Posted on 08/14/2022 10:19:40 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Putin has no questions about the money allocated for the army, also for the reason that in exchange for the stolen, Defense Ministry officials are ready to carry out any, the most “dirty”, order of the head of the Russian Federation.
Sergei Shoigu and his entourage profit from the money allocated for the Russian army / Screenshot Sergei Shoigu and his entourage profit from the money allocated for the Russian army / Screenshot
High-ranking officials with real estate abroad and fabulous incomes that are not declared – this is what the new investigation of Alexei Navalny’s team is all about. It was dedicated to the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Alexei Krivoruchko.
According to the plot of the FreeDom project, according to international financier Bill Browder, such officials in the Russian Federation as Krivoruchko became the main cause of corruption in the army.
“Corruption in Russia is so widespread that virtually nothing works. Everything related to the state does not work. They are not in a position to conduct military operations. 80% of the money that should have gone to war was stolen, and that’s good,” – Browder said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
Lawyer Nikolai Polozov also agrees that corruption has affected the combat effectiveness of Russian troops. Thanks to officials such as Shoigu and Krivoruchko, Russian tanks are left without dynamic protection and become fairly easy targets.
“The corrupt nature of the Putin regime and its officials, it just manifests itself in the fact that for a long time, more than 20 years, the main idea was to steal as much as possible in those positions, with the opportunities that these officials had. And to provide these stolen future for their children,” Polozov says. Ruslan Shaveddinov, an employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, said that the Russian Defense Ministry is one of the most corrupt departments. And so Shoigu himself became fabulously rich and “made rich” his family. Everyone in his circle in this ministry is also corrupt.
According to Shaveddinov, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was one of the most corrupt and unpopular departments among the people, for which more and more money was allocated from the budget every year. And at the same time, more and more was stolen. He stressed that no one was engaged in either reforming the army or any kind of training of their own soldiers.
“They (officials in the Russian Ministry of Defense – UNIAN) were not ready for this war, they lived simply by enriching themselves and pocketing the budget,” the FBK official noted.
Journalists asked Shaveddinov if Putin would not ask Shoigu where the money allocated for the army for all these years had gone.
“He does not ask such a question. Shoigu knows that there are no such questions, some small contractor of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation periodically also covers Shoigu for the press. The contractor is imprisoned, and then those huge sums that are stolen” – explains the FBK employee .
In addition, Putin has no questions about the money allocated for the army, also for the reason that in exchange for the stolen, Defense Ministry officials are ready to fulfill any, the most “dirty”, order of the head of the Russian Federation.
Earlier, the Navalny Foundation said that the daughters of Russian Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Krivoruchko found American citizenship and the right to receive it. At the same time, the top official himself owns luxury real estate for half a billion rubles.
(C)UNIAN 2022
What China says and what China does are not likely to coincide too often. I have some knowledge on that frobt.
I will grant you the weak leadership of both the US and Russia. The US however is not “exhausting” itself at all in this matter. The sort of aid the US is giving Ukraine is completely irrelevant to any likely confrontation with China. And moreover the scale of this aid is trivial, compared to US resources, or even the nature of US problems. The US wastes vastly more resources on stuff that is entirely oriented to domestic politics. That absurd climate - “inflation” bill for instance. Its not the usual thing to do in these arguments but I urge you to look at the actual finances of your country. Its an education in perspective, in orders of magnitude.
Using historical perspective, which I also urge you to consider, this war has barely begun, just 6 months in, and the Ukrainians “haven’t begun to fight”. They seem to be committed to the war. How do you know the struggle is useless?
And the Russian government overtly intended to revert Ukraine to a puppet state. That was explicitly stated many times.
the “ghost of Kiev” is still patrolling the skies and shooting down Migs daily.
I suspect China would not be happy with Putin if large amounts of nuclear fallout were to be carried to them on the prevailing westerlies. If Navalny was targeting info on massive corruption for public consumption, no wonder he is in prison now. Eighty% is a lot of corruption. That means at 1/3rd the population, at 40$ corruption Ukraine is on a par with Russia. If Ukraine corruption is less than 40% they should be doing better than Russia.
I suspect China would not be happy with Putin if large amounts of nuclear fallout were to be carried to them on the prevailing westerlies. If Navalny was targeting info on massive corruption for public consumption, no wonder he is in prison now. Eighty% is a lot of corruption. That means at 1/3rd the population, at 40$ corruption Ukraine is on a par with Russia. If Ukraine corruption is less than 40% they should be doing better than Russia.
