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View Poll Results: Do you support giving Ukraine F-16s
Yes 201 39.88%
No 254 50.40%
Unsure 49 9.72%
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Old Yesterday, 08:25 AM
 
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Ukraine is the most corrupt country in Europe, so this kind of behavior is normal over there. While shocking to us, it is just business as usual for the top Ukrainian officials.
Is Russia part of Europe?

They are much further down the list of corrupt countries…

https://images.transparencycdn.org/i...023-Report.pdf
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Old Yesterday, 09:20 AM
 
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Is Russia part of Europe?

They are much further down the list of corrupt countries…

https://images.transparencycdn.org/i...023-Report.pdf
So that lets Ukraine and its corruption off the hook? Remember, the West is supporting Ukraine, not Russia. The West wants its money and materiel used properly and not end up in a government official's pocket. The US had warned Zelensky not to steal so much of that money. Fortifications were supposed to be built to stop the Russians as they advance. But the money for creating them was pocketed. Now in many areas of the front the Russians are just walking in with no fortifications and in many cases no Ukrainian troops to stop them. Absolutely disgusting. Western money wasted on corrupt Ukrainian officials so that they can have more luxury items like mansions, cars, and casinos. Depravity at it's finest.
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Old Yesterday, 09:30 AM
 
Location: Central Massachusetts
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Yeah let's listen to Kirby Sullivan and Blinken gaslight you.
Putin is gaslighting you.
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Old Yesterday, 09:36 AM
 
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So that lets Ukraine and its corruption off the hook? Remember, the West is supporting Ukraine, not Russia. The West wants its money and materiel used properly and not end up in a government official's pocket. The US had warned Zelensky not to steal so much of that money. Fortifications were supposed to be built to stop the Russians as they advance. But the money for creating them was pocketed. Now in many areas of the front the Russians are just walking in with no fortifications and in many cases no Ukrainian troops to stop them. Absolutely disgusting. Western money wasted on corrupt Ukrainian officials so that they can have more luxury items like mansions, cars, and casinos. Depravity at it's finest.
I was just refuting your false statement which your rambling reply does not address, and you repeat other false statements like today’s casino story.
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Old Yesterday, 09:55 AM
 
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I was just refuting your false statement which your rambling reply does not address, and you repeat other false statements like today’s casino story.
My replies are not rambling but concise and to the point. How does corruption in Russia negate the corruption in Ukraine of wasting Western money into the pockets of corrupt Ukrainian officials? Again, the West is supporting Ukraine not Russia. The West should expect its money to be used properly.

Ignoring and refuting Ukraine's corruption as false doesn't make it so. It is well documented that Ukraine is a corrupt country and much of the Western money that is sent there is "lost" along the way.
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Old Yesterday, 11:14 AM
 
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The war criminal Putin inadvertently admits Russia loses thousands of troops every month. It will get worse for Russian terrorists if Ukraine can stabilize the front lines for another 3 months.

Russian war production has peaked and will decline. Western war production has been behind that of Russia's, but will ramp up rapidly. By then Ukraine will get a steady supply of weapons to defend their country with.
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Old Yesterday, 01:22 PM
 
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https://www.newsweek.com/legal-actio...casino-1909740

Hotel Taking 'Legal Action' Over Fake Claims That Zelensky Bought It

The website with the extension https://casinohotelvunipalace.com/, where the name of the company with the title 'Film Heritage Inc.' is mentioned in the news article, is a fake website that has nothing to do with the official website of our hotel and where images whose copyright belongs to our Company are used unauthorized and illegally," the statement read.

"Further legal action will be taken in this regard. My hotel operates through the official website https://www.vunipalacehotel.com/ and there is no other website other than this."
From Newsweek article quoted by you;

"A statement sent by Oscar Ltd, which operates the Vuni Palace and Hotel & Casino in Kyrenia, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, said an "unauthorized and illegally" created version of their website had been uploaded to support a false rumor that Zelensky had bought the resort."


Hmm...
See, a quick search is telling me that Vuni casino is owned by a different company - "Oscar Group of companies," not "Oscar LTD" ( how could Newsweek be so sloppy I wonder and why?)
So keeping this in mind, let's see what created *confusion* of combining Zelensky's "Film Heritage INC," mentioned in Pandora papers earlier, with Vuni casino?

And here it comes;

"Cyprus Mail explained that “the confusion seems to have arisen from the hotel casino’s website, which attributes its copyright to a company by the name of Film Heritage Inc,” Zelensky’s Belize-based company.
“However, the Oscar group’s spokesman insisted that the name was a coincidence, and that a company by the same name had developed the casino’s website.”
As of this writing, key parts of the Vuni Palace Hotel’s website are “under maintenance.”
Infowars was unable to find any information about the so-called Film Heritage Inc. website design company."


https://gnews.org/m/2650077

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Old Yesterday, 01:39 PM
 
Location: NE Mississippi
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Is Ukrainian corruption off the hook?.... Yes. It is.
Russia has chosen to destroy themselves in Ukraine. That's the point - the destruction of Russia.
Ukraine will never be a threat to anyone; Russia would if they could pull it off.
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Old Yesterday, 01:56 PM
 
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Is Ukrainian corruption off the hook?.... Yes. It is.
Russia has chosen to destroy themselves in Ukraine. That's the point - the destruction of Russia.
Ukraine will never be a threat to anyone; Russia would if they could pull it off.

Except for Russia.
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Old Yesterday, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Honolulu, HI
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The war criminal Putin inadvertently admits Russia loses thousands of troops every month. It will get worse for Russian terrorists if Ukraine can stabilize the front lines for another 3 months.

Russian war production has peaked and will decline. Western war production has been behind that of Russia's, but will ramp up rapidly. By then Ukraine will get a steady supply of weapons to defend their country with.
Sweet! We can refund our $60 billion taxpayer aid package and end all future aid to Ukraine.

Thanks for the update!

I will never understand the woke: bashing Russia but admitting Russia is powerful, a threat, winning, and in favorable conditions by giving Zelensky a blank check. Which one is it? It can’t be both.

Zelensky truly does not need another penny in foreign aid if your post is true and Russia is just falling apart.
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