As we noted last week, this was very likely going to happen. Oleksiy Reznikov (pictured below left) has been removed.
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.
(Via Politico) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced late Sunday that he will replace the country’s defense minister, even as Kyiv’s counteroffensive appears to be gaining ground with its troops pushing into Russian-held territory. [😂]
The departure of Oleksiy Reznikov as defense chief marks the highest-level turnover in Zelenskyy’s inner circle since the start of the war in February 2022. It comes as the Ukrainian government is stepping up efforts to deal aggressively with corruption allegations involving military officials.
In a video message Sunday night, the Ukrainian leader announced that Reznikov would be replaced as defense minister by Rustem Umerov, the head of the country’s State Property Fund.
“Reznikov has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war,” Zelenskyy said. “I believe the ministry now needs new approaches and other formats of interaction with both the military and society as a whole.”
There have been rumblings for weeks that Rezniko’s days were numbered. His reputation took several hits earlier this year over a handful of wartime scandals in the Defense Ministry in which officials were accused of profiteering. While Reznikov was never implicated, the revelations were a black eye not only for his ministry, but for him personally.
Zelenskyy called on the country’s parliament to approve the decision as soon as possible. (read more)
Hey Reznikov!!! You’re stealing my stolen money!!! You’re out!!!
Half million of their citizens in the meat grinder, and these so called patriots steal from their country’s defense. You don’t treat people that you like this way.
The people running Ukraine are not the White Orthodox Christian Slavic people who are fighting and dying by the hundreds of thousands!
It is called “follow the leader”.
The people running Ukraine are Biden/Obama partners in crime
Another reason not to give 2 shits about the Ukraine.
The iron cross Z wore until it gained to much attention and then the Ukrainian coat of arms should reveal what Ukraine is.
Nothing patriotic about any Ukrainian from the everyday citizen all the way to Z
I know, we’re backing the remnants of what has effectively been a “Nazi-inspired” Ukrainian military adventure from its onset.
And while that wouldn’t bother our “DC-Neos,” I would have thought this a BIG PROBLEM for our Euro allies.. But apparently not!
USG doesn’t have ‘allies’, it has vassals. Look at what happened when Britain and France tried to assert themselves in ’56: Ike kicked them straight to the kerb, happily partnering with supposed NATO opposition, the USSR, to do so.
Sure . . the war efforts going great.
I read in on CNN
The latest “news” … Z is putting the mentally ill in uniforms and sending them to the front line.
Good, then he’ll be heading to the front lines, too!
So noted. More corruption. More exposes’.
Add this to exposing the communist indoctrinated Jamaican Federal Judges persecuting President Trump, and
sure looks like a perfectly baked election cake for MAGA 2024.
Expose it all!
Bring on the communist maneuvers!
Stay Frosty!
MAGA 2024!!!
I love it!
New and next round of 10% to the Big Guy to divvy up to everyone in Congress, the State Dept, DoD and CIA.
Round 472 of the fleecing of the Sheep (American taxpayer and progeny)!
The Uke’s are pikers in the looting of the Treasury in recent years. Consider this headline from Today buried under all the Trump, Trump, Trump mania: “Criminals inside and outside the United States stole approximately $280 billion in taxpayer funds intended for struggling families, businesses, hospitals, and others,” it added. “Estimates imply that at least half of all stolen COVID-19 relief funds went to Russian, Chinese, and Nigerian criminals.”
https://justthenews.com/accountability/waste-fraud-and-abuse/giant-grift-biden-administration-has-only-recovered-few-280
400,000 Uke KIA.
I don’t think Karma will ignore the war much longer.
Ukraine is facing an existential threat and it’s not Russia. It’s the United States!
The dead and maimed casualty rate for Ukranian men is so high it will destroy their society. The loss of child bearing/family aged men is extreme. If we lost young men at this ratio it would be 5 million killed to date in a year and a half of the SMO. The weapons being used and intensity of artillery, drone, missile and mines used will create severe PTSD among survivors. Ukraine was already impoverished, services and care for the maimed and mentally destroyed survivors will overwhelm a society with no economy left. We will drop them as a liability as we did Vietnam and Afghanistan, except in far worse shape.
