Yesterday we took a look at the sordid story of Sir Shabunin. Until recently, the USAID/Open Society Foundation-sponsored ‘anti-corruption activist’ was protected from the responsibility to fight at the frontlines. He, like other such ‘activists’, were protected by their patrons in the Democratic Party.
But unfortunately for the cause of Democracy, one senile boomer was replaced with another over in Washington at the start of this year. Mr Trump has quite the distaste for Ukrainian liberal thought-warriors like Shabunin.
And not simply for aesthetic reasons. Here’s a clue why. Shabunin and his fellow crew of embattled ‘anti-corruption warriors’ have been fixated on the leadership of the Bureau of Economic Security (BES). They have been enraged by Zelensky’s refusal to appoint a certain Oleksandr Tsyvinsky to head the anti-corruption organ. The ‘foreign experts’ who have decisive votes in choosing such officials cast their lot for Tsyvinsky to head BES, though the Ukrainian cabinet prevented him from assuming the position on July 7.
But who is Tsyvinsky, and how is he related to Trump?
Well, the Ukrainian publication strana.ua cites its sources in law enforcement (strana is allied with the most long-lived sections of the Ukrainian deep state), who claim that Tsyvinsky took part in the fabrication of the Manafort saga - ‘Russiagate’ - back in 2016.
This is not very difficult to believe, since Tsyvinsky was at the time head of the second department of NABU detectives. The NABU (National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine) is an organ set up in 2015 on the money and urging of USAID and the Open Society Foundation. I wrote here in detail about the major role the NABU played in the Manafort saga at the beck and call of its Democrat benefactors. It was Tsyvinsky’s department that was involved in ‘releasing’ the materials related to Paul Manafort.
Back then, the aim was to tar Trump as a Russian agent, thereby forestalling any possible rapprochement between Moscow and Washington. Luckily for the likes of Shabunin, Tsyvinsky, and the Democrats, they succeeded, and Ukraine is now a large scale testing ground for western weapons. A great win for democracy.
Unfortunately, with Zelensky on the offensive against the great Shabunin, democracy is now in mortal threat. Given the lack of response from western capitals, it could even be said to be dying in darkness.
Though I must say, Shabunin seems quite far from the ‘physical liquidation’ he constantly accuses Zelensky of planning. He still found the time, for instance, to talk to Ukrainska Pravda reporters for an hour today. I tried to listen to the whole thing, but I’ll be honest, sometimes a mental health break is necessary.
In any case, why has the Office of the President decided on this course of action, and what are the implications for the fading light of Democracy? Will Alexander Soros continue his friendship with Zelensky’s head of administration Yermak, and what does this all have to do with Ukrainian scam call centers and the suicides of key Russian officials? And why are some Ukrainian nazi militarists declaring their jealousy of Russian tactics in the struggle against corruption?
