from 21st Century Wire:
As the intensity continues to mount around the possible impeachment of the current U.S. President Joe Biden, Ukrainian authorities haven’t wasted any time tying-up any remaining loose ends which could potentially lead back to Pennsylvania Avenue.
The past month in Kiev has seen yet another wave of lawfare, waged against the very individuals who dared to conduct their own independent investigations into the corrupt affairs of the Biden family syndicate in Ukraine, and to share that information with the world.
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The latest target is journalist and former Rada parliamentarian, Oleksandr Dubinsky, who was recently arrested and charged with treason by Zelensky’s judiciary.
Like Andre Derkach before him, Dubinsky’s crime was that he was not afraid to tell the world about the scandal he helped to uncover.
Cynical onlookers might see this latest purge by the Ukrainian judiciary as a quid pro quo favor to the Biden administration for its seemingly inexhaustible military and financial support to the Zelensky government in its open-ended war against Russia, and all at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer. However, based on the trajectory of overall corruption in conflict-ridden Ukraine, this latest wave of political prosecutions by Kiev will only further the rampant theft and corruption by state officials, leading to more dysfunction in the country.
Zelensky’s beleaguered regime
The evolution of the public administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky is not a one unique in history: a typical open-ended ‘wartime’ regime that’s been given license to attack long-standing institutions like the press, the church, and any opposition parties, and effectively suspend fundamental democratic checks and balances. Since 2022, it’s been a state apparatus awash with foreign cash, and completely beholden to its foreign sponsors, which has turned the corner on the path to dictatorship.
From the moment his presidential campaign was launched, Zelensky crafted a brilliant narrative which garnered widespread public appeal, beginning with the promise to fight corruption and cronyism in government, reestablish equality of all before the law, and win back the trust of the people. These were among the core planks in the manifesto of his new “Servant of the People” party. But it wasn’t long before Zelensky’s audacious populist campaign promises soon turned into a nightmare, festering under the long dark shadow cast by Washington’s increasing influence over Kiev’s internal affairs, and has long since descended into a systematic series of violations of the country’s stated democratic principles.
As it stands, Ukraine no longer has freedom of speech, and persecution of political opponents by the Zelensky government continues unabated, all with the full approval of its sponsors in Washington DC. In Zelensky’s Ukraine, unwanted dissenting media outlets are routinely shut down, and journalists apprehended, and in some cases, jailed. Spoken languages have been divided into authorized and unauthorized – leaving many millions of Russian-speaking residents afraid to speak freely in their mother tongue. Also, parishioners of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) are now persecuted, after the state banned their activities and closed its churches, including the government confiscation of church property, and even preventing UOC priests from conducting religious services.
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