Posted on 05/18/2015 10:49:00 AM PDT by McGruff
The country is on the cliff of bankruptcy. A spate of politically motivated killings and mysterious suicides of former government officials has sown fear in the capital. Infighting has begun to splinter the pro-European majority coalition in Parliament. And a constant threat of war lingers along the Russian border.
A year after the election of Petro O. Poroshenko as president to replace the ousted Viktor F. Yanukovych, and six months after the swearing in of a new legislature, Ukraine remains deeply mired in political and economic chaos.
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We’re throwing billions of US Tax dollars at one of the most corrupt nations ON EARTH.
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“In 2014’s Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index Ukraine was ranked 142nd out of the 175 countries investigated (tied with Uganda and the Comoros).
Ernst & Young (in 2012) put Ukraine among the three most corrupted nations of the world together with Colombia and Brazil.”
Anything and everything is for sale in Ukraine, from weapons, to human body parts.
And the “New Ukraine” seems to be even more corrupt than the old Ukraine. The Poroshenko-Kolomoiski conflict illustrates this clearly.
The Ukraine still has no laws or decrees governing the restitution of private property seized by the communists, nor has the government ever made any proposals to correct this.
Better than throwing small-businessmen in jail as Russia is doing.
These reforms are very tricky and I don’t really see how it could work in Ukraine. Communists came to power almost 100 years ago there and Ukraine was largely an agrarian country. That means the property confiscated from most people was cattle and ancient farming equipment. Cattle is dead now so an attempt for restitution would end up as a lottery where perhaps few great grand-kids of those who owned land or houses that are currently in big cities win big while injustice is still not fixed.
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