Some time ago, a video taken by a Ukrainian man spread rapidly on the Internet. In the video, the man angrily asked the Russian army to bomb a batch of military supplies in Ukraine. This makes people wonder. Is this Ukrainian man a Russian spy? What kind of supplies will make the Ukrainians request Russian bombing?
We can see in the video there are dozens of luxury cars behind the man. Yes, this is what Ukraine calls military supplies.
In fact, as early as April, Ukraine issued a policy to exempt vehicle import tariffs. The Ukrainian government explained that the war had an impact on Ukrainian industry and the army lacked enough vehicles, so tariffs were needed to be exempted, thereby increasing the import of cars.
At first glance, this policy is to solve the dilemma of the lack of vehicles in the army. In fact, these cars simply cannot reach the grassroots level of the army.
We can see that these vehicles are luxury cars, including yellow and red. One of the most important features of military vehicles is that they are easy to conceal, and they will not choose this fancy color at all.
Of course, the Ukrainian military is not stupid. They are just pure greed. These luxury cars only enter Ukraine under the name of the military, and will be transferred by the military as soon as they enter the country. The target of the transfer is also very clear. At this moment, the one who can pursue luxury cars is the oligarch in Ukraine.
What is even more terrifying than importing luxury cars in the name of military aid is that these people are too lazy to hide. Since the policy of reducing tariffs on imported vehicles was introduced, tens of thousands of luxury cars entered Ukraine from all over the world, and the number of them even blocked the roads on the Ukrainian border for a time, so that other countries' weapons and materials to aid Ukraine could not be passed smoothly. The war on the front line is still anxious, and Ukrainian soldiers and mercenaries can be seen everywhere on social networks complaining about insufficient weapons and ammunition. Some soldiers were inexplicably sent to the front line without even undergoing professional training. The difficulties of front-line soldiers and the drunkenness and demise of rear officials formed a huge contrast called corruption.
So the question is, what extent is the corruption of the top leaders of Ukraine and what has led to Ukraine's corruption? All this goes back to when the Soviet Union collapsed .
At the end of the last century, corruption in the Soviet Union became popular, national economic development stagnated, and Gorbachev carried out various reforms that did not conform to national conditions. The Soviet Union's big ship quickly came to an end.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine, as a former member of the Soviet Union, its domestic public-owned economy, collapsed rapidly. During the public-private transformation, some people stole collective wealth, and they were Ukraine's later economic oligarchs.
If the assets in Ukraine are compared to 100 carrots, then the domestic oligarchs occupy at least 90, and the people allocate the remaining 10 carrots together. In addition, Ukrainian oligarchs are very similar to South Korea's chaebols, and both have close relationships with senior government officials.
is different from the Korean chaebols who like to support agents to rise. Ukrainian chaebols are much more direct. They either support their relatives or directly participate, which makes it difficult for the Ukrainian government to play the anti-corruption card. Because there are all local officials in Ukraine who are rich in assets.
In fact, when Ukraine first left the Soviet Union, it also took a good hand. It not only inherited the strong heavy industrial foundation of the former Soviet Union, but also owned the most fertile land in Europe. People's lives are not moist, at least they don't have to go hungry.
It’s a pity that Ukraine believed the U.S. nonsense and only accepted some assistance from the United States and chose to destroy all the nuclear weapons in its inventory . Ukraine, who has abandoned its martial arts, thought the United States would help them rebuild their economy. However, this time the United States sent not economic aid, but a "color revolution" that subverted the Ukrainian regime.
First we need to explain what the color revolution is.
The so-called "oppositions" who have launched color revolutions in various countries like to promote "non-violence", but none of these color revolutions involving regime change have been completely separated from bloodshed and violence.
In essence, the color revolution is a political action led by the West, subverting the native regime and supporting the pro-Western regime. In order to whitewash the peace, the initiators of the color revolution combined the actions to subvert the regime with flowers, Kyrgyzstan tulips , cherry , Tunisian , jasmine , Georgian , roses , and chestnut flowers in Ukraine .
is different from other countries where color revolutions broke out. Ukraine broke out in two color revolutions one after another. The first color revolution occurred in 2004. At that time, the United States-backed Viktor Yushenko and Russia-backed Viktor Yanukovych fought fiercely around the presidential throne. The battle ended with Yushenko's victory, but everything did not end.
The United States supports Yushenko ascends the throne of presidential throne, not to allow him to lead Ukraine to become stronger again. Although Yushenko also proposed some measures to revitalize the economy during his tenure, such as promoting the privatization of state-owned assets and increasing cooperation with oligarchs, under his "revitalization", Ukraine's economy has not only not recovered but has become worse.
However, to be honest, his policies are not fruitless, but the "good fruits" have been picked by the oligarchs, leaving only the "bad fruits" to the people. Ukraine's wealth, under Yushenko's default, flowed into the oligarch's pockets at an astonishing rate. At the same time, the recession economy has also attracted public dissatisfaction. In the election of the new term, voters voted for Yushenko's old rival Yanukovych .
