War Your Way to Wealth: How Taxpayers Fund the Corrupt and Connected

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From Afghanistan’s “missing” trillions to the latest wave of resignations inside Zelensky’s inner circle, the war-time gravy train keeps rolling. In this episode, we dig into the contractors, bureaucrats, and foreign officials who turned global conflict into personal fortune—while American taxpayers footed the bill for villas, super-yachts, and multimillion-dollar sports cars. If you ever wondered how a $100,000 toilet seat gets approved, here’s your answer.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Watchdog on Wall Street podcast explaining the news coming
out of the complex worlds of finance, economics, and politics
and the impact that we'll have on everyday Americans. Author,
investment banker, consumer advocate, analyst and trader Chris Markowski or.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Your Way to Wealth. Yeah, simple weeks ago, maybe a
month or so ago, we did a podcast talking about
all of the griff graff, all the theft and things
that were taking place with Afghanistan with our contractors and
our people and our military personnel and trillions of dollars

(00:40):
out the door. But never fear my fellow taxpayers. We
made We made some of our fellow Americans out there,
some of the people that know how to war their
way to wealth, quite wealthy, quite wealthy. There has been
some great films on it as well as War Dogs,
based on a true store. It's It's how it goes again.

(01:03):
You people wonder, you know, oh, we we spent you know,
one hundred thousand dollars out of toilet seat. What do
you mean? What you mean? It's a lot of people
got to you know, got to dip their hands in
there on that toilet seat and make money off this.
But just as expected, we're seeing right now. We're seeing

(01:23):
right now, all of the people involved in Ukraine, Zelensky's
right hand man, top piece, negotiator, other members of his cabinet,
all having to resign man skipping town but quick. But
don't worry. They're gonna be okay. For all you people
out there, you know, for Ukraine. You got your flags

(01:44):
up on your Facebook page, all sorts of stuff. Yes,
they've got very fat Swiss Bank accounts right now, so
they'll be just fine. They'll be just fine. I just,
you know, want to congratulate all of my fellow Americans
that help pay, help pay for very very nice villas,
probably in the south of France somewhere, a super yachts.

(02:07):
Uh have you seen the new Italian the Pagani sports
car thinks about two point three million dollars. We bought
a bunch of those as well for our Ukrainian friends.
You happy watchdog on Wall Street dot com.