The corruption and the lies of the Western narrative are falling out like bodies from a rotten sack.

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The corruption fiasco that exploded last week in Ukraine shows beyond any doubt that the Kiev regime, headed up by Vladimir Zelensky, is an unmitigated disgrace and fraud. But it is not just the Kiev regime that is exposed as reprehensible. Its Western sponsors – governments, NATO, and the entire news media – are also outed for the corrupt facade that they are.

Washington may now exploit the chance to force the criminal cabal in Kiev to accept a peace deal that President Trump unveiled this week, as he desperately wants to extricate the United States from a disastrous proxy war. The European rulers, on the other hand, are, for different reasons, more tied to the sinking, stinking ship.

Zelensky, who cancelled elections last year and continues in office by decree rather than democratic mandate, and his inner circle of ministers and business associates have finally been caught with their hands in the cookie jar, allegedly helping themselves to $100 million in graft and kickbacks – all paid for courtesy of Western taxpayers. Still, that figure is only crumbs compared with the billions that have been siphoned off by the regime and its Western backers.

Since the military conflict erupted in Ukraine nearly four years ago, in February 2022, many objective observers have contended that it was a proxy war against Russia for the Western powers in a geopolitical confrontation. Ukraine was only a pawn in the bloody game. An essential driver for the proxy war was the corruption and payoffs to Zelensky and his regime to keep the whole military confrontation going, on the calculation that it would lead to the “strategic defeat of Russia.”

The Western propaganda narrative told by Western governments and the controlled corporate media was an impossible fantasy to believe for any critical observer. The Western public was told that Ukraine and its “brave” comedian-turned-president were standing up to “Russian aggression.” The lie of that absurd morality play was told over and over ad infinitum – the Big Lie technique – to justify the bankrolling of a war that was always futile and indefensible. Millions of casualties on the Ukrainian side and many too on the Russian side could have been spared if the United States and its NATO allies had engaged in diplomacy with Moscow five years ago to resolve historic issues of NATO expansion. They refused because the Western system wanted war.

Skeptics or critics of the Western narrative were shouted down as “Russian stooges”.

Well, now it is incontestable that the Kiev regime is a cesspit of corruption. Even the Western media propaganda machine has been compelled to acknowledge the truth about the rampant sleaze.

But the Western forced acknowledgment of Kiev corruption only goes so far. Incredibly, it is brushed aside as somehow an unfortunate wrinkle, and also as an affair that has little to do with Zelensky. How ridiculous! The man who sits atop the cesspit is somehow deodorized by the Western media as trying to combat the corruption. This is simply a farce on top of a fiasco.

The recent $100 million scandal is played down and covered up by the West because that vice is essential for facilitating the much bigger corruption of the Western war racket to continue.

Astoundingly, only days after the embezzlement scam blew up, Zelensky was hosted in Paris by French President Emmanuel Macron, where they signed a deal for Ukraine to buy 100 Rafale fighter jets. As our columnist Finian Cunningham points out, the sales order could cost a total of $10 billion. That’s a nice boost for the ailing French economy, which Macron will milk for political gain. France’s Dassault company, the maker of the Rafale, gets juicy profits, and no doubt French and Ukrainian fixers will enjoy commissions and kickbacks.

Meanwhile, also this week, the European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, the former German military minister who has Russophobia surging through her veins, urged the EU nations to bankroll Ukraine for another two years with $165 billion – on top of the $200 billion that the EU has already funneled into Ukraine over the past four years. Incredibly, Von der Leyen made no mention of the corruption that is oozing out of Kiev.

It was only a few sane voices among the European political leaders, such as Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who condemned the “madness” of continuing to finance a war mafia.

The corruption scandal – even with the Western attempts to play it down – exposes the bigger scandal. The Western states have been fueling a proxy war that has nothing to do with defending democracy, or supposed Western values, or international law from alleged Russian aggression.

The agenda is a criminal project of imperialist confrontation to subjugate Russia using Ukraine to the last Ukrainian. The proxy war has enriched Western military industries and laundered hundreds of billions of dollars and euros from Western taxpayers.

President Trump has the marginal good sense to want out of the racket that his predecessors in Washington engineered. The European political class, however, is so invested in their own lies and Russophobia, they cannot extricate themselves without admitting their criminal schemes. They, therefore, have to keep the racket going by whitewashing Zelensky and the Kiev regime and naysaying any move by Trump to wrap up the failed proxy war.

The paradox is that by prolonging the proxy war, the Western sponsors are buying time for themselves, but the longer the rope on which they will eventually hang themselves in disaster, politically, financially, morally, and perhaps even legally.

After all the grand theft of Western economies to fund a criminal war, Russia is winning it decisively. The last defenses of NATO’s proxy army in Ukraine are crumbling as Russia takes the bastions of Kupyansk and Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk). The corruption and the lies of the Western narrative are falling out like bodies from a rotten sack. Western ideologues, through their imperialist warmongering schemes for hegemony and Russophobic delusions, have destroyed their own economies.

This week saw the 80th anniversary of the opening of the Nuremberg Trials, which prosecuted top Nazi criminals. A similar fate of justice awaits American and European leaders who concocted the war racket in Ukraine to defeat Russia and enrich themselves. In that event, the courts will be the people of the Western states who will furiously demand accountability from their corrupt leaders.