Yushenko is also very interesting. He knew that he had no hope of winning the election, so he simply reached a political consensus with Yanukovych to avoid being liquidated after he stepped down. In order to achieve a smooth transition of the regime, Yanukovych also chose to let Yushenko go, but this move also laid a thunder for Ukraine in the future.
After taking office, Yanukovych wanted to change the status quo of Ukraine and revitalize Ukraine's economy, but the problem is that Yanukovych is too anxious. Although Yushenko stepped down, the pro-American forces and oligarchs developed during his administration are still there.
Yanukovych took advantage of his friendly relations with Russia to fight for a more preferential price of natural gas for Ukraine. Its economic policies are beneficial to both economic recovery and to reduce the cost of living for the people, but this has also touched the interests of the domestic oligarchs of Ukraine.
If it is not enough to affect his status that Yanukovych offended the oligarch, then his refusal to join EU and NATO is undoubtedly poking the lungs of the people in the United States and domestic countries at the same time.
On the one hand, the United States is unwilling to lose control of Ukraine, and on the other hand, pro-Western people also hope to revitalize their domestic economy by joining the EU. The three forces hit it off and launched a second color revolution.
pro-Western Ukrainian people have also healed their scars and forgot their pain. Although the economic recession in Ukraine is caused by all pro-American politicians and oligarchs, they only count it on Yushenko. They thought it was Yushenko who was wrong, not the entire faction.
After a little encouragement, supporters once again went to the streets and set off a second color revolution. Moreover, this color revolution is far more violent than the first color revolution.
The United States learned from the failure of the first color revolution, changed from moderate to radical, and did not engage in behind-the-scenes manipulation, and ended up in person. The United States not only ignores the opposition's acts of inciting the public to attack government agencies and violently attacking police officers, but also praises them as "democracy" and engages in a big public opinion war in the international community.
In December 2013, U.S. Congressman McCain went directly to Kiev to deliver an inciting speech. In this speech, McCain expressed U.S. support for the opposition and described the opposition's violent attack on government agencies as a "peace process."
The strong support of the United States undoubtedly gave the opposition a shot of a heart-warming shot. The slogan of peace became louder and louder, but the actions became more and more violent, so that Yanukovych had to flee Ukraine overnight after stepping down.
Of course, Yanukovych himself is indeed not very clean. As we said before, Yanukovych used his pro-Russian stance to seek a more favorable energy agreement for Ukraine, but Yanukovych has been in Ukrainian politics for so long and has been more or less infected with the corrupt habits of Ukrainian politics. It is true that it brings benefits to Ukraine through cheaper natural gas imports, and it is also true that it makes a fortune from it.
The pattern of everyone getting drunk and I am alone does not exist in Ukraine. Neither the pro-American Yushenko nor the pro-Russian Yanukovych are considered innocent.
The difference is that Yanukovych chose to let his ex-Malaysia, but the pro-American faction will not show mercy to him. Yanukovych has fled to Russia for several years, and the pro-American faction has also passed the court to trial Yanukovych in 2017 and 2019. Although it was impossible to capture Yanukovych back, he was also labeled as a traitor.
At this point, the pro-American faction has completely grasped the Ukrainian regime, and the people who support them think that Ukraine can finally move towards glory. However, although there was a decade apart between the pro-American faction in 2014 and the pro-American faction in 2004, there was no difference between the two.
If Yanukovych is greedy, he is still willing to do something practical for Ukraine's economy, and the pro-American faction is purely flattering the United States and stealing national assets.
The new president Poroshenko After taking office, he implemented the corrupt style that as long as the price is right, there is nothing that cannot be sold, including rights.
It should be said that Poroshenko himself is also a famous oligarch in Ukraine and does not lack money at all, but he still cannot curb his inner greed, and he is much more ruthless than Yanukovych, who came from a working-class family.
Yanukovych gained some benefits from energy trade at most, but Poroshenko dared to directly sell state rights. Shortly after he took office, he appointed three foreigners as government officials under the banner of learning advanced experience. One of the Americans directly served as Ukraine's Minister of Finance, which undoubtedly puts rats into the rice jar, and it is impossible not to be greedy.
The United States has spent a lot of effort to make Americans control Ukraine's finances through exchange of interests, and there must be some expectations. In fact, the Secretary of Finance, named Natalie Yaresico, did not disappoint the expectations of the United States. During her reign, she used her position many times to seek benefits for the United States, and cut all the GDP that Ukraine squeezed was cut in half. Such arbitrary levy and taxation will undoubtedly make the people dissatisfied. Once it is not handled well, it will provide the pro-Russian faction with the opportunity to turn the tables. So the United States has already found a scapegoat.
: When it comes to the candidates for scapegoats, no one is more suitable than Ukrainian President itself. Poroshenko eventually got the same result as Yanukovych, and he was also labeled as a traitor. The difference is that Russia did not abandon Yanukovych, while the United States completely abandoned Poroshenko.
