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Zelensky’s Government Sabotaged Oversight, Allowing Corruption to Fester (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
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[–] 27 points 10 months ago* (6 children)

You can observe the discarding of a US proxy progress like an infection by watching stories about Ukranian government corruption slowly make their way up the bloodstream of public "opinion", from small papers up to the new york crimes.

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  • [–] [S] 26 points 10 months ago

    The funniest part is how this was widely reported in mainstream western media before the war started. Now that the US wants to wind the war down, all of a sudden omertà on reporting these things is lifted.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    abandoned zelensky

    I just figured out I have web access to our emojis. Idk about everyone else, but this is new for me!

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Okay, that was always allowed. whatabout deez

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I know because I asked about it some time back in hex, but they just never showed up for me. I was actually looking for something appropriate to post and was surprised and delighted! stalin heart hands

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    • [–] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    No! 😮

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    • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    What!?!?!?

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    [+] -9 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Another report from the Russian troll farm!

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Perfect shibboleth, I have no idea if this is or isn't a joke

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Had to look into their history, and sadly it's not! Though I suppose at this point it'd be easy to hack up a bot that always comments the same things on Yog's posts on here and pass as an actual liberal user.

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  • [–] [S] 16 points 10 months ago

    It's pretty hilarious how libs basically memorized a handful of retorts and they just parrot them completely unthinkingly whenever faced with any information they don't like.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Noted Russian troll farm: The New York Times. Could you shitlibs at least pretend that "Russian trolls" doesn't just mean "anyone who disagrees with you"?.

    And the absolute smooth brained "leftists" on the fediverse are up voting this incoherent nonsense

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    • [+] -10 points 10 months ago (18 children)

    I don’t know man. This crap gives such ammunition to the “both sides are corrupt” argument. 

    Do we really believe things in Ukraine would be better or even the same under Putin? What are we even talking about here?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 10 months ago (17 children)

    I mean we can obviously see that things are far better in Crimea than anywhere in Ukraine right now. This isn't even debatable. Comparing Russia to the absurd levels of corruption in Ukraine is not a serious argument to make.

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  • [+] -7 points 10 months ago (13 children)

    Russia has been extremely corrupt for decades. Whatever weird made up world you are living in, come on back to reality. Even if Ukraine was the most corrupt country ever, bombing the shit out of the citizens is not the way you help. That's just murder. Even if things are somehow better in Crimea, you're comparing to a country being bombed by a larger country with more weapons and fighters. Crimea should not have been stolen in the first place. Help your neighbors, don't hypocritically murder their people.

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  • [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    Even if Ukraine was the most corrupt country ever, bombing the shit out of the citizens is not the way you help

    I don't know, they sure tried it in the eastern part of the country for 10 years

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    Russia is clearly nowhere near as corrupt as Ukraine given that Russia is actually able to run a functioning economy and a military. In fact, there's strong evidence to suggest that NATO is far more corrupt than Russia is given that Russia is single handedly outproducing all of the west militarily right now. Meanwhile, before yapping about Crimea, you might want to go read a history book for once in your life.

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