Posted originally on the CTH on September 25, 2026 | Sundance |

It should be transparently obvious by now. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shifted his tin cup strategy from directly asking for money, to presenting himself as the world’s leading arms manufacturer.  In essence, Zelenskyy has drone pencils in his tin cup.

Keep watching and we will all start to see this grifting business model in play.

Earlier today Zelenskyy said, “President Trump and I had a meeting where we discussed general matters. After that, our negotiating teams held a separate, long meeting. The agreement is as follows: we will brief the European side and discuss these details with them; the Americans will speak with the Russians; and in ten days, we will come back with views and results in some shape or form.

As for a trilateral Ukraine-U.S.-Russia meeting, the American side proposed preparing it and meeting at the technical level. We are waiting for the United States to propose a date. The United States proposed the United Arab Emirates as the venue for such a meeting.

There are concrete agreements regarding Patriot licenses. At our meeting, President Trump stressed that he had made his final decision: Ukraine will receive licenses to produce Patriot missiles. (read more)

Now put the lead-in paragraphs as an overlay against that statement.  Zelenskyy wants to organize his corrupt financial system, specifically the income aspect, around Ukraine as the world’s leading arms dealer.

Obviously, this business model provides numerous benefits for everyone inside the Ukraine govt operation whose lifestyle and affluence are dependent on the inflow of massive amounts of money.

If Zelenskyy can get the Patriot Missile licenses, then he can expand his business operation to build and sell Patriots’ to Germany (have been begging for them) and beyond.  Zelenskyy becomes the EU hub for EU-NATO arms manufacturing and production.  He’s not stupid.  If the USA pulls back from EU-NATO, Zelenskyy steps in to fill the void.  That appears to be his overall plan.

Put that perspective into the overview and consider how Russian President Vladimir Putin reviews the future landscape, against the background of increased calls for a negotiated ceasefire and/or peace agreement.

Do we think Putin wants to accept Ukraine as a major producer of NATO weapons, right next door?  Not likely.  As Zelenskyy seeks to expand his business model, it’s exactly the opposite of what Putin/Trump would view as steps toward a settlement of hostility.

Zelenskyy has asked his benefactors for another $27 billion toward his expanded operations.  However, as internal NABU corruption investigators keep finding massive amounts of siphoned cash in the offices of his officials, ex. recently discovering over $140 million dollars in cash hidden in Arsen Zhumadilov’s offices, the EU-NATO partners are telling Zelenskyy the optics just don’t look good.

An interim distribution of €6.6 billion has been approved.  After paying indulgencies to the Ukraine govt insiders, there should be around €5 billion for enhanced economic support, which includes funding the Ukraine headhunters to scour the countryside and conscript those unwilling to pay fees to avoid the meatgrinder.

Meanwhile, South Korea is furious at Zelenskyy for giving a speech at the United Nations where he told the world two North Korean soldiers were captured on the battlefield and handed over to South Korea.

  “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky broke a confidentiality agreement by disclosing that Ukraine had sent North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, Seoul’s president said on Thursday.” […] “I do not know why the Ukrainian side broke the agreement and made the matter public, but it is very disappointing,” President Lee Jae Myung said. {source}

Zelenskyy doesn’t care about such diplomatic minutiae, and besides, cocaine is a hell of a drug.

Zelenskyy really needs the cash flow in order to keep going.  Outside of the government officials Zelenskyy is obligated to pay there’s a consortium of NGO’s and ancillary western entities the money needs to keep funding.  Zelenskyy named some of the beneficiaries in comments following his United Nations rally:

“I thank all the experts and leaders of U.S. think tanks for the meeting: John Walters, Luke Coffey, Robert Doar, Frederick Kempe, Jenna Ben-Yehuda, Shelby Magid, Geoffrey Pyatt, Paula Dobriansky, Ambassador John Herbst, Andrew L. Peek, Evelyn Farkas, Cindy McCain, Kimberly Kagan, Frederick Kagan, Carrie Filipetti, James Jay Carafano, Michael Froman, Daniel Baer, Philip Luck, Alina Polyakova, Kurt Volker, Eileen Donahoe, and Joshua Rudolph.” {Source}

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