There’s always immigration for population replacement. Kinda like here. We get to pay for all of it.
Excellent, accurate, and astute points.
Between abortion, murder, drug overdoses & fauciSTEIN clotShots we may be close to that number.
Same resulted in USSR after losing so many men in WWII.
We will partake of that Karma as well. We (the U.S. Global Empire) started the war. We are responsible for the death, destruction and the social and economic devastation.
The neocons who set this war up should be forced to drive cars over those artillery controlled roads until they meet their maker. Jake Sullivan and Victoria Nuland should start off in the first car.
The poor Ukrainians. To have this leadership, which is only slightly better than ours at the moment.
Yep. Slightly better than our dictatorship.
Bound to Lose: Ukraine’s 2023 Counteroffensive
JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
SEP 2, 2023
It is now clear that Ukraine’s eagerly anticipated counteroffensive has been a colossal failure.[1] After three months, the Ukrainian army has made little progress pushing back the Russians. Indeed, it has yet to get beyond the so-called “grey zone,” the heavily contested strip of land that lies in front of the first main line of Russian defenses. The New York Times reports that “In the first two weeks of the counteroffensive, as much as 20 percent of the weaponry Ukraine sent to the battlefield was damaged or destroyed, according to U.S. and European officials. The toll included some of the formidable Western fighting machines — tanks and armored personnel carriers — that the Ukrainians were counting on to beat back the Russians.”[2] According to virtually all accounts of the fighting, Ukrainian troops have suffered enormous casualties.[3] All nine of the vaunted brigades that NATO armed and trained for the counteroffensive have been badly chewed up on the battlefield.
The Ukrainian counteroffensive was doomed to fail from the start. A look at the lineup of forces on both sides and what the Ukrainian army was trying to do, coupled with an understanding of the history of conventional land war, make it clear that there was virtually no chance the attacking Ukrainian forces could defeat Russia’s defending forces and achieve their political goals.
Ukraine and its Western supporters hoped that the Ukrainian army could execute a classic blitzkrieg strategy to escape the war of attrition that was grinding it down. That plan called for punching a large hole in Russia’s defensive lines and then driving deep into Russian-controlled territory, not only capturing territory along the way, but delivering a hammer blow to the Russian army. As the historical record makes clear, this is an especially difficult operation to pull off when the attacking forces are engaged in a fair fight – one involving two roughly equal militaries. The Ukrainians were not only involved in a fair fight, but they were also ill-prepared to execute a blitzkrieg and were facing an adversary well-positioned to thwart one. In short, the deck was stacked against the Ukrainian counteroffensive from the start.
Nevertheless, there was pervasive optimism about Ukraine’s battlefield prospects among Western policymakers, pundits and editorial writers in the mainstream media, retired generals, and other experts in the American and European foreign policy establishments.[4] Retired General David Petraeus’s comments on the eve of the counteroffensive capture the prevailing zeitgeist: “I think that this counteroffensive is going to be very impressive.” He then effectively described the Ukrainians executing a successful blitzkrieg against Russian forces.[5]
Ukraine and its Western supporters hoped that the Ukrainian army could execute a classic blitzkrieg strategy to escape the war of attrition that was grinding it down. That plan called for punching a large hole in Russia’s defensive lines and then driving deep into Russian-controlled territory, not only capturing territory along the way, but delivering a hammer blow to the Russian army. As the historical record makes clear, this is an especially difficult operation to pull off when the attacking forces are engaged in a fair fight – one involving two roughly equal militaries. The Ukrainians were not only involved in a fair fight, but they were also ill-prepared to execute a blitzkrieg and were facing an adversary well-positioned to thwart one. In short, the deck was stacked against the Ukrainian counteroffensive from the start.
