How Ukraine Turned From an Oligarchic Dominion Into a Colony of the West
January 1, 2022 Comments
The triumph and agony of Ukrainian oligarchs
The time of the Ukrainian oligarchs has passed. They supported the coup on Maidan in the hope that a stronger Russian business will not come to Ukraine within the framework of the Customs Union and take everything from them. Despite the signing of the association with the EU, which gave preferences to western companies, and severely restricted Ukrainian ones, Ukraine’s money bags still did not see a catastrophe. It is understandable: their president, the oligarch Poroshenko, manoeuvred with the dexterity of a thimble between almost unquestioning compliance with the political demands of the west (we now know this well from Derkach’s tapes) and enriching himself and his friends in various schemes: from “Ukroboronprom“ to “Rotterdam+“. The oligarchs were waiting for Zelensky’s arrival with even greater hope, because with a clown-puppet, it would be possible to free themselves from the pressure of a single oligarch and create rule of the seven boyars. But then there was a miscalculation, since the mega holding company “US Embassy” has now directly entered the arena of the robbery of Ukraine. The economic crisis, which was spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, resulted in 25 million American unemployed and the BLM riots. Therefore, American fat cats urgently needed additional money that can be taken, including from Ukraine, only now without paying for the services of oligarchs.
Back in the autumn of this year, BuzzFeed, a website associated with the US Democratic Party, leaked materials from FinCEN, a structure of the US Treasury Department that controls all dollar transactions in the world. From the disclosed data, it follows that the largest banks in the US and Europe for almost 20 years laundered more than $ 2trillion worldwide, including the capital of Ukrainian oligarchs Klyuev, Firtash, Kolomoisky, Poroshenko, Akhmetov, etc. It is no secret that all the new anti-corruption bodies in Ukraine (such as NABU or SAP) have only one goal ― to keep Ukrainian officials and related businesses under control by threatening criminal prosecution for withholding income in tax returns.
With the development of coronavirus oligarchic business crumbled. Metallurgical plants are making a loss, coal mines are being closed, because the “effective owners” of privatised Soviet enterprises have not invested practically a kopeck in the renewal of fixed assets for 30 years, and the outdated Ukrainian industry simply cannot compete with the same Chinese one. But western companies that are engaged in predatory export of grain and ore from Ukraine are covered in chocolate.
In general, the Procrustean bed of western integration, including competition with stronger players, began to weigh on the oligarchy, and it tried to throw off the yoke at least a little.
“Children” of Yanukovych,”nephews” of Poroshenko and “stepsons” of Soros
At the end of October, the Constitutional Court, whose judges Zelensky recently called “children” of Yanukovych and “nephews” of Poroshenko, abolished criminal liability for declaring false data and declared unconstitutional the appointment of the head of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) Artem Sytnik. The same anti-corruption Sytnik, who was found guilty of a corruption-related offence by the Rovno Court of Appeal in 2019. But Sytnik, who ensures Washington’s control over the Ukrainian authorities, did not leave, because no one could fire him. In particular, the Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska said that he did not know which branch of the Ukrainian government NABU belongs to. Of course, he does not know, because the office belongs to the American authorities, not Ukrainian.
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