aldra
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wonder how much the numbers are skewed by pakis
aldra
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Which is hilarious, don't get me wrong, but incredibly self-destructive
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I think Trump really F'd himself in the A on this one regardless of what his intentions were.
Biden wasn't (primarily) protecting his son, he was protecting US foreign policy and making sure the Ukraine government (and the money that backed them) were kept unscrutinized. By pulling on this string Trump is unraveling US policy on the Ukraine and infuriating both the anti-Russia mob and the foreign policy establishment at large.
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Yeah, hiring and paying Biden and the others falls outside of the scope of the investigation from the look of it, regardless of whether there was any wrongdoing involved.
aldra
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it's k'roz using 2 fingers
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seems more of a case of trump talking up himself and apple and rim letting it slide because it's good publicity and he didn't explicitly lie himself
aldra
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what
how did you interpret it that way
aldra
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OK
so the short version seems to be this then:
The probe into Burisma was originally dropped and buried because the prosecutor was meant to go after the "head" of the company, Zlochevsky. This was because Zlochevsky was an oligarch tied to the deposed president Yanukovich and hence not friendly to the new government or the US.
The prosecutor was actually competent though, and he realised that Zlochevsky was head in name only and that the company was actually controlled by Kolomoiski, who was at the time an ally of the new government and a financier for the Maidan coup. When it became clear that the prosecution would have to go after Kolomoiski that is when Biden got him fired and threatened to withdraw 'aid'.
Now that the case has gotten so much attention in the west due to the Trump impeachment proceedings, they've been forced to reopen the case and have Zlochevsky take the fall for it. Given that, like I said earlier, Kolomoiski has fallen out of favour with the US, it'll be interesting if this goes further than Zlochevsky. I expect to see a rapid change in his calls for rapprochement with Russia.