In fact, Western leaders and the mainstream media put significant pressure on Kyiv to launch the counteroffensive in the months before it began on 4 June. At the time, Ukraine’s leaders were dragging their feet and showing little enthusiasm for starting the planned blitzkrieg, probably because at least some of them understood they were being led to the slaughter. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky later said on 21 July that, “We did have plans to start it in the spring, but we didn’t because, frankly, we had not enough munitions and armaments and not enough properly trained brigades.”[6] Moreover, after the counteroffensive began, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the Ukrainian military’s commander in chief, angrily told The Washington Post that he felt the West had not provided Ukraine with adequate arms and that “without being fully supplied, these plans are not feasible at all. But they are being carried out.”[7]
Even after the counteroffensive bogged down, which happened shortly after it started, many optimists continued to hold out hope that it would eventually succeed, although their numbers have declined over time. Retired US General Ben Hodges, one of the most enthusiastic advocates of launching the blitzkrieg, maintained on 15 June, “I think the Ukrainians can and will win this fight.”[8] Dara Massicot, a prominent expert often cited in the mainstream media, opined on 19 July that “For now, the Russian front lines are holding, despite the Kremlin’s dysfunctional decisions. Yet the cumulative pressure of bad choices is mounting. Russian front lines might crack in the way Hemingway once wrote about going bankrupt: ‘gradually, then suddenly’.” Michael Kofman, another expert frequently cited by the mainstream press, claimed on 2 August that “the counteroffensive itself hasn’t failed,” while The Economist ran a story on 16 August that proclaimed: “Ukraine’s counter-offensive is making progress, slowly: Ten weeks in, the army is starting to figure out what works.”[9]
A week later, on 22 August, when it was hard to deny that the counteroffensive was in serious trouble and there was hardly any chance of rectifying the situation, Jake Sullivan, the US national security advisor, stated: “We do not assess that the conflict is a stalemate. We are seeing Ukraine continue to take territory on a methodical, systematic basis.”[10]
Sullivan’s comments notwithstanding, many in the West now recognize that the counteroffensive has failed, and Ukraine is doomed to fight a war of attrition that it is unlikely to win, chiefly because the conflict is slowly morphing from a fair fight into an unfair fight. But it should have been obvious to Ukraine’s Western cheerleaders beforehand that the blitzkrieg they embraced was doomed to fail and that it made little sense to push Ukraine to launch it.
https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/bound-to-lose?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
This part of the reason why the fake War in Ukraine narrative continues….They have an audience who actually believes their bs.
It really doesn’t look fake at all.
Same bs they would try to use on people when they refused to lock themselves down over a fake pandemic. You still dont know BBC is FAKE NEWS?
No doubt the innocent people stuck in Ukraine are being held hostage just as we are being held hostage by a unelected government in order to facilitate this global transformation but there is no real war.
So true.
I agree Psy. Just a ploy for more of our money for them to trade.
Fake in the sense it was and is a manufactured war. A diversion. A ruse. A biden regime ploy.
And Pierre, I mean Romney, is all in for continuing the Ukrainian slaughter.
The people’s of Ukraine are paying a high price for their government’s corruption. Can you even imagine what price we Americans will have to pay for the scale of corruption WORLDWIDE, that our government is now engaging in? Is there any wonder that so many people hate the USA also deeply?
Remember its all a construct planned diversion. A manufactured war.
This is not only failing, but any semblance of a reputation US military commanders past and present had as they advance a false narrative will simply implode.
And the world WILL take notice.
If US military decisions are THAT bad in Ukraine, they will be that bad elsewhere.
Us military and political leaders attempting to lie a narrative into existence will create a great cost to We The People.
Far, far greater than just the money and supplies we have sent.
Greg1 – the complete failure known as the Afghanistan withdrawal prove you are so very right!!!
Yes, but what our military leaders and the imposter in the White House want to know is: “Are the Ukrainians using the correct pronouns?”
Vindman wasn’t available?
