Regarding Parubyi... I'm thinking maybe the guy who shot him wasn't acting entirely on his own. Parubyi was in cahoots with Poroshenko, Z's primary political opponent now that Zaluzhny has conveniently settled in the UK for the time being. Parubyi was also well known for his role in the Maidan coup - ha's a colored revolution expert. The NABU fiasco protests had Parubyi organizing them. So what I suspect is that someone in the Western powers that be decided to get rid of Zelensky and support Poroshenko in his place.
A possible alliance between Parubyi, Poroshenko and Zaluzhny (let's not forget his peculiar Vogue interview in which he pretty much put forward his own name for Z's armchair), backed by some - but not all! - Western intelligence agencies, would have used the NABU case as casus belli for the protests that Parubyi would have organized and conducted in a second Maidan to remove Zelensky. But Zelensky got wind of it through Budanov and his agents - very likely backed by some other Western intelligence agency - and panicked, attempting to neutralize the NABU first but having to step back after the EU pushback. The only possible move left was to neutralize the "queen" on the chessboard, Parubyi, as taking out Zaluzhny is out of his reach and Poroshenko would just be substituted for another oligarch (maybe Kolomoisky). But it had to have plausible deniability, so the usual trick by every intelligence agency ever was used: find a patsy with a personal grudge, groom him, use him and dispose of him. I guess we'll see in the next couple of weeks if the gunman "commits suicide" or suddenly disappears.
Thank You, Julian...
I lost my last working link to 'SF'...
And currently no time for deep digging...
Cassandra
"What you get from this event is that the Kiev Regime is not Ukraine— not even “Western Ukraine” - and DaUS is NOT America.....guess what it is.....
Excellent article! On point as always!!
Regarding Parubyi... I'm thinking maybe the guy who shot him wasn't acting entirely on his own. Parubyi was in cahoots with Poroshenko, Z's primary political opponent now that Zaluzhny has conveniently settled in the UK for the time being. Parubyi was also well known for his role in the Maidan coup - ha's a colored revolution expert. The NABU fiasco protests had Parubyi organizing them. So what I suspect is that someone in the Western powers that be decided to get rid of Zelensky and support Poroshenko in his place.
A possible alliance between Parubyi, Poroshenko and Zaluzhny (let's not forget his peculiar Vogue interview in which he pretty much put forward his own name for Z's armchair), backed by some - but not all! - Western intelligence agencies, would have used the NABU case as casus belli for the protests that Parubyi would have organized and conducted in a second Maidan to remove Zelensky. But Zelensky got wind of it through Budanov and his agents - very likely backed by some other Western intelligence agency - and panicked, attempting to neutralize the NABU first but having to step back after the EU pushback. The only possible move left was to neutralize the "queen" on the chessboard, Parubyi, as taking out Zaluzhny is out of his reach and Poroshenko would just be substituted for another oligarch (maybe Kolomoisky). But it had to have plausible deniability, so the usual trick by every intelligence agency ever was used: find a patsy with a personal grudge, groom him, use him and dispose of him. I guess we'll see in the next couple of weeks if the gunman "commits suicide" or suddenly disappears.