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Zelenskiy Releases Personal Income in Transparency Push (www.bloomberg.com)

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Volodymyr Zelenskiy declared his personal income for the first time since the outbreak of war with Russia, as part of his effort to increase transparency in his government.

In 2021, the year before Russia invaded Ukraine, Zelenskiy and his family reported income of 10.8 million hryvnia ($285,000), down 12 million hryvnia from the previous year, even as his income was boosted by the sale of $142,000 of government bonds, according to a statement on his website.

In 2022, the first year of the Russian invasion, the Zelenskiy family’s income fell further to 3.7 million hryvnia as he earned less income from renting real estate he owned because of the hostilities.

Even as the war allowed Ukrainian officials to withhold revealing sensitive personal information, Zelenskiy pushed to make them publicly declare assets. Increasing transparency and tackling graft are necessary for his country to ensure continued financial aid from its western allies, even as more than $100 billion of funds are held up due to political maneuvering inside US and EU.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

drawing broad comparisons between the legitimate struggle of the sovereign country of Ukraine against Russia and the Israeli response to the all out terrorist attacks of Gaza against them is pretty insulting to Ukraine.

Only if you think Palestinians have no right to resist Israeli occupation. Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and Russia is attempting to commit genocide in Ukraine (or at least parts of it).

[–] 100_percent_a_bot -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Resisting is probably fine but doing large scale terrorist attacks against civilians and blindly firing rockets into Isreali territory is unhinged and in no way justified.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Firing rockets into Israel is one of the few ways they can actually do something. It's what stopped people in Sheikh Jarrah from getting evicted in 2021 if you remember that. And while many atrocities were committed on October 7th, we can't ignore the fact that it had clear military targets and goals. Or the fact that the IDF killed an unknown but significant number of their own citizens during their response to the attack. Your interpretation of the events of October 7th seems like it's based on early reporting of the attack; we know a lot more know and it wasn't as one-sided as Israel wants you to think.

[–] 100_percent_a_bot -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That something that they're doing is currently getting a lot of their civilians killed while not really archiveing any tangible military goals. I think I remember the incident you are referencing and even if I trust your statement that it stopped the evictions, "terrorism worked in the past, therefore terrorism is justified" strikes me as a very weak argument. You'd probably complain if I said that Isreal going ballistic against its enemies worked for them in the past, therefore an ethnic cleansing of Gaza is A-OK, right?

We now know a lot more details about how bad the terrorist attacks really are and that they justify dismantling Hamas. Even the surrounding Arab nations hate them and want them gone, so no recognized powers (except Iran, maybe?) are doing anything about Isreals actions. If you referring to the memes about Isreal killing their own civillians that were uncritically amplified by western media then too bad, most of these claims were made up.

Btw I don't really look too much at any of the involved parties in any conflict when it comes to getting the facts straight, they're good for corroberation at best.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That something that they’re doing is currently getting a lot of their civilians killed while not really archiveing any tangible military goals.

International support for Israel is at all all time low so I don't see how that's the case.

I think I remember the incident you are referencing and even if I trust your statement that it stopped the evictions, “terrorism worked in the past, therefore terrorism is justified” strikes me as a very weak argument.

Israel has simply created a situation where terrorism is the only viable means of resistance. You sound like someone who'd tell the Irish to politely get treated as second class citizens or worse during the Troubles. Or someone who'd attack the ANC for their violent resistance against South Africa's Apartheid government. Expecting the oppressed to only resort to "morally correct" methods when they're in a situation where they can't choose their methods has never helped anyone except the oppressors.

If you referring to the memes about Isreal killing their own civillians that were uncritically amplified by western media then too bad, most of these claims were made up.

Uh... No? There has been a lot of reporting by Israeli and international media about this.

Here's some evidence. It's a biased but reliable source and their source with translation.

[–] 100_percent_a_bot 0 points 9 months ago

International support for Israel is at all all time low so I don't see how that's the case.

Is that so? Now I'm curious, can you point anything that isn't a strongly worded letter from the ICJ or another UN resolution, neither of which have any enforcement mechanisms whatsoever? Any major sanctions? A SWIFT ban like for Russia?

Or someone who'd attack the ANC for their violent resistance against South Africa's Apartheid government. Expecting the oppressed to only resort to "morally correct" methods when they're in a situation where they can't choose their methods has never helped anyone except the oppressors.

How do people come up with this crap? I couldn't come up with analogies this bad if I tried. If the ANC would have killed thousands of white settlers and Mandela would have sworn an oath to kick all of them out of the country then this would be somewhat close to a good analogy. But since you seem illiterate on their history, the ANC is a prime example of the difference in effectiveness between armed uprisings and peaceful resistance. When they were violent, they didn't do shit. When they were peaceful, the Apartheid ended.

Here's some evidence. It's a biased but reliable source and their source with translation.

From what I briefly read up on this, there's basically one newspaper alleging this to be the case and one IDF colonel saying more broadly that the so called "Hannibal directive" was used. The evidence seems very thin, this also seems highly unpractical from a military perspective. Even if there was any truth to this I fail to see what point you are trying to make. Hamas killed over a thousand Israeli in a day and the only real goal was to kill as many as they could. And the Palestinians cheered them on and are still supportive of "the cause". That's just unhinged and severely limits my sympathy for them.