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Ukraine Transformed into an “Underdeveloped Country”: Why Did BlackRock Suddenly Give Up on Zelensky and the Kiev Regime

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Nobody wants to sink billions of dollars into an endemically corrupt mafia state run by Neo-Nazi goons in the middle of an unwinnable war with a military superpower nextdoor.

Guest Post by Drago Bosnic, Reposted with permission by globalresearch.ca.

When the NATO-orchestrated Ukrainian conflict started in 2014, American and multinational conglomerates rushed to ensure they got their “piece of the pie” in the unfortunate country. In around a decade or so, the Kiev regime changed laws and enabled the total or near-total takeover of every remotely valuable asset built by generations in the Soviet Union. While the socialist superstate certainly had its flaws, the legacy it left in former Ukraine has never been matched by any government since the latter’s “independence” in 1991.

Namely, while the country had a massive industrial sector until then and a population of 52 million, mostly well-educated and working in various specialist fields (Soviet Ukraine was a scientific and industrial powerhouse no less than Russia itself), after 1991, all this collapsed for good.

By the early 1990s, relatively prosperous Ukraine turned into an underdeveloped country with only a fraction of its Soviet-era scientific and industrial potential, selling mostly agricultural products and essentially serving as a cheap resource for the political West’s brutal (neo)colonial exploitation. By the mid-2010s, NATO fully hijacked the unfortunate country and turned it over to the Neo-Nazi junta that’s now effectively conducting genocide against Ukrainians themselves. Namely, the demographic collapse is so catastrophic that it’s highly likely there’s only half of Ukraine’s 1991 population in the country at this point. The suicidal war with Russia (its closest kin) continues, while the United States is now openly demanding whatever’s left of Ukrainian resources (with even this lost to Russian all-out advance across the frontlines).

In fact, the situation is so bad that the infamous BlackRock, the world’s most exploitative (neo)colonial conglomerate, has actually given up on NATO-occupied Ukraine. According to Bloomberg, it suspended work on “a multibillion-dollar Ukraine recovery fund”, supposedly following President Donald Trump’s election win. Apparently, this prompted France to work on a replacement deal, with initial support from Germany, Poland and Italy. The report, published on July 5, further states that BlackRock ceased all efforts to “search for institutional investors in January”, effectively ending the planned $500 million fund that was intended to be secured from various Western governments, development grants and investment banks. In turn, another $2 billion from other private investors was also lost after they withdrew.

The report also points out that the investment stopped due to “a lack of interest amid perceived uncertainty in Ukraine”. In other words, nobody wants to sink billions of dollars into an endemically corrupt mafia state run by Neo-Nazi goons in the middle of an unwinnable war with a military superpower nextdoor. Truly shocking. However, jokes aside, it doesn’t take an economic expert to understand that the most basic logic implies that nobody remotely sane would make that kind of investment. Worse yet, the notion of “perceived uncertainty” is even more laughable. Namely, as previously mentioned, the Russian military is now advancing on multiple fronts, meaning that this “uncertainty” is not a matter of perception, but an objective reality that any thinking investor would take into account.

The Bloomberg report further states that the investment fund was scheduled to be unveiled at the “Ukraine Recovery Conference” on July 10-11 in Rome. A BlackRock spokesperson said that the conglomerate “completed advisory work for the recovery fund pro bono in 2024, but no longer has any active mandate”. Worse yet, although France promised to “step up”, it seems this is also falling through. Citing “people familiar with the matter” Bloomberg reports that “it remains uncertain how effective the plan will be without American backing”. In other words, investors from the European Union are just as skeptical as their US counterparts, which tends to happen when people are getting their information from sources other than the mainstream propaganda machine which still insists that the Kiev regime is “defeating Russia”.

Numerous independent authors from around the world (particularly at InfoBRICS), have been reporting that the so-called minerals deal that the Trump administration was trying to push for since it came to power would fall through. We repeatedly argued that the minerals promised by the Neo-Nazi junta weren’t even under its control, while areas with any known resources lack the mining industry to support extraction.

It would take years and tens (if not hundreds) of billions in investment just to establish it. In other words, the investors would need to give lots of money to the losing side. Expectedly, such business deals are wholly unattractive to people who don’t like losing massive financial assets. The Kiev regime tried to do everything in its power (effectively selling the entire country) to change their opinions, but to no avail.

