This thread isn’t for that, but I can break down how you’re simply opposite of most of the facts:
You are correct in stating that Russia is corrupt, very corrupt down to the local level and among the people, because of how broken their infrastructure and society are under centuries of Tsars and after adopting atheism as the state religion during the Soviet times. They are one of the most corrupt nations in any international rating index. The way basic services and supply happen in Russia are through strange back-handed deals, benefits of who you know, or straight-up abuse of power.
Russians are inherently reckless people who have surrendered to the idea of a bad life due to poor geography, weather, and internal security apparatus designed to protect them from invaders who want to take back all the territory Russians have stolen from every single nation that borders them. They aren’t political, but know collectively they have to support whoever their current dictator or Tsar is, or suffer the brutal consequences. I lived there and can tell you they are not like other people. Human life is not valued the same in Russia as in the Western world. It’s more Asiatic, after they were ruled and raped by Mongols for 250 years.
US was allied with the USSR in WWII, which included Ukraine. One of the first official moves the Marxist FDR made upon assuming the US Presidency in 1933 was recognizing Stalin and the Communists as the leaders of Russia and Ukraine, not the legitimate Russian Nationalists. The Russian Holodomor Genocide against Ukraine was still ongoing, devolving into necrophagy after millions were forcibly starved to death on their own lands. This is one of the main motivating factors in Ukrainian independence.
This is why Ukrainians sided with the Nazis when they came through as liberators during WWII, which anyone here would have done as well with Stalin’s artificial famine imposed on them fresh in their minds.
As to mineral and oil deposits: Kharkiv has huge oil fields that were recently rediscovered, and they also discovered large fields right off the coast of Odessa. This threatened Russia’s sole provider status through the pipelines that already ran through northwest Ukraine, so Putin worked hard to suppress the development of these fields with his puppet, Yanukovych.
Putin also used Ukraine for laundering money into his own offshore bank accounts, and into the shell companies of the Clintons, Kerrys, Obamas, and Bidens. Burisma was a money-laundering apparatus for human and sex-trafficking, posing as a small energy company. When Putin lost his puppet Yanukovych in 2014, he had already laid the preparations for blocking the ensuing investigations into Burisma by bribing Vice President Biden and SECSTATE John Kerry using one of his billionaire oligarchs, Elena Baturina, to wire $3.5 million to Rosemont Seneca.
This is one of the biggest scandals in US history that isn’t being covered properly in any media because Americans are largely ignorant of foreign affairs, and can’t see past partisan lenses. There are also a lot of people on both sides of the aisle who have benefitted financially from money-laundering and investments with insider-trading deals that were built to insulate Putin and his accomplices in US political circles from being exposed.
The US doesn’t need oil in Ukraine since we are energy-independent and a net exporter of refined petroleum. Any claims of US interests in minerals or resources in Ukraine are minuscule in comparison to Russian imperatives to control those resources.
Ukraine themselves voted by 79% to open more trade relations with Europe, not be stuck under Russia’s boot. That was in 2013, and then Putin’s puppet Yanukovych signed onto Putin’s Russia-Eurasia Economic Pact. That’s what triggered the Euromaiden protests for 4 months until Yanukovych fled back to Putin. There was no coup, as Russians claim.
Then the money started flowing to Vice President Biden’s crackhead son
Hunter, who had just been kicked out of Navy for pissing hot on a urinalysis for cocaine (piss test was 2013, kicked out in 2014). The shell company that Putin’s oligarch wired the money to was Rosemont Seneca, also headed by SECSTATE John Kerry’s stepson, Chris Heinz.
Putin didn’t want his Burisma front company investigated under a regime in Kiev that he could not control, so the long-time traitor Biden and Kerry families were front-and-center willing to use their children as intermediaries to insulate their daddy’s.
Once Poroshenko was elected, he appointed a prosecutor named Viktor Shokin to head-up the anti-corruption cases of his predecessor, who wasn’t allowed to let things progress along their natural paths.
Notice who fought hard to get Shokin fired? Vice President Joe Biden, Obama, the European Central Bank, IMF, and Putin. If you study the Panama Papers, you will see what’s actually going on in the world of criminal elite financiers and their offshore accounts.
Poroshenko didn’t want to fire Shokin because he knew Shokin was trustworthy and would do a great job of finding the criminals involved in pilfering the Ukrainian economy, subverting its government, and keeping it depressed under Russian rule. As a result, there was a sniper assassination attempt on Shokin, but his ballistic windows in his office protected him from being hit. Biden then made the famous threats of withholding $1 Billion in US/IMF aid to Ukraine unless Poroshenko fired Shokin, and Shokin was officially let go but covertly allowed to continue the investigation into Burisma. Then he was poisoned. These facts are absent any of the mainstream coverage of Viktor Shokin, but when you put it all together, it paints a very clear picture of what is happening.
The main conspirators in all of this are:
Vladimir Putin, George Soros, Barrack Obama, Joe Biden, John Kerry, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Hunter Biden, Chris Heinz, James Biden
Putin paid millions into the above people’s shell companies and accounts in exchange for access to nuclear materials in the Uranium One scandal with the Clintons and Obama/Biden WH, millions into the accounts of John Kerry and the Bidens for Burisma, and I suspect that there are conspirators providing shipments of actively-produced US war material to Russia as we speak.
How else would pallets of Hornady precision ammunition show up to Russia for their Snipers? Hornady isn’t doing that. Someone is purchasing large quantities and shipping it under some type of official cover and getting it into Russia with the blessing of operatives inside the Biden Commerce Dept. There are very tight controls on freight, especially ammunition. It has to be shipped with Shipper’s Declaration of Dangerous Goods with lots of forms and inspections by off-loaders and onloaders at any transport hubs, whether by air or sea.
