JACK POSOBIEC and DARREN BEATTIE: Ukraine is a ‘playground’ for the deep state


Jack Posobiec hosted Darren Beattie on Tuesday’s episode of Human Events Daily to further discuss Hunter Biden’s blanked pardon from his father Joe Biden and their shady dealings in Ukraine.

The pair called the Bidens’ schemes “low-level” and “unsophisticated.” Beattie explained that many deep state families such as the Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas have intricate networks to funnel corruption through. Something that the Biden family simply doesn’t have.

What they did have was Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that Hunter Biden sat on the board of and raked in millions of foreign income from.

The host and Beattie then got into the corruption that has run rampant through Ukraine in general, allowing for deep state players such as the Biden family to commit nefarious dealings.

With Ukraine in the midst of a war that is not going well for the country, Posobiec asked, “Is it true that if Zelensky’s regime collapses, that the issue isn’t that Zelensky is going to fall apart, but actually a lot of dirty laundry is going to be exposed?”

“Well, yes, I mean, in a nutshell, Ukraine has functioned as a playground for a wide range of corruption activities on the part of Deep State, on the part of this Atlanticist faction of our national security community,” Beattie responded. “It’s a place where there’s virtually zero accountability. It’s largely lawless.”

Beattie explained that in reality, a handful of wealthy oligarchs in Ukraine have been running the country behind the scenes, adding that, “because it has so little accountability, corruption can run rampant, and it’s a place where US forces can engage in extreme corruption, violence, funding groups like Azov, you name it.”

He stated that if the United States’ “dirty laundry” were aired, “it would be severely damaging to a lot of people you know, going all the way back to McCain and even before that.”

Watch the full episode below.

This Story originally came from humanevents.com

 


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