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Iraq Held An Election In A War Zone. Why Hasn’t Ukraine?

Zelensky’s term expired more than two years ago. The longer he refuses to hold an election, the more he undermines Ukraine’s defense.

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In May of 2025, my Ukrainian business partner passed along a warning: If I didn’t stop pitching our proposed infrastructure security contract, we would both be killed.

This was not my first death threat. Attempts at intimidation are to only be expected in my line of work, which includes providing security in war zones.  When your business involves protecting nuclear material near ongoing combat, you expect to live with a certain level of danger. But the corruption and mob-style skullduggery in Ukraine are an absolute disgrace: This is a European country engaged in a war for its very survival — and the beneficiary of well over $100 billion in  American aid.

Since the Russian invasion, it’s no secret that Ukraine is rife with corruption. Money laundering there has been on the public radar screen since President Trump was impeached in his first term for a phone call urging Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens’ role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was threatening to crack down on the corruption. (Trump would defend it as a “perfect phone call.”)

But the scale of the dishonesty is not generally understood. Nor is the utter dysfunction of the Ukrainian government.

Corruption and intimidation are the Ukrainian way of doing business. In the summer of 2021, just before Russia invaded, I was working in Kyiv with my Ukrainian business partner. I flew out of the country, and then, just few days after I had left, my business partner was seized off the street by the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) in a SWAT-style arrest. No charges were ever filed against him. It was just a warning.

Later in 2025, Energoatom’s infrastructure protection........

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