If you have watched World War Reddit, and understand the basic premise of Ukraine as a U.S. money laundering operation, then you likely understand why and how the recipient side of the $100 billion U.S. aid package is filled with graft and corruption.
Each Ukraine official who is caught using the money for their personal enrichment, is replaced by another person who engages in the same activity. Successful anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine are futile, because everything attached to the U.S. created Ukraine government is corrupt.
A corrupt minister is caught stealing and skimming money for his/her own benefit. The corrupt minister is fired and replaced with another corrupt minister, and then the clock starts ticking until the replacement makes a mistake and gets caught doing the same thing as his predecessor.
The corrupt activity in Kyiv is identical to the corrupt activity in Washington DC, because it is created by the same corrupt process. Wash – Rinse – Repeat.
In the latest exhibition…
[Via Zero Hedge} – […] Defense chief Oleksiy Reznikov has overseen a series of embarrassing military corruption scandals at a time Kiev is trying to tout its democratic and corruption reform credentials. He could be dismissed from the top post as early as next week and given a new role as ambassador to the United Kingdom.
But the decision is “not finalized” according to sources speaking to Kyiv Post, which names Rustem Umerov – currently head of the State Property Fund – as a likely candidate to replace Reznikov.
DM Reznikov has overseen Ukraine’s military and defense strategy since the start of the Feb. 2022 invasion, but the much-hyped counteroffensive launched at the start of the summer has been widely seen as a failure, despite tens of billions of dollars of Western aid and weaponry.
Reznikov is now front and center in an anti-graft probe, Bloomberg writes, citing local Ukrainian media:
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s anti-graft crackdown is fueling speculation that he may dismiss Ukraine’s defense minister following accusations of corruption linked to procuring military supplies.
The Ukrayinska Pravda newspaper, citing sources it didn’t name, said on Thursday Minister Oleksii Reznikov may be replaced as early as next week. The report followed accusations from anti-corruption activists and media that under his leadership the ministry has purchased food and uniforms at inflated prices. It also coincides with comments from a lawmaker that Reznikov may be shifted to the post of Kyiv’s ambassador to the UK.
Additionally, parliament’s People’s Deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak, wrote in a Thursday Telegram post that “…Rustem Umerov will be nominated for the position of Minister of Defense.”
Kyiv Post has detailed the latest scandal as follows:
The latest scandal was exposed by Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Nikolov who, citing sources at the State Customs Service of Ukraine, reported that the Ministry of Defense had acquired 233,000 winter jackets for $20 million from a Turkish firm.
Documentation from customs regarding one shipment unveiled a startling increase in cost for a batch of 4,900 jackets en route from Turkey to Ukraine.
The price had tripled, soaring from $142,000 to $421,000 (a per-unit rise from $29 to $86). Furthermore, it was revealed that the jackets, despite being marketed as winter wear, turned out to be lightweight. (link)
Zelenskyy whole heartedly backed him until he was caught out, sorry, forgot to grease the right people.
Reznikov was his insulator. He’ll be rewarded for taking the fall and it’s next man up. Meanwhile our politicians/MSM will continue demanding/sending billions more, calling those who don’t support the war allies of Putin and steadfastly refusing to appoint any oversight.
Must have shorted Hunter.
All you need to do is look at all the House & Senate members from both parties, in addition to FJB, who have gone to Ukraine both times after Russia invaded & you know who is getting kickbacks on U S. foreign aid. They’re taking their new banking slips when they visit, making sure the new Ukrainian president knows where to send “their fair share.” This stinks to high heaven for a reason.
The only high ranking party member who’s not been to Ukraine is McCarthy. But then he’s too busy blocking impeachment efforts AND not controlling spending or getting a budget together.
No one weighed their suitcases on the return flights. Nor is anyone looking for the offshore accounts.
There is a protection racket afoot.
McCarthy took FTX money laundered through Ukraine just like McConnell and Graham.
It’s ok though. While Kevin is too busy to go in person for his graft, he made sure to replace the AMERICAN FLAG pin on his lapel with the UKRAINIAN FLAG pin, so there’s that… Kevin’s support for anything NOT America First is as strong as it ever was.
Kevin needs to be replaced!
As if the corruption wasn’t bad enough, they’re forcing soldiers on both sides to die to enable it. It’s sick.
End result is to depopulate the masculine gene pool. That’s where real leaders and fighters come from,
Those soldiers are really civilians.
The soldiers are all dead by now. These are civilians picked off the street or mercenaries from other countries.
So BAE Systems is going to be building weapons plants in Ukraine, and they have no concern that Russia will blow them up? This war (or whatever the heck it is) is becoming completely absurd.
Germany was going to build a Leopard Tank factory in Ukraine until Russia sent a dozen hypersonic cruise missiles into the NATO Headquarters in Livov. The Germans changed their mind!
SOMEBODY forgot to Run This by PUTIN
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-03-06-23/h_98ec262405343e16c1b5e9715a485480
In the 1990’s the Left kept SCREAMING, “No war for oil”, now it’s “War to stop agression!”
