Ukraine is actively trying to battle their corruption, with this being a step towards that end, however small.
Meanwhile Russia is famously more corrupt than Ukraine, has been since long before Maidan, attempted to pervert Ukraine’s elections to install a corrupt leader under their control, and then invaded in an attempt to expropriate Ukrainian land and resources when that attempt failed.
You did not. You hinted at a point without stating it directly.
Are you saying that this corruption charge is disingenuous and intended to redirect attention from other issues? Because if so you need to make that explicit and then support it with evidence. Otherwise it sounds like you’re parroting known disinformation.
Are you saying that this corruption charge is disingenuous
I have no idea how genuine this particular corruption charge is, but given how rife with corruption the country is, I’m inclined to believe it.
My point is that I think patsies are now being chosen to take the fall in lieu of the most powerful oligarchs and government functionaries, who are also corrupt.
Otherwise it sounds like you’re parroting known disinformation.
What disinformation does it sound like I’m parroting?
Ukraine was famously corrupt before this war, before the Maidan coup, and before the Yanukovych administration.
And now that the war is failing, and the hunt is on for scapegoats, corruption allegations will fly.
Ukraine is actively trying to battle their corruption, with this being a step towards that end, however small.
Meanwhile Russia is famously more corrupt than Ukraine, has been since long before Maidan, attempted to pervert Ukraine’s elections to install a corrupt leader under their control, and then invaded in an attempt to expropriate Ukrainian land and resources when that attempt failed.
What point are you trying to make here?
That’s a lie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
2020-2023 - Russia is more corrupt
2012-2019 - more or less the same, sometimes Russia wins sometimes Ukraine
1995-2012 - Ukraine is more corrupt
Are you talking about 2010 elections?
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Ukrainian_presidential_election#International_observers
You’re either lying again, or using the typical western-liberal “it’s only democracy if our candidate winds” (or, well, both).
Nice disinformation bro
I think I made my point?
You did not. You hinted at a point without stating it directly.
Are you saying that this corruption charge is disingenuous and intended to redirect attention from other issues? Because if so you need to make that explicit and then support it with evidence. Otherwise it sounds like you’re parroting known disinformation.
I have no idea how genuine this particular corruption charge is, but given how rife with corruption the country is, I’m inclined to believe it.
My point is that I think patsies are now being chosen to take the fall in lieu of the most powerful oligarchs and government functionaries, who are also corrupt.
What disinformation does it sound like I’m parroting?