In 6 months time they have lost a considerable amount of land mass. These talks of a million man army for Ukraine never materialize. Those out there fighting are getting zero support or materials to fight back with. Food replenishment is scarce and long duration in being supplied. People are living in foreign lands, and that only sits well for just so long before they become burdens to their, so far, gracious hosts.
These silly posts boasting about how marvelous the Ukrainians are doing, are nothing more than propaganda, devoid of any truth. Much like "The Ghost Of Kviv" was a poor attempt of being a morale booster, short lived when it was found to be a video game they were peddling as reality.
China can supply Russia with things, and still live up to their promise. For sure they will not supply them with armaments or supplies. But they just might send several thousand Uighurs there as fodder material. But China knows that all they have to do is say they will join Russia if Russia is attacked, because they know it will prevent the weak leadership of their enemies/competitors from personally engaging themselves in the conflict. In other words, hollow commitment to the cause. I am pretty sure that Zelenskyy is blackmailing Biden, because he has the goods on him to keep sending our money. Inflation eating up our money is of little concern to him, or this administration.
But tell me how you know that we are not dangerously depleting our weaponry? From reports I have seen, from our own news agencies, with details of that nature. Now I am hesitant to believe them, but sometimes they actually do report the truth. But then they never follow up. Much like ABC reported, and then pulled it back, that there is no way to track where the material goods or even the money is actually going. There have been reports of armaments being sold on the black market, and never making it to the battlefield.
Also, you didn't even bother to address the debt issue. Either you are uncaring that you leave your children & grandchildren buried in debt, or you do not have any children & grandchildren yet.
I read that Russia also reneged on the $150 payment to refugees that had been promised.
These were the refugees that were forced to flee to Russia because Russia closed all other escape routes west into Ukraine,
Ukraine lost what it has lost in the first week of the war. Since then it has gained back a great part of its losses around Kiev and the northern front, to Kharkiv.
And since then the lines have barely budged in spite of constant Russian attacks. In the meantime the Ukrainians have tripled their men in uniform, to 700,000+ The constraint in the “million man” army is equipment and training. There is apparently no shortage of (untrained) volunteers in Ukraine. After just six months thats not bad.
As for depleting the US inventory - what the US is sending is almost all Army equipment and munitions. The biggest line items are 155mm ammo (millions of rounds) and thousands of HIMARS missiles (rockets with JDAM guidance), guns/launchers for these, Javelins and Stingers. Add to that 152mm ammo (for Soviet era artillery), manufacture in Eastern Europe of which the US is subsidizing, and 500 older M1 tanks (from US reserves) the US is sending to Poland to backfill them sending their own T-72s. Besides that stuff it is small volumes.
Against China it will be a Navy-Air Force fight, and critical weapons systems will be theirs, of which hardly any have gone to Ukraine (a few land-based Harpoons, and some ARMs). There is no use on shipboard for any of that stuff going to Ukraine. Nor is there, really, much use for that in Taiwan. Taiwan is a small place, and their real risk is a Chinese blockade - a Navy and Air Force problem.
That Ukraine aid package mostly isnt $, but the property value of the reserve stocks I mentioned above.
And I repeat - look, well, at what your government is actually soending on - everything. The Ukraine stuff is trivial. I mean open the books. They are online. And open your Excel spreadsheet.
Just not true.
HIMARS missiles
Reported half of them are gone, and that it would take years to replenish. Also, that they are using them up faster than we can supply them, not to mention that they lose some due to Russian destruction of them.
You are still refusing to even mention the escalating debt burden, to an already outrageous 30+ trillion debt load, which pales in comparison the 222 trillion when unfunded unfunded liabilities are included in the debt balance.
You live in a dreamworld created by the liars you believe in, totally unquestioned. Therefore, it is useless to even converse anymore. Once you want to honestly address the debt issue, we can pickup the conversation. Until then you are not even being honest with yourself.
“so who is going to be a whistleblower?”
Exactly! It would be a circular firing squad.
In re regaining territory - The Russians held vast territories around Kiev, from Chernighiv down to Kiev, and all the way to Sumy, not to mention almost surrounding Kharkiv. So where are the Russians now?
