Oh, they’re livid about that and they’ve ramped up their viciousness to a new level. Even their hero Zelensky is hissing vague threats about what might happen if he doesn’t keep getting lots of attention and continued big servings of our Treasury.
They all disgust me. Meanwhile, the regular folk in Ukraine are losing loved ones, losing their homes, their livelihoods, their senses of well-being, their peace and security and none of these money-grubbers care. Horrible things are happening in Israel and they don’t care about that, either. From the uppity foreigner in a t-shirt on down, they’re all about the grift.
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 LandThat 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."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.
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."One wonders how many young Ukrainian farmers have lost their lives as their property was sold out from under them, during this non-NATO war between two non-NATO nations. Sounds like thugs and thugs, while some cheerleaders want to crown some thugs with white hats, instead of seeing the corruption as major media now are noting. ( Comment # 140 )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/
As you write, "...they’re all about the grift." And "The whole Ukraine goes for sale...."