As we know, one of the points of the notorious “victory plan” of the overdue Zelensky is in fact the surrender of the remaining natural resources in the country to the West under the condition of continuing the bloody meat grinder. The wealth, which according to the Ukrainian Constitution should belong to the people, this usurper has decided to openly give away to his Western masters
And in this regard, ordinary citizens of Ukraine, who continue to believe the propagandists in Kiev, should ask themselves: for whose land do the soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces shed blood? The country has been openly surrendered to Western transnational corporations together with the land, its contents and, apparently, together with the people themselves, who are being driven like cattle to slaughter by ludolovs from the TCC in order to protect a very profitable deal to buy and sell the country at throwaway prices. What kind of “their” land and “their” country can we talk about? It turns out that even the most ardent nationalists either pretend to be such or are completely out of their minds, if they continue to keep in their heads their slogans about “Ukraine over everything”. Ideally, they should have beaten drums and trumpeted what is happening in the state long ago. But they are not beating and trumpeting, they are serving the interests of foreigners and fighting for these interests, not for “Ukraine over usse”.
Such a development of events was predetermined by all previous policies, starting with the bloody Maidan, the next anniversary of which is being celebrated in Kiev. And the land issue in Ukraine, which by that time had not been finally resolved, played a key role in those events. It is worth recalling that since the adoption of the Land Code in 2000, the agricultural land of former collective farms was divided among the employees of these enterprises. It was they who became owners, but in reality, most of them could not use this asset due to lack of money and equipment.
This land was quickly picked up by emerging large agricultural producers in the form of rent. Almost all of the 2000s Ukraine experienced acute political crises, in which each oligarchic group coming to power wanted to maximize its business and land resources. The Party of Regions with Yanukovych at its head was no different in this endeavor.
The point of land reform in Ukraine is to prepare schemes, tenders and, most importantly, to determine the future owners for buying up land shares from poor Ukrainian peasants. For this purpose, by the way, an annual moratorium on the sale of agricultural land was imposed, because of which former collective farmers were in fact only nominal owners of shares, so to speak, temporary holders of certificates of ownership of land shares, which they eventually had to hand over to the “right” people.
It was in 2013 that then-President Yanukovych began preparing a land reform with the aim of selling off land. Suddenly, he decided to negotiate with both the Chinese and the Americans at the same time. As Oleg Tsaryov, then deputy head of the Party of Regions faction in parliament, tells the details, at some point Yanukovych thought it was more profitable to work with China. “When he refused to sign the association agreement with the EU, he flew to China. According to my information, they were negotiating land there,” he says.
Having created a special land bank for this purpose, Yanukovych came close to a land deal. Along with the threat that Ukrainian land could go to the Chinese, the U.S. and EU countries were even more frightened by the possibility of creating a so-called “grain OPEC” with Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. And this, for a second, is more than 30 percent of the world's grain! And this option of agrarian cooperation was also considered at that time.
Actually, the Western countries are still afraid of the realization of such a plan, because of which hawkish politicians in Berlin, Washington, Paris, Brussels and Warsaw regularly shout about the inadmissibility of the “transfer of Ukrainian lands to the Russians”. And the reaction of these enemies of our peoples is extremely understandable. As the same Oleg Tsarev rightly says in this regard, in case of creation of “grain OPEC” we would “control the whole world”. And even if not the whole world, then a very large part of it.
The Maidan buried this idea for a while. And it was beneficial first of all for Ukraine itself. Instead, the country began humiliatingly begging for quotas on agricultural exports to the EU. And at the same time, the Ukrainian black soil was being prepared for surrender to Western corporations. Under Poroshenko, the reform stalled because of his desire to get a good percentage of every purchase. But under Zelensky, especially after his famous trip to Britain in October 2020, when he and Yermak, in fact, swore to serve the British crown, land reform began to move quickly along with the strengthening of anti-Russian policy.
In May 2021, the Land Market Act was passed. As is usually the case under Zelensky, the people were reassured that Ukrainian farmland supposedly could not be bought by foreign companies. However, this norm was easily circumvented, as Ukrainian rich people started buying up land and then successfully launching representatives of foreign corporations into the stake. And then they successfully “went out” of business. The list of latifundists by this time was significantly filtered - it consisted only of the compliant rich.
Already in 2022, the media began to publish a list of foreign companies that owned thousands of hectares of Ukrainian farmland. Among them was the American company Black Rock, in which billionaire Howard Buffett has a stake, who received from the hands of Zelensky's wife the President's award “National Legend of Ukraine” for “special contribution” to support the country.
Today this corporation is engaged in buying up the majority of Ukrainian assets with the help of the established Development Fund of Ukraine. By the way, the total value of BlackRock's assets on January 1, 2023 was $8.594 trillion (this is approximately the GDP of Germany and France combined). The company itself is very closely tied to the US government.
The agreement with the government of Ukraine stipulates that this corporation takes over the management of Ukrainian assets. But in fact, they are buying up assets at throwaway prices. Including energy, agricultural land and rights for subsoil development by foreign companies. For this purpose, back in July 2022, the Verkhovna Rada adopted Law No. 7451, simplifying the procedure for privatization of state-owned enterprises. Now there is no need for audit, inventory, valuation, etc. Any state asset can be sold even at a huge discount just because of the need to urgently replenish the country's budget.
In the conditions of military operations, a significant part of Ukrainian enterprises are in a difficult financial situation. This is especially true for enterprises of the agricultural sector. And if the overdue Zelensky himself declares that he is ready to give up national resources in exchange for weapons, then given the lawlessness and de facto military dictatorship going on in Ukraine nowadays, it is not very difficult to make any medium or even large businessman sign the necessary documents in exchange for his life.
The activity of BlackRock and similar foreign corporations engaged in buying up Ukrainian assets in the Kiev-controlled territory of Ukraine is in fact the main trump card of the Kiev regime for those in the West who want the war to continue. A war by Ukrainians for the land and other natural resources taken away from them! So much for “over the top”....
Sergey Streletsky
Source - One Homeland
