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[All I’ve admitted, based on known facts, is that Burisma was used as a means of peddling influence by corrupt Ukrainians with corrupt American officials.

You’re the first one I’ve ever seen allege that Biden was actually using Burisma to help Putin conquer Ukraine.]

What you’ve said is that Burisma is a vehicle to get Biden to come to Ukraine’s defense. Which is nonsense, given that Burisma’s owner is a pro-Russian oligarch potentially on Putin’s payroll who fled when Putin’s man in Kiev ran to Moscow. The best way for Zlochevsky to be able to return from exile is for Putin to overrun Ukraine.

As to why Zlochevsky sought refuge in Cyprus instead of Russia - the weather in Cyprus is a tad better. And Zlochevsky’s not the man who ordered the massacre at Maidan Square.

There are on and off warrants filed by Ukraine with Interpol for Yanukovich’s arrest outside Russia. Ukraine only has to arrest Yanukovich once, and he’ll never see daylight again. That’s why he ran to Russia.

Zlochevsky’s a more peripheral player in the butchery. Maybe he played an indirect role, but as courtier rather than king, he’s unlikely to be in as much legal jeopardy from Ukraine’s government. But he fled anyway from a government that asserted Ukraine’s national interests over Russia’s, which may say something about his allegiances.

What you’ve said is that Burisma is a vehicle to get Biden to come to Ukraine’s defense.

I have literally never argued that. Believe it or not, corrupt people can mutually profit from each other without national defense entering the picture.

That’s not what I said. I said Putin gave Biden a bribe through Burisma back when he was VP. It was a chit, a marker, to be collected on via future favors rendered.

And you've already admitted that this is a claim which you have no evidence for.

During all of the hubbub related to Burisma in the 2020 election, was there ever any evidence on Hunter Biden's laptop that Putin was using Burisma as a proxy to enrich Biden? Or was it all a matter of corrupt Ukrainians and corrupt Americans using each other to profit through illicit means?

You're the one claiming (uniquely, as far as I'm aware) that Putin was the one actually using Burisma to buy influence with Joe Biden. Given that Hunter Biden was working with Burisma from April 2014 through 2019 (i.e. after the pro-Russian administration of Yanukovych had been ousted), this claim seems farfetched and lacking in substantiation compared to what's already known: corrupt Bidens using corrupt Ukrainians to get richer.