Posted on 06/18/2022 3:30:33 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
What General Marchenko said was the Crimean bridge was a priority target. He did not say Ukraine was going to use the MLRS systems they get on it. Ukraine is not getting missiles that could reach any part of the bridge from the territory they hold. Cluster munitions will not destroy the bridge, neither will a few hits from 500 lb. bombs. Even if they did get the ATACMS, there isn’t much Ukrainian held territory in range and Russian can figure out likely launch areas. Ukraine has more important targets for the MLRS than a target they can’t hit or destroy with weapons they are not getting.
Because you haven't yet established that Putin is funnelling payments through Zlochevsky and Burisma for *anything*.
What reason did Zlochevsky have to pay Biden on his own initiative? Burisma’s operations don’t involve anything in the US.
There's a lot of things that don't involve the US that Americans nonetheless get involved with regardless. What interest did America have specifically in getting Victor Shokin fired?
But I can think of a much simpler reason: given that Joe Biden had a major role in America's Ukrainian policy as of 2014 (openly speaking about how "the United States [was] a driving force behind the IMF, working to provide a multi-billion package to help Ukraine address [their] immediate needs", Zlochevsky had a vested interest in getting someone in his corner given the ongoing money laundering investigation against him. Hiring Hunter Biden to the tune of $50K a month so that Hunter could help Burisma with "corporate governance best practices" would be a small price to pay if it meant the corruption investigations against him went nowhere; given that no charges were filed against him in December 2017 (with Zlochevsky returning in February 2018), it must have seemed a worthwhile investment at the start. Only after the Solomyansky District Court overturned the prior decision to close the criminal proceedings against Zlochevsky did he once again flee the country again at some point after June 2018 (allegedly Monaco, according to most reports that I can see).
No need to invoke unsubstantiated data to craft a "Putin controls Burisma" narrative; an explanation can be established already with just the known facts without invoking 'Putin hypotheticals' whatsoever.
Note that Putin paid Hillary $500K through Russian oligarchs, so it’s not like bribing American bigwigs is a foreign concept to him
Yeah, through *Russian* oligarchs. Not Ukrainians.
All of the rest of your post is special pleading: giving reasons as to why, hypothetically, no one has investigated the link between Putin and Burisma, when the only person suggesting that there is in fact a connection is you.
Because if Putin did have the inside link to Burisma that you think he does, then why would GRU have allegedly bothered hacking into Burisma's to get whatever information they had in November 2019?
Leftist games have had to be played for political optics enrichment, and survival in DC, the EU, Beijing, and Moscow.
Human life is literally of no more value than livestock to any leftist, so death due to totalitarian gain is perfectly acceptable and calculated.
Historocally, the Clinton, Obama, and Biden puppet continuum has been squirrely behind Putin since the beginning, and on nearly every level.
There is no difference today, other than the need for greater smoke and mirrors.
Baselines are grossly in favor of RU proper (not even counting RU’s subordinate CIS)
— RU is 34 times larger than UA not counting coastline. — RU is the largest nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons power in the world.
— RU is the single largest provider of energy to both the EU and Russia’s economic and defense axis partner China (since 2009).
— Witb the exception of Trumps presidency, NATO is significantly weaker today than at any point in its history.
— No nations bordering RU have joined NATO since 2004
— At no time or geographic point during the formal Cold War I was there more than 150 meters between the CCCP and NATO.
— Bottom line, UA pulled out of their subordination to Moscow controlled CIS in 2012, as despite all the “DCM” carried out by Moscow and DC, they desired to no longer be subordinate to RU.
— With NATO weaker and more compromised by Berlin/Moscow than at any point excluding Trump, Putin invaded UA under Biden, just as he did under Obama.
Etc -
Etc -
“The Ukies are toast...”
Because the Clinton, Obama, and Biden leftists puppet continuum has been strengthening and reinforcing the Rubes in the Kremlin since the beginning of 1993, including since the second week of the global leftist installed fraud puppet Biden.
