Notice how she skipped all those articles that cited the Ukrainians ‘cleansing’ civilians (in the Donbass areas that they have taken) recently of ‘collaborators’ or for feeding Russian or Donbass militia soldiers or even of the continued ongoing shelling of Donbass region civilians?
Narratives must be continuously peddled to maintain them...cause if you tell the lies long enough, repeat them incessantly, those who don’t know differently will be seduced into believing them.
Russian corruption
Andrey Kozyrev, who served as foreign minister under President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s, put forward what he said were misjudgments made by President Vladimir Putin in ordering the invasion.
In the thread, he claims Putin overestimated the Russian military, which he dedicated billions of dollars to modernizing. But this money, Kozyrev claimed, may have been lost to Russia’s endemic corruption
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—Andrei V Kozyrev (@andreivkozyrev) March 6, 2022
“The Kremlin spent the last 20 years trying to modernize its military. Much of that budget was stolen and spent on mega-yachts in Cyprus. But as a military advisor you cannot report that to the President. So they reported lies to him instead,” wrote Kozyrev.
Cyprus has long been a favored destination for Russian officials seeking to launder money, and was infamous for its long-running “golden passport” scheme that until 2020 allowed rich foreigners to effectively EU buy citizenship.
Transparency International ranks Russia as one of the world’s most corrupt countries, putting it 130th of 176, with a particular problem in its defense sector.