Greed is a universal vice. It can be understood among the poor, though not among the rich, and yet ironically the rich are often the greediest. Many are willing to sell their souls for riches. After all, greed is the foundation and motivation of the capitalist system. In this respect many fingerpoint at the USA, ‘the land of the dollar’.
However, in my experience, most ordinary Americans are very generous, and not at all greedy. Greed is universal, among all peoples, though it does not exist among all, by any means, so generalisations are dangerous. In this respect many point at Ukrainian greed. Is there any truth in this? Let us look at some little-known facts first.
In 2021, the population of the Soviet-created Ukraine was not 50 million or 40 million, as it had been two, three and four decades before. By 2021 it was in fact 31 million. My many visits to the Ukraine on Church matters between 2012 and 2021 showed me that, as elsewhere in Russia and Eastern Europe, which I know well, women were not having children. You just did not see children in the street.
Families of one child were already extremely common by 2021. The general breakdown of family life because of the end of Communism and, far worse, after Communism, was clear to anyone. After all, why have children in countries which have no future, except endemic corruption, crime, alcoholism and as a result crumbling infrastructure? It is understandable.
Many young people were emigrating from Eastern Europe well before 2021. Countries like the Baltic States lost half of their population to the rest of the all-conquering EU and this is true of Moldova and the Ukraine too. For example, from the 90s on it became common to speak of ‘Russian brides’, but usually they were Ukrainians. Some were just poor women, who had no future in which so many men had been reduced to alcoholism or crime after the fall of Communism. I understand. However, some were gold-diggers with a strong sense of entitlement.
This incredibly low birthrate was the background to the Russian Special Military Operation of 24 February 2022. With mainly Ukrainian soldiers, from eastern Ukraine, who considered that they were fighting for their homeland from Kiev oppression, the Operation began to protect Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the south and east of the Ukraine.
They wanted to protect their families from the ongoing genocide run by Nazi Kiev and also from its threats, especially nuclear and biological, to Russia. The then population had been reduced to 31 million not just by the refusal to have children, but also by the millions who had already emigrated to Russia (the main destination, as ‘Ukrainians’ who lived in eastern Ukraine went there), but also many went to Belarus, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia and even further, especially to Germany.
What happened next? Under the influence of the wild propaganda of Kiev, invented by its Western puppeteers, panic set in. ‘The Russians will be in your homes in two weeks’ time, raping, murdering, stealing everything, as they have nothing themselves’. It was all the familiar delusional Western narrative, repeated from World War II. It was all nonsense, but many fell for it.
Up to another ten million fled from February 2022 on, especially to Russia, where many were evacuated to for safety’s sake. The population of the Ukraine today is fewer than twenty million, for hundreds of thousands have died in the army and millions live in the four new ex-Ukrainian, Russian provinces in the south and east.
True, there were the intelligent young Ukrainian men who fled. This was because otherwise they knew that they would be sent to fight and die and if they did not go at once, they would have to pay thousands of dollars in bribes to border-guards to get out a few days later. And many a Ukrainian mother protected her sons in this way. Why should young Ukrainian men die for the USA and its Nazi puppet-regime in Kiev? All this was worthy of praise in the most corrupt country in the world. There was no greed here
In reality, not all Ukrainians who fled in 2022 were actual refugees. Kiev and plenty of other cities are still operating today, the supermarkets are full, there are traffic jams on the roads, building sites work, garages are open, shops, schools, offices all operate in the same way as before. Ukrainians in England sensibly go back home for proper medical and dental treatment, unlike the third world medical treatment (‘take a paracetamol’) they receive in England. All go back to visit family, going through Poland by train.
Most ‘refugees’ never lived anywhere near the war and some left only after they had rented out their flats to other Ukrainians so that they could live in the West for free. For political reasons, Western countries offered them everything. And who would refuse free travel, free housing, free studies, free EU citizenship, a free holiday, free everything? (While at the same time letting poor and real Asian and African refugees from US wars die on the way to Europe, as they seek refuge, and also as Western governments leave their own citizens out in the cold). Such hypocrisy is traditional in the West. However, all the hypocrisy has done is to increase tenfold the Ukrainian sense of entitlement.
Everyone in Europe has seen some Ukrainian ‘refugees’ in their swanky German cars, not least in poor Moldova. Some register as refugees in two countries and get benefits in both. And Ukrainian prostitutes are everywhere. Cynics say that after the conflict, which will surely end in the disastrous collapse of Kiev and quite soon, Ukrainians will suddenly stop speaking Ukrainian and dust off their Russian, which virtually all can speak and well. If the Russians are going to pay better, why not speak Russian? It is easy to condemn all this, but only if you do not live there and have not been through the bitter consequences of the collapse of the USSR.
That Ukrainian sense of entitlement is embodied in Zelensky himself, who never stops asking for more, 50 billion here, 80 billion there, 40 billion elsewhere. And much of the money disappears into the pockets of Zelensky and the other, mainly Jewish oligarchs (like Kolomoisky, his boss, or Poroshenko, his predecessor) to pay for villas in Tel Aviv, mansions in west London and luxury condominiums in Miami. But if the West is stupid enough to give it to them, who would refuse? Much of the rest of the money has gone into the pockets of arms merchants, Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing, BAE Systems etc and their politician friends who vote for their lobbies.
To get the job that the CIA was offering him, the actor Zelensky had first to improve his English and learn Ukrainian, which he hardly spoke, learn the scripts, written for him by US and UK PR agents and their Hollywood scriptwriters in Kiev, and dress as he was told, as any actor does. He had hit the big time; the world was his screen.
But at what cost? He had to sell his soul. 925,000 dead and wounded Ukrainian men so far and the country bankrupt. It promises nothing for the birthrate, now standing at 0.5 children per woman. The Ukraine is dying out. That was the choice they made. As they say: Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Satan is now exacting his price from those who sold their souls to him.