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A Story About Corruption
I want to share with my readers this piece from Volymedia. They have not confirmed it. No way I could confirm this either. However, it’s a textbook on how things do happen in corrupt nations and how states are looted. That this happens to be Russia is just the cherry on top. As a system, it could be in a few countries, in Latin America, for example. Perhaps, less obvious, and to a much lower extent, in a few places in the United States. We are not above this, just that we are not this crass. Nor does it happen at this level. City Councils, and county commissions, sure. This is the equivalent of a governor doing this.
So here is the piece, and think when you read it how easily a system like this could be replicated in the private sector as well:
How to get money twice for one line of defense
Today, one of our sources in the Russian Defense Ministry told a story that we decided to share with you. It is still impossible to verify it, but this is the case when the story so accurately conveys the morals and orders in the Russian “elites” that it is worth publishing. Of course, with the clarification that so far this is nothing more than a bike.
So, on March 29, in Bryansk, the deputy governor of the region, Nikolai Simonenko, who was responsible for the construction of a fortification line on the border with Ukraine, was…