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Originally Posted by DKM
Ukraine has bountiful resources, namely fertile soil with good growing conditions as well as iron, coal, manganese, titanium and yes gas. The problem is it has a bunch of ex soviets living there who want to reap the benefits through corrupt means.
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The "problem" is - the foreign corporations want that "fertile soil with good growing conditions" for themselves, with limited number of Ukrainians remaining to serve the corporate needs.
Another problem I see is that
no Ukrainian ( or Russian for this matter) ex-Soviet crook made his/her dirty money without American/Western help and involvement.
So at this point I am listening with a big curiosity about yet another scandal, that's unfolding in Poroshenko's team, including the Ukrainian owner of
Burisma, where Hunter Biden is happily sitting on the board of directors.
And since Ukrainians are "naming names" at this point, ( not just H. Biden, but John Kerry stepson Chris Heinz, plus their good buddy Devon Archer) so I had to do some cross-reference checks, and lo and behold... Here we go again;
"Inside the shady private equity firm run by Kerry and Biden's kids"
"Rather than set up shop in New York City, the financial capital of the world, Rosemont Seneca leased space in Washington, DC. They occupied an all-brick building on Wisconsin Avenue, the main thoroughfare of exclusive Georgetown. Their offices would be less than a mile from John and Teresa Kerry’s 23-room Georgetown mansion, and just two miles from both Joe Biden’s office in the White House and his residence at the Naval Observatory.Over the next seven years, as both Joe Biden and John Kerry negotiated sensitive and high-stakes deals with foreign governments, Rosemont entities secured a series of exclusive deals often with those same foreign governments.
Some of the deals they secured may remain hidden. These Rosemont entities are, after all, within a private equity firm and as such are not required to report or disclose their financial dealings publicly."
He-he.
But let's read on..
Biden's nepotism and Hypocrisy in Ukraine
"Cyprus:Haven for tainted Russian and Ukrainian money
Western consultants, lawyers and investment bankers were hired by
Burisma, not for their expertise on Ukraine or the gas sector—which none of them had—but to camouflage its corrupt origins and provide it with a glossier look. In other words, to launder its tattered image. As author Oliver Bullough
asked in The Guardian: “Hunter Biden is an undistinguished corporate lawyer, with no previous Ukraine experience. Why would a Ukrainian tycoon hire him?”
It would be duplicitous to deny there was a link between Biden and his son in Burisma. There cannot be any reason other than that his father was vice president as to why Hunter Biden was hired in April 2014, only two months after the success of the Euromaidan Revolution. Burisma needed to re-launch its image after its previous patron, kleptocrat Viktor Yanukovych, had fled to Russia.
Burisma’s owner, Zlochevsky, is no saint. Most people—other than Hunter and his team—have shied away from associating with him. It would be naïve to believe that Burisma experienced spurts of growth purely by coincidence while Zlochevsky was in office.
Founded in 2006 and registered in Cyprus—
a haven for tainted Russian and Ukrainian money—Burisma is the third largest gas producer in Ukraine, controlling a quarter of private gas production. Nevertheless, it is not viewed by the Ukrainian government as a legitimate gas company. Meanwhile, Burisma’s close ties to oligarch Igor Kolomoisky place it beyond the pale for President Poroshenko, who clashed with the tycoon after he brought
armed paramilitary thugs into downtown Kiev."
Another he-he.
You and your righteous indignation DKM...
It's a bit misplaced, don't you think?