Corruption Will Kill Free Ukraine

If Ukraine continues to value the opportunities for wealth that corruption provides over the value of becoming a Western country with rule of law, Ukraine will not be able to push Russia out of Ukraine, will fail to resist the next Russian plunge into Ukraine for more territory, and will in all likelihood fall back into Russia's orbit in the long run.

But no, go ahead and gut the anti-corruption effort:

Ukraine's Western partners are unhappy with Kyiv. On December 4, the State Department raised concerns about Ukraine’s fight against corruption, saying that recent actions “risk eroding international support for Ukraine," while Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said "it serves no purpose for Ukraine to fight for its body in [the] Donbas if it loses its soul to corruption." Meanwhile the EU added that Kyiv's war on NABU [Note: the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, the independent body whose leader the Ukrainian parliament just fired] "undermines public trust in an effective fight against corruption.”

America is hardly going to fight Ukraine's war for them if Ukrainian rulers won't rally around the flag when a predator nation is picking apart their carcass and instead just want to grab a bigger piece than Russia is devouring.

UPDATE: Ukraine will lose to Russia if the Ukrainians decide to become a much smaller version of Russia politically rather than emulate the free West that crushed the Soviet Union.

Idiots. The Ukraine is coming at this rate.