Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

NO, THE USA HAD NO STRATEGIC INTEREST IN UKRAINE, BUT THE OLIGARCHS CERTAINLY DID.

—“Ukraine is corrupt but that is not the fault of Russia. Its Western puppet government is no better than Yanukovich’s. If anything, it is worse.”—-

Yeah?

Do you mean that the soviet system was not perpetuated by russian funding of ‘favorable tyrants’? Even after Putin said “We paid for them, we thought we had bought them.” But was totally off guard when the revolution happened? And so Putin panicked?

Do you mean, that when the oligarchs realized that Yanukovich was going to hand over the country to Russia, after Yanukovich ditched the EU deal, that they paid for the revolution, and put one of their own in power? After Russia has paid Yanukovich to bribe his way to re-election (I was offered 200uah to vote for him and I couldn’t even vote), and paid him to unfund and dismantle the military so that it would be easy for them to seize the country?

The oligarch’s clock is ticking and membership in the EU will force them out, but unlike Putin who will just kill them or take everything, the europeans will buy them off. The problem is that Russia is stalemating the EU by preserving the conflict.

So since I’m probably one of the more knowledgeable westerners in Ukraine maybe you should follow incentives rather than RT propaganda.

The USA did spend money to help pay for the costs of the revolution, but they were reluctant up until the last minute. I know. ‘Cause I was there.

So go be a russian troll or useful western idiot with someone stupid and ignorant enough to buy your regurgitated propaganda.

THE OLIGARCHS WERE AFRAID OF YANUKOVICH AND REPLACED HIM.

I dunno what is so freaking conspiratorial about the damned obviousness of it. teh govenrment owns 80% of the land in ukraine, and they sell it to foreigners for agrarian production. The oligarchs own nearly everything else, and have privatized as much of the commons as is possible. Why this wouldn’t happen regardless of american intervention is something only an idiot can’t understand. Follow the money. Follow the incentives.

The USA offered to do the one thing that would fix ukrainian corruption, and that was to pay the salaries of the judiciary, and thereby separate and create an independent judiciary that was monitored by westerners.

That would have fixed ukraine. But the president, the government and the oligarchs resisted it.

The soviet system remains until the people of ukraine kill enough politicians that they will kill enough olicarchs that they can use european money.

But here is what will happen: the euro is going to collapse in the next few years. Not long. This will create a profound depression in europe and force an alliance between Russia and Germany.

Ukraine has only two years of safety yet. And I doubt I am the only person on the planet to figure that out.