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Zelensky REPRESSES Brave Sorosite Activists!

Zelensky REPRESSES Brave Sorosite Activists!

Free World Over! Shabunin down! BH Lévy, T Snyder, Zhadan and Vakarchuk at the frontlines! '

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‘And they mock the fools who are dying in the East instead of enjoying life in the capital.’

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Writing this substack can be somewhat dispiriting. However, I’m glad to announce that today we have a relatively happy ending.

Vitaliy Shabunin, one of Ukraine’s most notorious grant-feeder ‘Sorosites’ - or, as they’d rather call themselves ‘independent anti-corruption warriors’ - has been sent to the front by our beloved comic-in-chief!

Or rather, the honorable Activist’s false claims of serving at the frontlines have been disproven, and law enforcement has now actually forced him to leave his Kyiv restaurants and anti-corruption conferences for the muddy trenches of the Kharkiv oblast…

Or, as the Activists put it, the mini-Putin has set the country on the path of ‘corrupt authoritarianism’. Goodness, no!

I’ve taken the time to curate, translate, and editorialize a range of Ukrainian media content on this succulent saga. Many of these posts were written by Volodymyr Boiko, an actually-serving Ukrainian journalist who I must describe with great admiration as one of the greatest haters of all time. I decided that I wanted my readers to have just as encyclopedic a knowledge of the Shabunin saga as he does. Indeed, it has been through his efforts that Shabunin has been brought to justice (at least, so it seems).

Besides Boiko’s struggle, we’ll learn about how Shabunin’s family have been enjoying themselves on Czech and American taxpayer money while he receives income and a vehicle from a military unit he never fought in. His top fellow USAID-funded warrior against corruption also used her connections to smuggle her husband out of the country to avoid mobilization, while simultaneously shaming working class men for not fighting hard enough.

We’ll even encounter intellectual titans like Timothy Snyder, Francis Fukuyama, and Bernard-Henri Lévy. Their eastern counterparts, Ukraine’s virulently nationalist ‘culture warriors’, have made the armed forces into a playpen for them to entertain their delusions of being actual warriors. A man named none other than Ostap Ukrainets has even been appointed ‘military representative in the office of the language ombudsman’.’.

Let me first explain why it’s impossible to resist a smile at the mobilization of the western-funded liberal nationalists. They have spent the past decade or so abusing most of Ukraine’s population for its insufficient patriotism, doing their best to collapse the country’s industry (particularly the military industrial complex), forcing through endless neoliberal shock therapy, and generally playing the avant-garde role of transforming Ukraine into a concentration camp-kamikaze country for western interests. This has all been done against the wishes of the majority of the country, who the Sorosites despise as uneducated crypto-commies.

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