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'Many will agree with Kallas’s deep suspicion of the Kremlin and share her hopes for victory, reparations and for Putin to be brought to trial. But none of those things are, in practice, achievable – not least because Europe has consistently sent far more money to the Kremlin in payment for oil and gas than it has given to Kyiv to defend itself. The time for ideology is over. At this point many, maybe most, Ukrainians would prefer an unjust peace to a forever war.'
I agree about the need for an unjust peace now before the Russians take Odessa but I think the negotiations will drag out and Russia may take the Black Sea coast, alas.
I wish the Telegraph or other regime media mentioned Larry Johnson's allegations that Ukraine has has stolen fifty billion dollars and bribed foreign politicians with many millions of dollars, much laundered in Estonia.
He wonders if Miss Kallas knows.
Imagine choosing an Estonian to be head EU diplomat at a moment like this.
Her father was a right one. He was a Soviet apparatchik accused of much corruption after 1991.
Of course Johnson might be falling for a Russian deceit - but we know about a hundred million allegedly stolen by Zelensky's right hand man and probably much more than one billion has been stolen.
A journalist friend who lived in Estonia in 1992 reminded me yesterday that the secret services in the Baltic States are descended from the KGB and therefore very formidable.
Estonia holds many secrets.
This short clip of George Galloway is interesting.
ReplyDeleteLarry Johnson on Thursday night talking to Pascal Lottaz:
The corruption story has gotten legs and then the corruption issue is far far larger than just the hundred million that's been reported. It's it's in the billions: close to $50 billion out of 360 billion. Yeah. With a B. But the corruption issue is pushed by the Americans. The Americans control NABU. So this is this is the US side that says let's cut them off. We're starting to give the Ukrainians a little push over the cliff, you know, say, "Hey, come up here. Look at this." And then you give them a little shove and off they fall. I think the the realization for Trump's reading polls and there is not widespread support like there was four years ago for supporting Ukraine. In fact, the corruption story, I believe, in part is being put out there deliberately in order to help further muddy the waters because one of the things is not really widely known publicly, well not known is there are at least 23 members of Congress that have received millions of dollars. I know a particular Republican senator that got 16 to 17 million. a particular Democrat senator got 23 million.
So this is money that we gave to Zelensky, they went to the Ukrainians, then got diverted into banks up in the Baltics.
And, gee, I think we'll be shocked to discover that one uh foreign minister with the EU named Kaja Kallas may have had some actual financial incentives to be such an ardent supporter uh of Ukraine. uh you'll find that but this money was gone out to lubricate a variety of politicians on both the US side and European side.