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UKRAINE: If you follow the money, you realize war was inevitable.
Today, I learned a new word – inviolate. It means to be “not corrupted, defiled, or profaned; chaste; pure” according to Wordnik which aggregates the meaning of words from various dictionaries. I heard it from President Joe Biden’s Deputy National Security Advisor Johnathan Finer on CNN (of all places) when he explained to why Americans should care about Ukraine. He said, and I quote…
…borders should be inviolate …sovereignty should be respected.
When I heard him say that I thought I did not hear him correctly. How could he say that when the American southern border is practically non-existent due to all the illegal immigrants encouraged to cross by the Biden administration? Law Enforcement Today reported that over 2 million migrants illegally entered the United States in 2021 alone. So, where was the talk of chaste borders from the Biden administration then or now? But just in case you think I am making it up, check out the video below.
Sigh.
I am no expert on Ukraine and the politics between them and Russia. However, I am highly skeptical of how American interests intersect. On the other hand, I see how the personal interests of politicians are at play. At its core, the catalyst of Russian aggression is this: Ukraine wants to be a member of NATO and Russia does not want them to be. Republic World explained it this way…
Notably, Ukraine is a former Soviet republic and shares a border with Russia and the European Union. Though Ukraine is not a member of the intergovernmental military alliance, it is a “partner country”. According to NATO, if a county is not “an alliance” but “a partner”, it means that the country can join the group in the future. It is to be noted that Russia wants Ukraine to never join the alliance and therefore it is now seeking assurance from the Western powers.
On the other hand, the United States — which is also a member of NATO — stands in support of Ukraine saying, “it is a sovereign nation and therefore it is the right of Kyiv to decide on its own security alliances.”
Earlier, there were some reports stating “Ukraine does not want to join the NATO alliance and it was the Western countries which are forcing it to join. However, a spokesman for Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed such media reports and asserted that “Ukraine remains committed to its aspirations to join the alliance and the European Union as set out in its constitution.”
On the other hand, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “Western powers are using the alliance to surround Russia,” as reported by BBC. As per the report, President Putin wants NATO to cease its military activities in eastern Europe.
Sooo… If Ukraine’s entry into NATO means a war and a BIG destabilization in Europe then, why wouldn’t the United States (continue to) say (basically), “Ukraine we love you, but its not a good idea. No NATO for you.” Such was the posture in the last administration and as far back as 1991 when Ukraine gained its full independence. So what happened? Why the change now? There is great speculation that it comes down to money. Let’s consider the evidence, as circumstantial as it is. #Sarcasm
Joe Biden and Hunter Biden fly to Ukraine on Air Force 2. Afterwards, Hunter gets a job with Burisma of which he is woefully unqualified for but gets an extraordinary amount of money because of it ($1,000,000.00 annually). Joe Biden explains that nothing about the Burisma deal was fishy at all in the video below. The interviewer is rightfully curious as to what Ukraine was really getting with the employment of Hunter Biden. (Just as any other rational person would.)
It seems that certain Ukrainian authorities were wondering what was up between Burisma and the Bidens as well and launched an investigation into the matter. Joe Biden hears about it and has Ukraine fire the prosecutor who was looking into it. Joe Biden later bragged about it openly.
To be fair, it was not only Joe Biden trying to stop the prosecutor from doing his job. John Kerry and Obama played a role in it too. Kerry explains this quite passionately in the video below.
But I digress.
The open secret in DC, it seems, is that Ukraine is a big money laundering operation for certain elites and has been for awhile. Rudy Giuliani has been on that bandwagon for awhile now. Have you heard about it in the mainstream media? I doubt it. Here is one clip where he talks about it with Glenn Beck in 2019.
And here is another one from 2020 where he goes into more detail.
After hearing that, I did a bit more digging. (Here I go down the rabbit hole.) And I stumble across several connections between political families and Ukraine energy companies. For example, Nancy Pelosi’s son – Paul Pelosi has been investigated by the FBI for his dealings. The mainstream media has been silent about it but One America News Network (OANN) reported it. Check out the video below.
OANN also pointed out Adam Schiff’s questionable deals with Ukraine which the mainstream media also seemed to gloss over.
#MoveOnNothingToSeeHere
And while it may seem that the politicians connected to corrupt Ukraine dealings are all Democrat, I assure you they are not. Consider this quote from The Federalist.
As Democrats and the media remain fanatically obsessed with assembling some form of a “quid pro quo” from the infamous Trump-Zelensky phone call, new details have emerged regarding Burisma, the company for which Hunter Biden worked and the company that Ukraine’s top prosecutor had been investigating before Vice President Joe Biden had the prosecutor fired via a months-long pressure campaign. According to web archives, top Mitt Romney adviser Joseph Cofer Black, who publicly goes by “Cofer Black,” joined Burisma’s board of directors while Hunter Biden was also serving on the board.
According to The New Yorker, Hunter joined Burisma’s board in April of 2014 and remained on it until he declined to renew his position this past May. Meanwhile, according to Burisma’s website, Black was appointed in February of 2017 and continues to serve on its board. The timelines would indicate that Black and Biden worked together at Burisma, and indeed, web archives from late 2017 show Black and Biden listed simultaneously on the board.
The point in my sharing all of this is simple. The mainstream media is putting all the attention on Russia’s President – Vladimir Putin and that makes sense. Yet, they seem more than willing to ignore how we got here. Much of it is tied to Putin, of course. But there are other reasons that are worthy of further investigative reporting.
Maybe, just maybe, some corrupt Ukrainian companies paid a lot of money to several US politicians for favors and corrupt dealings and when they demanded a return on their investments (getting into NATO) things spiraled out of control and war broke out.
Just a thought.
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