Posted on 10/12/2024 5:54:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
(AFP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced hope Friday that the war with Russia will end next year, speaking during a visit to Berlin to ask for sustained military support.
As Ukraine faces a gruelling third winter at war, Zelensky has been seeking support on a two-day whirlwind tour of European capitals that took him to London, Paris and Rome.
Visiting Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Zelensky, dressed in his trademark military clothes, thanked Germany for its backing and said that “it is very important for us that this assistance does not decrease next year”.
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Was in Italy and UK rather recently. The European tour like the US Biden-Harris paid visit keep him out of Ukraine, suggesting that leading his nation in Ukraine is becoming ever more dangerous. A quick photo op and then back to touring the world. Cosplay, like Arafat used to do.
Is that what US cruise missiles are for? To end the war early?
Zelensky is seeking fresh military and financial aid from the European suckers.
He fears dwindling support if Donald Trump wins the US presidency
and b/c his wife is nagging him for a couple more shopping trips to Paris.
The American taxpayers would like to see it end sooner. We U.S. taxpayers have to support all the freeloading miggies on the planet with “a better life”.
The NATO Ramstein meeting was cancelled with vegetable head Joe a no show. Seems there is a great divide within the collective West. “ Rumor” has it they can not decide on giving the Ukies long range missiles, for fear of Vlad’s response. The EU is coming apart.
When the next Nato meeting is convened, it will be to discuss the Ukies surrender. Much going on behind the scenes.
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“ The Ukraine Defence Contact Group meeting (also known as Ramstein-format meetings), which was to take place on 12 October at the level of the country leaders, has been postponed.
Details: As noted, the new date is still being determined.
Background:
It was assumed that US President Joe Biden would chair the meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group in Germany on 12 October, which was to meet for the first time at the level of state leaders.
However, the day before, it became known that Biden had cancelled his visit to Germany due to the powerful Hurricane Milton, which is expected to hit the southern coast of the United States.
US officials said they were considering whether to reschedule the meeting.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ramstein-meeting-postponed-084739110.html
Give the Ukraine half a dozen tactical nukes.
Let’s make this thing interesting.
because
“Like Arafat” excellent comparison.
GAME OVER
It is time to talk about post war Ukraine; for that matter it is insightful to rehash American involvement in past conflicts, and the “Management, Finance, Fallout” and who profits. Our State Department is full of people like Nuland, Blinken, and others who used the agency and their family heritage to create situations anew that currently exist because of the past in the realm of diplomacy, banking, and wars.
The US has conducted numerous wars since the end of what is euphemistically called the post war era:
Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen… and now Ukraine.
The unspoken objective is not to “win the war” but to engineer the destruction of entire countries, create political and social chaos, with a view to ultimately “picking up the pieces” and taking control of the national economies of sovereign nation states.
This agenda is also conducted through “regime change”, “color revolutions” and the concurrent demise and criminalization of the state apparatus coupled with “strong economic medicine” and the imposition of a soaring dollar denominated debt.
That is what happened in Vietnam. The Destruction of an entire country which was then “privatized” in the early 1990s:
“Vietnam never received war reparations payments from the U.S. for the massive loss of life and destruction, yet an agreement reached in Paris in 1993 required Hanoi to recognize the debts of the defunct Saigon regime of General Thieu. This agreement is in many regards tantamount to obliging Vietnam to compensate Washington for the costs of war.”
And now what is ongoing in Ukraine is the outright privatization of an entire country.
BlackRock, which is the World’s largest portfolio investment company together with JPMorgan have come to the rescue of Ukraine. They are slated to set up the Ukraine Reconstruction Bank.
The stated objective is “to attract billions of dollars in private investment to assist rebuilding projects in a war-torn country”. (FT, June 19, 2023)
“… BlackRock, JP Morgan and private investors, aim to profit from the country’s reconstruction along with 400 global companies, including Citi, Sanofi and Philips. … JP Morgan’s Stefan Weiler sees a “tremendous opportunity” for private investors. (Colin Todhunter, Global Research June 28, 2023)
The Kiev Neo-Nazi regime is a partner in this endeavour. War is Good for Business. The greater the destruction, the greater the stranglehold on Ukraine by “private investors”:
“BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase are helping the Ukrainian government set up a reconstruction bank to steer public seed capital into rebuilding projects that can attract hundreds of billions of dollars in private investment.” (FT, op cit)
The Privatization of Ukraine was launched in November 2022 in liaison with BlackRock’s consulting company McKinsey, a public relations firm which has largely been responsible for co-opting corrupt politicians and officials Worldwide not to mention scientists and intellectuals on behalf of powerful financial interests.
“The Kyiv government engaged BlackRock’s consulting arm in November to determine how best to attract that kind of capital, and then added JPMorgan in February. Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced last month that the country was working with the two financial groups and consultants at McKinsey.
BlackRock and Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy signed a Memorandum of Understanding in November 2023.
In late December 2022, president Zelensky and BlackRock’s CEO Larry Fink agreed on an investment strategy.
Careful Timing (See Timeline Below). The Prigozhin-Wagner “Failed Coup” (June 23-24, 2023) was initiated on the day following the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference in London hosted by the Kiev Regime and His Majesty’s Government on June 21-22, 2023. Is it a coincidence?
“The Ukraine Development Fund remains in the planning stages and is not expected to fully launch until the end of hostilities with Russia. But investors will have a preview this week at a London conference co-hosted by the British and Ukrainian governments.
The World Bank estimated in March that Ukraine would need $411bn to rebuild after the war, and recent Russian attacks have driven that figure higher.
No formal fundraising target has been set but people familiar with the discussions say the fund is seeking to raise low-cost capital from governments, donors and international financial institutions and leverage it to attract between five and 10 times as much private investment.
