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.
I've been doing some digging on this NABU thing, and aside from a long and quite interesting article about it by Simplicius I've read a Twitter/X post by a Ukrainian commentator also mentioned in Simplicius' article... and all kinds of red flags went up. Thing is, as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day, and in this case Zelensky's actually right (for all the wrong reasons). Said commentator is following the damage control plan laid out by Western media, painting NABU et al as honest fearless fighters against corruption, but occasionally some very inconvenient truths slip in between the cracks. For example, NABU was (until now) completely out of control not just of the Ukrainian government, but of Ukraine in its entirety. Its members are unelected, unaccountable, and chosen from candidates selected and proposed _by the EU only_ while retaining massive powers of indictment over any member of the Ukrainian state. It is pretty entertaining to read about this supposedly small, innocent, pure NGO allegedly rooting out hordes of Russian spies from the ranks of the almost omnipotent SBU. It may be the first time in history that a non-government anti-corruption civilian watchdog acts as military and civilian counterespionage. Oh, those silly Ukrainian secret service guys, they can't even catch the thousands of dastardly Russian spies in their midst without the help of the saintly European Union. Or, translated from the obligatory dumbspeak meant for the Western public of walnut-brained wankers, the US/EU decided to take down Budanov as well and started poisoning the wells. Commentator also points her well manicured finger at Syrsky and Podolyak, guilty of having relatives living in Russia. Putting all of this together, it is clear that the powers that be have started cleaning house and making scorched earth around Zelensky. It is plausible then, I think, that Z's been tipped off by Budanov's men in the NABU and both of them - and possibly Podolyak and Syrsky as well - decided for a pre-emptive strike.
Now that I think of it, I haven't noticed a single mention of anyone linked to the Nazi battalions, and that is very odd considering they're a major player in Ukrainian politics. If they had sided with Zelensky, they'd have been targeted by the PR machine by now; so either they sided with the US/EU or decided to sit this one out, probably bribed by the US. I guess we'll see what happens when the protests (right on time, waving plenty of signs oddly written in English) get worse as per color-revolution playbook, if the Nazis come down breaking heads on the government's or the protestors' side. Heck, at this point i wouldn't even be surprised if they pull an al-Jolani and put an actual "democratic" Nazi in charge.
Yes Julian you are right that Zelensky is not his own boss, but neither are his NAZI guardians.
When i look at what really HAPPENS and HAPPENED, what i call 'Sensing', i compare that with an old story or maybe myth, about the last King of the Roman (then still small) Empire, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, (Ruled 534 to 509 B.C., died. 495 B.C.).
Zelensky and his NAZI-guardians follow their Orders as Tentacle of the Monster about getting a victory over Russia, while losing each time more: (Putin in the role of Sibyl)
An old wise woman, a Cumaean (a Prophetess or Oracle) Sibyl, offered to Tarquinius nine books with valuable prophecies at an exorbitant price (some say they were from Greece and ancient).
The king declined to purchase them, then she burned three of the 9 books and offered the remaining six to Tarquinius at the same price, which he again refused.
Thereupon, she burned three more and repeated her offer, maintaining the same price.
Tarquinius then consulted the Augurs whose importance as priests and officials in ancient Rome and primary role was to interpret the will of the gods through the practice of augury, specifically by observing natural signs, most notably the flight and behavior of birds.
The Augurs deplored the loss of the six books and urged purchase of the remaining three.
Tarquinius then purchased the last three at the full original price, and had them preserved in a sacred vault beneath the Capitoline temple of Jupiter.
This indicates that not listening to wisdom is a bad path. I asked my magpie-friend this morning, who came to greet me before he went foraging on the fields, as he does often, and he agreed.
Hold on, everyone: seems like Zelensky just pulled, or is about to pull, a Yanukovic and signed his own death warrant by walking back on his NABU takeover. MoA puts it best: a strongman cannot show weakness and Z's just did, which is pretty much the equivalent of slashing his own arm open with a knife and then take a dive in a pool filled with rabid sharks.
