re: Ukraine rocked by corruption scandal - Mass resignation of top officials.

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Zero Hedge: Mass Resignations - sports cars, mansions, luxury vacations

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Bought with the tax money from the makers in the U.S.A.!

How would you like to be the Ukrainian parent of a drafted kid and see this story?

Looks a lot like our govt's various Covid relief spending bills and handouts - except on a much smaller scale.

Greed and scams are the new norm.

And they are starting to tell some truths, at great personal risk.

Oleksii Arestovych "was" the number 2 guy there, until last week. He had this to say about what his impression of Russia's initial plan for the SMO to be.

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“They tried to wage a smart war… Such an elegant, beautiful, lightning-fast special operation, where polite people, without causing any damage to either a kitten or a child, eliminated the few who resisted. And they didn’t even eliminate them, but offered to surrender, switch sides, understand and etc. They didn’t want to kill anyone. Just sign the renunciation.”

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Greed and scams are the new norm.

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You might step back and look at history again with a bit more attention to detail.

I get your point - and agree... my bad

I’m kinda team Russia lately. Now that we know our money given to UKR can’t be properly audited, shall we just continue the insanity?

Just what I love my taxes going for. Our political classic just as corrupt as those clowns.

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They love globalism.

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Libertarians love free trade and free markets. They do not like government sponsored arms deals to foreign nations or interventionist foreign policy. Libertarians are somehow simultaneously isolationist and globalist depending on who is slandering them today.

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And separately, "the defense ministry had earlier announced the resignation of deputy minister Vyacheslav Shapovalov, who was in charge of the army's logistical support, on the heels of accusations it was signing food contracts at inflated prices." In this case regarding the food contracts, Shapovalov is accused of signing a deal with an unknown, shady firm. In his role as deputy defense minister, his is the most notable and visible resignation. Crucially he would have had no small part in overseeing the billions of dollars flowing from the pockets of US and European taxpayers as authorized defense aid. He purchased military rations at inflated prices in what appears a scheme to line the pockets of contractors, and potentially involving kickbacks to himself.

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