Taking bribes is in the DC and Ukrainian lifeblood. This guy should not be punished before Joe, James and Hunter. For 10 million (10% for the big guy) they got US into WW3. The Ukrainian Spring counteroffensive has not pierced the 1st Surovikin line so the Politico article is lying to you about the War. Today marks the beginning of the 4th month of the greatest counteroffensive. Evidently having Gen. Milley and Lord Austin in command has been another failure for our Pentagon. They surrendered 85 billion in Afghanistan and now sent over 100 billion in armaments to the most corrupt country in the world. Beware of the Military industrial congressional complex. This all starts with the stolen 2020 election and the 2014 CIA/Nuland coup d’état.
“Lord Austin”
Snicker!
That stood out among the truths you posted.
They put that face shield picture out there as if it projected strength or something.
Not hardly.
To democrats, maybe, not to anyone else in the world.
If you might feel giddy about Ukraine “fighting the corruption”, this was a planned move and Reznikov is going to be appointed as the ambassador to the UK.
So not sure how much of a fraud cleanup that was.
Looks to me more like rats leaving the sinking ship, or the rats wanting to be out of Ukraine if their army wisen’s up about where the REAL problems might be. They might turn around and start marching on Kiev instead of the Russians. THAT action might actually help Ukraine.
This shows that the clean-up of corruption is a pretense. He’s not going to be punished.
Exactly.
Wisdom, Belle, wisdom.
The only question I can anticipate asking revolves around whether he already has a home there or if the market is real good. They will all be scoping out their parachute options I figure.
Isn’t Zelenski the chief their? I read an article the pocketed something like $450,000,000 of aid money. When is his 🥔 going to get replaced.
The FBI along with Merrick Garland’s DOJ could seize all that stolen money from Zelensky and his henchmen including their multimillion dollar luxury homes…if they wanted to do what’s just instead of prosecuting President Trump for nothing!
…but they have turned the United States of America into a third world Banana Republic!
What, Hunter Biden wasn’t available?
There is a small, potential element of danger there.
Fortunate Sons (think Creedence Clearwater Revival) don’t do danger.
There was mention only a day or two ago that Reznikov might be appointed to the Court of St.James’s? Is this still the case?
Reznikov was replaced, not arrested. Just making room at the trough for the next swine in line to access US and European largesse. There is no doubt that a large percentage of the graft is laundered back to the sponsors in Washington DC and Brussels. These US puppets are utterly incompetent. Zelensky was an actor sponsored by an oligarch named Kolomoyskyi, featured in a sit com series called “Servant of the People”, in the Russian language on Ukranian TV. They then created a political party called Servant of the People, with Zelensky elected president with 75% of the vote on a platform of peace and reconciliation with the ethnic Russians of the Donbass, Kharkov and Odessa regions, to end the genocidal civil war started during the US orchestrated Maidan coup. The state department wanted war, not reconciliation, and so the Kolomoyskyi was charged with corruption and has been arrested. His billions confiscated. Zelensky lost his “roof” or protection and has followed directions from the US ever since. Ukrainian society, infrastructure, integrity of its’ lands with depleted uranium, land mines, and economy are utterly destroyed. Sharing laundered money from Ukraine and kick backs from our 2nd rate arms manufacturers by American politicians is the most popular bipartisan activity in Washington.
It is a good thing they have Africa to “save” now. Something tells me they are running out of squares on that chess board or they are shrinking its size.
With one major difference: The Ukes actually did something about it. It’s a small thing, but it’s a thing. Replacing one bad egg with another won’t solve a thing, but at least some corruptocrat paid. The same cannot be said for Washington.
The Ukes haven’t really done anything about it. He’s going to be named ambassador to Great Britain.
How many cluster bombs for Ukraine do you think Maui will require when they pass Hawaii emergency/FEMA clean up funding?
A corrupt thief, stealing from other corrupt thieves and replaced by more corruption.
How bad is it for Ukraine?
Kiev has lowered standards for its soldiers, allowing conscription of people with various conditions, including HIV and hepatitis…
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry has amended its requirements for military service, allowing conscription of people with various chronic conditions. According to the new decree, which entered force in late August, the military can now conscript people with various conditions, including hepatitis’ of different types, HIV without symptoms, clinically-treated tuberculosis, as well as various blood diseases.
