I guess she is trying to make a living, but, did she also register as a foreign agent?

August 5, 2024

by Benzinga Neuro,

Ex-Trump Advisor Kellyanne Conway, (click here) Known For Her 'Alternative Facts,' Turns Lobbyist For Ukrainian Billionaire Victor Pinchuk...

From Forbes. Wall Street never criticizes people with money. They are only great achievers.

Viktor Pinchuk (click here) used his Ph.D. in pipe design to found Interpipe, producer of steel products, in 1990.

He still operates Interpipe, which makes pipes and railway wheels, and also Starlight Media, which owns 6 TV stations.

Pinchuk owns Grand Buildings, a landmark historical building on Trafalgar Square in London.

He is a son-in-law of Ukraine's former president Leonid Kuchma.

PinchukArtCenter, which he chairs, is known for its biannual global contemporary art prize, Future Generation Art Prize, which awards $100K to a young artist....

Yes, he is a Ukraine Oligarch that has acted in what is believed to be a benefit to Ukraine. Yes, he threw a nice party for President Zelensky. 

January 20, 2023

Analysis by Ishaan Tharoor

...On Thursday morning, (click here) the hot ticket in the Swiss mountain town was an early morning breakfast session hosted by the foundation of Ukrainian oligarch Victor Pinchuk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky beamed in virtually for a conversation moderated by CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, who was joined in the room by a slate of prominent Western cabinet ministers and politicians, as well as CEOs and fund managers....

But, his father-in-law was a Pro-Russian politician that made it into the presidency of Ukraine.  Leonid Kuchma, even as a Ukrainian president was a racketeer and leader of some of the worst corruption Ukraine has known.

May 20, 2020
By Katya Gorchinskaya

...When I approached him for a profile I was writing, Pinchuk was polite, (click here) completely unwilling to talk, and had the audacity to ask me to ditch the story. The story ran the following week. Years later, he introduced me to a foreign dignitary as the first journalist to call him “an oligarch.”

The word was only beginning to gain currency at the time. Kuchma was approaching the end of his first term as president, and the whole phenomenon of oligarchy in the post-Soviet sense, or rule by a small economic and political elite, was in its infancy and still poorly understood in Ukraine.

But the creation of an oligarchic system appears to have been a conscious policy priority for Kuchma, a concept he trumpeted early and often. From his very first address to parliament as president in 1994, he insisted that Ukraine needed “financial industrial groups” to drive the transformation of Ukraine’s state-monopolized economy.

What he didn’t mention is that hand-picked people would have the opportunity to make fortunes on the privatization of Soviet enterprises, from the trade in gas and natural resources, and through other shadowy means....

I have to wonder why at the eleventh hour after the USA Democratic Party has proposed a new presidential candidate, Kellyanne Conway shows up to register as a lobbyist with ties to a Pro-Russian and corrupt president of Ukraine?

It is nice Viktor threw a nice party at Davos that enabled President Zelensky to speak to the crowd when he was looking for support for the war the Ukrainian people were facing. But, that is exactly the kind of investment someone with ties to Russia would do to bring about good affiliations regardless of the true agenda. 

I am concerned.

I think it prudent to be weary of Ms. Conway and her new found wealth given her petulant tendency to fabricate a new truth in the face of real facts.

Foreign Agent FAQ (click here)

While Leonid Kuchma is deceased his reputation still stands as pivotal in turning Ukraine toward Russia. He practiced censorship, arrested journalists, he always denied any involvement in the killing in 2000 of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. During the Kushma administration the Ukraine Air Force shot down a Siberian Airllines jet carrying 78 Israelis visiting family in Russia but returning to Israel. Everyone on board died.

In the picture to the left Kuchma is in the center and to the right is a much younger Vladimir Putin.

Kuchma became a communist party chief at the age of 38 and a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and was a delegate of the 27th and 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

He was president of Ukraine for two terms, saw economic downturns. He talked as most politicians of the time of being great friends with the EU and wanted to meet their demands in order to secure trade agreements, but, he was far too corrupt and instead signed treaties with Russia.

