If so, I can understand the colonel’s actions here.
I guess he had to come clean..........................
Should have just called it a PPP loan.
And some insider stock trades.
Typically, the Russian do not air their military’s dirty laundry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7waF6L2Btk
How does a Colonel have to scratch for something so basic.
I know a couple who immigrated to the US after the fall of the Soviet Union. The husband refused to return ever. He said he had nightmares that he’d somehow get stuck there. The wife went back several times. She said that everything required a bribe. Every document, every interaction with any official of any type and with many store clerks. Want good service? Just put a few dollars, depending on what you want, on the counter. The money will vanish, and you’ll get service with a smile.
After the war started several mysterious fires happened, especially in fuel depots. A Russian being interviewed on TV said, “Imagine you’ve been selling the fuel under your command for cash. Then, suddenly a war you had no idea was on the horizon shows up. You’ve been told to provide the millions of gallons of fuel supposedly in the tanks you control. But there isn’t enough fuel. So, you have a sudden fire, and everything gets wiped out and you’re in the clear.”
The Russian aircraft carrier was in a floating drydock. The dock started sinking. A couple of emergency diesel pumps should have started up. But their tanks were empty. The man in charge of the dock had sold the diesel that was supposed to be in those tanks. He was sentenced to prison.
And our “woke” military is trying desperately to achieve the ineptness and corruption of the Russian military. It’s called the Milley Syndrome.
Ah....money laundering......
Corruption is part of the culture, and will always bear tainted fruit.
Reminds me of the 1981 Pushkin crash, where a load of Soviet high command officials overloaded their aircraft with various ‘loot’, which ended up killing all of them when plane crashed and burned on takeoff.