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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolf" data-source="post: 140060" data-attributes="member: 199">Part 2.At the same time, it is, obviously, also very convenient to remove the last feeble restraints on Ukraine’s fabulously pervasive graft, since whatever the West – that is, the Europeans – will now spend on Ukraine will be misappropriated even more wildly than before. That could come in handy especially if there should be a need to stay rich in exile.This gangster-economic aspect of Zelensky’s fresh power grab has not escaped even his Western friends: the OECD has already <a href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/07/23/7523032/" target="_blank">warned</a> the Ukrainian regime that the stifling of the anti-corruption agencies will harm Western investment in Ukraine’s reconstruction in general and its arms industry in particular. Likewise, the International Renaissance Foundation, a Soros power structure that has been all too active in Ukraine for more than three decades now, has also <a href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/07/23/7523027/" target="_blank">called</a> for a repeal of the new law.In essence, these and similar Western complaints all mean the same: We know you are robbing us blind already but we’ve made our peace with that because you serve our geopolitics. But if you try to take an even larger cut, we may reconsider.Taken together, Zelensky’s government reshuffle and his assault on the anti-corruption agencies seem to reflect a double strategy: On one side, the endangered puppet is signaling submission to the US in at least some of his recent personnel moves, but on the other, he is also consolidating his power at home by insulating it from too much direct American influence. It is as if he were sending a message to Washington: “I really am your man. But if you try to choose another, I’ll fight.”The historic irony is that, with Zelensky succeeding in finally razing the last pitiful remnants of pluralism in Ukraine, he – the once hysterically idolized darling of the “value-based” West – will be the president achieving a complete authoritarianism like no Ukrainian leader before him. And all that while propped up with hundreds of billions from the West.Any displays of surprise or shock by Ukrainian and Western politicians or mainstream media betray either that they have been dozing under a rock for years or that they are being disingenuous. Because today’s Zelensky is not “turning” to authoritarianism. On the contrary, authoritarianism has always been his default disposition and his aim. Zelensky has been working on his personal assent to unchecked power – and, of course, its material spoils as well – since he became Ukraine’s president. That means, long before the conflict between Russia and Ukraine (and behind and through it the West) escalated in early 2022.How do we know? Because it was already obvious, including to many Ukrainians, by 2021 at the very latest. It was then that Zelensky’s Ukrainian critics – not Russians or those with sympathy for Russia – attacked him and his political party “Servant of the People” for erecting a “mono-vlada,” that is, in essence, an authoritarian political machine to control not only the state but the public sphere as well.<a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/621845-mass-protests-zelensky-anticorruption-crackdown/" target="_blank"><img src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2025.07/xxs/6880a92885f54067c153a7eb.jpg" alt="Mass protests against Zelensky’s crackdown on anti-graft bodies: What we know so far" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/621845-mass-protests-zelensky-anticorruption-crackdown/" target="_blank">Read more</a> <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/621845-mass-protests-zelensky-anticorruption-crackdown/" target="_blank">Mass protests against Zelensky’s crackdown on anti-graft bodies: What we know so far</a>By 2021, Zelensky had already engaged in all of the following: vicious lawfare against Ukraine’s <a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/post/10834" target="_blank">opposition</a> and his personal political rivals<a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/poroshenko-arrives-for-interrogation-at-sbu-in-case-of-medvedchuk-kozak-as-witness.html" target="_blank">, such as former president Petro Poroshenko</a>; massive <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/540172-ukraine-slide-censorship-kiev-post/" target="_blank">media censorship</a> and streamlining, <a href="https://strana.news/articles/analysis/349870-sanktsii-protiv-strany-i-ihorja-huzhvy-zelenskij-neset-za-eto-lichnuju-otvetstvennost.html" target="_blank">while targeting with repression and chicanery any outlets, editors, and journalists daring to resist</a>, for instance Strana.ua; systematically and illegally abusing emergency powers and unaccountable but powerful institutions (most of all, the National Security Council) to stifle criticism; and, last but not least, the fostering of a dictatorial personality cult which was boosted by the West.Since then, things have only gotten worse. Zelensky has steadily fastened his hold over Ukraine, while prolonging and losing an avoidable and catastrophic war for a Western strategy to demote Russia. Ukraine has been bled dry for a cynical and (predictably) failing Western scheme; Russia, meanwhile is not only winning but has greatly increased its autonomy from the West.The war may end soon or it may drag on. For the sake of Ukraine we have to hope it will be over soon. Zelensky, if he were a decent man, would then have to hand himself over to postwar Ukrainian justice or be his own judge, the old-fashioned way. But Zelensky is no decent man. If rumors now swirling are not only plausible but truthful, then his masters in Washington may be the ones preparing an appropriately indecent end for him. If the protests against him accelerate, Zelensky may even end up “color-revolution-ed.” How ironic.</blockquote>

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