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As for corruption: Tim Mak, independent journalist embedded for the past year in Ukraine, explains in his Substack how Ukraine has an active National Agency for Corruption Prevention.

https://open.substack.com/pub/counteroffensive/p/ukrainian-corruption?r=3usur&utm_medium=ios

Also one must consider that Ukraine has a vested interest in tackling its corruption problem since they want to become members of NATO.

As for US credibility hingeing on our response to Ukraine: the Taiwanese are watching closely.

https://open.substack.com/pub/counteroffensive/p/we-visited-the-border-waters-between?r=3usur&utm_medium=ios

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Ukraine actually has built a pretty robust anticorruption infrastructure that includes not just NABU but other agencies. And they're doing all this while Russia bombs them and murders their people. Not that the vatniks care.

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It's ALL politics, since they don't have a 'vested' interest in the success or failure, nor the deaths their games have caused... Grrrr...

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I hate it. Seriously. How can anyone take anyone seriously?

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With politicians, you can't. They could care less about anything but power. THEIR power.

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