New corruption in Ukraine exposed.

 $100 MILLION, WHOSE MONEY WAS THIS?

LABLED THE MOST CORRUPT COUNTRY FOR A REASON

Yesterday it was revealed that the head of the Justice department and the energy department in Ukraine have been accused of graft and corruption to the tune of $100 million. I suspect that this is only the tip of the iceberg when in comes to corruption in Ukraine. Way before the present conflict, there have been reports of very fringy business in Ukraine, much of it illegal by international law.

Ukraine has been hoping for a nation status for centuries, it was always under the control of neighboring countries, Ukraine actually means borderland or frontier in Slavic languages. It has been part of Lithuania, Poland and of course, Russia and the Soviet Union. Sadly its hope of a nation state is now more dire than it needed to be.

The country is acknowledged to be very diverse in its culture, eastern Ukraine is culturally closely associated with Russia, western Ukraine with the west. During WW2 western Ukraine sided with Nazi Germany and fought against Russia. Many of the prison and camp guards were Ukrainian. After WW2 western intelligence agencies cultivated this fact to organize internal dissent against the Soviet Union.  The now godfather of Ukraine Stepan Bandera was a Ukrainian nationalist who cooperated with Nazi's in a hope of forming a Ukrainian nation. The Nazi's arrested him and sent him to prison, but was released in 1944. After the war he fled to Germany and was assassinated by KGB agents in 1959. He is revered in Ukraine for his hope of an independent nation state.

Corruption in Ukraine has been notorious, before this conflict it was understood to be a haven for internet servers that were available for rent to anyone who wanted to engage in activities illegal in their country.  Scammers and even political consultant groups used these servers to create some anonymity and avoid authorities in more organized legal countries.

We are all familiar with the pay-offs to Hunter Biden by Ukrainian energy companies and also scams laundering political funding for democrats. We can assume these activities were not isolated to any one party or even to just the United States. Much of this occurred before the country was at war.

Wartime it a prime time for all sorts of corruption to flourish, skimming of massive amounts of foreign money and chaos of war, make it all so easy. Then one must wonder what the CIA was doing in eastern Ukraine with dozens of Bio-labs that we can expect were not possible in the U.S. We have seen no effort to reveal what they were doing and why? Then there are the reports of organ selling from injured young Ukrainian soldiers and also other human trafficking.  We may or we may not ever understand the scope of this corruption even when this conflict ends. We can now expect the Russians will have some answers to these questions, of course, they will be easy to dismissed as Russian propaganda.

I suspect like most places there a lots of honorable and honest citizens in Ukraine, but it is clear that they have never had a government that was up to the standards of a law based system. Most Ukrainians wanted to remain unified and hoped for an independent country, it was demonstrated with votes for Yanukovych, who feared what would happen if the country sought NATO membership. Even Zelensky campaigned as an outsider who wanted to peacefully come to some sort of accommodation with Russia, that's how he won over the U.S. candidate, Poroshenko. It now appears the Zelensky was the MI6 candidate and the poor Ukrainians never had a real choice in their hope of an independent country. Their leaders have been bought and paid for by the western powers in their effort to dominate in this geopolitical game. 

The poor Ukrainians are now encouraged to keep fighting until none remain, to save the images of Lindsey Graham and John McCain and those other western leaders who gambled the future of Ukraine in their lust for the resources of Ukraine and Russia.

While the corruption in Ukraine is the focus of today, the complicity of U.S. and other western leaders in the tragedy of Ukraine, should not be minimized.