This whole tangled yarn of corruption, backstabbing, and jockeying for elections that may never happen really reminds me of how China's nationalists conducted the Chinese Civil War. Their elites fought all these same stupid battles, tearing each other apart for legal control of China, bilking the army and the defense department, all while the Communists were ruthlessly and efficiently gobbling up every last bit of China itself.
One can't help but wonder how the Nationalists could've been so obtuse, engaging in all that infighting and self-sabotage. But seeing this pattern repeat itself so perfectly in Ukraine makes me a bit sympathetic for those corrupt nationalist elites. Maybe this pattern of greedy, self-destructive behavior is just embedded in human nature.
I'm sure Zelensky has already picked out a Taiwan to flee to. You know, just in case the total economic collapse and break up of Russia doesn't spontaneously occur in the next year or two. The more things change…
I thought Arestovich left the country after some scandal in which he said that a residentialbuilding had been hit not by a Russian missile, but by a wayward air-defense interceptor?
I remember that, maybe. I think there were a lot of things that happened. Mainly I think he’s just a rather ambitious person who has always mainly focused on building his own brand, which isn’t really something Zelensky/Yermak like
This whole tangled yarn of corruption, backstabbing, and jockeying for elections that may never happen really reminds me of how China's nationalists conducted the Chinese Civil War. Their elites fought all these same stupid battles, tearing each other apart for legal control of China, bilking the army and the defense department, all while the Communists were ruthlessly and efficiently gobbling up every last bit of China itself.
One can't help but wonder how the Nationalists could've been so obtuse, engaging in all that infighting and self-sabotage. But seeing this pattern repeat itself so perfectly in Ukraine makes me a bit sympathetic for those corrupt nationalist elites. Maybe this pattern of greedy, self-destructive behavior is just embedded in human nature.
I'm sure Zelensky has already picked out a Taiwan to flee to. You know, just in case the total economic collapse and break up of Russia doesn't spontaneously occur in the next year or two. The more things change…
I thought Arestovich left the country after some scandal in which he said that a residentialbuilding had been hit not by a Russian missile, but by a wayward air-defense interceptor?
I remember that, maybe. I think there were a lot of things that happened. Mainly I think he’s just a rather ambitious person who has always mainly focused on building his own brand, which isn’t really something Zelensky/Yermak like
Grim stuff. Good thing Ukraine's sponsors in the West are protected by their fearlessly free press from knowing any of what's going on in Ukraine
The absolute blackout in the American press of busification or anything related has been truly impressive.
The Trumpists talked about it for a day back in March and then promptly forgot.