(By the way, by "Yanukovic" I mean the incomprehensibly suicidal behavior of the last president of Ukraine pre-Maidan, who immediately folded at every demand put forward by the Maidan mob, up to and including the baffling decision of dissolving the Berkut riot police as demanded by the Nazi thugs. I remember following the situation almost in real time on the Saker website back then and even the Nazis themselves were baffled by how quickly and easily Yanukovic folded, even giving up more than the Nazis demanded first. A commenter said that it was like playing poker against someone who's clearly bluffing, believing his bluff, folding immediately and giving up their underwear as well)
Don't be silly, We go through this sad exercise every few months. Ukrainian discontent with Zelenskii surfaces, Simplicius and other wishful thinkers proclaim Cracks In The Narrative, and....nothing happens.
Zelenskii will remain president for as long as the Americans say he is president and will exercise whatever authority the Americans permit him to exercise. Zelenskii's standing with the Americans is higher than it has been for months. I am sure that he is dangling out all kinds of interesting tidbits about Young Hunter and his extracurricular activities as well as promises of looting to come, all to keep the Trump administration sweet.
If keeping power means shooting protesters in cold blood, rounding them up en masse and herding them towards the front to act as living minesweepers, or whatever, as long as the Americans are cool with that, that is all that matters.
These demos. were aimed at a western audience. This is the US working up opposition to Zelenskyy to get rid of him. They want a settlement to this war while still maintaining a foothold because they've been beaten on the battlefield. Zelenskyy is an obstacle. There is mass corruption in Ukraine which western media has steadfastly denied up til now BUT I haven't seen evidence directly involving Zelenskyy.
He is a fool but genuinely committed to defend Ukraine for patriotic and egotistical reasons. He has to go - and to do that he has first to be demonised otherwise he will be seen to be a martyr and will become harder to remove. Russia will sit back and watch what is going on - but they will understand, and the only way that the great Z can rescue the situation is by making a deal NOW. Zelenskyy will become a tragic figure. His demise began when he failed to stand up to the nationalists after he was elected and betrayed his election promises. The tens of thousands of dead Ukrainians are a direct result of his stupidity. He fell for the west's guarantees to stand with him for 'as long as it takes' not realising that they didn't have the resources to do it up against a determined peer rival. They made him a hero. He has lost - but now having made him a hero they have to destroy that myth as a precondition for getting rid of him. Let's see how clever he (and Putin) are.
A really clever move would be to agree to most of Russia's demands, declare peace, dig in and then attack the west for betrayal and (after Aristovitch) embrace fellow Slavs in Russia whilst at the same time paying tribute to the fighting spirit of those from Galicia (to give time to deal with them later)....The Prodigal Son is the best defence....but there is so much hate around it will probably not work, unless (as part of the agreement) he can get Poland/Hungary/Romania to take over the nationalist terriers in the west and leave a central 'new' Ukraine served by the port at Odessa.
The whole tragedy of Ukraine is by believing (after western models) your own propaganda. One thing you have to concede about Putin is that he is bright, clear as to the real material reasons for the conflict - and ruthless enough to elevate himself above his emotions. He's a pro. He can snog Trump at the same time as knowing that it is necessary only as a means to an end. That's the Soviet culture he came from....and it is essentially correct.
If a person thinks logically, he sees the connections, and therefore can write boldly in advance how the whole thing can end. It is sad, but at the same time liberating when we see that the things written are coming true. Above all, it frees us from haters, from those who held us captive in their dementias about the victory of the rotten West. I wish the West to be healthy, successful, but at least let it apologize for everything it has caused in the world, because I have not heard that apology yet.
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.
Thanks for the info on NABU being Obama's thing. That explains a lot.