Not only scapegoats, the United States even has its successor ready. When a movie pushes Zelensky to the Ukrainian people, the Ukrainian people have no choice. At that time, the pro-Russian faction was in a low position. Whether it was Poroshenko or Zelensky, it was essentially the United States.
After Zelensky took office, more and more Americans began to enter the political arena of Ukraine, and the entire Ukrainian government almost became a puppet of the United States. And such a political environment is the best fertile ground for breeding corruption.
How much is the official position in Ukraine? It is probably the degree to which American politicians envy it. Although the United States is rich, American politicians cannot directly obtain much benefit from it. Even participating in elections requires fundraising through various means.
In order to obtain more benefits, American politicians have sent their immediate family members to Ukraine to "make money", which has also created a group of "American political second generations" who have made their fortunes through Ukraine.Among them, Hunter, the son of the current US President, is Biden., Biden.
As early as during the reign of Poroshenko, Biden had close ties with the Ukrainian government. Biden's youngest son Hunter Biden was inexplicably airborne the natural gas company in Ukraine and became a member of the board of directors.
Speaking of Biden's youngest son, it is not enough to describe it as "no talent". It can be said that it is eating, drinking, gambling and smoking, and it has all the five poisons. Such a second-generation, who has no talent and has a history of drug abuse, went to a foreign country to become an executive. If you want to say that there is no money and power to trade, Biden himself probably won’t believe it.
Of course, Ukrainian natural gas companies did not absorb Hunter in order to make him make any contribution, but mainly to use Biden's power to seek more benefits.
In 2015, Hunter's natural gas company was investigated by the Ukrainian government, and the board of directors immediately contacted Hunter. As the saying goes, if you raise troops for a thousand days, you will be able to use troops for a while. Hunter's empty salary for such a long time is not for nothing. With Hunter's mediation, Biden took action, and the attack was a king.
The Ukrainian government at that time had long been infiltrated by the United States. Under the threat of then Vice President Biden, the Ukrainian government not only took advantage of the corruption of natural gas companies, but also fired the Attorney General Victor who insisted on investigating it at the time.
The prosecutor of a country was fired for his courage to fight corruption. This may seem ridiculous to us, but it is a naked reality in Ukrainian politics.
Of course, although the Biden family makes the most arrogant money, Biden is not the first person to make money from Ukraine. The behavior of American politicians taking money from Ukraine's pocket has long become popular, and even US House Speaker Pelosi is not immune.
It is reported that Pelosi's son Paul Pelosi also worked as an executive in a company involved in Ukrainian natural gas trading and also advertised to the company in public. The fact that the sons of American politicians have successively devoted themselves to the Ukrainian energy industry is enough to prove that Ukraine's corruption has taken root in the entire country.
Of course, collusion between officials and businessmen alone is not enough to describe the degree of corruption in Ukraine. Ukraine has formed a corruption culture in the years of corruption, and the pinnacle of this corruption culture is that they set up a "strong anti-corruption system" in order to better corruption. The most ridiculous thing in the system of
is the Anti-Corruption Bureau. The establishment of this organization cannot be separated from the promotion of the United States and its allies. The original intention of establishing this organization is not to help Ukraine eliminate corruption, but to further weaken the control of the Ukrainian authorities over the country. In the final analysis, it is a knife hanging over Ukraine by the United States.
Anti-corruption Bureau has two significant characteristics. The first feature of
is that there is no restrictions. This organization can obtain citizens' personal privacy without restrictions. The entire Ukraine is within its surveillance scope. The second feature of
is that it is useless. The uselessness here means it is useless to the current corruption status of the Ukrainian government.
Since its establishment in 2016, the scale of the Ukrainian Anti-corruption Bureau has been expanding, but the huge number of members has not made any contribution to Ukraine's anti-corruption cause. Instead, they have been used by the public instruments of the United States and have become a tool for surveillance of Ukraine. Ironically, the salary of this tool is still paid by the Ukrainian finance. It is really my spending money and asking someone to monitor myself.
In addition, Sitnik, the director of the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau, is also a strange man.
This director who is determined to fight corruption not only engages in corruption during his tenure, but also uses his position as director of the Anti-corruption Bureau to evade punishment. The director of the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau himself is the biggest corrupt official. I guess the Ukrainian people want to cry.
Today, Ukraine's corruption has long been difficult to recover, and its domestic officials even dare to make money in war. All this is not achieved overnight, but the result of the joint action of various factors such as factional struggle, oligarchy greed, American push and lack of supervision.
According to reports, an official from Ukrainian customs had confirmed on May 15 that Ukraine did import a large number of luxury cars in the name of military aid.On May 20, the U.S. Senate also passed a $40 billion aid bill. The figures of this aid fund look good, but it is unknown how much can be left in Ukraine's corruption.
In addition, don’t think that the aid from the United States is free. As early as March, Zelensky revealed in an interview that the aid from the United States and NATO is conditional and costly. Therefore, although it is impossible to predict how much of this aid can be used on the people and the army, the cost of this aid will be borne by all Ukrainians.
The future is unpredictable, but we will all be witnesses of history.
, that’s all for today. See you next time. I wish you all. ,
