Ukraine has been utterly corrupt for a long time, but this latest scandal has blown wide open and comes at a time when Zelensky’s sponsors may be wanting to get rid of him. From Tarik Cyril Amar at rt.com:
The “Servant of the People” is only serving his besties, and patience with him is running out
Vladimir Zelensky. © Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images
In all too many ways, what has happened to Ukraine, particularly since 2014, is a very sad story. Two things that are especially depressing are what its own “elites” and its so-called “supporters” in the West have done to the country.
Regarding the West, its contribution to Ukraine’s devastation has been to lure its leadership into sacrificing the country and its people in a proxy war. That proxy war, to make things even more absurd and futile, has long failed predictably, even if measured against its Western designers’ own selfish and hubristic aims: namely, to substantially weaken if not degrade Russia, or even subject it to the scourge of regime change.
Ukraine, in sum, has been literally bled almost dry in pursuit of a cynical and delusional strategy that has always privileged misconceived Western, not real Ukrainian interests. Ironically, what was meant to weaken Russia has made it stronger, while it is Ukraine that has been degraded, economically, geographically, and, last but not least, demographically.
And politically as well. This may surprise some observers, at least in the West, where the public has been deprived of truthful reporting on Ukraine’s domestic politics for years now. Yet the reality is that the country’s own “elites” are as brutally selfish and corrupt as ever. Yes, the last president who was not anti-Russian (he wasn’t “pro” either), Viktor Yanukovich, made himself a big fat regime change target with his pronounced if messy authoritarianism – mean lawfare against rivals included – and bombastic corruption. But no, nothing has changed.
One more press gang away from victory.
Babushka shot down a Sukhoi with a can of soup!
That Northern Eurasia partition should work.
Honk, honk.