Kushma's Prime Minister was Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych would become the President of Ukraine after Viktor Yushchenko who was poisoned and nearly died. As a special presidential advisor Kushma was also involved in some capacity with the Donbas region of Ukraine.

I find Trump's affection and loyalty to autocrats, especially Putin, a concern and now with Conway working with a person affiliated with a Late Pro-Russian president of Ukraine, it is all too cozy and she probably should be registered as a foreign agent as well.

Vice President Harris cannot be held responsible for President Biden's decisions.

I have no doubt there will be attempts to assign Kamala Harris with Biden's policies and decisions. The relationship between the President and Vice President was made clear right at the beginning of President Biden's term in office. He stated clearly the Vice President would be involved in all high level meetings to have the information he had when he made decisions. She was not simply a figure head in this administration, however, she was not the decision maker. So, in regard to Afghanistan's exit, President Biden would have shouldered the final decision, while the Vice President felt free to verbalize her concerns and insight. 

Personally, I don't believe there was any easy way out of Afghanistan. The fact an occupation of Afghanistan resulted in nothing substantial to bring about a civilized society and government speaks for itself.

The war was started to end the occupation of al Qaeda in Afghanistan (which was achieved) after Osama bin Laden successfully carried out the attacks on the USA on September 11, 2001. The USA for twenty years, an entire generation, attempted to provide stability to the country in hopes no terrorist organizations would repopulate it. The Taliban was and is not considered a terrorist organization. It never took credit for substantial attacks within Afghanistan that killed many people. We know today there are other organizations that use violence to intimidate the government and civilian populations in Afghanistan, including ISIS and the Haqqani network.

The costs of the war in Afghanistan were significant. $2.313 trillion US was spent in that war and it achieved nothing but a lot of heartache, including "Green on blue attacks." The USA and any allies during that period of time never achieved the goals many hoped.

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The American people agreed with the President we had to leave Afghanistan, but, felt the way in which we left was not done well.

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It was time to go and there was no easy way to do it. The USA military actually spent at least the previous two weeks destroying munitions and armaments so there would be no advantage to the USA leaving. That was not unusual in Afghanistan. It was often littered with war debris, be it USA or Russian. 

March 2013

...The large sums borrowed (click here) to finance operations in Iraq and Afghanistan will also impose substantial long-term debt servicing costs. As a consequence of these wartime spending choices, the United States will face constraints in funding investments in personnel and diplomacy, research and development and new military initiatives. The legacy of decisions taken during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars will dominate future federal budgets for decades to come....

The human costs were staggering.

...the war led to the deaths of 2,324 U.S. military personnel, (click here) 3,917 U.S. contractors and 1,144 allied troops. For Afghans, the statistics are nearly unimaginable: 70,000 Afghan military and police deaths, 46,319 Afghan civilians (although that is likely a significant underestimation) and some 53,000 opposition fighters killed. Almost 67,000 other people were killed in Pakistan in relation to the Afghan war....

It would have been best if the USA achieved stability in the country along with greater human rights. It wasn't going to happen. The Taliban was allowed to reconstitute in Pakistan and the poppy culture was never allowed to end. The poppy crops were allowed to grow as Afghans stated that was a primary income for the country. Allowing opium to grow in Afghanistan was all part of the corruption occurring in the country during the time of occupation. But, since the Taliban took over there has been a large reduction in the poppy crops. The opium is banned under Taliban rule. People outside of Afghanistan still argue that was a bad idea and the poppy crop was important. The poppy crop in Afghanistan dropped 95 percent since the USA pulled out. 

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Afghanistan Opium Survey 2023 (click here)

There were 13 great Americans lost in Afghanistan on the last day of occupation. It was tragic, but, it also saved lives if the occupation was to continue. Could it have been done better? I sincerely don't believe it could. The USA was leaving. There were no more troops in the country, except at the airport. 

Without peace accords and a civilization that is organized and predictable, leaving an occupation is never neat and orderly.