Corrupt and Despotic Ukraine Is Not Worth Fighting WWIII

This war is about money, not saving ‘democracy.’

J.B. Shurk | August 1, 2026

Seeing Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Senator Lindsey Graham’s funeral seemed fitting: Z-Man’s money-laundering operation in Kyiv was the proximate cause of Graham’s death.  Had the senator not been working so hard to add to the butcher’s bill in Europe, he would still be alive today.  Surely there is a lesson here for some people to see.

I know there are plenty of pro-Ukraine cheerleaders who just cannot stomach any criticism of an ongoing military conflict that has now lasted longer than WWII.  However, I have never seen this as anything other than a civil war that British, European, and American globalists have exploited for monetary and geopolitical reasons that have nothing to do with the sovereignty of Ukraine.  

Ukraine is not a member of the European Union.  It is not a member of NATO.  If Ukraine’s diminutive dictator wishes to turn what’s left of his country into a parking lot, so be it.  Let the weight of this folly fall on the head of a comedian who has led his country to slaughter and will leave it a rump of its former self.  When the war finally ends, the multinational investment firms will recycle the carnage into reconstruction profits.  Ukraine will be stripped and sold for parts.  Its people will live in other countries.  Foreigners from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East will be dumped into Ukraine by the millions to make up for the rump state’s depleted workforce.  Ukraine will never look the same.  And future historians will wonder why a comedian was allowed to destroy an entire nation.

It’s not as if the Ukrainian people have had a choice in this matter.  Elections have been canceled.  Public dissent is outlawed.  Opposition political parties are outlawed.  Even church services are outlawed if the Christian congregations are seen to have Russian sympathies.  The fact that millions of military-aged Ukrainians have refused to fight (by either fleeing the country or hiding from Kyiv’s brutal press-gangs on the streets) suggests that they do not see this conflict as worth the cost of........

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