The dark side of Zelenskyy’s rule

As Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi, then head of Ukraine’s state-owned national power company Ukrenergo, was scrambling to keep the lights on.

Somehow, he succeeded and continued to do so every year, earning the respect of energy executives worldwide by ensuring the country was able to withstand Russian missile and drone strikes on its power grid and avoid catastrophic blackouts — until he was abruptly forced to resign in 2024, that is.

Kudrytskyi’s dismissal was decried by many in the energy industry and also prompted alarm in Brussels. At the time, Kudrytskyi told POLITICO he was the victim of the relentless centralization of authority that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his powerful head of office Andriy Yermak often pursue. He said he feared “corrupt individuals” would end up taking over the state-owned company.

Others who have received the same treatment include Zelenskyy’s predecessor in office, Petro Poroshenko, who was sanctioned and arraigned on corruption charges this year — a move that could prevent him from standing in a future election. Sanctions have frequently been threatened or used against opponents, effectively freezing assets and blocking the sanctioned person from conducting any financial transactions, including using credit cards or accessing bank accounts.

Senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and author of “Battleground Ukraine” Adrian Karatnycky also worries about the direction of political travel. “While he’s an inspirational and brave wartime leader, there are, indeed, worrying elements to Zelenskyy’s rule,” he said.

“Most Americans I know never knew how morally corrupt he was/ is.”

Thanks for reminding us.

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Levada Center indicated that two-thirds of Russians held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption. -——

AI Overview

Vladimir Putin’s leadership is widely associated with significant moral corruption, characterized by a system of institutionalized graft, the suppression of dissent, the use of corruption as a foreign policy tool, and the personal enrichment of himself and his allies.

Key aspects of these allegations and perceptions include:
Systemic Corruption/Kleptocracy: Russia under Putin has been described by organizations such as Transparency International as a “kleptocracy” (rule by thieves), where formal institutions are weak and a system of rent extraction is integral to governance. This system funnels state resources, including from energy wealth and military budgets, to a loyal elite.

Personal Enrichment: Despite an official state salary of around $110,000 a year, Putin is widely believed to have accumulated immense personal wealth, with some unofficial estimates placing it at billions of dollars. This wealth is reportedly hidden in foreign bank accounts and assets, including a billion-dollar palace on the Black Sea, as detailed in reports like the “Pandora Papers” and investigations by the late Alexei Navalny’s anti-corruption foundation.

Suppression of Opposition: Combating corruption has been a dangerous endeavor in Russia, with anti-corruption activists like Alexei Navalny facing severe consequences, including imprisonment and death, indicating the regime’s unwillingness to address the issue through legitimate means.
Weaponization of Corruption: Analysts suggest that Putin has deliberately “weaponized” corruption as a tool of foreign policy to destabilize and weaken democratic institutions in other countries, particularly in Europe, by using opaque funding to influence elections and spread propaganda.
Wartime Corruption: The ongoing war in Ukraine has reportedly led to an increase in corruption within Russia’s military and industrial complex, with money intended for the military being siphoned off for personal gain. Recent high-profile arrests of military officials are seen by some as a result of internal power struggles and a “purge” within the system rather than genuine anti-corruption efforts.
International Perception: Internationally, confidence in Putin is extremely low. A 2024 Pew Research Center survey found that a median of 73% of people in surveyed countries had little or no confidence in him to “do the right thing regarding world affairs”. Western leaders have publicly labeled him with terms such as “killer” and “monster,” reflecting a widespread perception of his moral character as deeply negative.

Domestic Perception: While the Kremlin has actively worked to control the narrative, even a 2017 survey by the independent Levada Center indicated that two-thirds of Russians held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption.

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All of those responseible for this conflict, were haters of Russia.

Russia was never the threat, the USSR was the threat, and when they imploded in 1993 so went the threat they had presented.

They are also fools, albeit clever fools, for they saw the process to take over America. But they are still fools, because they let their true objective be exposed when Donald John Trump took the presidency in 2016. Their concern made them get sppoked, which in turn made them react with haste & paranoia. That paranoia, was the cause for them to act with concern about DJT ruining their plans, instead of letting him just serve his term. Not doing so is hwat alerted some people to awaken, and start digging as to why they would not accept DJT as the presiten. That process resulted in the correct conclusion that we the people were also fools who were asleep. But there is another reason these traitors are fools, and I will share that later.

Sadly, some are still asleep. In the case of RINO, they are complicit, and those who support RINOs, are the ones still asleep.

Those who are awake, are tying to wrest control back from the traitoous Democrats & RINOs who have played the role of of taking this nation in order to run it in the same manner as the CCP runs China. For they desire the total control as the CCP.

China's CCP is, along with those who desire that same level of control & power that the CCP enjoys in this country, which of course the Democrats and their RINO counterparts.

Both, Democrats & RINOs, are nothing more than seditious conspirators whose goal is to detroy this nation as it was founded.

As fools, they believe they can share in the endeavor to be equal partners with the CCP in the quest for world domination, but the CCP is playing them as they fools they recognize them as being, for they do not need these fools beyond the point of them being their useful idiots.

The question still remains to be seen if the people remain asleep & usefil idiots, or do they wake up and take back this nation, or do they allow the fools to succeed in destroying this nation, and then lose to the CCP?

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