It’s as simple as this:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has the goods on Joe Biden. If he were to affirm what is already known, but denied by Democrats, the whole world — including corporate media — would pay attention. And that would be the end of Biden.
What is already known? That the Bidens reaped at least $10 million in bribes from Burisma, the huge Ukrainian oil producer, for access to U.S. officials and for arranging the firing of Ukraine’s attorney general, who was probing the corrupt dealings of Burisma.
Why is Zelenskyy holding back? Because as long as he holds back, and as long as Biden remains in the White House, the U.S. will continue to support Ukraine. With that support — hundreds of billions of dollars in arms and aid — Zelenskyy has been able to reject a peace offering from Russia and to prolong the war with Russia?
The cost? The deaths of tens of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians, the stoppage of Russian gas exports to the West, and the disruption of other trade (now extending to Ukraine’s vital grain exports).
Western Europe and the U.S. have (thus far) been spared deaths in combat, but they (that is, you and I and hundreds of millions like us) have paid and will continue to pay a high economic price for Zelenskyy’s extortion of the most corrupt president in America’s history.
Nor will Western Europe and the U.S. be spared deaths in combat (including civilian deaths) if the present hostilities take a turn that involves escalation to a NATO-Russia ground war — or worse.
Related reading:
David DeCamp, “Putin Shows African Leaders Draft Treaty on Ukrainian Neutrality from March 2022”, Antiwar.com, June 18, 2023
Victor Davis Hanson, “The Ukraine-American
Gordian Knot”, American Greatness, June 19, 2023
David Sacks, “The Truth About Ukraine’s Failing Counteroffensive And The Peace That Could Have Been”, The Federalist, June 20, 2023