Quote (ofthevoid @ Oct 22 2020 08:11am)
lol
Pretty much every politician/person with power in eastern Europe is corrupt. Why is a top American politician so concerned with this one specifically.
well, i may have mixed up viktors.
but given that the 1bn$ withholding visit was Biden's 6th visit to the country, in a long line of visits in line with the Annexation of Crimea, and post Annexation it was a mess of find the ruskie kill the ruskie, a mess that was moving really slow, i'd say he wanted to grease the wheels.
his visits and efforts in Ukraine seem to predate Hunter even being hired to the board of Burisma.
did people forget that Crimea was a big deal? that it was a flashpoint in Russian expansion that many people thought might bring a softer new cold war era of expansion around Russia's borders? it caused NATO controversies in the Balkans due to what they felt was a lack of protection. Etc.
On the whole, my uneducated guess would be that Biden was working in Ukraine pre-Hunter/Burisma hiring. it was moving slow from 2009-2014. Crimea happens both due to the people there being ethnically Russian and a growing sense the Ukrainian govt is shifting away from Russia. This then speeds up the wants of anti-Russia Ukrainian officials, who are also connected to Oligarchs or Oligarchs themselves, to want to speed up the exodus of pro-Russian officials. Perhaps at the near top of this list is the country's prosecutor, who can selectively investigate new oligarchs and not investigate pro-Russian oligarchs. With control shifting the need to take back the justice system is dire during and after the Crimea crisis. Biden has been in the area already, but they think hiring Hunter will speed things up, and it very well may have.
the point i'd make is that its not as if Biden had no connections to Ukranian politics, showed up one day, shook them down, and bounced. what we're looking at here at best is an increase in his focus on the situation.
and overall its the reason u dont want to get too involved in Eastern European politics, like u said everyone is corrupt, everyone is connected to Oligarchs, etc. They're just white middle easterners.
Quote (Skinned @ Oct 22 2020 08:19am)
correct i had the wrong Viktor in the crimes i listed, was confused because the 2 viktors are connected. in any case....
This post was edited by thesnipa on Oct 22 2020 07:23am