Ukraines Billionaires Corrupt Our Guys Or Bad Dudes
preparedness"It's levels of corruptness. At the end of the day, is it about right or wrong, or is it about objectives?" Boone on Ukrainian oligarchs — the word "corrupt" gets used to remove people from the game, but who decides who's corrupt and who's useful? When someone says "I've denounced Putin, I'm Ukrainian to the core" — look at our own past with the same lens.
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it's levels of corruptness and at the end of the day is it is it about right or wrong or is it about objectives you know i think more than not it's always about objectives right right one of the things that we've been exploring and i'm going to get a little bit off topic but i think it's important because we again we're talking about the oligarch thing so so we're we're on the topic but when when we start to remove people from the game we talked about this first guy earlier and we're removing him from the game with the words that the article is using. And if that person says, I've denounced Putin, I've said I'm Ukrainian to the core, I wanna help. Look at our own past, right? And on the show, we've talked about this quite a bit. Carnegie, Mellon, all of these captains of industry, they invested in the country in times of war and in times of peace. And as time went on, there was less and less industrialism, more things like using your brain to make money. There aren't that many people making steel in the United States anymore. But when we needed their help financially, when we needed their industrial might, man, we had it, right? But we seem to forget that when it comes to a place like Ukraine. And we want to remove these people because of a past that we don't like or don't understand or don't bother to understand. And so we want to remove these characters out because they were at one point Russians or they know, or they're not, they're not our people. Right. Right. Yeah. Our people, if we're going to have somebody corrupt in there, we want our corrupt guy in there. I think that's the right way to put it. Yeah. That guy Pinchuk who, who gives money to the Atlantic council. He's famous for cutting checks to American pop artists and great. Right. But you and I, we've seen this in Iraq, right? The guy that wears the right kind of suit and speaks English, he gets the money. And the shake that's like, Hey man, I got wives. I got problems. I got things to do. I don't got to talk to you. I don't, I don't need your problem in my life. Right. And so we don't like that guy. He becomes a problem. And you know what we do on the army side, at least the army side, I don't speak to that specifically. We want to kill that guy. I mean, legitimately like that guy's a problem. He's not nice to us. He doesn't ever want, he waves at us and just like, get out of here. You know, we're like, oh, that guy hates us. And so we literally like, how do we kill this guy? We'll listen to his phone calls and we'll decide that he's a bad dude, no matter if he's a bad dude or not, right? And so what I know about us as a country is that once we decide a billionaire, a millionaire, a businessman is a bad person and we start writing bad stories, the story only goes in one direction. It doesn't ever allow that person to say, but I'm a Ukrainian. I want to help. I'm desperate to do this. We don't let that happen. I can't find anybody that can name a billionaire in Ukraine who's an established person, not some person who's like, I work in computers and tech. I can't find anybody that can tell me a billionaire in Ukraine who's worth a damn.
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