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Bleacher Creature

(11,256 posts)
Sun Oct 6, 2019, 05:41 PM Oct 2019

Transparency International Ranks Ukraine as the 60th Most Corrupt Nation in the World

https://www.transparency.org/cpi2018

The top five are Somalia, Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, and North Korea, respectively.

Seeing that Trump is so very much concerned about corruption, what is he going to do to help those countries root out their problems and prevent Americans from profiting from them??
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Transparency International Ranks Ukraine as the 60th Most Corrupt Nation in the World (Original Post) Bleacher Creature Oct 2019 OP
Trump Has Approved Arms to Lots of Problematic Regimes Besides Ukraine. Here's The List BeyondGeography Oct 2019 #1
But his Master Putin wants Ukraine, so, Ukraine it is. blm Oct 2019 #2
I read the link list. Ukraine is ranked #120 from best to worst; Russia is below them at #138. ancianita Oct 2019 #3
What's our rank? Moral Compass Oct 2019 #4
What's our rating, I wonder... rickyhall Oct 2019 #5
I'm surprised not to see Belgium in the top five. DFW Oct 2019 #6
Where is the good old US of A on the list? Firestorm49 Oct 2019 #7

BeyondGeography

(39,369 posts)
1. Trump Has Approved Arms to Lots of Problematic Regimes Besides Ukraine. Here's The List
Sun Oct 6, 2019, 05:43 PM
Oct 2019
Ukraine ranks as the world’s 60th-most corrupt nation, according to Transparency International’s 2018 ranking. Countries considered more corrupt include Mexico, Nigeria, Kenya and Iraq — all of which have received the Trump administration’s approval to import U.S.-made weapons, including attack planes, armed helicopters and missiles.

https://www.defenseone.com/politics/2019/09/trump-has-sold-arms-lots-problematic-regimes-besides-ukraine-heres-list/160152/

Moral Compass

(1,517 posts)
4. What's our rank?
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 02:28 PM
Oct 2019

Given the current financial free-for-all in politics in general and in the Trump regime specifically—I wonder what our ranking is these day.

We’ve got to be climbing fast.

DFW

(54,341 posts)
6. I'm surprised not to see Belgium in the top five.
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 07:18 PM
Oct 2019

That place is unreal. It has less of a functioning government than any other country in Western Europe. The central government is made up of two ethnic factions that hate each other, and as a result, very little gets done, token laws are passed, and various government agencies go around fleecing the citizenry for whatever they can steal and get away with. There is a lot of ugliness beneath the architecture, the chocolate and the waffles.

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