Posted on 01/23/2023 3:33:52 AM PST by Timber Rattler
No, historical fact.
That’s the Ukraine Army mascot dog
We’re your football players doing this at 5:30am - unpaid - because it is their normal schedule?
I have no idea how you came up with 5:30 am when I said yesterday. It was a regular pro US football game happening in a light snow. So presumably rugged Americans playing bare armed. I guess I was somewhat rugged too when I walked to classes in a midwest winter, 8 am, -25f, windy, skirt and knee high socks. This was a year before it became common for women to wear leotards or slacks when going to classes. I weighed 125 lbs and it took the hour in lecture for my knees to warm up before walking 5 blocks to the next class. When my late husband wanted to move back there, I told him NO! Those winters would destroy our marriage.
Ukraine is caught between US and Russian corruption. The US corruption was looking for money, the Russian corruption is part of an insurgency to keep Ukraine under Russia's thumb.Ukraine absolutely has corruption problems. That in no way justifies the invasion or denying their right to defend their sovereignty. What the article shows is Zelensky is trying to deal with the problem. Any effort starting to reduce Ukraine's corruption is going to be extremely difficult no matter who is in charge or what policy is pursued.Its like working in construction in New York without the Mob shaking someone down. Its pretty hard to be honest when the biggest players in the game won't let you.
The international corruption rating fail to account how countries corrupt each other. If how the US, China, Europe and Russia exert undue influence on other countries, then the most powerful countries would look a lot worse.
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