Before the Russian invasion, CIA reports linked him to an oligarch so dirty and so mired in “significant corruption” that the State Department banned him from entering the U.S. But now CIA propaganda portrays Zelensky as nobler than Winston Churchill and saintlier than Mother Theresa. Will the Real Volodymyr Zelensky Please Stand Up * In…
Back on June 1st, I noted that Ukraine couldn’t possibly absorb more than $54 billion in U.S. aid, most of it related to weaponry and munitions, given the country’s lack of infrastructure as well as the chaos inherent to a shooting war. As I wrote back then: The entire defense budget of Ukraine before the…
Before looking at Ukraine’s government warrants, which gives the game away to anyone with even a rudimentary financial or mathematical background, let’s just quickly survey Kiev’s empty coffers. Zelensky’s Ukrainian money laundering scam might well outrank the Dutch tulip mania scam, the Florida Swampland scam and the South Sea Bubble as the greatest scam in…
From the point of ignitionTo the final driveThe point of the journeyIs not to arriveAnything can happen — Rush, Prime Mover Sometimes I wake up in the morning and feel like I’ve got the cheat codes to the world, that, like Neo in The Matrix, I can see the code behind the world they parade…
“I was into pain reduction and mind expansion, but what I’ve ended up with is pain expansion and mind reduction. Everything hurts now, and nothing makes sense.“ — Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge So, Davos finally got the mini-me version of Build Back Better through a deeply divided Senate over the weekend. It’s a…
On the relationship between President Zelensky, Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky and Washington DC In February 2021, by order of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine shut down three domestic television channels, accusing them of spreading Russian “propaganda.” Three months later, Zelenksky arrested Viktor Medvedchuk, who was at the time leading the second-biggest party in Ukraine’s national parliament, the…
