According to Hersh, Zelenskyy has been using Uncle Samâs war bucks to buy diesel fuel, which is critical to keeping the tanks and trucks and launchers chugging along Eastern Europeâs muddy roads. That much is unsurprising. Apparently diesel can fetch a pretty price in a war zone, and Hersh reminded us that the DoD previously shelled out over $400 a gallon in Afghanistan to keep that warâs machines humming.
Hereâs the narrative-bending plot twist: according to Hershâs sources, Zelenskyy has been buying diesel at massively-inflated wartime prices ⊠from the RUSSIANS.
Didnât see that one coming, did you?
This wacky twist raises a myriad of answerless questions. Why would Zelenskyy trade with the same evil empire and the war criminals besieging âhisâ country? Why would Russia sell diesel to the Ukrainians when it would be better to let them to run dry?
Itâs almost like this whole thing is a big fat âWag the Dogâ charade or something.
But wait, thereâs more. I doubt youâre surprised, but Hersh says his sources in the intelligence community say it is well known that Zelenskyy has â in one year â skimmed off $400 MILLION DOLLARS for himself by doing the old invoice switcheroo with the diesel payments â a classic creative accounting tactic going back to the Civil War â and peddling US weapons to terrorists on the dark webâs version of eBay.
âZelenskyâs been buying discount diesel from the Russians,â one knowledgeable American intelligence official told me. âAnd whoâs paying for the gas and oil? We are. Putin and his oligarchs are making millions.â
Many government ministries in Kiev have been literally âcompeting,â I was told, to set up front companies for export contracts for weapons and ammunition with private arms dealers around the world, all of which provide kickbacks.
Another whistleblower described a clandestine January rendezvous between CIA Director William Burns and President Zelenskyy â to better coordinate the grifting. Like a 1950âs mob boss, Burns whined that Zelenskyy was pocketing more than his fair share, angering a pack of Zelenskyyâs generals, who feel like all the presidentâs greedy grasping was reducing their own shares. Burns specifically griped about three dozen generals who were being way too obvious about the scam, cruising around Kiev in swanky high-end luxury sports cars, hanging around with bikini models, and flaunting ridiculous fur coats and ostentatious gold neck chains.
Zelenskyy quieted the controversy by publicly firing the top ten worst offenders, which also conveniently resolved his problem of their complaints about his own avarice.
Top to bottom, the whole thing is a gigantic sunglassed, track-suited criminal enterprise robbing the U.S. taxpayer blind and greatly inconveniencing millions of average Ukrainians.
In case you think Iâve been a lone voice crying in the wilderness about the opaque, mendacious Biden Administration, apparently there are signs of life in our intelligence community whoâve noticed the same thing. And they know a LOT more than I do. Hersh reported on internal agency disgust about Bidenâs lying officials:
Another divisive issue, I have been repeatedly told in my recent reporting, is the strident ideology and lack of political skill shown by Secretary of State Tony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan. The president and his two main foreign policy advisers âlive in different worldsâ than the experienced diplomats and military and intelligence officers assigned to the White House;. âThey have no experience, judgment, and moral integrity. They just tell lies, make up stories.â
Tell lies and make up stories? Sounds like a snarky comment in C&C. Apparently some of the intelligence community is also chaffed about the whole Nordstream Pipeline Bombing thing and Bidenâs lazy denials of having anything to do with it:
âThere is a total breakdown between the White House leadership and the intelligence community,â the intelligence official said. The rift dates back to the fall, when, as I reported in early February, Biden ordered the covert destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. âDestroying the Nord Stream pipelines was never discussed, or even known in advance, by the community,â the official told me.
Now, what happens when you get sideways with the intelligence community? Chuck Schumer famously said they have a million ways of getting back at you. Like, say, leaking highly sensitive top-secret documents showing your so-called Proxy War isnât going too well, for one example.
NPR rage-quits Twitter; BBC outs Biden lies; Sy Hersh shatters more Proxy War Narrative; red states rally to Florida; anti-CBDC bill; Walmart now fleeing Chicago; unneeded mask advice, and more.
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Meanwhile, as it further âisolatesâ Russia, the U.S. has lost Africa, pushing most of that continent to the Russia-China axis. The New York Times ran a story yesterday headlined, âA âNew Cold Warâ Looms in Africa as U.S. Pushes Against Russian Gains.â
Bloomberg ran a story yesterday headlined, âUS Fears a War-Weary World May Embrace Chinaâs Ukraine Peace Bid.â The sub-headline explained, âUS left on sidelines as China-Russia âbro-festâ cements ties; Some uncomfortable realities of Xiâs visit to Putin in Moscow.â
