President Donald Trump has approved arms to lots of problematic regimes besides Ukraine.
“Corruption” was the first reason President Trump gave for delaying nearly $400 million in military aid to Ukraine.
Meantime, Presidential administration has approved defense exports with nearly $3 billion to governments considered more corrupt than Ukraine’s.
That’s according to data published by the State Department, the U.S. agency responsible for approving proposed export sales; and by Transparency International, a Berlin-based nonprofit that annually ranks the world’s countries by public sector corruption.
Source and photo: defencecone
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