Ukraine sells on British armoured vehicles

Great comments from Tate Ulsaker - I can only concur. When it comes to corruption, these people will have the CIA and the State Dept for breakfast!

...."If people will look back in my comments early in this war, I predicted that the US would fail to ignite a proxy war with Russia using Ukraine as the battering ram.

"Why guaranteed to fail? My #1 top of my reason was because Ukraine is the mother of all corrupted countries. 

"They can magically make entire battleships disappear into a hat and come out of a briefcase on the other side of the world.

*These guys are truly amazing. If you want accounts diverted, storage spaces emptied, black markets stocked, then you call in the experts. Good old Ukrainian corruption will make business entities appear and disappear at 30 frames per second. They can channel diverted monies downstream or upstream in any parallel or perpendicular universe you want. Traditional forensic accounting from the big western banks is rendered completely useless to Ukrainians. This is a land where quadruple book accounting is standard because it is common to steal from the tax man and the boss and the one who thinks he is stealing as a partner, while also keeping track of reality in the fourth book. Adding a fifth and sixth level to fool the various paymasters and contractors from the US will be like taking candy from a baby.

*Was I correct? Will Ukraine confound America? Can Ukraine be an eternal black hole for US funds?

"The answer is definitely "YES".

"Ukraine accounting is like a black hole, even light cannot escape.

"As time goes on, this will be a worthy study for anyone interested in politics as well as physics."

Ukraine Sells Off British Armored Vehicles It Just Received

http://fortruss.blogspot.co.nz/2015/02/ukraine-sells-off-british-armored.html

To presumably circumvent the ban on arms exports at a time like this, the Saxons are being rather implausibly advertised as "Sanitation and Hygiene Equipment."

2/15/2015

A Little Saxon Business

By Alex Leshy

Translated from Russian by J.Hawk

The proof is for all here to see. As soon as Kiev received the British AT105 Saxon armored personnel carriers, it promptly put them on sale. I don’t know what business is located at the Borispol Street 9 in Kiev, Ukraine, that’s indicated on the web site. But if it is to be believed, it offers for sale something remarkable, namely a Saxon AT105 tactical police vehicle. If need be, the firm is willing to repaint the vehicle according to the wishes of the purchaser.

No, Ukraine will never be a great power. Granted, the Saxon is a piece of junk. But at a time when a boarded-up truck is considered an armored vehicle at the front, even these wheeled coffins might be of some use. Of how much use, that is another question. But when you on the one hand plead for military assistance all around the world, and on the other you put it up for sale as soon as you receive some is, undeniably, the stuff of which empires are made of. Yes.

J.Hawk’s Comment: Lenin famously said that the “capitalists will sell us the rope to hang them with,” and judging by the goings-on in the Ukraine, capitalism seems to be alive and well there! The Saxons were, interestingly enough, purchased by the Yanukovych government from a private British arms dealer, not the UK government. Still, they are in working order, and they do have certain usefulness, even though their combat qualities are negligible. But yes, this is a prime example of the epic, almost supernatural, Ukrainian corruption which will bring the current “Ukraine project” to a very tragic end. Western governments no doubt have few illusions as to what would happen to whatever assistance, lethal or non-lethal, they sent to Kiev.

UK Confirms Delivery of Out-of-Service Armored Vehicles to Ukraine

20 British Saxon armored cars have already been delivered, while 55 are expected to arrive soon.