A Puzzling Purge in Kiev
This topic has hit the headlines in the Western mainstream media and then all of a sudden the story seems to have died down into a strange sounding silence as if the authors were magically issued commands from the same HQs.
When in the midst of the raging war i.e. the special military operation on the territory where the conflict is ongoing, there begins an all out though untimely campaign in all-guns-blazing style similar to that one ongoing in Ukraine right now under the feeble pretext of the alleged fight against corruption, when millions of people surely have other way more pressing issues to cope with, such as struggling to save their own lives and those of their family members, one has to assume that this is not an anti-corruption campaign at all but of another type of a (final) reckoning, for which corruption serves as a convenient smokescreen.
Moreover, this topic, funnily enough, has hit the headlines in the Western mainstream media and then all of a sudden the story seems to have died down into a strange sounding silence as if the authors were magically issued commands from the same HQs, only to remain silent up until the moment when they get to be issued another set of directives so as to what exactly to write and what political narrative to push in their journalistic columns or TV screens. One has to try and grasp that it is not just another petty local corruption scandal of no particular significance. There must be a mountain of more seriously sinister issues lying behind this seemingly miniscule political molehill other than just a negligible anti corruption campaign.
Of course there is a high level of corruption in Ukraine. We know that already in its staggering proportions at their all-time-high. Namely, the Guardian, London, UK, used to write ‘Welcome to Ukraine, the most corrupt nation in Europe’ back in 2015, immediately after all those ‘pro – European powers that be’ which arrived there after the infamous Kiev coup, the duty of which it was to get Ukraine in line with the NATO standards and eventually get it into the war against Russia shortly afterwards. With Biden most probably fraudulently coming to power after Donald Trump was viciously ousted from office in 2020, it became rather uncomfortable to talk about this plaguing issue in Ukraine. It might be because a fully-fledged business network was owned by Biden’s cocaine-addicted prodigal son, Hunter Biden, who, for what it’s worth, cheated on his own wife with his own dead brother’s widow.
Furthermore, an unexpected collapse of the FTX crypto exchange in autumn 2022, when its owner Sam Bankman-Fried, the U.S. Democratic Party second biggest financial donor after George Soros, having embezzled billions of dollars, hogged the headlines again with their intricately intertwisted channels of corruption in Ukraine. To cut this long Aesopian political fable short, this thirty year-old, highly corrupt U.S. Democratic Party donor used to be managing the financial aid for Ukraine in close corrupt cooperation with the regime there. The U.S. Fox TV reported that the funds allegedly donated for Ukraine were simply ‘recycled’ there (note to SCF readership: this sounds like a new euphemism for money laundering) and via the close cooperation with Kiev and the hefty complementary commissions (read: personal cash contributions for the most obedient Santa’s little helpers) ultimately were shovelled back in the form of a massive donation to the ruling Democratic Party in the U.S., which is surely illegal, and then it was somehow conveniently dropped out of the political limelight to let it vanish into the mainstream thin air.
And then again, all of a sudden with the resounding support from the U.S. mainstream media, which up until that moment used to keep shtum by producing a very loud noise pollution, an avalanche of resignations and political replacements, complete with almost Hollywood-style arrests of high profile Ukraine officials, as if only then did they become aware of it. In the past couple of weeks in a synchronized round of actions, a significant number of officials in high positions from Ukraine national customs office and the regional administrations were arrested. Arsen Avakov, who used to be Ukraine Minister of Internal Affairs until 2021, had his house raided and searched. According to the Wall Street Journal, he wielded a high level of power and influence and got under the public gaze in January 2023 again because his successor, Denis Monastyrsky died in a helicopter crash this January together with a helicopter full of his fellow officials, which has not seen any further official clarification ever since. Six officials of the Ministry of Defence were also arrested among whom are two minister deputies and one advisor, who are charged with apparently embezzling exorbitant sums of 43 million euros from the national military budget.
One could have seen the next thing coming, when David Arakhamia, the boss of the parliamentary delegates of President Zelensky’s party ‘Servant of the People’, the replacement of the Defense Minister Aleksey Reznikov with the announcement to follow that Kirill Budanov, major general, the chief of the Main Directorate of the Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence, will fill his position. This did not come as a surprise either because his glitzy image for the gullible public has been the hard work for a while now by both Washington Post and New York Times so it is obvious who he is being conveniently positioned by in this almost perfect political vacancy.
Bloomberg reports in a matter of one day, that the current minister Resnikov will not be replaced after all, with an absolutely meaningless explanation given, that that move would endanger Ukraine’s war efforts as if their military plight so far has not been tragic enough already. What might have happened between Sunday and Monday to change this major decision remains unknown, yet it is rather certain that Reznikov must have very powerful patrons if in effect, the Collective Biden have failed to replace him and to position Budanov in his place.
Certain Russian sources seem to suggest their possible explanations that the intriguing reasons behind this might be that the British and the Americans are at each others’ political throats heavily embroiled in their own turf wars so as to ensure their respective territories in Kiev at large, once the war is over. Another intriguing detail should be taken into account. There was a raid and a search of the house of the oligarch Ihor Kolomoysky, the oligarch inventor of Vladimir Zelensky, whom Kolomoysky had to distance personally from, when Washington put his name under the sanctions last year as well. This is yet another indicator of the most savage power games happening there. Zelensky stripped Kolomoysky of his Ukrainian citizenship for the same reason, but this oligarch financier of neo-Nazi battalions, such as Azov, happens to be an Israeli passport holder as well.
This whole succession of events is becoming ever more intricate. In the midst of it all, Naftali Bennett, the former PM of Israel comes out in public with a lengthy interview to confirm that he was the mediator between Kiev and Moscow at the very beginning of the Russian special military operation and that they almost reached a peace agreement, which would have saved tens of thousands of lives and would have saved the country from complete collapse but Washington and the Collective West regrettably sabotaged the whole deal. Bennet goes on to depict Zelensky as a braggart puppet hiding away in a bunker up until the PM of Israel informed him that Vladimir Putin has no intention of ‘doing away’ with him. Only then was Zelensky brave enough to stick his cowardly nose out of his bunker only to say that he ‘ain’t afraid of anybody and anything’.
We are yet to see who might be behind this sudden political purge in Kiev and what its objectives might be. The roles of USA, UK and Israel in all this depredation will most probably be savagely crucial.
