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Prof Ivan Katchanovski: Political Scientist at UofOttawa and a Ukrainian.

Statements by US Vice President also corroborate my prediction that US could remove Zelensky because of his refusal of peace deal.

    • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      I think that, for the most part, Ukrainian oligarchs put him there. It was his predecessor, Poroshenko, who the US had installed.

      Daily Beast, 2019: Billionaire Ukrainian Oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky Under Investigation by FBI

      Brunson pointed to Kolomoisky’s role in funding the ultra-far-right Azov battalion, a group of Ukrainian fighters alleged to have ties to American white supremacists, per RFE/RL; the State Department has called its political wing a “nationalist hate group,” and human rights workers say it may be a haven for neo-Nazis.

      Kolomoisky has a host of enemies. He’s been accused of commissioning contract killings. And in 2016, Ukraine’s central bank nationalized Kolomoisky’s PrivatBank because it didn’t have enough cash. Billions of dollars disappeared from its coffers because it lent so much to Kolomoisky associates, according to the FT. The move was widely viewed in the West as a victory for transparency and good governance, in a country whose politics are impoverished on both counts. It was a flashpoint in Kolomoisky’s relationship with Poroshenko, and many speculate the oligarch backs Zelensky in part because hopes to depose the president who oversaw the takeover of his bank.

      CNN, 2023: Ukrainian oligarch and Zelensky supporter Ihor Kolomoisky arrested in fraud investigation

        • davel@lemmy.mlEnglish
          51·
          4 days ago

          I think Zelensky won the bourgeois election pretty much “fair and square,” in the famously corrupt Ukrainian state. I think electorate really did want the peace and reconciliation that Zelensky acted on TV and ran on in the election.

          But he was just a TV comedian, hand-picked by an oligarch who also supported the Banderites, so peace and reconciliation was never really in the cards.

          • TheOubliette@lemmy.ml
            72·
            4 days ago

            It is actually common knowledge if you know anything about Ukraine. Most Westerners know nothing about Ukraine and couldn’t even find it on a map, so literally nothing about it except “blue and yellow flag” should be considered common knowledge among them.

            Look up Victoria Nuland and her comments on Euromaidan and succession.

            • Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world
              3·
              4 days ago

              Ok I did the work 👍 the US and russian have been in a proxy cold war over Ukraine’s future, until shit hit the fan and Russian first annexed Crimea then did a 3 day special military operation that has lasted almost 3 years now.

              Also who the fuck reads yahoo news?