Things Have Reached Exactly the Point We, the Anti-Slava Camp, Expected. Ukraine Has Officially Become a Mafia State!
The subject I want to address today is Ukraine, and the long-standing concerns that I and the members of the GOLD Think Tank have had about the problems we would eventually face with this country. Ukraine was already deeply penetrated by mafia-style structures back then, but that reality has now, in my view, become official. Let me quickly remind you of a series of events that are not characteristic of a normal state but are, I repeat, characteristic of a mafia state.
Take, for example, the Ukrainian billionaires who were indicted but managed to flee the country, whether a year ago or three years ago. Among them are the well-known Ihor Kolomoisky and Timur Mindich, Ukrainian billionaires of Jewish origin.
Kolomoisky was the man who created, promoted and financed Zelensky from the time when he was still an obscure actor, eventually helping him become president. Timur Mindich, meanwhile, was a former shareholder alongside Zelensky in several companies and effectively served as one of his financial conduits. Both ultimately managed to escape after enriching themselves considerably.
Then there are the accusations brought by German prosecutors against Ukrainians suspected of sabotaging Nord Stream, an infrastructure investment that belonged not only to Germany but was of strategic importance to the European Union and its member states, as it was intended to secure access to cheap Russian gas. That case is still before the courts. Or consider what happened last week in central Kyiv, where a confrontation involving gunfire reportedly broke out between two Ukrainian intelligence services, leaving people wounded and possibly dead.
Of course, it was claimed that one side represented the interests of the CIA and the other those of MI6, and that the confrontation was actually part of a struggle over who will control Ukraine in the future. But this too is a feature of a mafia state: intelligence services fighting one another and exchanging gunfire in the streets. Then there is the theft, documented by international organizations, of tens of billions of dollars from Western and American wartime aid.
I remind you that large amounts of this money were stolen, including through Romanian channels, with the involvement of people connected to the Romanian Armed Forces. Some of them were even arrested. There has also been the resale of weapons. Some of the weapons supplied as military aid were allegedly resold by various criminal networks operating within the Ukrainian military to terrorist organizations and to countries in Africa and even Asia. There are many more examples. The so-called mainstream media concealed them one after another because, in my view, that was the instruction they had been given. Until yesterday, despite all the examples I have just listed, people like me could only speculate that Ukraine had become a mafia state. After all, people like me are routinely branded conspiracy theorists, KGB agents or Putin sympathizers. So when does a state become a mafia state?
I will ask the question and answer it myself. It happens when the security structures of that state, public order and the administration of justice are controlled by people who behave like mafiosi, people who break the law while abusing state institutions for their own personal benefit. That is precisely what we are seeing here. And yesterday, in my view, it became official. Ukraine’s outgoing Prosecutor General, Kravchenko, whom I discussed last week, had been under investigation and was reportedly close to being arrested by NABU, Ukraine’s well-known anti-corruption body, which I consider to be under American influence. According to reports, he avoided arrest only after taking refuge inside Zelensky’s Presidential Office. Last night, Kravchenko then left Ukraine, crossing the border in an official government vehicle.
There appears to be broad agreement, both in Ukraine and in the West, that the departure of a Prosecutor General who was under investigation and allegedly close to arrest could not have taken place without the explicit approval of President Volodymyr Zelensky. Kravchenko left in an official vehicle, claimed that he was traveling to Lithuania, crossed the border without difficulty and was gone. But before leaving, the outgoing Prosecutor General did something else. According to reports published by Flux24, Kravchenko signed an indictment against whom, exactly? Against the director of NABU, the anti-corruption body that had nearly arrested him. And only after doing so was he allowed to leave the country. In other words, he performed one final service for Zelensky. Why do I say it was a service for Zelensky? Because the NABU director targeted by Kravchenko is the same man whose institution opened criminal investigations into numerous members of Zelensky’s inner circle, people accused of stealing European funds, Western aid and money belonging to Ukrainians before fleeing the country. Kravchenko also recorded a video statement before leaving. In other words, he was made to record a video in which he accused the very person who had sought to arrest him of corruption. That was the same anti-corruption official whose investigation had contributed to Kravchenko’s resignation a week earlier.
NABU had alleged that not only Kravchenko but also several of his deputies were involved in corruption, theft, extortion and even torture carried out in exchange for money. NABU effectively dismantled this network. It also, according to these allegations, established a direct connection between Kravchenko, the Prosecutor General who fled the country during the night, and President Volodymyr Zelensky. The conclusion, in my view, is clear. There are public sources available to anyone who wishes to challenge what I am saying: as of yesterday, Ukraine has officially become a mafia state. I have said it before and I will say it again. Ukraine was already a mafia state four years ago, when I warned on Gold FM that we Romanians would eventually suffer because of the West’s unconditional support for Ukraine.
Why? Because I know the issue well and have studied it. Ukraine has been, is and will remain a state hostile to Romania and to Romanians. There are many reasons. They range from the territories that I believe rightfully belong to Romania, including Northern Bukovina, to what I regard as a broader resentment toward Romania because Ukraine sees our country as being in a stronger geopolitical position. I learned this directly from a veteran Ukrainian security official whom I met through judo competitions. And the evidence, in my view, is also visible in the way the Romanian minority in Ukraine has been treated and in the treatment of Romanian Orthodox priests. The situation is clear. Four years ago, when I was making these arguments, Ukraine was already dangerous. Today, it is even more dangerous for Romania, because it has now, in my view, openly consolidated itself as a mafia state while also being armed to the teeth. Ukraine may now be the most heavily armed country in Europe. And, importantly, it enjoys the support of what is often called the Collective West. That is the same Collective West on which Romania relies for its own protection. We turn toward the Collective West and expect it to defend us, while in reality, I would argue, it is protecting the Ukrainian mafia state.
Half-jokingly but half-seriously, I could therefore say that if the Zelensky regime ever becomes hostile toward Romania and attacks us, we may ultimately find ourselves relying on Putin and his people, because Romania would not be capable of withstanding a Ukrainian attack on its own. The Collective West would not defend us. So we might find ourselves knocking on the door of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. And I remind him once again, in the hope that eventually he will hear it, that Russia owes Romania a debt following what I consider the great betrayal of Romania by the Gorbachev regime. In my view, Gorbachev, whom I regard as an MI6 asset of Jewish origin, betrayed not only the Soviet state but also all of its allies prior to 1989.
