The US Oligarchs Move In

In last week's news:

National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan announced Thursday that President Joe Biden would name Penny Pritzker, a billionaire heiress and former commerce secretary, to manage Ukraine’s economic recovery from the ongoing war.

Sullivan, a major proponent of the “Russia collusion” hoax against President Donald Trump, told reporters that Biden, meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky at the White House for the sixth time on Thursday, would “introduce a special representative for Ukraine’s economic recovery, Penny Pritzker, who will focus on engaging the private sector, partner countries, and Ukrainian counterparts to generate international investment in Ukraine and work with Ukraine to make the reforms necessary to improve Ukraine’s business climate.”

But I thought Joe Biden, as Obama's point man on Ukraine, had already cleaned up all the corruption there when he had Viktor Shokin fired huh? Well, I guess Penny will finish the job. At least, that was Joe's campaign slogan not long ago. Actualy, I think this move goes some way to explaining who's actually pulling Joe's strings. According to Wikipedia,

Penny Sue Pritzker (born May 2, 1959) is an American billionaire businesswoman and civic leader who served as the 38th United States secretary of commerce in the Obama administration from 2013 to 2017. She was confirmed by a Senate vote of 97–1.

Pritzker is a member of the prominent Pritzker family and was involved with the family business empire from a young age. She was eventually being appointed as one of three successors to her uncle, Jay Pritzker. . . . . She is on the board of Microsoft, and chair of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. As of October 2021, Forbes estimated her net worth at US$3.2 billion. In 2009, Forbes named Pritzker one of the 100 most powerful women in the world.

Before entering government service, Pritzker had been involved in many Chicago organizations, including the Chicago Board of Education, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and her own foundation, the Pritzker Traubert Family Foundation. Pritzker was an early supporter of Obama's presidential candidacy, having been a friend of the Obama family since their time in Chicago.

. . . She is the sister of J. B. Pritzker, the current governor of Illinois.

J B Pritzker, of course, is on the short list of potential replacements for Joe Biden, should Joe withdraw as a presidential candidate for 2024. Their cousin, James Nicholas Pritzker AKA Jennifer Natalya Pritzker, is the first transsexual billionaire, which should also give an insight into who's pulling that particular string on the puppet. The answer to the question of whether Obama is pulling Joe's strings is more like the Pritzkers have been pulling the strings on both, and they'll be pulling the strings on their replacements as well.

Also in last week's news:

The Clinton Foundation is back, and it’s headed to Ukraine.

Founded by former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the foundation put its annual “Clinton Global Initiative” on a hiatus for a few years when their relevance ebbed and fundraising dried up, but their scandal-plagued charity has returned with a plan to provide humanitarian relief to warn-torn Ukraine, complete with a benediction from Pope Francis.

. . . [T]he largest single contributor to the Clinton Foundation in the 2010s was one Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian oligarch whose fortune came from making piping used in the energy industry. In 2008, Mr. Pinchuk made a five-year, $29 million commitment to the Clinton Global Initiative. The pledge was to fund a program to train future Ukrainian leaders and professionals “to modernize Ukraine,” according to the Clinton Foundation.

And as of this year, everyone's gotten on board again with "modernizing Ukraine", but it's an idea that dates back to Joe's time collecting baksheesh from Ukrainian oligarchs as point man under Obama.. How's that working out? Larry Johnson at Gateway Pundit quotes Seymour Hersh's Substack behind a paywall:

There are significant elements in the American intelligence community, relying on field reports and technical intelligence, who believe that the demoralized Ukraine army has given up on the possibility of overcoming the heavily mined three-tier Russian defense lines and taking the war to Crimea and the four oblasts seized and annexed by Russia. The reality is that Volodymyr Zelensky’s battered army no longer has any chance of a victory.

The war continues, I have been told by an official with access to current intelligence, because Zelensky insists that it must. There is no discussion in his headquarters or in the Biden White House of a ceasefire and no interest in talks that could lead to an end to the slaughter. “It’s all lies,” the official said, speaking of the Ukrainian claims of incremental progress in the offensive that has suffered staggering losses, while gaining ground in a few scattered areas that the Ukrainian military measures in meters per week.

Why does Zelensky insist that the war continue? I don't think it's unreasonable to surmise that it's in his personal interest, as well as the interest of the oligarchs with whom he's allied. I think Larry Johnson at the same link misses the point:

[T]he Biden policy is to keep the war going. Politics is the guiding principle governing the Biden team’s decisions on Ukraine. The American leaders are content, so far, to ignore the military situation on the ground in Ukraine as long as it does not create political problems in the United States. They don’t give a damn about dead and dying Ukrainian soldiers. As long as they are convinced that Ukraine’s attacks on Russia are weakening Putin, Biden and his malevolent advisors will continue to fan the flames of war.

The Pritzkers and their new allies the Clintons aren't stupid, which is why they're pulling Joe's strings instead of the other way around. I don't think it's coincidental that they've come into the picture just as there's increasing indication that the war is at permanent stalemate while Biden, Sullivan, and Blinken insist we're in it for as long as it takes, in other words, forever.

I continue to think there's a skim going on with the Ukraine war. I can't avoid the conclusion that if this is so, it must benefit Zelensky and his allies directly, but there have got to be kickbacks to keep things going to parties in the US as well, quite likely laundered via philanthropy and political donations. That was Jeffrey Epstein's game, for instance, and the game of the people behind FTX as well.

That's why the Clintons and the Pritzkers are in it. It's also got to be big enough to be worth their time. In an interview with Jesse Watters last week, Sen J D Vance has the same idea:

JESSE WATTERS: . . . So Senator, when you see this new news about the Clinton Global Initiative Ukraine Action Network, and we've got Airbnb, you know, we've got famous Hollywood actors now involved, and the World Bank is kind of laundering American taxpayers through the Clintons into Ukraine, it could be a noble cause, yes, but it also seems a little suspicious, considering what the Clintons had been known for their entire career. Do you agree?

SEN. J.D. VANCE: Oh, I certainly agree, Jesse. I really guess that five years from now, we’re going to find out that between the Clintons and a number of American private equity firms and other hyper-global corporations that, you’re going to find a lot of people have gotten rich from this,. And it's really sad and it is really despicable because of course, the Ukrainians didn’t invite the war on themselves.

The indictment of Sen Menendez is just a distraction from the much bigger story.