'Prigozhin is a monster of Vladimir Putin’s creation,' write NormEisen and JoshRudes. 'One cannot truly understand this war without looking through the lens of corruption.'
, the fight against corruption has greatly influenced the course of events. And Ukraine will need to defeat corruption if it has any hope of winning the conflict and securing a meaningful peace.
Prigozhin is a monster of Vladimir Putin’s creation. Putin enriched him originally through lucrative contracts to feed Russia’s military and then through preferential access to resources exploited by Prigozhin’s mercenaries in Africa and elsewhere.
. Even though these attackers were themselves odious figures, local defenders were disinclined to risk their lives for a corrupt government, so they laid down their weapons or stepped aside.Corruption gave us the uprising and the instability of the Putin regime — but that is only the beginning of how the corruption issue has shaped the war and will dominate its outcome.
last week, “Russia invaded Ukraine not only to steal our land, resources and people, [but also because] Russia’s bosses are very afraid of our democracy, [which is] getting rid of corruption [by] dismantling the old oligarchic model.”cites overlooked signals from the Kremlin to similarly find that “Putin’s war against Ukraine is a direct response to Ukraine’s moves against oligarchy and kleptocracy.” We argue that Ukraine is halfway through a generational process of uprooting oligarchy.
Putin should have been even more afraid of Ukrainians' anti-corruption efforts. If he understood how they truly feel about their fight against corruption — that it lies at the heart of the civic nation they have been building since 2014 — he might have known how bravely they would fight for their country with far more conviction than in brittle kleptocracies like Ukraine in 2014, Afghanistan in 2021 and Russia in 2023.Zelenskyy is the embodiment of this national resolve.
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