I've been doing some digging on this NABU thing, and aside from a long and quite interesting article about it by Simplicius I've read a Twitter/X post by a Ukrainian commentator also mentioned in Simplicius' article... and all kinds of red flags went up. Thing is, as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day, and in this case Zelensky's actually right (for all the wrong reasons). Said commentator is following the damage control plan laid out by Western media, painting NABU et al as honest fearless fighters against corruption, but occasionally some very inconvenient truths slip in between the cracks. For example, NABU was (until now) completely out of control not just of the Ukrainian government, but of Ukraine in its entirety. Its members are unelected, unaccountable, and chosen from candidates selected and proposed _by the EU only_ while retaining massive powers of indictment over any member of the Ukrainian state. It is pretty entertaining to read about this supposedly small, innocent, pure NGO allegedly rooting out hordes of Russian spies from the ranks of the almost omnipotent SBU. It may be the first time in history that a non-government anti-corruption civilian watchdog acts as military and civilian counterespionage. Oh, those silly Ukrainian secret service guys, they can't even catch the thousands of dastardly Russian spies in their midst without the help of the saintly European Union. Or, translated from the obligatory dumbspeak meant for the Western public of walnut-brained wankers, the US/EU decided to take down Budanov as well and started poisoning the wells. Commentator also points her well manicured finger at Syrsky and Podolyak, guilty of having relatives living in Russia. Putting all of this together, it is clear that the powers that be have started cleaning house and making scorched earth around Zelensky. It is plausible then, I think, that Z's been tipped off by Budanov's men in the NABU and both of them - and possibly Podolyak and Syrsky as well - decided for a pre-emptive strike.
Now that I think of it, I haven't noticed a single mention of anyone linked to the Nazi battalions, and that is very odd considering they're a major player in Ukrainian politics. If they had sided with Zelensky, they'd have been targeted by the PR machine by now; so either they sided with the US/EU or decided to sit this one out, probably bribed by the US. I guess we'll see what happens when the protests (right on time, waving plenty of signs oddly written in English) get worse as per color-revolution playbook, if the Nazis come down breaking heads on the government's or the protestors' side. Heck, at this point i wouldn't even be surprised if they pull an al-Jolani and put an actual "democratic" Nazi in charge.
Excellent. Simplicius also wrote a huge piece on his Substack about a new Maïdan
Yes, his piece was huge. But over-complicated as usual. "Simplicius" has to change his name to Complexius.
He needs to change his tag line from "The Thinker" to "The Wishful Thinker".
Yes Julian you are right that Zelensky is not his own boss, but neither are his NAZI guardians.
When i look at what really HAPPENS and HAPPENED, what i call 'Sensing', i compare that with an old story or maybe myth, about the last King of the Roman (then still small) Empire, Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, (Ruled 534 to 509 B.C., died. 495 B.C.).
Zelensky and his NAZI-guardians follow their Orders as Tentacle of the Monster about getting a victory over Russia, while losing each time more: (Putin in the role of Sibyl)
An old wise woman, a Cumaean (a Prophetess or Oracle) Sibyl, offered to Tarquinius nine books with valuable prophecies at an exorbitant price (some say they were from Greece and ancient).
The king declined to purchase them, then she burned three of the 9 books and offered the remaining six to Tarquinius at the same price, which he again refused.
Thereupon, she burned three more and repeated her offer, maintaining the same price.
Tarquinius then consulted the Augurs whose importance as priests and officials in ancient Rome and primary role was to interpret the will of the gods through the practice of augury, specifically by observing natural signs, most notably the flight and behavior of birds.
The Augurs deplored the loss of the six books and urged purchase of the remaining three.
Tarquinius then purchased the last three at the full original price, and had them preserved in a sacred vault beneath the Capitoline temple of Jupiter.
->https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibylline_Books
This indicates that not listening to wisdom is a bad path. I asked my magpie-friend this morning, who came to greet me before he went foraging on the fields, as he does often, and he agreed.
So...
Just saying,
Cassandra
Hold on, everyone: seems like Zelensky just pulled, or is about to pull, a Yanukovic and signed his own death warrant by walking back on his NABU takeover. MoA puts it best: a strongman cannot show weakness and Z's just did, which is pretty much the equivalent of slashing his own arm open with a knife and then take a dive in a pool filled with rabid sharks.
