For a short article, it is fairly wide ranging. It includes corruption, US involvement, who is winning, How Russia is likely going for Odessa next (completely land locking Ukraine), etc. A pretty good snap shot.
The most interesting part, for me, is what a corrupt basket case Ukraine was, even long before the war. Most Americans are, as usual, just dupes.
http://dailyreckoning.com/into-the-black-hole/
Massive Corruption
One Ukrainian volunteer fighting in the Donbas has said:
In Ukraine, people cheat each other even in war. I’ve watched the medical supplies donated to us being taken away. The cars that drove us to our position were stolen. And we have not been replaced with new soldiers in three months, though we should have been relieved three times by now…
If I had known how much deception there was in this army, and how everything would be for us, I never would have joined. I want to go home, but if I flee, I face prison.
Here’s what a Ukrainian journalist has to say:
The corruption related to the war aid is shocking. The weapons are stolen, the humanitarian aid is stolen and we have no idea where the billions sent to this country have gone.
Of course, your tax money is paying for this swindle.
Wartime Sacrifice?
Here’s an idea of where at least some of the billions have gone. Last month, the Ukrainian parliament voted to give itself a 70% pay raise, while the army is collapsing and the Ukrainian people are suffering.
So much for wartime sacrifice. Moreover, Western admirers of Ukrainian president Zelenskyy have praised him as a modern Winston Churchill, defyingly resisting an evil aggressor.
But Zelenskyy is no Churchill.
He’s succeeded in presenting himself as a strong wartime leader, standing up to the big, bad Putin. But in reality, he’s a corrupt oligarch with millions of dollars hidden offshore. His acting skills have enhanced his propaganda efforts, but it doesn’t take much training to see how phony he is.
Innocent civilians, including women and children, are dying under his failed leadership and inability to come to terms with Putin before the invasion began.
The True U.S. Objective in Ukraine
But the same journalist who complained about the widespread corruption has figured out the real U.S. strategy in Ukraine:
It is obvious that the U.S. doesn’t want Ukraine to win the war. They only want to make Russia weak. No one will win this war, but the countries the U.S. is using like a playground will lose.
That’s exactly right. The U.S. has no vital interest in Ukraine worth going to war over. Its real aim is to weaken Russia through a protracted war in Ukraine. The longer it drags on, the better, no matter how many Ukrainians have to die in the process.
In other words, the U.S. is willing to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.
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