the truth which is oft forgotten is, and i know this as someone who is closely related to ukraine through marriage (russian speaking melittepol) and have been intimate with the happenings long before the smo.  zelinsky who was elected mostly by russian speaking ukranians ran on a drain the swamp kind of rhetoric, all he wanted to do was anti corruption shit.  and he was actually succeeding, i knew ukranians who profited from the corruption by importing luxury items from the west and bribing their way in. it was not possible anymore, roads were actually beeing fixed instead if money just disappearing in pockets without infrastructure beeing updated. zelensky actually took notes from saakashvili who very successfully combatted corruption in georgia and jailed corrupt elites. the thing is, russia is dependent in their foreign policy to have their neighbors be as corrupt as them as it helps their influence, so just as they did with georgia they invaded ukraine.
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