How much of the aid is even pocketable? Or are you one of the people saying they're reselling truckloads of artillery shells on "the black market"?
Graft is more sophisticated in america.
In china and russia they will indeed have the quartermaster selling the finished goods or anything easily disassembled, to any buyer. While the factories would be using substandard components to pocket the difference (much rarer in USA, although not unheard of). That is how you end up with russias ghost battallions, tanks missings hardware, and chinese missiles being refuelled with water instead of actual fuel.
In the USA, there is much less of that. The oligarchs do not like sharing so they harshly punish those caught down this.
Instead their preferred method is to say "we are giving ukraine 1 billion dollars"
But actually they are giving them 200 million in cash + 800 million "worth" of military goods. Except they are not really shipping 800 million worth of military goods, but more like 300 million worth and the other 500 million is "extra profit" for whatever "no bid contractor" is given the money by USA govt (for appropriate bribes and kickbacks). Not to mention that the base profit is bullshit to begin with. Since USA govt literally paid the salaries and budget of the engineers who developed the weapons in the first place, then gifted the IP and selling profit rights to oligarchs
This method of graft
1. ensures that the necessary war machines exist, and are in good working condition, and arrive where they need to go.
2. is less visible to the public. as there are no viral videos of soldiers opening a mortar shell to find it empty.
And of course for that 100 million in cash, they expect kickbacks too.
As per biden forcing burisma energy to give him 10 million dollar bribe.
Strong arming ukraine to arrest and silence individuals.
Having their accountant assassinted when he talked.
The accountant wife escaped to USA and came to the FBI with evidence, told the news she knows exactly where the accounts are holding the bribe money.
The FBI kicked her out of their building and kept her out until she was assassinated here in the USA.
Oh and wait. actually audits of the pentagon shows that over half the budget disappears
I would say, "This is your taxpayer money at work," but in order to say that we'd have to know where the money went.
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50% ghost companies is pretty bad, not as bad as russia's 90+% ghost companies.
So really that 1 billion to ukraine is:
500 million "disappears" outright in the USA before anything else.
100 million cash (with kickbacks. most disappears in ukraine. remember it is "treason" for a senator to ask we appoint an accountant to keep track of the money and how it is spent)
400 million "worth" of weapons (actually 100m worth of weapons )