The new rules also allow conscription of people with “mild short-term manifestations of mental disorders,” as well as “slowly progressing diseases of the central nervous system.”
https://www.rt.com/russia/582311-ukrainian-military-hiv-conscripts/
Maybe the Ukraine could start utilizing wheelchair brigades for the crybabies that only had ONE foot blown off. I can’t believe the Ukrainian military hasn’t turned on Zelenskyy. Are there no gas stations in the Ukraine?
What is even sadder is all of the training is a RIPOFF. If you watch the debrief of Ukrainian POWS on Telegram, some of them posted here to Simplicius’ Bitchute channel:
INTERVIEWS WITH NEW AFU POWS – GIVEN PILLS AND BRAINWASHED BY FRENCH PSYCHOLOGISTS
https://www.bitchute.com/video/LcndjTOpdxuG/
They all have the same story. They get pulled off the street, then sent to some location in the West. It seems like anyone with an underused Boy Scout summer camp is eligible to train Ukrainians. There they receive the most basic training imaginable, first aid off of YT videos, fire off a few rounds of ammo, receive lectures from psychologists to hate Russians and then get hooked on Pervitin or other substances that give them energy and reduce fear.
Apparently the scam is to take in as many conscripts as possible, charge NATO and Biden a fortune, then provide the most minimal amount of training they can get away with and pocket the difference.
Now that you know that, one can better interpret an article like this one. Originally the yearly target was 15,000 which was eventually doubled. The 30,000 figure will be reached by October 2023 and they have room for 10,000 more:
EU’s Borrell proposes new target to train 40,000 Ukrainian soldiers by year end
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-top-diplomat-josep-borrell-new-target-train-40000-ukraine-soldiers/
That Borrell figure corresponds roughly the what the US Army recruits over a calendar year, so what to think when Zelensky announces they are mobilizing another 300,000 men over the next few months or about 8 times what the US Army inducts? Imagine the Cluster—- that will turn out to be. (sigh)
Any warm body will do. These guys are cannon fodder in more ways than one.
Anyone that’s been around for the last 5 decades knows what these Bankers Wars are about: the extinction of the White race. So let’s get on with it and start drafting this excess of 18 year olds we have here. Besides thier music sucks and I shouldn’t have to tolerate it. They can’t dance either. Ever try teaching one to Shag? They can’t grasp it. If they can’t whirl and jiggle like apes they melt down.
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
War Is A Racket, by Smedley D. Butler, 1935
https://www.heritage-history.com/site/hclass/secret_societies/ebooks/pdf/butler_racket.pdf
Into the blue again,
after the money’s gone.
Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was.
Same as it ever was.Same as it ever was.
-Talking Heads
Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss
-The Who
–“In a video message Sunday night, the Ukrainian leader announced that Reznikov would be replaced as defense minister by Rustem Umerov, the head of the country’s State Property Fund.”–
So a fund manager will manage the armed forces, eh? Does he have any experience in managing an army?
And I must wonder how well “the country’s State Property Fund” has been managed by Umerov. Is there any property or money left in the fund to manage?
I was going to point out what you did.
Fund manager…..
Yeah, that’s what serious people in a war for their very existence look for as opposed to an actual experienced military leader.
It is almost impossible to find a politician that is not corrupt in Ukraine. It has been that way for centuries.
This is so they can say see we have accountablility we are watching out
for the billions you guys are sending.. it safe to send more.
One thing is for certain – The U.S. tax payer was fleeced again.
how much will this cost the US?
/sarc for those who don’t get it
Nice substack article above. Deleted my post of it.
When will Bill Barr be sent to Ukraine to “clean up”this corruption?
The Bush Cartel and their ‘spreading democracy’ ideas for the NWO is taking hold in many nations around the world; the corruption has to be rampant for their form of ‘democracy’ to be a success……….the NWO is communism worldwide……what could go wrong.
