The Skinny On Ukraine

There are a number of ways to look at the mess in Ukraine, but I believe this brief description by Anna Von Reitz is quite accurate:

Following Ukrainian independence in 1991, the Usual Suspects piled on.  It was like a gold rush.  Drug smuggling. Human trafficking.  Arms sales. Counterfeiting.  Organ harvesting.  Oil privateering. Every sordid nasty dirty business in the world was imported to Ukraine, by all the Agencies, the "US Corp", the DOD,  the Mobs of various nations, and associated corporations like Blackwater and Halliburton and on and on and on. All the Dirty Deal Guys showed up like gangbangers.

And everyone including Russia just shook their heads.  It was business as usual for the Ollie Norths of the world.

Predictably, some Ukrainian oligarchs floated to the top of the cesspit and became politicians.

The whole situation took an exponential leap downward during the Obama Administration, when Joe Biden and members of the US CONGRESS got involved in paying the oligarchs tons of helicopter money for their personal support on one hand, and taking billions out of the Ukrainian economy on the other.

It was just a shameless wholesale sell out of Ukraine and the people of Ukraine.  Their oil pillaged, their trade policies manipulated, their entire country opened up to every kind of vice, but the final straw was the DOD opening up over a dozen bioweapon laboratories in Ukraine.

You can read the rest @

http://www.paulstramer.net/2022/03/perfectly-lawful-and-legal-and.html

So, in addition to anything else it may do, supporting the Zelenskyy regime probably would lead to the restoration of the criminality mentioned above.

And that begs the question, are we fighting Russia to restore democracy or to bring back the Ukrainian oligarchs and preserve the "10 percent for the big guy"?