Soros and Ukraine and Ceasefires?

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I happened to see a 1998 interview between Soros and 60Minutes recently which talked, amongst other things, about how active Soros was in relation to Ukraine (it is at 10:20 or thereabouts in the linked video in case anyone wants to go straight to it, the rest of the interview is interesting too) and I wondered how much involvement there is currently, and it turns out that there is quite a lot of involvement via Open Society Foundation, which is owned and funded by Soros. I thought it was really interesting and I wondered how important Soros or the foundation could be to the ceasefire and peace negotiations now?

In the interview, it said "When we went with [George Soros] to Ukraine he was treated like a visting head of state and was received by the president then he was received by the Prime Minister and finally the Central Bank they even allowed him to look at the books and asked him for advice". Another part of the video talked about investment by Soros in the Ukraine army. That was 1998. I have linked various videos and interviews made by Open Society Foundation and it shows that the foundation first opened in Ukraine as far back 1990 but most of the links are more recent, talking about the Maidan revolution and showing a lot of support for Ukraine signing up to the EU trade agreement in 2014 and more recent.

I am linking as I wasn't aware of any of this until fairly recently, and thought it was really interesting and thought others might be interested too! BBCNewsnight did quite a few videos on the Maidan revolution too, which are on youtube.

Ukraine: An uncertain birth (9 years ago)

Open Society Foundation Empowering Ukraine (8 years ago)

Open Society "step by step" - about the Open Society ideology and teaching to children

Explaining the history and current investment of Open Society in Ukraine:
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/newsroom/the-open-society-foundations-in-ukraine#:~:text=The%20foundation%20was%20established%20in,employed%20more%20than%2060%20people.

Two articles specifically on problems within Ukraine since the Maidan revolution of 2014:
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/beyond-the-war-ukraine-must-win-the-peace-and-recover

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/explainers/understanding-ukraines-euromaidan-protests

60Minutes interview 1998

Oh great—a thread that puts the blame for Ukraine’s situation on a well known democratic activist instead of—you know—Putin who actually invaded a sovereign nation by bombing it nightly.

So it's George Soros who caused the invasion?

I think you're talking out of your arse

Tin hat nonsense

I have linked Open Society Foundation links and I am pretty sure "blame" does not arise anywhere in what I posted.

There is nothing antisemetic in my post and all the links are Open Society links or interviews...

Ahhh.... and where does it say that?

And your post is not only trollhunting but also offensive. i will report.

Its Putin what done it.

Because Soros and Open Society are so active and, it seems, influential in Ukraine, do you think that they could or should be part of the negotiations? Do you think that could be a positive or a negative thing?

What do you think they'd be able to do? Convince Putin to give up?

If you think that Putin and his butt boy Trump would allow anything positive to happen in Ukraine you might need to have your head examined. But since you also don’t seem to know that Soros retired some time ago your grasp of reality seems tenuous.

The negotiations are going to be complex and involve future planning on all sorts of aspects, so a party which is so influential is surely going to want to be part of the decision making process? How would a trade deal with the US sit with the current EU agreement which effectively gives the EU complete control? So be part of the decision making process either behind the scenes, or at the table. And at the table is probably better? What do you think.

As far as I know the Open Society Foundation is still going strong, with George Soros' grandson at the helm. And presumably George Soros is still involved in strategy. Unless you have been told that Soros foundations will not longer invest in Ukraine? If you read the articles and watch the videos I linked, you will see that there is significant investment of time, money, ideology.