The US has @500+ HIMARS launchers, plus another 1000 or so of the MLRS, the tracked version. And it has almost zero use for more than a few in some “expeditionary” deployment. For all the good they will ever do you, the US can ship the lot of them to Ukraine. What on esrth will you ever do with them? Fight a land war in Asia?
And you believe the Russians? Jeez.
Yes. Divide $40Billion by $30Trillion (trillion was it? thats 30,000 billion) and you get 0.13%. In context it is too miniscule to mention. It is irrelevant. Your 30Trillion is already an intractable, completely unrecoverable, disastrous situation that cant be fixed no matter what you do. The disaster is inevitable no matter how many gnats you strain at.
Its like obsessing over a spilled beer on your deck, while a tidal wave is incoming. Go spill all the beer you like! The whole 6-pack! It doesn’t matter! Your deck, and house, and city, are all going in the watery gotterdammerung.
This is an honest and realistic approach because it looks at this situation in perspective. Its is grim, fatal, and inevitable. So while you are at it, go send your useless (to you) weapons to Ukraine. Before you all die in that tidal wave please.
“Ukraine sides with the leftists & anti-Trump factions.”
Truth.
Thank heavens the Pro Trump & Pro Ukraine supporters are solid. The leftists Pro-Putin change whatever appears most probable is likely to develop. Pro-Putin politicos support the one country (RUSSIA) that started this invasion and continues to keep the conflict going.
“Of global strategic and political implications”
Exactly correct. The posted topic forfocus is on the Russian corruption.
“Seems you would be glad if Russia was hurting Russia.”
No. Zelensky is attempting to remove Putin deep-state embedded in Ukraine unlike Russia that thrives on corruption.
It is very sad that Putin is hurting Russia. Especially sending his soldiers without adequate supplies. But, this article explains why that is happening.
“The sensible thing to do is work towards a solution, not continued carnage.”
All agree. The whole world agrees!
Putin simply refuses to stop the invasion and carnage.
Except all of the above is utter BS.
They’ve been telling you since 2010 how mismanaged and rotten the Russian system but it is still there in spite of unprecedented trade restrictions.
Put 10% of that sanctions on the US and its over.
“ghost of Kiev” is still patrolling”
The topic remains “The corrupt nature of the Putin regime and its officials, it just manifests itself in the fact that for a long time, more than 20 years, the main idea was to steal as much as possible in those positions, with the opportunities that these officials had.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was one of the most corrupt and unpopular departments among the people, for which more and more money was allocated from the budget every year. And at the same time, more and more was stolen. He stressed that no one was engaged in either reforming the army or any kind of training of their own soldiers.”
“No. Zelensky is attempting to remove Putin deep-state embedded in Ukraine unlike Russia that thrives on corruption.”
Do you mean by relabeling humanitarian aid and selling it in supermarket chains and sending Western weapons to the Middle East and cartels? Who are you trying to fool?
Furthermore, yo refuse to accept that Zelenskyy could have prevented this conflict. He ran on the promise that he would rescind the decree that outlawed the Russian language from the schools, as well as, out in public to end this self induced conflict. He then not only refused to follow through, he double-down on the decree.
But then again, all you all look at are what finally transpired, the invasion. While simultaneously ignoring what the Nazis, and yer they are Nazis, were doing to the the Russian speaking Ukrainians that were living peacefully until they started being harassed, and even killed by the Nazis.
Even with their voting to become autonomous regions within Ukrainian, they still wanted to remain a part of Ukraine.
Putin, advised them against their voting to become an autonomous region. Putin tried in vain for 8 years to get the international community to intervene, only to be dismissed. He tried to get the international community to get Ukraine to live up to the Minsky Agreements (2 of them), but even the Ukrainians readily admitted they never had any intentions of honoring them. That they only signed them to gain a respite while they built up & trained the Nazis, by U.S. personnel, before they began attacking again in earnest.
If you had looked further, than just the invasion aspect, you would have learned this yourself. Zelenskyy is a self-promoting person who sold out his country to align himself with the New World Order.
“Zelensky is attempting to remove Putin deep-state embedded in Ukraine unlike Russia that thrives on corruption”
The OCCUPIERS, together with COLLABORATORS, have begun trading in stolen Russian “humanitarian aid”.
Details: According to Andriushchenko, employees of the Russian Emergencies Ministry continue to loot and steal from intact houses.
https://news.yahoo.com/mariupol-occupiers-start-selling-stolen-090915425.html
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