Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Okay Kids: Here's One Of The Reasons We Had That Whole Ukraine Maidan 2014 Revolution Thingy

Back in October I asked what I thought was a simple question, "Who Owns Ukraine's Farmland?" A big part of the reason the U.S. helped overthrow the Ukrainian government was to get access to some of the best farmland in the world. Well that and the natural gas goings-on. And the billions in aid that was looted and paid as commissions and protection money and some very interesting laundry tips.

Did you know that because money and political power are fungible you can launder your ill-gotten gains into political contributions and end up with squeaky clean political influence with no one the wiser? And then use that influence to earn 'clean' money? Well now you know.

Onward. The introduction to that 'Who Owns Ukraine Farmland' post:

As mentioned yesterday, that was the simple question yours truly asked before stumbling into the rabbit hole of "Why Was The American Government Training Neo-Nazis In Ukraine?".

The reason for the original query was the mandate from the IMF that in return for one of the tranches of  multi-billion dollar loans related to the whole PrivatBank theft, money laundering, Maidan, Victoria Nuland web of lies and corruption that Ukraine allow foreigners to buy farmland.

Some really good farmland, by all accounts.

Farmlandgrab keeps track of this stuff all over the world and a couple of their posts give a quick overview of what's what.

Here is one part of the puzzle, not the stuff that attracts the foreign money:

April 29, 2020
Zelensky enacts law on farmland sale in Ukraine from July 2021....
And circling back to Farmlandgrab, a January 20 report from the Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News:

World Bank, EU ready to provide technical support for Ukraine to launch farmland reform 

A roadmap for further joint work within the Land Reform Steering Committee is expected to be finalized in early February.
 
The World Bank and the European Union stand ready to provide technical support and other resources for Ukraine to successfully implement farmland reform.
 
This was stated by Klaus Deininger, Lead Economist in the Sustainability and Infrastructure Team of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, according to Ukraine's Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture.
 
In his words, Ukraine has all the prerequisites for the introduction of a transparent farmland market, which will increase the efficiency of the use of land resources, provide a basis for the development of agriculture, rural areas and the local population.
 
Ukraine's Deputy Minister for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture Taras Vysotskyi, in turn, said that the introduction of the farmland market and the provision of all the necessary tools for its successful operation remains a priority for the government of Ukraine for 2021....
 
And speaking of the Nazis the U.S. was training and paying and supplying in 2014 -2016,  here's one visiting the U.S. Capitol building in January: 
He says he's Pravy Sektor. Some say he's Russian. Hard to tell whose side who is on after a while which is probably why James Jesus Angleton lifted that whole 'Wilderness of Mirrors' thing from T.S. Eliot before J.J. went insane.
 
What I do know is that there is going to be something on the order of $100 billion worth of Ukrainian farmland changing hands over the next decade which is getting to be serious money.
Except maybe for Musk and Bezos. And the CIA. And the State Department. and...
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