BlackRock and JPMorgan are donating their services, although the work will give them an early look at possible investments in the country. The assignment also deepens JPMorgan’s relationship with a longstanding client.
What Ukraine needed, BlackRock advised, was a development finance bank to find investment opportunities in sectors such as infrastructure, climate and agriculture and make them attractive to pension funds and other long-term investors and lenders. JPMorgan was brought in partly for its debt expertise.
… most investors want to wait for the end of hostilities. “The important part is that Ukraine is already thinking ahead,” Weiler said. “When the war is over, they’re going to want to be ready and start the rebuilding process immediately.” (FT, 19 June, 2023)....
All the major financial and political actors were in attendance at the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference in London.
Ukraine is in the stranglehold of Big Money. BlackRock and JPMorgan.
Destruction is the Driving Force behind “Reconstruction”.
Peace as well as “Cease Fires” are not “Good for Business”.
“Ukraine’s people desperately need a future based on welfare and peace, but in reality Ukraine is being driven towards the kind of huge indebtedness that leads to subservience and dominance.” (Bharat Dogra, Global Research, June 28, 2023)
The outcome is mass poverty and social devastation of an entire country, under the guise of “reconstruction”.
All the major financial and political actors were in attendance at the Ukraine Reconstruction Conference in London.
Ukraine is in the stranglehold of Big Money. BlackRock and JPMorgan.
Destruction is the Driving Force behind “Reconstruction”.
Peace as well as “Cease Fires” are not “Good for Business”.
“Ukraine’s people desperately need a future based on welfare and peace, but in reality Ukraine is being driven towards the kind of huge indebtedness that leads to subservience and dominance.” (Bharat Dogra, Global Research, June 28, 2023)
The outcome is mass poverty and social devastation of an entire country, under the guise of “reconstruction”.
According to Vitaliy Koval, in 2024 the Fund plans put up for privatization about a thousand objects that open up new opportunities for business. These assets will be auctioned, ensuring a fair and transparent process.
The transparent procedure coupled with rigged auctions are wrought with fraud and corruption. It’s akin to highway robbery:
He invited business to cooperate in searching for assets for privatization.
“We invite you to become Ambassadors in searching for assets for privatization.
Many cities, towns and villages have dormant assets during 10-15 years. We wait your proposals for privatization and do the best that the way to transparent auction will be the shortest,” said Vitaliy Koval. (State Property Fund of Ukraine).
Ukrainian oligarchs, amid the current deteriorating situation, have begun to sell Ukrainian assets, including fertile lands, in order to compensate for possible financial losses caused by the expansion of the combat zone and the loss of their territories. This is evidenced by the contacts of the top managers of the well-known NCH investment fund with major Middle Eastern businessmen on the issue of organizing the illegal export of more than 150 thousand tons of black soil – highly fertile soil typical of the Eurasian steppes – from the territory of Ukraine.
It is no secret that today, thanks to the efforts of Vladimir Zelensky, 17 million hectares of Ukrainian black soil already belong to the Western companies Monsanto, DuPont and Cargill. The remaining approximately 23 million hectares are formally in the process of being sold through the Development Fund of Ukraine, President Zelensky himself and other figures.
Of course, all these plans strongly depend on the military development of the conflict. For the oligarchs, there is still hope that the Ukrainian Armed Forces will hold their positions at the front while their bosses sell off the remaining lands… It is not by chance that Ukraine’s Western “allies” are shouting so painfully about the need for “victory” – with “victory”, in the language of the oligarchs, being only the time it takes to sell Ukraine’s remaining fertile lands.
It must also be remembered that Vladimir Zelensky has already concluded an agreement with BlackRock, the largest global asset management company, whose funds exceed the combined GDP of Germany and France. BlackRock is already managing the assets of the entire Ukraine: industry, real estate, land and subsoil – all of which are no longer Ukrainian. Furthermore, BlackRock will also control the funds from foreign loans to the Ukrainian treasury. The company is gradually becoming the “owner” of Ukraine – only paying a few crumbs to Zelensky and his elected oligarchy.
Many in the West believe that the so-called “Ukrainian State” may default by the end of the year. That is why the “Ukrainian Development Fund” was created, where, as if by chance, a certain Natalya Yaresko (a US citizen), Valeria Gontareva and billionaire Pinchuk were involved on the Ukrainian side.
Now the deceived Ukrainian people are fighting to the death for other people’s property, mistakenly considering it their own. They are losing hundreds of thousands of lives in battles and counteroffensives. These people do not yet know that Ukraine has already been sold out entirely.
At the same time, in the areas of Ukraine that are shrinking every day, the fact that at the June G7 meeting it was decided to issue Ukraine another tranche of $50 billion caused rejoicing. In fact, the process of allocating money was accompanied by a scandal: Ukrainian Finance Minister Sergey Marchenko, full of typical Ukrainian arrogance, said that Kiev had put forward its own conditions for receiving this money:
“We had several conditions. We must receive money this year, the money must be unconditional. And this money must be used for any purposes and expenses that Ukraine considers necessary.”
This reaction of the sponsors puts some Ukrainians in a good mood. They have probably already put the Americans and Europeans in eternal turmoil and think that the hundreds of billions of loans issued will not be repaid – just as they refused to repay the billion-dollar loan issued to them by Russia in 2013. However, this trick will not work on Western financial sharks – on the security of their dollars and euros, they have already received the right to use Ukrainian black soil and minerals.
So the most interesting things are just beginning for Ukraine. Kiev, which has voluntarily surrendered itself to be plundered by the descendants of the owners, will face the fate of Africa modeled on the 17th century.
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