name me anyone in the Ukraine government that isn't considered corrupt? Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid
Is there anyone in Ukraine who ISN'T corrupt and doesn't just say whatever they think the person talking to them wants to hear, especially if that person looks like someone who might have mucho dinero in his pocket?Vitaly Kasko isn't in government and isn't corrupt. He was ideally placed as the deputy in the prosecutor's office responsible for asset recovery to know first hand that no action was being taken to pursue matters having to do with Burisma. (Hunter Biden was a director of Burisma.) Kasko resigned and became a whistleblower because of corruption and lawlessness in the prosecutor's office.
All I see are blurry shady shadowy creepsters everywhere. They almost seem interchangeable. The whole thing is giving me a headache!
Maybe someone can explain it to me after everyone gets their narratives straight. Or never. Originally Posted by lustylad
About the blurry, shady, shadowy creepsters, maybe this will help. Viktor Yanukovych was president of the Ukraine from 2010 until 2014, when he was removed as a result of a revolution and went into exile in Russia. Like many from eastern Ukraine, his sympathies lie with Russia.
Mykola Zlochevsky is a businessman who controls Burisma Holdings, a company that produces natural gas in the Ukraine. Zlochevsky was a minister in Yanukovych's cabinet. He's accused of stealing from the state owned natural gas producer, among other things. He's undoubtedly corrupt, and was (and probably still is) paying off politicians and bureaucrats. Again, Hunter Biden was a director of Burisma Holdings, his company.
Viktor Shokin is former Prosecutor General of Ukraine. After Yanukovych was overthrown, it was expected he would prosecute corrupt officials and businessman, particularly those who had ties to Yanukovych. That didn't happen. Furthermore, Shokin persecuted Ukrainian anti-corruption groups, and people in his department were arrested with stacks of cash they'd received as bribes. International pressure on Ukraine to kick out Shokin came not only from the USA, but also the European Union, the IMF, and others. Kasko, the only good guy in the cast of characters, says Shokin did not pursue investigations against Burisma and Zlochevsky. And Kasko is backed up by records from the prosecutors office.
The only scenario I can think of where you could pin blame on Joe Biden would be if Shokin was holding up Burisma, trying to get outrageous bribes, and so Joe Biden is enlisted to get rid of Shokin. This isn't backed up by the history on the U.S. end, given that the pressure on Ukraine to ditch Shokin originated in the State Department, not from Biden. The chances of Joe Biden having done something crooked here are about as great as the chances of Donald Trump having actively and directly colluded with the Russians to win the election. In other words, I think it's a ridiculous idea.