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(From Forbes Magazine a year before this current conflict) Ukraine 2021: The Crisis Continues
Forbes ^ | Oct 14, 2021,08:33am | Kenneth Rapoza

Posted on 03/07/2022 12:42:47 PM PST by xzins

Seven years after Russia annexed Crimea and created an armed separatist movement in Donbas, the industrial eastern hub of eastern Ukraine, the Ukrainian government, and its entire business class, is mired in problems so deep it is a wonder they can ever dig themselves out of it.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: corruption; russia; ukraine
Ukraine problems were written about by wapo, independent, everyone.

Then something happened on the way to the covid hearing...

Ukraine become knights in shining armor

1 posted on 03/07/2022 12:42:47 PM PST by xzins
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To: xzins
Shefir is believed to have created a network of offshore entities for Zelensky and others, such as Zelensky former business partner and employer, and a U.S. sanctioned Ukrainian banking and media tycoon named Ihor Kolomoisky. U.S. authorities allege that Kolomoisky “laundered $5.5 billion through a tangle of shell companies, purchasing factories and commercial properties across the U.S. heartland,” according to the ICIJ.

Privat Bank, etc. How the world has changed when Freepers throw in with Hunter and Joe Biden, Google, Facebook, Obama, the Clintons, James Clapper, the Democrat party, the MSM, Lindsay Graham, Mittens and others, who all love Zelinski. Why, one could ask.

2 posted on 03/07/2022 12:52:35 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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Privat Bank, etc. How the world has changed when Freepers throw in with Hunter and Joe Biden, Google, Facebook, Obama, the Clintons, James Clapper, the Democrat party, the MSM, Lindsay Graham, Mittens and others, who all love Zelinski. Why, one could ask.

And if you don’t... “see! You were in on the collusion with Putin and his boy-toy Trump”


3 posted on 03/07/2022 12:56:41 PM PST by TiGuy22
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To: TiGuy22
News from 3 days ago, "Clinton Global Initiative Restarted to Tackle Urgent Needs."

And if you don’t... “see!, this is who you are in collusion with Mr. TiGuy22

And as a Freeper???

4 posted on 03/07/2022 1:02:26 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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And if you don’t... “see! You were in on the collusion with Putin and his boy-toy Trump”

After the media lied everyday for years about anything COVID how am I to believe any media report? The basic fact is that no one knows what the hell is going on in Ukraine. The propaganda on both sides is very thicccck.

5 posted on 03/07/2022 1:03:47 PM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: P-Marlowe; Jane Long

Interesting to see the establishment take on zelensky and Ukraine before they were canonized


6 posted on 03/07/2022 1:06:06 PM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory. )
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To: xzins

Very interesting, bookmark.


7 posted on 03/07/2022 1:09:31 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money)
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To: frogjerk

I agree. Putin is a murderer and thug; Ukraine is a cesspool of corruption and money laundering.


8 posted on 03/07/2022 1:11:17 PM PST by TiGuy22
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Ukraine is a cesspool of corruption and money laundering.

And Conservatives and Freepers alike are jumping in on the Ukraine side with both feet without a care in the world. Look at who is behind Zelinski and how the media (Most Effective Devil in America) bloodlust makes thirst for escalation. No conspiracies but no coincidences.

9 posted on 03/07/2022 1:17:59 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: frithguild

Agreed.


10 posted on 03/07/2022 1:18:39 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: xzins

IMHO, in the end, this whole episode of one authoritarian kleptocracy chewing up pieces of the smaller nominally “democratic” kleptocracy next door and its outcome will have little impact on vital US national security interests. Today’s authoritarian Russia is not the monolithic global threat of yesteryear’s communist USSR. Although it is a regional threat to Europe, which eventually will have stop depending on the US for its land war defense and grow up, increase their defense spending and raise a real non woke military for land war defense and buy armaments from the US to defend themselves from regional threat Russia. After this Ukraine episode is over, the best way to accelerate that process of getting continental Europe with 4 times the GDP and 4 times the population of Russia to defend itself within a certain amount of time is to tell them we will be withdrawing from NATO within 2 years in favor of just maintaining a non continental European alliance with the 5 eyes, UK, NZ, Australia, Canada and US that more suits US security interests. Hopefully, that will build a fire under them. If not, it’s their problem, not ours.


11 posted on 03/07/2022 1:27:34 PM PST by chuckee
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The US should withdraw from NATO now. You tend to have steel balls when your partner has soldiers that are 10 feet tall and bombs that don’t miss their target. If we were to commit to withdrawal from NATO, Zelinsky would stop asking for a No-Fly zone and there would be a negotiated peace much more rapidly. As it is, we are on the precipice of escalation with an opponent with plenty of canned sunshine.


12 posted on 03/07/2022 1:47:22 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Neo Nazi ping


13 posted on 03/07/2022 3:22:22 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: frogjerk

Propaganda thick it is. One way to cut through it is to remember they think you’re stoopit and then look to see if Hunter and Joe Biden, Google, Facebook, Obama, the Clintons, James Clapper, the Democrat party, the MSM, Lindsay Graham and Mittens are all aligned, and then pic it apart one piece at a time.


14 posted on 03/07/2022 3:31:41 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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To: frithguild

Huh? We would not be in this position if the US were energy independent. Biden purposefully put the US in this position which is now helping to finance Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. If we were energy independent the US would have so many more options. Oh, if the West refuses to buy Russia’s oil, China gets to buy the oil at a discount.

Biden’s energy and spending policies put the US in a very precarious position. If you want to support Russia’s/China’s side, go for it. I support America’s interests only. Right now, all you have to do is reverse everything Biden has done and the US would be on the road to recovery.


15 posted on 03/07/2022 3:41:52 PM PST by Chgogal (Whatever Biden decides to do, do the opposite.)
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To: Chgogal

Agree


16 posted on 03/07/2022 6:01:05 PM PST by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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