by Alla Pierce, … for Veterans Today

[ Editor’s Note: Alla Pierce brings us another one of her stories from the field, the result of good old fashioned citizen journalism…getting your boots on the ground to dig out a story.

VT has published a number of articles on what happens to a country that is broke, with corrupt leadership stealing anything it can get its hands on, where everyone is desperate to put a “traveling fund” stash together so they can bail out to the EU when they are able.

Ukraine was not a poor country in terms of its educational system and technology skills. Russia supported that community heavily by giving it a lot of contracts, from its space program to weapons production. All this long term, and critically needed trade for Ukraine, went up in smoke when the coup puppets thought ditching Russia was a good long term play.

The disastrous results show that idea blew up in their face. The country has been buried under in debt, and asset stripped by US and Western predators, which was a key purpose in their coming “to help” Ukraine in the first place.

It reminds me of an unknown quote by Nikita Khrushchev, and the reason why being obvious: “Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man.”

Ukraine will never be able to pay its every growing debt, so it is doomed to…