On November 10, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) exposed an alleged $110 million corruption scheme at state-owned nuclear company Energoatom. The charges are supported by a fifteen-month wiretap and over seventy searches carried out as part of a major investigation called Operation Midas.

According to NABU officials, the investigation uncovered a criminal enterprise run by Timur Mindich, a film producer and a former business partner of Zelenskyy. Additional suspects include former Minister of Energy and recently appointed Minister of Justice Herman Halushchenko; former Naftogaz CEO and Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Chernyshov; former Minister of Defense and current National Security and Defense Council member Rustem Umerov; and Ihor Myroniuk, former deputy head of the State Property Fund and former advisor to Halushchenko.

Mindich fled Ukraine the day before his premises were raided and is reportedly now in Israel.

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      Did he suck a horse dick and get blackmailed by Putin?

      Do you really believe that Putin could have any fucking leverage with such photo/video? Fuck years ago was Putin having photo/video of Trump doing golden shower, now is a horse. Trump would just ignore that shit like he is doing with the Epstein scandal.

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        Russia could have video of pee games in a Moscow hotel. Unless Trump blew Bubba in Russia, there’d be no reason for FSB to have been at the party.

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          You think he did that because of a photo/video of him sucking a horse??? Why not because is just more profitable for him? Do you really think MAGA people will start moving from Trump because of that? They are already trying to justify the entire Epstein shit. They can convince themselves that the horse thing is AI/fake news or whatever stupid excuse.

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              So why Trump would do anything for Putin over a leak of him sucking a horse, if his base doesn’t care would not change the result of the election. How that would impact anything for Trump? Why not just buy him with money/crypto/assets/information?

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                This is literally the best argument. Trump will do anything for money and gold, why do things the hard way?

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                I think it’s a convenient time to character assassinate Zelensky if you’re trying to put pressure on him to push him into a bad deal that benefits Russia.

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          A Russian agent

          this shit reminds me of medieval serfs who would swear that the new, bad king is a puppet of the rival dynasty or the Pope or whatever. This Russian puppet thing was a masterstroke of propaganda, because it gave liberals, who were already American exceptionalists, the perfect excuse to substitute xenophobia for an actual critique of capitalism. Could Trump be a result of and manifestation of a rancid homegrown ideology that arose from the contradictions between the classes? No, he’s being controlled by the bad foreigners. Hell, I bet Hitler was a puppet of Rasputin, and the third reich was all just a Russian plot to weaken Germany .

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              Evidence

              Something something Mueller Report

              blowing a horse

              Something something Pee Tapes

              Wikipedia

              Just lol

              Are you a bot?

              Everyone who does not believe my simple nationalist conspiracy answer to the incredibly broad questions of class antagonism and capitalist social decay is simply not a real person: a soothing fairy tale for nascent fascists-in-training.