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--- "Not one more dime to corrupt Ukraine."

Yesterday's thread ended with the supercilious UMCrevmom snide "Yep, Once upon a time is not happy when he is ignored! LOL."

I don't give a damn about what she thinks of me.

Here's what she actually ignored.

To bring things back to an Update from Ukraine | Ukrainian Farmland being sold, one may read "with citations" :
The Stealth Take-over of Ukrainian Agricultural Land
The truth about corporations taking over Ukrainian agricultural lands
Why Does China Own So Much of Ukraine?
Аgricultural companies, farms and agriculture land (farmland) for sale in Ukraine
Sale agricultural lands and farmland for foreigner on Ukrainian laws
Russian Oligarch Seizes 400,000 Acres of Ukrainian Farmland, Owners Say
BlackRock launches Ukraine Development Fund together with the Ukrainian government
BlackRock Chief Says Investors Ready To 'Flood' Ukraine
Ukraine's other land grab - Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe, and its land is changing hands.
Zelensky complicit in corporate takeover of Ukraine
US taxpayers pay the war bills, private firms get the profits.
War and Theft: The Takeover of Ukraine's Agricultural Land
That last citation is interesting as one reads: "The report identifies many prominent investors, including Vanguard Group, Kopernik Global Investors, BNP Asset Management Holding, Goldman Sachs-owned NN Investment Partners Holdings, and Norges Bank Investment Management, which manages Norway's sovereign wealth fund. A number of large US pension funds, foundations, and university endowments are also invested in Ukrainian land through NCH Capital – a US-based private equity fund, which is the fifth largest landholder in the country."
While YouTube monetized videos by "content creators" (many located in the United States) have been promoted, these are the chump change compared to the mega "war profiteering."
The big profiteering is being arranged, as above. The big profiteering isn't of interest to so many with passionate voices. But Ukraine is for sale. As 'war porn' is monetized, but on a much larger scale.
"...a 2001 moratorium on the sale of land to foreigners had always represented an obstacle to unrestrained privatisation. As post-Maidan governments turned again to the IMF for financing, aid was conditioned on a series of land reforms that would finally allow foreign corporations to acquire vast tracts of the country's farmland. In 2020, Zelenskyy gave in to the IMF's demands and finally repealed the moratorium. 'Agribusiness interests and oligarchs will be the primary beneficiaries of such reform,' said Olena Borodina of the Ukrainian Rural Development Network. 'This will only further marginalise smallholder farmers and risks severing them from their most valuable resource.' But the World Bank could barely contain its excitement, gushing: 'This is, without exaggeration, a historic event.' Even though the new law isn't set to come into force until next year, US and Western European agrobusinesses have already bought up millions of hectares of Ukraine's farmland — with 10 private companies reportedly controlling most of it."
In "The whole Ukraine goes for sale - massive profit opportunities being created by the war' -- July 17, 2023
Source: https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2023/07/17/the-whole-ukraine-goes-for-sale-massive-profit-opportunities-being-created-by-the-war/
This was so simple to research. It's amazing that this news is not part of the KaBoom game.

She may want to ignore "me" -- which is of no concern to me -- but what she ignores is corruption in Ukraine, because her little secular "theology" cannot allow any notion that her chosen heroes are corrupt. That would crush the raison d'être for her daily amen™ thread. Ergo the young hero-god, Zelensky, and his prophet Denys, must be stain-free and esteemed.

What she ignores is such as "Zelensky complicit in corporate takeover of Ukraine."

What she ignores is such as "Zelenskyy gave in to the IMF's demands and finally repealed the moratorium. 'Agribusiness interests and oligarchs will be the primary beneficiaries of such reform...."

What she ignores is "The whole Ukraine goes for sale - massive profit opportunities being created by the war."

Such must be ignored by her, else her political "ministry" would have to see her young hero-god as just another corrupt con artist. Like all the others.

Ukraine is being carved into chunks, Putin taking some, and a lot of Western players taking other chunks with the approval (or at least acquiescence) of Zelensky, as profiteering goes on through many means, large and small.

Lots of players, and at many levels. The "little guy," be he Ukrainian, Russian or American, is losing throughout. And the inverse is also true. The "big guys," Ukrainians, Russians, Americans -- and now we add from above -- Norwegians (recalling that Stoltenberg was prime minister of Norway) and others in Europeans, as well as the cottage industry of monetizing "content" which is promoted daily, all come down to money. Few clean hands in this mess.

She seems rather like Ashton-Cirillo. in that she represents and promotes a stance. Zelensky without stain of corruption.

Time will tell, but the above articles are what she ignores. She must, because she cannot refute them, without a danger to her long-curated view of Saint Zelensky and junior Saint Davydov.