “stupid amounts of money” just to return to the United States to buy houses and “do whatever they want.” The war seems lucrative… for a select few Americans.

Fitzgerald, who spends his days coordinating U.S. foreign aid, is not convinced this influx into Ukraine is an effective use of taxpayer funds. “We are talking about stupid amounts of money and what do we get in return? “I really couldn’t tell you.”

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