lets return to the worry some US government officials have expressed towards providing Ukraine with “money, guns and lawyers” fearing corruption failed transparency say three pages between McCarthy and his opponents that salted away his speakership

now the United States is expanding its presence in the Philippines huum  President Bongbong Marcos 

Why does that name sound familiar 

   AH his father kleptocrat was overthrown by the people and spirited away to Hawaii by America

so some worry Ukrainian corruption

any Philippines worries

                         where corruption under peaceful circumstances might be provided warm fertile soil for it to seed and spawn 

Alfred E. Newman  What, Me Worry?

1505,  Thursday,  2  2. 23

https://www.dodig.mil/Ukraine/Oversight-Updates/Article/3282912/defense-state-and-usaid-inspectors-general-visit-kyiv/ 

Warren Zevon  Lawyers, Guns and Money  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2HH7J-Sx80

https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-politics-united-states-government-ferdinand-marcos-jr-lloyd-austin-149f981290f849c62a684bea5d0d276b?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sentences%202/2/23&utm_term=Sentences 

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/30/1108841337/ferdinand-marcos-jr-takes-oath-philippine-president 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-64479712?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sentences%202/2/23&utm_term=Sentences 

pull-quote:  “Mr. Marcos Sr., his wife Imelda and their cronies plundered and estimated $10bn of public money while in power, when millions of Filipinos were living in extremepoverty. Only $4bn of this has ever been recovered.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-61379915