"At the January 2016 meetings, the two main interests of U.S. officials were later reported to have been: (1) getting the Ukrainian prosecutors to get money-laundering dirt on Paul Manafort; (2) firing Shokin."
I am much more interested in why Manafort was on their radar months before he volunteered to become an unpaid advisor to lead the Trump campaign and start reporting back to Oleg Deripaska through Kilimnick in order to "get whole," all while Hillary and the USIC were launching the Russia hoax, including bumping George Papadopolous and Carter Page with fake offers and honey pots.
Steve, your work is incomparable as always. The one thing that nobody should dispute is that the boil of local political corruption is impenetrable for even the locals to keep up with. The hand of foreign intervention is much more likely to be met with a corrupt hands than an honest ones. The only productive role a foreign delegation would be one of promoting transparency . The interests of the people of Ukraine and US were not served by the Biden-Obama approach: recruitment of local loyalties. Nobody is immune to corruption. Interestingly, it was a Ukrainian, Derkach, who exposed the extraordinary compensation to Hunter Biden for a no show job at Burisma.
Thanks for your hard work
"At the January 2016 meetings, the two main interests of U.S. officials were later reported to have been: (1) getting the Ukrainian prosecutors to get money-laundering dirt on Paul Manafort; (2) firing Shokin."
I am much more interested in why Manafort was on their radar months before he volunteered to become an unpaid advisor to lead the Trump campaign and start reporting back to Oleg Deripaska through Kilimnick in order to "get whole," all while Hillary and the USIC were launching the Russia hoax, including bumping George Papadopolous and Carter Page with fake offers and honey pots.
Steve, your work is incomparable as always. The one thing that nobody should dispute is that the boil of local political corruption is impenetrable for even the locals to keep up with. The hand of foreign intervention is much more likely to be met with a corrupt hands than an honest ones. The only productive role a foreign delegation would be one of promoting transparency . The interests of the people of Ukraine and US were not served by the Biden-Obama approach: recruitment of local loyalties. Nobody is immune to corruption. Interestingly, it was a Ukrainian, Derkach, who exposed the extraordinary compensation to Hunter Biden for a no show job at Burisma.