The elite politicians who inhabit the Beltway continue to por our money into the cesspool that is Ukrainian politics and particularly President Zelenskyy. The State Department claims that this is a defense of democracy from the predations of Vladimir Putin and the Russians. To that I say “What Democracy?”
Ukraine President Zelenskyy previously took control over all broadcast media discontinuing any media that was not under government control. Taking the anti-democracy movement another step further, Zelenskyy then banned any political opposition party and confiscated the funds of his political opposition. Zelenskyy has jailed members of the opposition who have dared to speak out against him.
More recently, he threatened years of jail terms for anyone who would vote in the referendums that would determine where the eastern oblasts would wind up, under Russia’s umbrella or Ukraine’s. Polling places were shelled in an attempt to prevent voting.
There are more anti-democracy revelations which may be even more stark. The U.S. State Dept funded a govt/NGO Ukraine conference on ‘disinformation’. One can remember the administration’s attempt to run this operation in this country earlier this year.
During the discussion, Acting Head of the Center for Countering Disinformation Andriy Shapovalov insisted that persons who deliberately spread disinformation are information terrorists. He noted that in order to protect the information space, it is necessary to amend the legislation.
“Information terrorists need to know that they will have to answer to the law as war criminals,” he said.
One can be sure that it will not be long before they try this here again. We already have a media environment that is mostly state run. The Left cannot accomplish their goal of fundamentally transforming this country from one where liberty and freedom are paramount to one where what the government says must be accepted as the truth without this coercion.
Oh and BTW, we are paying the salaries of these “standard bearers for democracy.” This whole war thing appears to be a money-laundering operation designed to fill the pockets of those in the right places.