Ukraine police find 42 kg of gold in home of ex-energy minister

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24. I'm saying I would not be surprised if Putin encouraged corruption to the extent

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the Ukrainian debt rose astronomically. You know...race the country into the ground knowing the Europeans would insist on some form of austerity. I read it was $20 Billion the Ukrainians needed and only $9 or 10 Billion the EU was offering. The Russians offered a bit more plus discounted prices on fuel from their pipelines to the tune of another $7 Billion. Making the Ukrainians forced to go there and join with Russia. The same as Ronnie Reagan did when he upped the arms race and ran the Soviet Union into the ground. Or what George W. Bush did when he gave tax cuts to the rich to force a higher debt and the resulting austerity and cuts in social programs the GOP hoped it would force Bush's successor to enact. After all the amount of Ukraine money stolen by corruption has to go somewhere. I doubt it would be put in the West. Some of it must be in Russia. I'm sure Putin would know part of it.