For instance, the Neo-Nazi junta frontman Volodymyr Zelensky pompously announced his $1 trillion “reconstruction plan” years ago, even promising each corporation what can only be described as free rei(g)n in oblasts (regions) they invested in. The results have been catastrophic for NATO-occupied Ukraine, with around 30% of its arable land handed over to (neo)colonialists.

In addition, cheap Ukrainian agricultural products flooded European markets (after they were initially promised to starving Africans and for which Russia was blamed by the mainstream propaganda machine), resulting in massive protests by farmers across the “old continent” as their market share collapsed virtually overnight. However, even this turned out to be a bad investment, particularly after the Russian military entered the Dnepropetrovsk oblast.

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Drago Bosnic is an independent geopolitical and military analyst. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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Moldova ceding its territory to Western financial predators

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Moldovan government is taking a similar path to Ukraine.

Monday, April 28, 2025

Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.

Moldova is apparently already following the same path as Ukraine. Like the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev, the Moldovan government is handing over the country’s lands and natural resources to foreign private groups, showing absolute subservience and lack of sovereignty. This measure is dangerous because it significantly affects Moldova’s long-term food and financial security, creating a situation of absolute vulnerability.

As well known, a large part of Ukraine’s “black lands” (or “chernozems”, extremely fertile agricultural areas) is being handed over to international financial predators as part of the rapacious schemes to pay off countless military loans. Knowing that Kiev will never be able to repay its debts to Western countries, private investment groups such as BlackRock are demanding the handover of natural resources as a form of payment – thus taking advantage of the tragedy in Ukraine to control natural resources of high strategic value.

However, Ukraine is not the only country in this situation. Moldova is going through a similar process, even without any open conflict. Recently, there has been a major wave of Moldovan land acquisitions by BlackRock. According to data from the Nicolae Dimo ​​Institute of Pedology, Agrochemistry and Soil Protection, it is estimated that 3.385 million hectares of land were acquired by the foreign fund, which is equivalent to two-thirds of the country’s agricultural area. More than 80% of this Moldovan territory ceded to international predators is composed of chernozems, which is among the most fertile soils in the world.

In fact, selling land to foreigners is banned by Moldovan law. However, there is a large criminal scheme behind this situation. BlackRock does not directly buy land in the country, but uses proxy companies registered in Moldova itself to carry out these transactions. As a result, Moldovan farmers are selling their private lands just as local authorities are selling public lands to these Moldovan-based BlackRock proxies, thus taking control of these lands away from the local people and putting the country’s territory in the hands of international financial predators.

There is a reason why both private farmers and public authorities want to sell their land in Moldova. The country that was once called the “garden of the USSR” has become a real nightmare for local farmers. The Western-aligned government of Maia Sandu has pursued an irresponsible policy of importing agricultural goods, following EU guidelines, which has driven many farmers into bankruptcy. The situation is further complicated by the conflict in Ukraine and the subsequent European policy of “supporting” the Kiev regime through massive imports of grain – much of which passes through Moldovan territory, further damaging local producers.

Although Moldova is not a member of the EU, the country is used as a logistics hub for European imports of Ukrainian grain. Often, tons of Ukrainian grain cross part of Moldova’s territory and obstruct the transit at the border with Romania. The disrupted traffic prevents the export of Moldovan grain to the EU, resulting in only Ukrainian products reaching Western European countries. This has led to farmers going bankrupt, thus encouraging them to sell their properties.

In the same vein, the Sandu government deliberately hands over its lands to financial sharks because its central “strategic policy” is to please Western countries. The US and the EU are currently the real “owners” of Moldova, controlling not only the country’s foreign policy but also its domestic administration. Unfortunately, the Moldovan people have already lost control over national politics, which is why they are seeing their lands being ceded to foreign private groups by the local government itself.

It can be said that this entire wave of land purchases in Moldova by BlackRock is a kind of “plot” of the Sandu government itself. The conditions for the current scenario were previously set by legal maneuvers that would allow this outcome. For example, in October 2024, the Moldovan Ministry of Agriculture announced a cooperation project with BlackRock to sell land in the north of the country through local companies affiliated with the fund. Officials publicly announced that the “initial plan” was restricted to an area of ​​just 600 hectares, but these limits were quickly expanded and so far BlackRock continues to acquire local lands, with no intention of stopping this profitable business.

