I’m at least glad you guys didn’t promptly dismiss that link too as just more Russian propaganda! Maybe we’re making progress. Fingers crossed.
Specifically, it accuses Zelensky of some crap about feathering his own nest. How exactly it applies to the Ukraine-Russia war, I don’t know in detail. In some general macro sense, is it far to see Ukraine’s President and leaders in the Pandora papers and conclude corruption in Ukraine is an issue?
Within that link, this is one of the curious parts:
Even as Zelensky pushes his anti-oligarch campaign, some continue to doubt his sincerity. Among them is Ruslan Ryaboshapka, who was picked by Zelensky as the country’s top prosecutor in 2019, but ousted from the role in early 2020. He told OCCRP he believes this was due to pressure from the oligarch Kolomoisky.
“A president shouldn’t own offshore companies. In general offshore companies are bad, whether they’re owned by a president or not,” Ryaboshapka said.
He called moving money offshore “an old tradition” in Ukraine, because the country was perceived as a dangerous place with “no rule of law.” But still, the use of such companies today raises red flags of “tax evasion or the legalization of dirty money,” he said.
We’re talking about a country whose own top prosecutor called a dangerous place with no rule of law.
So, if I may ask again, what good has come from billions in lethal aid to a dangerous country with no rule of law?
Do we know exactly who got those weapons and bombs and such? And exactly what they did with them?
For such a historically corrupt country, how much diligence did we do before and while we gave them the OK to dip their hands in our war chest?
nice narrative
