The writing is on the wall.
As the Russian advance continues inexorably west and south with UAF units abandoning Donbas for defense positions , and more desperate attempts at terrorist attacks against Russia, Zelensky’s position is increasingly untenable.
He looks to the future and sees a noose.
So, he’s trying hard to avoid a sorry end. Praying not to God in Heaven, but to the tin gods in London and Berlin and Paris and Washington.
He surely wants to run. But the Azovs won’t let him. They want him in place as a front man, which is all he ever was.
Most of all right now they want money because that brings power. At least the power to buy a way out.
But Ukraine is under increased scrutiny. The West is not only running out of weapons—but cash, too.
So Zelensky has been dismantling Ukraine’s U.S.-backed anti-corruption institutions, signing a law stripping the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office of their independence, placing them under the control of the Prosecutor General’s Office, an institution loyal to him and the shadowy, tattooed people behind him.
NABU, as it was called, under American pressure to track some of the unaccounted for millions of dollars that have mysterious disappeared somewhere, had opened corruption cases against members of Zelensky’s inner circle.
No, no, no The NeoNazis didn’t like that, so NABU detectives found themselves accused of treason and working for the Russians.
The Z regime decision came after NABU, originally established under Western pressure to ensure transparency, finally got around to opening numerous corruption cases against members of Zelensky’s inner circle, who are connected to the outer circle that controls him.
In Kiev, up to 1,000 people, headed by Mayor Klitschko, a vocal critic of Zelensky-- and Washington’s creature, therefore untouchable--gathered outside government buildings, chanting slogans
Maidan 2?
Will Zelensky get away this purge of NABU?
NABU was created by Biden and backed by the Democratic Party, so Trump is unlikely to object. It really hadn’t done much until just recently anyway.
It’s all part of a pattern.
A former Ukrainian official in Spain was found drowned in a swimming pool, with most people assuming he was targeted by Z’s goons. Earlier in Kiev police had found the body of a man Colonel Ivan Voronych of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) shot to death, also attributed to infighting in the regime.
Things are getting interesting. And bloody. (So what else is new?)
The trigger for all this seems to have been Trump’s 50-day ultimatum which has facilitated the power grab and the transfer of moneys from the Ukrainian national system to where they can be used by Zelensky and his backers before the demise of the regime. Everyone must realize that that 50 day window is meaningless. Thje Russian advance is just speeding up.
British and EU officials are of course silent. Ultimately, they don’t care one way or another.
Washington doesn’t care either. Ukraine is dead.
It’s all Biden’s fault.
The West doesn’t care about the region formerly known as Ukraine. It never did. It was always doomed to fail- or maybe we should day, just doomed . That was written on the wall, too.
Ichi and I ….
Here’s me taking a rest from the special article, now in the final stages, having finally found information that I needed, with Ichi reassuring me, as he always does.
To those who bought us coffee this week, many thanks. Also thanks for the many comments and messages. Maybe for the first time in my life I have a sense of community!
Someone (over at Moon of Alabama maybe?) pointed out that said "anti-corruption" agencies have always been extremely careful to not even come close to touching the Burisma case which involved the Biden family directly.
I may be the usual mistrusting asshole, but seems to me NABU et al, being directly controlled by the US embassy (so much for "independent agencies") were set up as a character assassination tool by the US neocons. By the way, I double checked, NABU is not Biden's creation but Obama's, it was established in 2014 right after the Maidan coup d'etat - no doubt as a political police to remove Yanukovic loyalists from their positions and keep local unruly oligarchs (anyone remembers Ihor Kolomoisky?) under control.
Anyway, yeah, sounds like Z's panicking. He must have been warned (by whom?) the NABU was coming after him and attacked first. Knives are out in Kyiv and a lot of "important" people won't live to see next month, I guess.
Excellent. Simplicius also wrote a huge piece on his Substack about a new Maïdan