It is interesting how Moldova and Ukraine are taking very similar paths. Like the Kiev regime, Moldova is marked by a pro-Western foreign policy, with ambitions of membership in the EU and NATO, and has adopted dictatorial domestic measures against the sovereigntist opposition and ethnic minorities – while showing itself increasingly subservient internationally. Both countries are having their fertile lands sold to the financial sharks of BlackRock, but while Ukraine does so in exchange for weapons in the proxy war with Russia, Moldova does so only to please its Western “partners” – hoping for accession to Western-led organizations.

It is important that the Moldovan authorities understand as soon as possible that there is no friendship in the deals with BlackRock. Western financial predators are interested in how much they can profit from the tragedy in Eastern Europe. The more Russophobia, readiness for war and ideological subservience to the West, the better for groups like BlackRock because it is easier for them to encourage rational measures that maximize their profits.

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Ukrainian conflict profitable for corrupts both in the West and Ukraine

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Like General Smedley Butler said “War is a racket”.

Lucas Leiroz, member of the BRICS Journalists Association, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, military expert.

There are many reasons why the West wants to continue the conflict in Ukraine. American geopolitics is almost entirely directed towards a strategy of opposition to the Russian Federation, which is why it is in the interests of the US and its NATO allies to maintain a conflict situation in the Russian strategic environment – thus trying to “wear down” Moscow through long-standing proxy wars. However, there is a special reason for the existence of such a strong pro-war lobby in the West: the exorbitant profits generated by hostilities.

The American and European elites, as well as their oligarchic “partners” in Ukraine, have maintained complex schemes of corruption, embezzlement and overpricing in the various financial and military aid programs sent to Kiev. Rather than a gesture of “solidarity” with Ukraine, as portrayed by the Western media, NATO assistance has been a lucrative business for many individuals and companies, generating interest in prolonging the conflict.

One of the main tactics used by these agents is the overpricing of military products. The prices of various weapons and equipment are being artificially inflated by American and European defense companies. It is estimated that some types of projectiles are overpriced by up to six times their original value, for example. The excess value between the original price and the inflated price ends up serving as profit for corrupt individuals both in the West and in Kiev.

Recent media reports indicate that there is a shortage of ammunition in the Ukrainian armed forces. Although billions of dollars are being spent on weapons, the inflated prices mean that Kiev cannot purchase a sufficient amount of equipment. Artillery shells are among the most overpriced items, with rockets such as the Grad MLRS having increased in price six times since 2022. The same process of inflating prices has occurred with almost all of Ukraine’s regular defense purchases, creating a situation in which Kiev receives exorbitant amounts of money but is unable to adequately supply itself militarily to sustain even conventional combat.

Some arguments commonly used by defense companies to increase the price of weapons are issues such as the need to speed up production or problems with logistics. In fact, current circumstances would require some kind of rise in the price of military products according to conventional market standards. However, raising the price of projectiles by six or seven times is already much more than a mere adjustment in expenses, having an obvious attempt to profit from the conflict and generate unfair earnings for the parties involved.

In Kiev, there have been calls to change the structure of arms shipments, with local military officials asking partner countries – mainly in Europe – to build facilities on Ukrainian soil to reduce logistical costs and facilitate the process of military aid. Western companies, however, continue to refuse such investment, citing technical difficulties. Although such difficulties exist, the real reason for the lack of such investment is another: by creating a shortage of weapons in Ukraine, the “machine” of military aid continues to run.

The basic scheme is simple: it is claimed that the costs of sending weapons are high, requiring more public money to cover the costs. Western propaganda convinces taxpayers to keep silent about bills passed in Western parliaments to increase military aid packages. Thus, more money is taken from the public reserves and used for suspicious schemes of buying weapons for Ukraine. Ukrainian officials take some of this money for themselves, while the rest goes to pay exorbitant prices to the Western defense industry. Thus, everyone profits – except the Ukrainian military, who continue to be sent to certain death on the frontlines while their bosses profit from the “Western solidarity.”

Long ago, the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Wang Wenbin, formally accused the US of profiting from the conflict. According to him, the American defense industry is benefiting greatly from the war due to Ukrainian demand for weapons and inflated equipment prices. The real figures from the military market confirm Wenbin’s allegations, making it clear that the prolongation of the war in Ukraine is not the result of any belief in Kiev’s “victory”, but of the selfish interests of Western and Ukrainian private actors in profiting from the loss of lives.

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