Thou shall not bury yer dead on BlackRock’s land!(this is probably a fake story but morbidly entertaining)
While the Ukrainians are made to die on the battlefield, the Zelensky regime sells Ukrainian land to international financiers. This is the reality of modern war, the poor schmucks are forced to defend “Western democracy”, or what not, in their own piss and shit, in trenches in Eastern Ukraine. Their wives are cuckolding them while they are away. And Vanguard buys all the fields…
Having something to fight for is very important. Recruitment in Russia is largely voluntary, in Ukraine they literally have to snatch men off the streets…
This ain’t me saying this. A new report from Oakland Institute does.
“Despite being at the center of news cycle and international policy, little attention has gone to the core of the conflict — who controls the agricultural land in the country known as the breadbasket of Europe. Answer to this question is paramount to understanding the major stakes in the war,” said Frédéric Mousseau, Oakland Institute’s Policy Director and co-author of the report.
My friends, I have said this before, Russia needs to come out of this war holding the most of the Ukrainian Chernozem Belt. In a sense, this will be a liberation because these international financiers are banned by sanctions to invest in Russia.
The total amount of land controlled by oligarchs, corrupt individuals, and large agribusinesses is over nine million hectares — exceeding 28 percent of Ukraine’s arable land. The largest landholders are a mix of Ukrainian oligarchs and foreign interests — mostly European and North American as well as the sovereign fund of Saudi Arabia. Prominent US pension funds, foundations, and university endowments are invested through NCH Capital, a US-based private equity fund.
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Several agribusinesses, still largely controlled by oligarchs, have opened up to Western banks and investment funds — including prominent ones such as Kopernik, BNP, or Vanguard — who now control part of their shares. Most of the large landholders are substantially indebted to Western funds and institutions, notably the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the World Bank.
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Western financing to Ukraine in recent years has been tied to a drastic structural adjustment program that has required austerity and privatization measures, including the creation of a land market for the sale of agricultural land. President Zelenskyy put the land reform into law in 2020 against the will of the vast majority of the population who feared it would exacerbate corruption and reinforce control by powerful interests in the agricultural sector. Findings of the report concur with these concerns. While large landholders are securing massive financing from Western financial institutions, Ukrainian farmers — essential for ensuring domestic food supply — receive virtually no support. With the land market in place, amidst high economic stress and war, this difference of treatment will lead to more land consolidation by large agribusinesses.
Few Ukrainians realize that treason is salvation and liberation…
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