(By the way, by "Yanukovic" I mean the incomprehensibly suicidal behavior of the last president of Ukraine pre-Maidan, who immediately folded at every demand put forward by the Maidan mob, up to and including the baffling decision of dissolving the Berkut riot police as demanded by the Nazi thugs. I remember following the situation almost in real time on the Saker website back then and even the Nazis themselves were baffled by how quickly and easily Yanukovic folded, even giving up more than the Nazis demanded first. A commenter said that it was like playing poker against someone who's clearly bluffing, believing his bluff, folding immediately and giving up their underwear as well)
Don't be silly, We go through this sad exercise every few months. Ukrainian discontent with Zelenskii surfaces, Simplicius and other wishful thinkers proclaim Cracks In The Narrative, and....nothing happens.
Zelenskii will remain president for as long as the Americans say he is president and will exercise whatever authority the Americans permit him to exercise. Zelenskii's standing with the Americans is higher than it has been for months. I am sure that he is dangling out all kinds of interesting tidbits about Young Hunter and his extracurricular activities as well as promises of looting to come, all to keep the Trump administration sweet.
If keeping power means shooting protesters in cold blood, rounding them up en masse and herding them towards the front to act as living minesweepers, or whatever, as long as the Americans are cool with that, that is all that matters.
These demos. were aimed at a western audience. This is the US working up opposition to Zelenskyy to get rid of him. They want a settlement to this war while still maintaining a foothold because they've been beaten on the battlefield. Zelenskyy is an obstacle. There is mass corruption in Ukraine which western media has steadfastly denied up til now BUT I haven't seen evidence directly involving Zelenskyy.
He is a fool but genuinely committed to defend Ukraine for patriotic and egotistical reasons. He has to go - and to do that he has first to be demonised otherwise he will be seen to be a martyr and will become harder to remove. Russia will sit back and watch what is going on - but they will understand, and the only way that the great Z can rescue the situation is by making a deal NOW. Zelenskyy will become a tragic figure. His demise began when he failed to stand up to the nationalists after he was elected and betrayed his election promises. The tens of thousands of dead Ukrainians are a direct result of his stupidity. He fell for the west's guarantees to stand with him for 'as long as it takes' not realising that they didn't have the resources to do it up against a determined peer rival. They made him a hero. He has lost - but now having made him a hero they have to destroy that myth as a precondition for getting rid of him. Let's see how clever he (and Putin) are.
A really clever move would be to agree to most of Russia's demands, declare peace, dig in and then attack the west for betrayal and (after Aristovitch) embrace fellow Slavs in Russia whilst at the same time paying tribute to the fighting spirit of those from Galicia (to give time to deal with them later)....The Prodigal Son is the best defence....but there is so much hate around it will probably not work, unless (as part of the agreement) he can get Poland/Hungary/Romania to take over the nationalist terriers in the west and leave a central 'new' Ukraine served by the port at Odessa.
The whole tragedy of Ukraine is by believing (after western models) your own propaganda. One thing you have to concede about Putin is that he is bright, clear as to the real material reasons for the conflict - and ruthless enough to elevate himself above his emotions. He's a pro. He can snog Trump at the same time as knowing that it is necessary only as a means to an end. That's the Soviet culture he came from....and it is essentially correct.
thanks for great reporting here!
If a person thinks logically, he sees the connections, and therefore can write boldly in advance how the whole thing can end. It is sad, but at the same time liberating when we see that the things written are coming true. Above all, it frees us from haters, from those who held us captive in their dementias about the victory of the rotten West. I wish the West to be healthy, successful, but at least let it apologize for everything it has caused in the world, because I have not heard that apology yet.
Hope to get special articles part 2 and 3
I just messaged you about this. Hope it solves the problem!
Apologies but do not recognise the screenshot you kindly sent. Could you send link to putin 2 and3 in email? Thank you