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What’s next for Ukraine? Kyiv readies counteroffensive to push out Putin’s forces
NY Post ^ | 05/19/2023 | Snejana Farberov

Posted on 05/19/2023 6:47:26 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ansel12

The US corruption problem is concentrated at the top of the social system. It’s not the petty corruption that is more obviously visible and noted in surveys, on which these rankings are based.

One has to get into econometrics to estimate the “corruption tax” burden.


21 posted on 05/19/2023 8:11:02 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: dominusobiscum

What was your previous screen name?


22 posted on 05/19/2023 8:16:28 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: buwaya

So you made it up.


23 posted on 05/19/2023 8:18:05 AM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The BEST Ukrainian/Intelligence/WEF 
propaganda to get Zeepers through the day!

24 posted on 05/19/2023 8:18:11 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: JonPreston

Reanimator


25 posted on 05/19/2023 8:18:20 AM PDT by dominusobiscum (A Christians true heart can be revealed by how they treat others anonymously on discussion forums.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

26 posted on 05/19/2023 8:18:52 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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To: dominusobiscum

What was your previous screen name?


27 posted on 05/19/2023 8:19:56 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Cant admit your genocide is nonsense can you?

How does a mind like that tick?


28 posted on 05/19/2023 8:21:14 AM PDT by dominusobiscum (A Christians true heart can be revealed by how they treat others anonymously on discussion forums.)
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To: dominusobiscum

What was your previous screen name?


29 posted on 05/19/2023 8:22:38 AM PDT by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: JonPreston

Anything you want it to be friend.

You remind of a relative who insisted the holocaust didnt happen. So I simply asked well where did these missing million go?

Storms off in a huff. The pride overtakes everything. Thats why it probably the worst sin. Its the root of a lot of evil. Look at Putin,too prideful to admit to the cluster he created, so people must die.


30 posted on 05/19/2023 8:27:34 AM PDT by dominusobiscum (A Christians true heart can be revealed by how they treat others anonymously on discussion forums.)
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To: buwaya
Ukraine certainly isn't “the Democrats money laundering machine”.

The FTX failure and scandal which had Ukrainian connections and Hunter Biden's laptop are just two examples that drive a stake through your uninformed blathering...

Foreign political funding in the US, based on numerous investigations,

Investigations like the one that Biden stopped by threatening to withhold a $Billion dollars in aid? The Ukraine has an unbelievably corrupt government that has been the recipient of $Hundreds of Billions of taxpayer funds, a percentage of which have made it back into the pockets of Democrat and deep state politicians and their families. That is called “money laundering” poindxter.

31 posted on 05/19/2023 9:05:25 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: buwaya
The “cancer that is Ukraine” is a creation of US politics, not an objective reality.

Only if you ignore the facts, and the many people involved.

32 posted on 05/19/2023 9:09:27 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: fireman15

Investigations which have already turned up about 10x the Burisima payoffs to the Biden family, but from Chinese and Romanian sources -

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/politics/comer-bank-records-biden-family-members-payments-foreign-entities/index.html

Add the known Russian payoff via the Mayor of Moscows wife.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/17/hunter-bidens-real-estate-firm-received-over-100m-from-russian-oligarch/

Ukraine is just one known case out of a larger number of other known cases, out of what is probably a large number of other cases not yet reported.


33 posted on 05/19/2023 9:15:11 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: PGR88

There are lots of facts.

The bigger fact is that the US political system is on the take, and they take from everyone. Ukraine isn’t special. Its one small source of grift in a world that’s full of people willing to pay for US government favors.

As in https://nypost.com/2022/10/17/hunter-bidens-real-estate-firm-received-over-100m-from-russian-oligarch/

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/10/politics/comer-bank-records-biden-family-members-payments-foreign-entities/index.html


34 posted on 05/19/2023 9:19:05 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: fireman15

Hunter Bidens laptop lists lots of contacts with foreign entities, mostly Chinese.


35 posted on 05/19/2023 9:21:11 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya

You are standing on the corner while a gang of criminals is robbing and killing a bus load of senior citizens and you are calling 911 about a car that didn’t come to a complete stop when making a free right.

Countless of $Billions of dollars have been going to Ukraine with what can be charitably described as no accountability... You somehow have not realized that the foxes are guarding the henhouse.

Dinesh D’Souza makes a $10,000 contribution to a failing political campaign and he gets sent to prison. $Millions from FTX go to Democrat and Deep State politicians and basically nothing happens to the people who fleeced $Billions from the taxpayers and investors. Are the politicians giving the money back? No, sorry!


36 posted on 05/19/2023 9:52:30 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: buwaya

And yes, the Chinese are the biggest threat to our future. But this has nothing to do with the Shenanigans that have been going on in Ukraine...


37 posted on 05/19/2023 9:54:30 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: fireman15

The Chinese are the largest source of foreign-sourced political payoffs, right now.

This system of corruption is all of a piece, and in this context Ukraine is just one part of a vastly larger whole.

Perspective is a necessary thing.


38 posted on 05/19/2023 10:22:10 AM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: buwaya
Perspective is a necessary thing.

No one really knows the extent of corruption around the world. And lack of perspective is what I was trying to point out with the analogy that I provided.

39 posted on 05/19/2023 10:27:31 AM PDT by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: janetjanet998

Russia has been very restrained but that’s ending

They fell for negotiations talk early

Been grinding it out since

It benefits them to go slow

Ukraine gets chewed up to the point all our money

What actually gets to the Uke forces simply won’t matter


40 posted on 05/19/2023 10:39:47 AM PDT by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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