The money being made by the US Political Industrial Complex is staggering; arms, drugs, human, and medical trafficking is astounding. Ukraine has the added advantage of US troops, too.
Along with military bases around the world, US territories (really in this day and age) unequal trade agreements, the UN, NATO, etc…….Our money pays for it all, Our GOVERNMENT controls all the money……..without representation for US.
ALL this illegal activity to promote irrational ideas; climate change, abortion saves lives, pedophelia is normal, love is for everyone, population control, ridding the world of racism, world governance, save the poor, save the children, end poverty, vaccines to keep children safe, drugs for depression, drug for hyper activity, drugs for happiness,…………
God Help US
If the counter Offensive is gaining ground on Russia, why would you change the defense minister?
would be replaced as defense minister by Rustem Umerov, the head of the country’s State Property Fund.
This guy sounds suitable, I wounder how long it takes for him to become filthy, stinking rich.
And the corrupt, depraved, leather wearing, piano playing ‘fearless leader’, is in charge of that decision! ROFL
I had been told that Vladimir Zelenskyy was the 21st Century’s Winston Churchill.
So the only difference between Ukraine and the US is geography, and the technical definition of ongoing war.
I think it’s time we seriously consider sending our Tactical Assault James Taylor to the Russian front to mesmerize the masses with his singing.
“Z” man is the problem!
Now if Trump had made a phone call about what this Defense Minister was up to…..he’d be in big trouble.
Zelensky also “has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war”. Shouldn’t he be replaced, too?
Bad guys get laid off with a wink and nod and then paid off….good guys get fired, prosecuted, harassed, vilified, their reputation smeared, bank accounts closed, black listed and worse.
Disgusting!
“and son of a bitch he was fired” patsy, scapegoat, launderer
“even as Kyiv’s counteroffensive appears to be gaining ground with its troops”
Apparently, we’re not sending them enough $$$ – sarcasm off…
Very much like how it works here….Remove one corrupt politician for another…The corrupt establishment must continue at all costs…..Ukraine has nothing on our deep state corruption…We’ve been doing it for decades and making it all look above board….until the Clintons & Bidens that is.
More Money LAUNDERING.
must be nice to have a country to use as a tool to rob this country’s treasury (the last government move of a republic).
Steal – get removed, not arrested. What a scam.
Maybe Biden told Ukraine to fire the DM just like he told them to fire the Burisma Hunter prosecutor. Maybe the generals weren’t kicking enough back to the DC crooks.
Anything is possible I have no confidence in what is reported.
Or, maybe the DM himself was obstructing the kickbacks, anything is possible. Topsy turvey is the norm.
Little Hitler sends his buddy off to a nice comfortable job in England as a reward for loosing the war.
Replaces him with some poor schmuck who will take the fall for all of Ukraine’s corruption and defeat.
Things are getting bad in the rump.
I hear Ukraine is conscripting women now under their 8 to 80 blind, cripple or crazy policy.
The battle cry… Send More Money…
FACE IT! The Z man and all his guys are stealing. This guy just got caught and they had to let him go! The Ukraine money sent by the US is all going into their pockets and secret bank accounts. They take their cut after Obama and Biden get theirs! People of Ukraine need to wake up and get rid of all of them.
Biden,Obama, and Blinken all taking orders from the Z man! Money goes to Ukraine, Biden, Obama, Blinken, take their cut off the top and the the Z man and his partners take the rest! One of the Z man’s cronies got caught and had to go. As long as the Ukraine blackmailing of Biden and Obama is working, the graft will continue. Where is a Russian drone when you need one?
Always another thief waiting in the wings…keep those checks coming!
Umerov is also a prominent negotiator on ongoing prisoner exchange with Russia. A dealmaker. Interesting….
This whole ukraine crap is utter b*llchit. This is nothing more than the biden burisma laundering scheme of stealing tax money in a revolving door to ukraine and back to the dnc(biden). In the meantime, soldiers have lost their lives. This is sickening!
Blame the Uniparty on all of this BS. They perpetuate it.