Tucker Carlson criticizes Zelensky for asking for financial aid

(MENAFN) Ukrainian Leader Vladimir Zelensky is a “corrupt strongman” who “demands” money from US taxpayers, Fox News Host Tucker Carlson said on Thursday. Carlson is a prominent detractor of Zelensky, whom he has already blamed of trying to push the US into a “third world war.”

Washington has owed a total of USD68 billion in military and financial help to Ukraine in 2022 and the White House called for Congress last week to agree on another USD37 billion before Republicans take control of the House of Representatives in January.

This combined spending is “double what we spent every year in Afghanistan,” Carlson yelled on Thursday, noting that Zelensky “doesn’t just ask the US Congress for money, he demands it.”

“Who is that guy?” he questioned. “He’s some corrupt Ukrainian strongman. Where does he get that attitude?”

Carlson’s guest, previous US Special Operations Pilot L. Todd Wood, clarified that although Zelensky’s political job was bankrolled by billionaire Igor Kolomoysky, he has since taken his previous patron’s assets and “now has a bigger and more important and more powerful and more rich benefactor, that being the Biden Administration.”

Citing recent documents, in addition to his contacts’ alleged experience on the ground in Ukraine since 2014, Wood said that “only 30 percent of the supplies and military aid” going for the nation “is actually getting where it’s supposed to go.”

“This is the varsity team of money launderers in Ukraine,” he stated, claiming that Zelensky and his officials “don’t want peace.” Instead, he said, “they want the money train to continue,” for the benefit of themselves and the US defense suppliers sending Kiev’s troops.

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