There are NO national interests worth fighting for in Ukraine, at a European issue and we definitely can’t trust the motivation the Media has to shed American lives — especially for Oligarchs that have DOCUMENTED financial ties to Joe Biden.
The American globalists oligarchs want to strip Ukraine of its natural resources.
For them it’s a bargain to use Ukrainian (mostly white) men as cannon fodder. It’s another plus for them that the war enhances their depopulation programs.
They want Russia’s resources as well.
The Derps declared their intention to “decolonize” Russia and strip it of its resources in 1991.
You know, when NATO promised not to move one inch closer to the newly liberated Russia.
But not before selling Ukrainium One a few years back.
@Maquis, I think the hate to Russia is more base than to decolonize it or strip mine it.
In Highschool in 1989I had an Engilsh Teacher play a protest song from the 1960’s during class time. The Soviets to him and other Leftists was a peaceful society and America was the real threat. The Leftists bought the Koolaid that the Soviet Union was leading to a paradise!
Then the USSR collapsed. And their idealized Society was destroyed by the Russian people. The Russian People to the mind of the Libtards destroyed Eden! So the Russian people must be PUNISHED for turning against the religion of the Left.
In a way it’s analogous to the election of Donald Trump. The Libtards couldn’t wrap their minds around the rejection of Killary… and that dissent was viewed as an actual physical assualt to many of that ilk. And they couldn’t risk the common uneducated rabble making the wrong decision again in 2020.
Somewhere in between Hillary bringing a big red reset button to symbolize a renewing of cooperation between Russia and the West (The sale of 20% of our uranium in the Uranium One deal.), and open hostilities between Ukraine and Russia… Putin threw the globalists and their subversive NGO’s out of Russia.
When the media kept hounding Putin to reveal why relations seemingly collapsed overnight and without warning, Putin was brutally honest with an unexpetedly short answer when he said, ‘They worship Satan’.
Talk about throwing down the gauntlet. Putin knew it would be an Event Horizon point in time for the future security of Russia and the Russian People.
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Zelenskyy just has to look in the mirror to see the corruption!
Now they are taking steps so America can never leave Ukraine:
Western officials are looking for ways to lock in pledges of support and limit future governments’ abilities to backtrack, amid fears in European capitals that Donald Trump, if he recaptures the White House, would seek to scale back aid.
https://archive.ph/GexkG#selection-295.0-299.245
The White House is looking for ways to make it extremely difficult to get out of the Russia/Ukraine war
Col. Douglas Macgregor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILJ5s241l4o
High-Ranking Ukrainian Officials Caught Splurging On Luxury Real Estate In Switzerland
https://thepeoplesvoice.tv/high-ranking-ukrainian-officials-caught-splurging-on-luxury-real-estate-in-switzerland/
Not one Senator or Congressman can ever claim they did not know that Zelensky is totally corrupt.
Zelenskyy and associates feature in Pandora Papers, biggest leak of offshore documents
https://subscription.ukrweekly.com/2021/10/zelenskyy-and-associates-feature-in-pandora-papers-biggest-leak-of-offshore-documents/
Too bad the defense minister won’t take some people down with him. But he probably values his tongue, his intact knee caps.
He wasn’t even taken down, he was lateralled into another lucrative opportunity near the Global Derp State Headquarters known as the City of London.
I wonder what his quota will be on funds UK has to give to Ukraine this year.
See? There WAS corruption. But how DARE Trump ask about it!!
And what are we going to do about the corrupted cabal running our government, enslaving us all for generations?? The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed… Give me Liberty or give me…
The knuckleheads in DC are already giving us death…..Patrick Henry….the normies just don’t know it. Yet.
Apparently the problem is he wasn’t corrupt enough. Hunter’s envelope was al little light.
The Big Guy always gets 10%.
Apparently the problem is he wasn’t corrupt enough. Hunter’s envelope was al little light.
The Big Guy always gets 10%.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, that there might be corruption in Ukraine
Captain Louis Renault, please call your headquarters.
This behaviour isn’t limited to Ukraine. In South Africa, corrupt politicians are waiting in line – as one is outed for theft etc, another even worse, steps into the vacant seat. We openly call them out, as they shamelessly tell us .. “It’s our time to eat!”
Washington – Rinse – Repeat
What a great opportunity for that douche… Vindman…
I suspect that it is part of a plan to get the important members of the ‘Team’ safely out. When this news broke it was said that he was going to take over as Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK, roles don’t get safer than that.
His children have already been buying $M houses, so his family is well set up. Zelensky is leading the way in this area with his family now known to have property in Florida, Eqypt, Israel and Italy.
And, the former DM is now ambassador to…..
If they want to rid Ukraine of corruption, they will have to remove a good portion of the US government in order to do so.
Now the Delaware Dotard is withholding relief funds from Hawaii unless he gets another kickback-laden payout to Zelensky.
Zelensky is likely making subtle threats to Joe about exposing Joe’s graft which means that escalating to war against Russia is very likely to come sooner rather than later. It’s been said that Putin won’t survive a Russian defeat. Biden certauinly won’t and like Wilson, FDR and LBJ he doesn’t care how many deplorables die in a provoked war to keep his gravy train rolling.