And there is literally a library of info precisely to this end -
He actually said the bridge was his #1 target:
Asked if the Kerch Bridge would be one of the targets after the Ukrainian military received the promised weapons, Marchenko said: “Yes, it’s 100%. It’s not a secret either for their military or for our military. Not for their civilians, not for our civilians. This will be the number one target to defeat,” he said.
According to him, “we, as it were, should simply cut off the main gut of pulling up reserves. As soon as this gut is cut off, they will start to panic.”
“And believe me: those who ran in Simferopol and Crimea with Russian flags, they will quickly get Ukrainian ones and will run with Ukrainian ones. Well, because, unfortunately, the population there is like that,” Marchenko said.
It should be noted that through the bridge, in particular, the Russian Federation is transferring its troops and equipment to the territory of Crimea and then to the south of Ukraine.
On April 20, Alexei Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said that if the opportunity arises, the bridge over the Kerch Strait, which Russia built after the occupation of Crimea, would be struck.
https://odessa-journal.com/general-marchenko-kerch-bridge-is-the-military-target-number-one/
“Ukraine is not getting missiles that could reach any part of the bridge from the territory they hold.”
That’s right!
And these statements help explain the US decision not to give them weapons that could reach it.
And why the US “doesn’t trust” Ukraine not to hit Russian targets...
They could have given them rocket with triple the range using this same system, but declined to do so.
While by far not a stand alone, Burisma is factually derivative of the Kremlin.
The middle man at the top of Burisma is directly and redundantly tied to the Kremlin for decades.
Ukraine ping
[But I can think of a much simpler reason: given that Joe Biden had a major role in America’s Ukrainian policy as of 2014 (openly speaking about how “the United States [was] a driving force behind the IMF, working to provide a multi-billion package to help Ukraine address [their] immediate needs”, Zlochevsky had a vested interest in getting someone in his corner given the ongoing money laundering investigation against him. Hiring Hunter Biden to the tune of $50K a month so that Hunter could help Burisma with “corporate governance best practices” would be a small price to pay if it meant the corruption investigations against him went nowhere; given that no charges were filed against him in December 2017 (with Zlochevsky returning in February 2018), it must have seemed a worthwhile investment at the start. Only after the Solomyansky District Court overturned the prior decision to close the criminal proceedings against Zlochevsky did he once again flee the country again at some point after June 2018 (allegedly Monaco, according to most reports that I can see).
No need to invoke unsubstantiated data to craft a “Putin controls Burisma” narrative; an explanation can be established already with just the known facts without invoking ‘Putin hypotheticals’ whatsoever. ]
More important, the media doesn’t have the resources to go after this story. Putin has had entire families killed. Putin is a genuine stone killer, not the made-up one some have alleged Hillary to be. What reporter or newsroom editor wants to look over his shoulder for the rest of his life? What leaker does?
Exemplary violence works. Think of Putin as a Mafia don with unlimited resources and reach. And the ability to get his button men out of the country in a diplomatic pouch.
“The Ukraine is NOT America’s friend. It is also not our problem, and neither are its problems ours.”
Agree 1000%!
We have idiots running our country, with 200 agendas. Utter chaos.
And I don’t give a crap about Ukraine, nor Russia.
Stay out!!!
Why ask why?
Isn’t it kind of late to be working in Moscow?
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I have worked lived visited all involved in this regional conflict- seen all sides which gives me a unique perspective- called discernment.
The Sanctions are Suicide for the west as we are witnessing. Vlads economy is growing stronger, flushed with billions of $, he cares for his citizens ( isn’t that novel), he just lowered interest rates, $3 a gallon gas in Russia, their GDP rising, the west’s tanking, they are in need of nothing, gas, diesel, food, grain, NG, metals, commodities….
“Burisma is a private Ukrainian company headquartered in Kiev and owned by a Ukrainian oligarch. What does Putin have to do with it?”
Putin is everywhereeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...
well thanks for putting together that ping list,
at least we know who the paid trolls are.
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