West Discovers Corruption Only When Convenient
Funny how 'corruption' only becomes a headline when it’s politically useful. Long before the current conflict, Ukraine was a well-documented haven of graft, earning a 2021 Corruption Perception Index score of 32 out of 100 on par with countries like Gambia and Eswatini. The West, particularly the US, has been fully aware of this endemic issue while simultaneously pouring billions into the country.
The former Vice President Biden even famously bragged about leveraging US aid to oust a prosecutor investigating a company tied to his son's dealings. So, the 'West 'massaging narrative'' is less about revealing a new truth and more about selectively amplifying an old truth. It's not that corruption is *suddenly* a problem; it's that certain players are now *allowed* to talk about it without being
immediately branded as Kremlin sympathizers. One might wonder if the next step is to declare mission accomplished by 'cleansing' just enough to justify continued funding, while the same old power structures remain fundamentally untouched.