Wait, WHAT?!?!?…..There might be ‘Corruption’ in the Ukraine?
Biggest scam ever on the US citizens!
But Pence, Christie, and all the other shmucks insist on supporting the Ukraine and its “meat grinder” war operations. Thank God for President Trump.
I want all of my Uke-bucks back.
“Corruption Probe” Haha…haha…ha…
That’s just funny. It makes me think of Captain Renault (Claude Rains) in Casablanca in regards to gambling at the casino “I’m shocked, shocked there’s gambling here” then they gave him his winnings, “your winnings sir”.
Folks, it’s all fraud, not anything that we have been subjected too in the last 110+ years has anything to do with whats best for Americans or the whole of mankind now with the Ukraine “War” aka the latest episode of “Playhouse 90, Kabuki Theater, you pick…it’s hooey.
The point he’s the employee (swamp rat) of the month for the swamp they’ll throw lavish parties around the world for this rat and as long as he keeps his mouth shut he’ll get a newly available beachfront home in Maui.
This is not cynicism but the sad reality of what we’ve allowed to wrest control of the world, in a word “demonic”.
Is it possible Zelensky has found one more corrupt than he?
Z has to cycle each crook into a position so they can make bank before making way for the next crook.
I wonder how much of that money went to the Bidens.
Man that country is corrupt. Almost as bad as us.
The fascinating part of all the visiting (10% Big Guys) elites, politicians and celebrities is that down to a person or pronoun (what ever) they ALL have publicly stated that DEAD Russians, a DEAD Russian Nation and a DEAD Putin are the goals.
Their visits are all well telegraphed in advance by the media.
The media makes a big deal of the Russians attacking INFRASTRUCTURE and CIVILIAN LOCATION, yet ALL the visitors SAFELY travel by Train, Plane or Automobile to Kiev and then tour the surounding areas in complete safety.
Russian forbearance is just head scratching and a heard of curious cats interesting.
Really strange, isn’t it? Every now and again we seem to get a rare glimpse into how the war is impacting everyday life in Ukraine, and it looks nothing like what the media has been portraying.
Then things get real awkward and confusing when someone is asked about the war going on. It’s like they genuinely forgot their country was even at war. Simply doesn’t add up.
despite being marketed as winter wear, turned out to be lightweight.
Hierarchy in Ukraine is 1) Graft 2) Corruption 3) Patriotism
“Ukrainian mothers, send more of your sons. We care!”
KYIV, Sept 2 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s main security agency(SBU) accused tycoon Ihor Kolomoisky of fraud and money laundering on Saturday, naming one of the country’s most prominent businessmen a suspect in a criminal investigation.
The move against Kolomoisky, one of Ukraine’s richest men and a one-time supporter of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy whose election he financially backed in 2019, comes as Kyiv is trying to signal progress during a wartime crackdown on corruption.
or….. Biden’s interactions with Kolomoisky necessitates the need that Kolomoisky is ‘disappeared’. Reminder that Kolomoisky and Zlochevsky were both operating Directors of Privat Bank. Kolomoisky financed the Neo-Nazi Army that was essential to the US Led Coup against the Ukrainian President in 2014.
One can bet that if Zlochevsky has tapes of bribery conversations with Joe Biden, so to does Ihor Kolomoisky.
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In April 2019, Zelensky was elected as President of Ukraine and the US Federal Bureau of investigation announce that it is investigating Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky over alleged financial crimes.
Four years later there’s been no word from the FBI on Kolomoisky’s alleged “financial crimes”……funny that!
Could the FBI be corrupt?
Privat Bank ‘misplaced’ nearly $1.2 billion of our hard earned tax dollars the bank was overseeing in foreign aid.
Oh well, a billion here a billion there… happens all the time.
So, not only is no one prosecuted, but we keep sending the same people tens of billions more them ten of billions more to look after. It’s absolutely insane.
Removed is a strong word when one is being promoted to Ambassador to the UK for more corruption gathering with royals instead of continentals.
Hmm, I thought it was closer to $250 Billion, maybe I’m wrong.
So, the USA has a special connection to the Government(sic) of Ukraine that goes much closer to our DC Swamp than any of us have ever been told? Imagine that!
Zelenskyy comes to the USA and spoke in front of Congress as if he were our President. This should have been our clue. There must be a large number of DC politicians who are as compromised in Ukraine as the Biden family and the Obama administrations.
Good thing for the Swamp that many of the Civil Servants in the Bureaucratic State are very familiar with the details and can cover up the crimes in exchange for a cut of the action. We will be at war with Eastern Europe and the Middle East until we need to go to war with East Asia and Oceania, ad infinitum, affecting all of us as our own lives will continue to shorten with the passage of time. Trillions are at stake for the big club and we are not members. The same old plot continues to sicken.
Putin knows 2020 was stolen and that no NATO member has had the cojones to stand up to The Great Pretending.
If you were to watch this, from about 2:39 to 4:18, and from about 13:45 to 16:50, you will get a good idea of the difficulties an elected official faces in fighting entrenched corruption.
Note this is fiction; I am not vouching for the goodness or badness of any individual or nation.