Why would a US head of state not be there?
The CEO of BlackRock will soon be the US head of state too
They already have the German chancellorship
Because he's one of the primary stakeholders in this war. It was never about Ukraine, the real benefactors of this war are the ones that will sit at the table
Don't they unironically own Ukraine now?
Russia will own eastern Ukraine, and blackrock will own western
That all depends on whether the US manages to come up with a deal that's acceptable to Russia. There is a very real scenario where Russia simply decides to take over all of Ukraine once the AFU fighting capacity collapses. It's also worth noting that eastern regions are the ones where most of the industry, farm land, and resources are. So, the west isn't going to be much of a prize to begin with.
Also hypothetically US/western attempts to start a contra style insurgency maybe be harder to start in east where there are more Russian first language people(not that that necessarily means tendency to support russia over the west, the original Azov(before the mass recruitment since the start of the hot war for example were primarily russian-first language speakers) and a higher % of people for voted for the more pro-russian parties over the pro-EU/west ones(at least before the last freeish election before the coup), making the west less desirable if russia was concerned with dealing with said attempts
I think you got east/west flipped, but yes
before the mass recruitment since the start of the hot war for example were primarily russian-first language speakers
Before the war barely anyone outside the very far west of Ukraine spoke Ukrainian as a first language, even nowadays most rapid ukrainian refugees still speak russian as their first language and actually have to learn ukrainian. Using language/reported ethnicity will not give you a clear picture of how people in eastern and southern ukraine feel (like Bad Empanada claiming that because 60% something of Donbass called itself ukrainian in 2001, that means evul ruzzia is doing colonialism, mind you there is the legacy of the Ukrainian SSR and opposed to that is the NAFO SS Galicia based Ukraine and both sides use "Ukrainian" as identifier).
A big chunk of it was sold off to them by the regime, and I'm guessing that's one of the reasons the US is now scrambling to make some sort of a deal. Once Russia takes over these regions, then BlackRock is going to lose out on their investment.
We already cleared out all that land of Ukrainians. The land might as well go to some poor deserving soul like the BlackRock CEO.
He was promised it 3000 years ago
Ukrainian Nazis believe thats actually the plan.
America is every bit the corporate hellscape they invision Korea to be. And they've made it everyone's problem
Hey let's not let Hell Korea off the hook, they really are a corporate nightmare where their leaders are controlled by billionaire families and cults. Just like their American overlords.
Do liberals think of South Korea as a corporate hellscape? I thought that's already a bit anti imperialist.
Liberals know, they just think the issue is lack of democracy and authoritarianism, and you can solve this by... voting.
Ever since Kurzgesagt did that whack video about SK is dying11!!!1 they actual do now - of course its more pogging at the "literally cyperpunk 2077" vibes. Most libs have evolved into pro-antitrust laws and bringing back mom & pop shops, while venerating the neo-yeoman imagery of the humble bussiness owner making his coin in the "land of opportunity".
Ironically this is a very old ideological tendency present in america and which national imagery bernhard sanders evoked.
If you anti trust Samsung, would South Korea balkanize into little fiefdoms, one for each baby Samsung?
It would be annexed by north korea, as it should have been.
he is the new president of ukraine
Probably own the country now
The Black Sea is burning. The breadbasket of the world is becoming a battlefield.
This will only increase the rate of revolutions, wars and counter-revolutions throughout the world. It is another aspect to the present revolutionary junction that humanity has found itself in.
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