The Truth About Oligarchs

For a long time, if you uttered 'oligarchy', it was a key phrase or a catch expression for Russian billionaires who interfered in the stock market, world politics, and stability of nations.  It only worked with RUSSIANs.

So, in the past month, if you follow the Trump pee dosier business, and the fake news tuff....oligarchy got brought up....with the Ukraine.  Yes, Ukrainian oligarchs. 

If you asked around about this....most journalists (at least in Europe) will say that this group of Ukrainian oligarchs have run the Ukraine since 1991 (when they exited Russia).  In fact, around twelve years ago, there was this number thrown around....that the total wealth of the top fifty Ukrainian oligarchs, was between 80 and 90 percent of the total GDP of the Ukraine.

But this funny thing happened in 2015, as the Ukraine fell apart (with around 20-percent of the country forming up a Russian-relationship, after the EU business fell apart).  The GDP dropped by 12-percent in one single year. 

In 2016 (the election year for the US), the GDP bumped up and down, from zero-percent growth on GDP, to 2-percent.

All of these Ukrainian oligarchs are looking for the 'angle' on getting business deals and trade situations, and if you have to hire up some Ukrainian Hollywood-script writer to create some fake Trump pee-stories, well, it's all part of the deal. 

The odds that some Hillary high player got his sources in the Ukraine to help out, and write some scripts to convince the news people to follow along?  That's the problem you have to focus upon.  If you had suggested this back twenty years ago.....people would have laughed and said it was physically impossible for something like this to happen. Today, it's bad enough that the CIA could linger on this story for months....thinking it has potential, and then come to realize how badly they'd been fooled, and simply didn't want to admit this in public.

But let's ask another curious question.  Are there oligarchs out of Serbia, Albania, Slovakia, Greece, Lebanon, and Turkey?  Well....yes. If you approached any of them and asked them to produce a pee dossier on Hillary Clinton and some Canadian cattle rancher from 1978.....they'd eagerly do it for some import license into the US.  Or if you need a pee-dossier on Bernie Sanders and some 1988 TV star....they'd eagerly do it for some import license. 

If you ask me....we've got a five star mess on our hands, and the CIA folks might need forty different oligarch research divisions.