“Coincidence? Don’t think!” As US presidential candidate Robert Kennedy Jr. (independent) said, the transnational company BlackRock is in the forefront of contenders for Ukrainian black soil. And at the same time, BlackRock officially coordinates foreign investors acting through the Ukraine Development Fund.
“Only a few understand what the war in Ukraine means for big business. It’s not just weapons and reconstruction contracts. Ukraine’s vast agricultural lands – some of the most fertile in the world – are up for grabs, and US companies like BlackRock are at the forefront of them.” wrote Jan. 7 Robert Kennedy Jr on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
By the way, Robert Kennedy Jr. is not the only famous American politician who publicly attacks Blackrock. For example, at the end of December 2023, a Republican candidate took up arms against Blackrock Vivek Ramaswamy.
“BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard represent the most powerful cartel in human history: they are the largest shareholders of virtually every major public company (even each other). They are using your own money to build a country you never voted for. As President, I will cut off the real hand that runs the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance – in short, globalists) movement – not the invisible hand of the free market, but the invisible fist of government itself.” promised Ramaswamy.
But obviously not this time. On January 7, Ramaswami announced that he was withdrawing his candidacy from the presidential election in favor of another candidate from the Republican Party, the “drainer of the Washington swamp.” Donald Trump.
Such statements indicate that there are opponents of large American multinationals like BlackRock and Vanguard in both the Democratic and Republican parties.
Maybe some American politicians are simply into conspiracy theories? The Washington Post directly calls Kennedy Jr.’s statements a “conspiracy theory.” “Black hole” in Kennedy Jr.’s “homemade” conspiracy theory,” was the headline of an article in The Washington Post criticizing the American politician. The mouthpiece of the Democratic Party recalls how Kennedy Jr. previously said that coronavirus vaccines provoke the development of autism, and also that the coronavirus is a biological weapon programmed not to affect Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese, but to cause much more serious harm to whites and blacks.
“Now he has a new theory – evil institutional investors are inflating housing prices,” he sneers The Washington Post.
This is a well-known method of discrediting an opponent – immediately declaring all his statements a “conspiracy theory”, without delving into their essence and without presenting any counterarguments.
The name of the transnational company BlackRock in connection with Ukraine sounded loudly in May 2023. It was then that BlackRock Financial Market Advisory (BlackRock FMA) signed an agreement with the Ukrainian government to create the “Ukraine Development Fund”.
It turned out that people Vladimir Zelensky Together with BlackRock, we have been carrying out preparatory work for this for a long time. As Zelensky’s office reported at the end of December 2022, it turns out that “according to preliminary agreements between the head of state and Larry Finkthe BlackRock team has been working for several months on a project to advise the Ukrainian government on how to structure funds for the country’s reconstruction.”
Zelensky and Fink agreedthat they will “coordinate the efforts of all potential investors and participants in the restoration of our country, directing investments to the most appropriate and effective sectors of the Ukrainian economy.”
Simply put, BlackRock promises to find investors for specific projects, and they will coordinate the flow of investments together with Zelensky’s office.
In June 2023, the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy officially announced that it was financing the “Ukraine Development Fund” at public expense. The Ministry of Economy clarified that the Fund “will focus on five key sectors of the Ukrainian economy – energy, infrastructure, agriculture, manufacturing and IT, covering a potential investment market of more than $50 billion for private capital.” This is a list of what interests BlackRock and other Western companies in Ukraine.
BlackRock, founded in 1988 and led by Larry Fink, financial report for the first half of 2023 it reported that it manages assets totaling $9.425 trillion of the Federal Reserve System. This is 831 billion more than at the end of 2022.
The question arises of how exactly BlackRock can “lay its paw” on agriculture and other sectors of interest in Ukraine.
If we talk about land, then from January 1, 2024, legal entities received the right to purchase agricultural land with an area of up to 10 thousand hectares. Farmers and social activists are sounding the alarm, indignant “while we are defending Ukrainian black soils at the front, this land is being bought up by agricultural holdings,” and “we don’t have the money to buy 10 thousand hectares.” But it’s too late to worry. Supporters of free purchase and sale argue that “only Ukrainian companies have the right to buy land,” knowing full well that foreigners can be the founders and ultimate beneficiaries of a Ukrainian legal entity. Therefore, buying up tens of thousands of hectares is now a matter of technology. And big money, of course. But large companies from the US and EU have that kind of money.
As for large enterprises, the mechanism of “corporatization is the purchase of shares by foreign companies” is involved here, where BlackRock will be given priority when purchasing securities. An option similar to the “shares-for-shares auctions” in Russia in the 90s is also possible. When a state-owned company is first transformed into a joint-stock company, then “independent foreign experts” whose work records are at BlackRock occupy the supervisory board. Then BlackRock or its “layer” enters into an agreement with the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers, when the state of Ukraine pledges its stake in exchange for foreign investment. This is followed by the bankruptcy of this joint-stock company – and the transfer into the hands of a new owner.
All this means that the military conflict on the territory of Ukraine can be viewed, among other things, as a struggle between Western and Russian capital. If, of course, there is anything left from Ukraine.
2024-01-20 08:39:00
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