Early on (pre 2014) the oligarch Igor kolomoisky was funding azov batallion similar to how the oligarch Prigozhn was funding Wagner group.
He also owned the 1+1 television station that produced Zelenskys “servant of the people” television show.
Raise the lens and that makes more sense
In 91 kolomoiskiy started privatbank which was a front for taking loans from the IMF, then breaking them up and reloaning them to himself and his soviet oligarch buddies.
They learned quickly that anti-money laundering laws didn’t really have much teeth if you OWNED THE BANK.
Pre Maidan, Putin maintained a loose collar on Ukraine via Yanukovych the same way he does with Kadyrov in Chechnya and Lukeshenko in Belarus.
They pretend to be autonomous but they are there to enable the money laundry for the kremlin.
The kremlin doesn’t really care about the little things as long as the money keeps flowing to the top of the model pyramid and into the top oligarchs pocket.
This is the Faustian bargain Putin made with the oligarchy during perestroika.
Paul Manafort (trumps lobbyist since 1980 and the campaign manager) was hired by the kremlin to make Yanukovych and his men look less like gangsters and more civilized.
This helped the kremlin by being able to point and say – “look! Ukrainian Nazis”
Azov batallion was just excited to have real boots instead of Skechers, so they were basically like—
Whatever. The old man wants a picture with his weird flag. Just get it done and let’s get back to work.
This is a recurring methodology of the Russians because Putin doesn’t really care if Azov battalion is shooting at his little green men in donbas with Russian supplied bullets because Putin doesn’t care about Russians anymore than he cares about Ukrainians.
He just cares about the money highway staying open which allows him to stay in power.
As Ukraine pushed towards integration into the EU and NATO it meant a mandatory audit and decorruption process which would inevitably expose Putins money laundry and human trafficking operation THROUGH Ukraines oligarch class.
So when Putin screams about “NATO aggression “ what he really means is “stay out of my business or it will show Russians how I have been stealing from them for 25 years”.
It just requires using a cutout like Kolomoisky and Manafort to keep it from being blatantly obvious.
The oligarchs were using trump and Epstein to buy massive amounts of commercial real estate in the US to launder the money they were still stealing from Russians.
Paul Manafort just saw all the billionaire oligarchs he was rolling around with daily buying property sight unseen and told his wife and kids to do the same because they were rich. So obviously they knew something he didn’t. He just mimicked the behavior.
Maidan was every sane Ukrainian realizing that corruption is cancer and that you don’t survive cancer by feeding it.
So they fought back.
Manafort and Yanukovych sent out snipers to try and quash it but failed and fled.
Zelensky was supposed to be the backup option 2 (but still controlled by the kremlin because he took money from kolomoiskiy via his “servant of the people” tv series).
It turned into his own personal moment when he stayed and fought instead of getting in a helicopter and running in 2022 which would have allowed Russia to roll into Kyiv and take over in 10 days which would have allowed Putin to keep his promise to Xi Jinping and hand him a supply chain lock of microprocessors (neon from Mariupol) and the grain production that xi needed to be able to take Taiwan and together they would have quietly monopolized microprocessor production and destroyed the wests economy at the same time.
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Matches the pattern.
Early on (pre 2014) the oligarch Igor kolomoisky was funding azov batallion similar to how the oligarch Prigozhn was funding Wagner group.
He also owned the 1+1 television station that produced Zelenskys “servant of the people” television show.
Raise the lens and that makes more sense
In 91 kolomoiskiy started privatbank which was a front for taking loans from the IMF, then breaking them up and reloaning them to himself and his soviet oligarch buddies.
They learned quickly that anti-money laundering laws didn’t really have much teeth if you OWNED THE BANK.
https://www.reuters.com/article/business/ukraine-central-bank-accuses-privatbank-ex-owner-of-orchestrating-protests-idUSKBN1Y10MU/
And it worked for awhile until the IMF started demanding that Ukrainians socialize those losses and pay back those loans.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/09/20/privatbank-ukraines-president-zelensky-and-the-oligarch-kolomoisky.html
Pre Maidan, Putin maintained a loose collar on Ukraine via Yanukovych the same way he does with Kadyrov in Chechnya and Lukeshenko in Belarus.
They pretend to be autonomous but they are there to enable the money laundry for the kremlin.
The kremlin doesn’t really care about the little things as long as the money keeps flowing to the top of the model pyramid and into the top oligarchs pocket.
This is the Faustian bargain Putin made with the oligarchy during perestroika.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSjQL8MYniTTLA3wnZ25U-s6RgR4uJNvL&si=o_HZOoPeQmVTUzje
Paul Manafort (trumps lobbyist since 1980 and the campaign manager) was hired by the kremlin to make Yanukovych and his men look less like gangsters and more civilized.
https://youtu.be/3Xf2wZzax50?si=mMJB2b54mtLyOCju
He made them all buy Hugo boss suits and give up their Adidas track suits.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/ncna775431
Kolomoisky funded Azov with the special request from the kremlin that he drop in every once in awhile with some nazi shit and SS flags for pics.
https://www.vox.com/2015/3/23/8279397/kolomoisky-oligarch-ukraine-militia
This helped the kremlin by being able to point and say – “look! Ukrainian Nazis”
Azov batallion was just excited to have real boots instead of Skechers, so they were basically like—
Whatever. The old man wants a picture with his weird flag. Just get it done and let’s get back to work.
This is a recurring methodology of the Russians because Putin doesn’t really care if Azov battalion is shooting at his little green men in donbas with Russian supplied bullets because Putin doesn’t care about Russians anymore than he cares about Ukrainians.
He just cares about the money highway staying open which allows him to stay in power.
As Ukraine pushed towards integration into the EU and NATO it meant a mandatory audit and decorruption process which would inevitably expose Putins money laundry and human trafficking operation THROUGH Ukraines oligarch class.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/inside-anatevka-the-curious-chabad-hamlet-in-ukraine-where-giuliani-is-mayor/
So when Putin screams about “NATO aggression “ what he really means is “stay out of my business or it will show Russians how I have been stealing from them for 25 years”.
It just requires using a cutout like Kolomoisky and Manafort to keep it from being blatantly obvious.
The oligarchs were using trump and Epstein to buy massive amounts of commercial real estate in the US to launder the money they were still stealing from Russians.
https://www.reddit.com/r/RussiaLago/s/lRbRmfgSzE
Paul Manafort just saw all the billionaire oligarchs he was rolling around with daily buying property sight unseen and told his wife and kids to do the same because they were rich. So obviously they knew something he didn’t. He just mimicked the behavior.
Maidan was every sane Ukrainian realizing that corruption is cancer and that you don’t survive cancer by feeding it.
So they fought back.
Manafort and Yanukovych sent out snipers to try and quash it but failed and fled.
https://youtu.be/vB7UR5PYvcI?si=JRpGs8K7bVeO2iJo
Zelensky was supposed to be the backup option 2 (but still controlled by the kremlin because he took money from kolomoiskiy via his “servant of the people” tv series).
It turned into his own personal moment when he stayed and fought instead of getting in a helicopter and running in 2022 which would have allowed Russia to roll into Kyiv and take over in 10 days which would have allowed Putin to keep his promise to Xi Jinping and hand him a supply chain lock of microprocessors (neon from Mariupol) and the grain production that xi needed to be able to take Taiwan and together they would have quietly monopolized microprocessor production and destroyed the wests economy at the same time.
This was “the mariupol plan”
http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/heather-richardson/betraying-ukraine-trump-reveals-prior-knowledge-putins-mariupol-plan-bragging-hostage-deal/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/magazine/russiagate-paul-manafort-ukraine-war.html