That's because Ukraine is a no count, strategically irrelevant patch of earth that was long ago ruined by the old Soviet Union, and thereafter turned into an economic trainwreck by its own corrupt oligarchs - along with plenty of help from Washington interventionists.
Burisma later became a sponsor of a Washington think tank, the Atlantic Council, whose experts are often cited on energy and security policy in the former Soviet Union.
So as to leave no stone unturned, Zlochevsky also had Burisma hire another Washington influence peddler just one month after Biden the Younger joined the board in April 2014.
According to disclosure records, Mr. Leiter, who also had worked for the Energy Department, lobbied on behalf of Burisma on "Promoting transparency and good corporate governances" at both chambers of Congress, the State Department, the Treasury Department, the Energy Department, and US AID. Needless to say, only in Imperial Washington would all the above named arms of the US government care a whit about "Transparency and good governance" at a two-bit gas producer in Ukraine.
So the very idea that Ukraine should be induced to join NATO was beyond the pale - and most especially after Washington had recruited modern-day political descendants of the WWII pro-Nazi brigades to replace the Yanukovych government in March 2014.
The latter, of course, make a handsome living peddling anti-Putin propaganda - the better to grease the Washington purse strings for unneeded military spending and foreign aid, security assistance and weapons sales to the "Front line" states allegedly in the path of Kremlin aggression.
So do the dispensers and recipients of foreign aid, security assistance and the multitude of Washington propaganda programs run through the State Department, Endowment for Democracy, Board for International Broadcasting and countless more.
https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2019/11/12/the-ukrainian-influence-peddling-rings-a-microcosm-of-how-imperial-washington-rolls/
Burisma later became a sponsor of a Washington think tank, the Atlantic Council, whose experts are often cited on energy and security policy in the former Soviet Union.
So as to leave no stone unturned, Zlochevsky also had Burisma hire another Washington influence peddler just one month after Biden the Younger joined the board in April 2014.
According to disclosure records, Mr. Leiter, who also had worked for the Energy Department, lobbied on behalf of Burisma on "Promoting transparency and good corporate governances" at both chambers of Congress, the State Department, the Treasury Department, the Energy Department, and US AID. Needless to say, only in Imperial Washington would all the above named arms of the US government care a whit about "Transparency and good governance" at a two-bit gas producer in Ukraine.
So the very idea that Ukraine should be induced to join NATO was beyond the pale - and most especially after Washington had recruited modern-day political descendants of the WWII pro-Nazi brigades to replace the Yanukovych government in March 2014.
The latter, of course, make a handsome living peddling anti-Putin propaganda - the better to grease the Washington purse strings for unneeded military spending and foreign aid, security assistance and weapons sales to the "Front line" states allegedly in the path of Kremlin aggression.
So do the dispensers and recipients of foreign aid, security assistance and the multitude of Washington propaganda programs run through the State Department, Endowment for Democracy, Board for International Broadcasting and countless more.
https://original.antiwar.com/david_stockman/2019/11/12/the-ukrainian-influence-peddling-rings-a-microcosm-of-how-imperial-washington-rolls/
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