Corruption scandal closing in on Zelenskyy

I suspect that he's finally beginning to worry.

Congressman Pat Harrigan

@RepPatHarrigan

The corruption inside Ukraine is no longer a rumor. More than $360 billion has flowed into that country since 2022, and now Zelenskyy’s inner circle is being tied to a theft operation so large it’s hard to comprehend. A chief of staff doesn’t siphon off $100 million on his own, and no credible observer can possibly think the president was unaware.

This is what happens when the world funds a war on emotion instead of intellect. There was never a plan to win, and there has never been accountability. As someone who has lived the consequences of bad strategy, I take our national security seriously. Americans deserve leadership that protects their families, not politicians who treat foreign aid like a blank check to feed a meat grinder.

I agree. The Left and their RINO political allies colluded with the equivalent of their soul-mate politicians in Europe and the U.K. to create a perpetual Vietnam War situation without actually sending their own troops in to get mutilated and die. It was to keep a perpetual flow of essentially untraceable funds in circulation that could be dipped into at will and to a fundamentally unlimited extent as well as keep their war-based manufacturing and distribution businesses in the financial green.

And was the drug trade stuff during Vietnam true or not?

Oh aye, drugs were part of the Vietnam War experience; but as for 'important' people getting wealthier from it at the time, I haven't studied it.

Oh, no doubt they did. . .if people are getting away with it now then they were getting away with it then. . .it's no wonder a lot of legislators are losing their crap over drug boats getting blown up.

Makes sense!

The only anything that anybody should have ever cheered Russian should have been the 1991 collapse and splintering of the USSR.

Anyone cheering them on is a tad more than suspect. Because there is nothing about Russia to cheer on.

Yes, you should consider what Jacques Baud reported...

Jacques Baud is a former colonel of the General Staff, ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence, specialist on Eastern countries. He was trained in the American and British intelligence services. He has served as Policy Chief for United Nations Peace Operations. As a UN expert on rule of law and security institutions, he designed and led the first multidimensional UN intelligence unit in the Sudan. He has worked for the African Union and was for 5 years responsible for the fight, at NATO, against the proliferation of small arms. He was involved in discussions with the highest Russian military and intelligence officials just after the fall of the USSR. Within NATO, he followed the 2014 Ukrainian crisis and later participated in programs to assist the Ukraine.

Figure this out: the first charged with Energy sector corruption is Zelensky’s the longtime business partner Timur Mindich, then his right-hand Andriy Yermak, and now his new peace negotiator.

It turns out that Umerov is embroiled in the same corruption investigations that ousted Andriy Yermak, the previous head of Kiev’s delegation.

The family of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Secretary and former Defense Minister Rustem Umerov owns 8 (!) elite properties in the United States.

These include 3 apartments in Florida, 1 in New York, and 4 villas near Miami, according to the Anti-Corruption Center.

I suspect that once this bloodshed in Ukraine is over, he will quietly move to live in the U.S.—just like many other Ukrainian officials who have been buying up real estate abroad during this so-called “existential war.”