Victor Zubarev:
"..#Zelensky has $1.2 US Billion accumulated in the Dresdner Bank In Costa Rica and he bought a villa in Miami for $34 Mil" source: "The Man Who Sold Ukraine" By Mike Whitney
[No word on the dollar amount of taxes owed to the Ukrainian People that Zelensky avoided by engaging in these transactions. But you can be sure Washington made up the short fall by printing USDs to give to Ukraine, in part or whole, to compensate Ukraine for their lost tax revenue with "pandora papers" Zelensky. By the way, drugstores are currently rationing baby formula in America and DemGOP's did not print any money for that. No word on any clandestine wealth accumulated from politics by Pete Buttigieg]
"corruption pays well, da?"
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2019 8/20 _F2A1245aaa2
"Maury Ballstein posted:
“The problem is just how much preferential treatment and U.S. and NATO support these outright fascist battalions get, how they have been officially integrated into the military, how questionable the notion that the Ukrainian military is under civilian control in reality is, and the ability of this moderate Jewish president to turn a blind eye to so much.
After Volodymyr Zelensky got 73% of the vote on a platform of peace, directly addressing the Russian-speaking eastern parts of the country, he very quickly changed his tone.
From the wealth he has stuffed in offshore banks, to the risks of losing Western backing and the loyalty of the far-right, to threats on his life, he doesn't stray from the script.
So Zelensky did a 180 on his peaceful rhetoric and continued to support the civil war. He banned Russian speaking or favorable media. Communist parties remain illegal.
At the moment civilians are not being allowed to evacuate and are being handed assault riffles, which will flood the black market and fuel organized crime for a long time to come.
The U.S. Oligarchs who are willing to bleed Ukraine dry in their efforts to balkanize Russia will make massive profits along the way.
The warmongering corporate media has convinced many people who opposed any direct involvement in the war at the start to support a “no-fly zone”, which Zelensky is now pushing for, which would be a dangerous escalation directly bringing the United States into the conflict.
It is no secret members of the United States foreign policy blob have long wanted to balkanize Russia. Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote a paper about it, in which he stated that the best way to achieve this is by destabilizing its border regions.
Reasons they want to balkanize Russia are typical, so they can privatize nationalized resources and impose austerity, and the reason they seek to destabilize relations between Europe and Russia is because a more independent Europe is less dependent on the United States.
Even the war criminal Henry Kissinger pointed out how openly aggressive continued NATO expansion was, pointing out the security concerns that Russia will eventually find impossible to ignore.
Even Obama considered sending arms to Ukraine too openly a hostile act, a concern his successors recklessly abandoned.
NATO is not defensive and using Ukraine as a pawn, the traditional corridor for invading Russia, represents a genuine security threat.
The demands, or "redline", from the start, have been an insurance that Ukraine not be allowed to enter openly hostile NATO and that the Minsk agreement gets implemented, which were extremely reasonable.
History teaches as how badly flooding poor countries with expensive advanced weaponry and feeding into dangerous ideology to serve geopolitical goals works out. These weapons will get sold off throughout Europe, but the United States foreign policy blob really don't care about destabilization in Europe.
To be "neutral" and declare "both sides bad" is to hold no position, when we should support a negotiated settlement rather then fueling the conflict by sending arms and imposing sanctions that hurt working class Russians. Which in effect serves the interests of the U.S. foreign policy blob, which seeks to increase social spending on military production (arms sales to NATO countries is going through the roof, and the U.S. defense budget is blowing up), to flood Eastern Europe with expensive advanced weaponry, and to bulkanize Russia leading to another wave of privatization and looting of publicly owned industry such as occured when the Soviet Union was dismantled.”........
“Zelensky has had numerous opportunities to smooth things over with Moscow and prevent the outbreak of hostilities. Instead, he has consistently made matters worse by blindly following Washington’s directives.
Zelensky has been lionized in the west and praised for his personal bravery. But—as a practical matter—he has failed to restore national unity or implement the crucial peace accord that is the only path to reconciliation. The Ukrainian president doesn’t like the so-called Minsk Protocol and has refused to meet its basic requirements. As a result, the ethnically-charged, fratricidal war that has engulfed Ukraine for the last 8 years, continues to this day with no end in sight.
Most Americans fail to realize that Zelensky’s rejection of Minsk was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Russian officials had worked for 8 years on Minsk hammering out terms that would be agreeable to all parties. Then—at the eleventh hour—Zelensky put the kibosh on the deal with a wave of the hand. Why? Who told Zelensky to scrap the agreement? Washington?
Of course.
Take, for example, his complete unwillingness to address Russia’s minimal security concerns. Did Zelensky know that Putin had repeatedly said that Ukraine’s membership in NATO was a “red line” for Russia? Did he know that Putin warned that if Ukraine took steps to join NATO, Russia would be forced to take “military-technical” measures to ensure their own security? Does Zelensky know that NATO is Washington-controlled Alliance that has engaged in numerous acts of aggression against other sovereign states. Here’s a short list of NATO’s accomplishments:
The destruction of Yugoslavia The destruction of Afghanistan The destruction of Libya The destruction of Iraq The destruction of Syria
Yes, he knows all these things. Still, he publicly expressed his interest in developing nuclear weapons. What is that all about? Imagine the problem that would pose for Russia. Imagine if a US-backed puppet, like Zelensky, had nuclear missiles at his fingertips.
Zelensky has been acting on orders from Washington from the get-go. We know that. He’s also been implementing Washington’s agenda not his own and certainly not Ukraine’s. We know that, too. But that does not absolve him from responsibility. After all, he is a full-grown adult capable of distinguishing between right from wrong. He knows what he’s doing, and he knows that it’s wrong; worse than wrong, it’s inexcusable. He’s sending men to die in a war he knows they can’t win; he’s inflicting incalculable suffering and injury on his own people for no reason at all; and –worst of all– he’s cleared the way for the dissolution of Ukraine itself, the country he was sworn to defend. That country is going to be broken into bits as part of a final settlement with Russia, and Zelensky will share a good part of the blame.”
Excerpt: The Man Who Sold Ukraine By Mike Whitney"
2019 8/20 _F2A1245aaa2
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