Posted on 03/29/2022 11:01:51 AM PDT by Meet the New Boss
A Russian millionaire arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Raleigh. New social media video of expired Russian military food. A stalled 40-mile long Russian military convoy in Ukraine. WRAL Investigates found they may all be connected.
Video circulating on social media reportedly shows a Ukrainian soldier mocking Meals Ready to Eat, or MREs, given to the Russian military. The packaging shows they were made in 2013 and expired in 2015, yet are on the battlefield today, 7 years later...
The label on the expired food, written in Cyrillic, translates to a tie back to an infamous criminal case in Raleigh. Federal investigators say Voentorg is the company Leonid Teyf used to get $150 million in kickbacks on Russian military contracts. Teyf and his wife were arrested back in 2018 when the FBI raided their mansion based on a murder-for-hire plot, bribing a public official, tax return issues and immigration violations.
At the time of the deal, Teyf had connections to Russian oligarchs who are now the target of financial sanctions. One of those oligarchs is Yevgeny Prigozhin, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest confidants... Investigators say Prigozhin’s network of companies was involved in the Teyf scheme.
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If Putin supporters on FR want to direct their ire at someone, they can direct it at people like the guy in this story and Prigozhin.
There is abundant evidence that Russian corruption has affected maintenance and parts, for example truck tires, necessary for Russian supply convoys to operate at acceptable levels.
Russian corruption also may have directly contributed to the intelligence failure leading to the decision to invade Ukraine.
Putin gave an enormous sum of money for the purpose of bribing a network of Ukrainian politicians and local government leaders in order that Russian troops would be greeted as liberators.
Reports are that the recipients of the money took it and absconded, without distributing it to the network of Ukrainians.
In Basic Training (1966) we had C-rations made for the Korean War (1950's). When did MRE's start expiring after 2 years?
Oh, by the way, they sucked.
Early on during my excellent adventure in Vietnam, we were eating 1953 Korean War leftovers.
“...recipients of the money took it and absconded with it.”
Tacoma Narrows Bridge comes to mind.
Russkie medical bandages captured at Mykolaiv dated 1978
” Ukrainian soldier mocking Meals Ready to Eat, or MREs, given to the Russian military. The packaging shows they were made in 2013 and expired in 2015, yet are on the battlefield today, 7 years later...”
Expired Rations? That never happens lol. I even have a leftover can of C-Ration ham slices. I wanna open it, but I kinda don’t. I wonder what a Russia MRE has in it anyway?
Now the French. Those guys made field rations that defied belief. That was some good chow. And wine wasn’t even unheard of.
“When did MRE’s start expiring after 2 years?”
When we started selling them to the Ruskies!
I remember seeing the contents of these Russian field rations a few weeks ago when this story first came out, I’ll see if I can find it
Maybe there is borscht or kefir. Or some kind of Russian cheese that goes bad after a couple of years. I have no idea what this food is.
Support these guys, not Putin
https://mobile.twitter.com/Angelo4justice3/status/1508497158194012176
Worth noting is what Westerners label ‘corruption’ by the Oligarchs is how the Russian elite: the Boyars, and now the Oligarchs play the game. Its is institutionalized.
Arresting a few or even all of them changes nothing. Those that rise to the top afterward will play the game the same way.
“If Putin supporters on FR want to direct their ire at someone, they can direct it at people like the guy in this story and Prigozhin.”
First you have to buy the Mockingbird mass media propaganda.
I leave that to the NPCs.
Prigozhin is also known for running at least three separate troll farms in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Google his name and “troll farm” and there’s lots of articles on this ugly mutt.
Best military food in the world is found on US Navy submarines. Thinking about it makes me gain weight!
What is his FR Putin Puffer name?
I spent 30 days in a N.Africa French camp. Excellent food! They can make anything taste good.
USS Picuda
“Reports are that the recipients of the money took it and absconded, without distributing it to the network of Ukrainians.”
Ah, so 10% never got kicked up to the Big Guy. Explains a lot.
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