Every Democrat and nearly half of all Republicans in the U.S. House sided with President Joe Biden to send $61 billion to Ukraine to keep it from being overrun by the butcher from Moscow.
Yet apparently, someone forgot to tell them that the evil practiced by Russian President Vladimir Putin is also being carried out by the guys buoyed by the dollars of American taxpayers.
Daily Caller columnist Terence Jeffrey reported on Wednesday that Biden’s own State Department had admonished the U.S.-backed Ukrainians for human rights abuses.
As Jeffrey noted, just two days after the House secured the next round of tens of billions of dollars for Ukraine, the State Department released a report on human rights in Ukraine in 2023.
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“It cited both the Russian military, which has invaded Ukraine, and the Ukrainian government itself for human rights abuses,” Jeffrey noted.
“Significant human rights abuses committed by Russia’s forces in areas that were under Russian control involved severe and wide-ranging cases, the report stated.
As Jeffrey reported, these abuses included, among other things, “credible reports of: arbitrary or unlawful killings, including extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearance; torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment … serious restrictions on freedom of expression and media freedom, including violence or threats of violence against journalists, unjustified arrests or prosecution of journalists … severe restrictions on religious freedom … and the existence of the worst forms of child labor.”
Perhaps not much of a surprise coming from the Kremlin’s forces.
But what about our “allies” in Ukraine?
“There were also significant human rights abuses involving Ukrainian government officials, although not comparable to the scope of Russia’s abuses,” the State Department said.
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These abuses committed by Ukrainian government officials “included credible reports of: enforced disappearance; torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest or detention; serious problems with the independence of the judiciary; restrictions on freedom of expression, including for members of the media, including violence or threats of violence against journalists, unjustified arrests or prosecutions of journalists, and censorship,” the State Department asserted.
U.S. diplomats also ripped Ukraine in the report for “serious restrictions on internet freedom; substantial interference with the freedoms of peaceful assembly and association; restrictions on freedom of movement; serious government corruption; extensive gender-based violence; systematic restrictions on workers’ freedom of association; and the existence of the worst forms of child labor.”
Ironically, according to Jeffrey, Ukraine in 2023 bore a striking resemblance to Ukraine in 2021, the year before the Russians invaded.
Back in 2021, the U.S. State Department denounced Ukraine for “significant human rights issues” that included “credible reports of: unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings by the government or its agents; torture and cases of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment of detainees by law enforcement personnel; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; arbitrary arrest or detention” and “serious problems with the independence of the judiciary.”
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The Ukrainian government in 2021, the department’s report stated, “generally failed to take adequate steps to prosecute or punish most officials who committed abuses, resulting in a climate of impunity.”
By 2023, little had changed.
The State Department said that in Ukraine, “the government often did not take adequate steps to identify and punish officials who may have committed abuses.”
“Civil society and media noted corruption remained common at all levels in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, influencing judicial and law enforcement institutions, the management of state property and state companies, and state regulation,” the report added.
Thus, according to Biden’s own State Department, this “democracy” that Biden, congressional Democrats, and war-happy Republicans back with billions of American taxpayers’ dollars does not look all that different from the thugs who invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
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