Foreing Aid fleecing Take the time to read this carefully, please. Perusing the Act allowing foreign aid, both military and civil aid to be extended to countries, the wide latitude and authority Potus has in this regard is striking. Congress is at arms length of this. Logically, since the backdrop is to enhance foreign policy, this is the province of Potus, not congress. So basically, Potus decides to which country aid is given, when and under what conditions. (Keep this thought in mind) A high level view, shows that there is a relationship between aid and corruption. This is well understood, documented and discussed not only in US policy circles, but within in donor country policy circle and corruption is a thorn in the side of this aid to be successful at the grassroots level in the country receiving such aid. Given this wide latitude, Potus can therefore withhold on occasion aid when it serves foreign policy objectives in relation to the effects on the ground. Again, this is in the province of authority of Potus. The Biden issue, where he threatened to withhold aid if corruption was not immediately rooted out, is in and of itself not the issue. Ukraine said: You do not have the authority, you are not the president. (that is why you needed to keep that thought in the back of your head). Biden said: "Call him. You're not getting the money until the guy is gone". The issue was that Shokin was investigating a corruption case, where Hunter Biden was part off. Shokin was allegedly corrupt, and it was afterwards confirmed by Burisma lawyers who colored these accusations as unfounded and untrue. So, it was a setup! Then the question should be, why did the Burisma lawyers not tell Joe Biden this was an empty accusation? ......hmmmm Maybe they had .... Maybe they have not. That remains for now to be determined. What we do know are the consequences: Poroshenko pressured Shokin, for the good of the country (1 billion represented a life line for the Ukraine state) to step down. Shokin did his patriotic duty to safe his country and stepped down. Consider: A girl I know in the Ukraine earns a 120 dollars a month working in a perfume shop, while the average salary is around 190. Yet, this country was bled dry of an estimated 100 billion dollars by these so called Oligarchs. As soon as you hear Ukrainian Oligarch, consider that guy a crook. 100 billion on 42 million people. Their income could have doubled and tripled, making them one of the hottest economies around! in contrast, consider what had happened to Russia during the Jeltsin period and contrast that with the Putin era. Who are Putin's enemies? Indeed, the usual suspects! There are those who claim, that Ukraine needs Russian Gas. They don't. Both around Crimea, and in Western Ukraine, Ukraine is sitting on vast reserves of LNG waiting to be extrapolated in a way that serves the Ukrainian people. Yet, many‘s a winter, they have suffered shortages and cold. To help in this effort of economical development, and military development, there is aid. Corruption however, makes that any money thrown at economical development is effectively not benefiting the Ukrainian people, but only a select few, the usual suspects. President Trump is all about effectively and efficiently using the money available. He does it with his own money. He often references his father telling him: if you can spent less, and getting the same thing, is a good thing. Especially, where it concerns public money, there is a overarching reason to be prudent on the way it is spent. Not only because it is taxpayer money, but also to turn the tide in exuberant growth of government debt. Consider that Obama in his first 3 years spent 7 trillion. Trump's adding 2 trillion to the debt could have been half, if the FED had not raised the interest rate. While GDP is growing, debt growth is slowing, a GDP/ DEBT ratio is dropping. This is a good sign. With tariffs and trade deals (50 billion in agri products) money flows into the US, and trade imbalances are made smaller. For comparison: china growth dropped "officially" to 6% showing -2% while the US shows 3.5%. A clear indication that a corner is being turned. Of course there are 1000 ways in which a trillion needs to be saved, redirected to reap it's effect. Foreign aid, that is geared towards economic development in a foreign country also serves the object of enhancing US economic growth. So, it is both in the interest of a receiving country, as well as in the interest of the US, to effectively and efficiently allocate these funds, and the determination of its use and extend is vested in Potus. And now they wanne burn him for that? Remember what happened when Potus used the aid leverage to make a deal on the caravans and return of illegals to Guatemala. Honduras, etc? That did not go well down with the dems who wanted a increasing influx of illegals, did it? It seems that aid money is directly related to illegal immigration and human trafficking. Here is an OxfamNovib - an organisation directly profiting from and embroiled in human trafficking and child sexual abuse. - report on aid and this area of crime: https://www.oxfamamerica.org/static/media/files/case-study-human-trafficking-dec2008.pdf Note the foot note on page 1. This means that lower level civil servants (ses? ) have a vested interest in keeping the flow of (money). In relation to draining the swamp, this is one particular area where the swamp is fed by money, like a real swamp is fed by water. But this goes for internal aid money too. Remember the 1.8 billion for Baltimore? It's gone with nothing to show for it. The same happens with California. Remember what happened in 2017 when Potus withheld aid? Later it came out aid money to help build the high speed rail to nowhere? Cali is now tasked to pay it back ... auch! And since we are talking major funds here, hundreds of billions, this is an area where corrupt dems feel the pain of leverage. This whole circus about Aid to Ukraine withholding is all about to keep the "spice" flowing. ( See Frank Herbert's : Dune - series; the reason why Arrakis was central to the power in the empire. For those not inclined to read the books: see the movies: hereHookTube, or hereHookTube) Of course anybody is entitled to espouse an opinion on policy decisions. It is quite telling when an outlet/ mouthpiece for the CFR - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, starts to berating policy decisions like Judas was complaining about the use of expensive Nardus oil on Jesus saying: this could have been sold and given to the poor (side note: while he stole of the common treasury;...clothed in respectability) https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/06/26/us-stopped-vital-foreign-aid-programs-in-name-of-counter-trafficking-trafficking-in-persons-report-aid-development-programs-humanitarian-organizations/ We can glean from this that powerful special interests are behind the whole affair, leading straight to the same usual suspects. see: https://voat.co/v/GreatAwakening/3444088 Note also the wider historical frame of the Biden interference as mentioned here: https://voat.co/v/GreatAwakening/3463976/20888745 I really encourage you to read with attention George Washington's farewell address, for the reasons why people would rather sell-out their own country, and indirectly you through under the pretense of and clothed in patriotism, appearing to be defending American values. These horrible people have leeched on to every outlet to suck up as much as possible by any avenue possible. The positive thought I have is, Potus is fighting this every way he can! ..... successfully I might add. edit for spelling errors.