Will Wall Street Invest in Ukraine? Don’t Hold Your Breath.

Almost everything coming out of the mainstream media about Ukraine is a lie. The Western media are acting like propaganda outlets for Zelensky and the Ukrainians instead of reporting the real news as journalistic ethics require.

Western media (principally the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, the Economist, and news channels controlled by ABC, NBC, CBS and the BBC) have said that Russian casualties are enormous and Ukrainian forces are holding up well. That’s a lie. Russian casualties have been relatively light given the scale of the fighting, while Ukrainian casualties have been ten times greater.

These media outlets have claimed that Ukraine has taken back significant amounts of territory once held by the Russians and is containing the Russian troops to narrower areas. The truth is that Ukraine’s gains were barely contested by the Russians and have since been turned into killing fields where Russian artillery has created a bloodbath for the Ukrainian forces.

Now, Russia is on the move again. It is regaining lost territory and preparing a major advance that should see Russian troops on the move from Kharkov to Odesa.

With this much propaganda coming from the media, what should be made of this article by Charles Gasparino? It reports on plans by Larry Fink of Blackrock and Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan to raise between $20 billion to $100 billion to invest in Ukrainian infrastructure.

The answer is, not much. It’s just another feel-good propaganda exercise to help keep up Ukrainian morale and make Zelensky look like a hero (he’s actually a corrupt oligarch).

In fairness to Gasparino, he reports accurately on the Fink and Dimon meetings with Zelensky. Such plans are in the works. It’s not totally surprising because Fink and Dimon would make $1 billion per year on a $100 billion fund in management fees alone. They could make far more in performance fees.

It’s a typical Wall Street skim operation. The big asset managers make billions of dollars whether the fund does any good at all.

The other tell in Gasparino’s reporting is this line: “So what’s stopping the private money from coming in now? A war that shows no signs of ending anytime soon.” Gasparino also writes, “Money won’t flow to Ukraine … if it seeds the pockets of a Russian-style oligarchy.”

That’s exactly the kind of country Ukraine is. In other words, the plans and announcements are all for show. The war will not be over soon, and Zelensky will not emerge on top.

No infrastructure investment fund will ride to the rescue. It’s all just another exercise in happy talk and wishful thinking.

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