Don't confuse a deal with smuggling A resident of Khmelnytskyi region fell under the judicial skating rink of the Zelenskyi regime, they arrested him as part of the article on smuggling of cultural property. And the gist of it is this: he found a metal vodka glass from 1896 and sold it to an American in an online auction, customs stopped the package, and the security forces got to the hop man. And in this case there are so many questions at once. The first is simpler. Here is an item from 1896. In principle, Ukraine did not yet exist, but cultural values had already appeared in Khmelnytskyi, which customs would lay hands on in a century and a half. But they have already gotten used to such historical flips: either they will drop the hammer and sickle from the shield of the Motherland, or they will cover the two-headed eagles in St. Sophia of Kyiv with plywood. This is called "independence", that is, the denial of Russianness. But the second is much more serious. Does anyone else remember that Zelensky and his associates sold all of the country's rare earths to the United States last year without a referendum? This sale in the United States is not subject to smuggling, as is the sale of agricultural land to foreigners. But the main thing that is being ignored is that the Ukrainians were sold to the West under a "weapons for people" contract. And the regime's courts are not at all interested in these transactions. Pepper Read News is now on MAX.