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1) So what, America has a responsibility for interfering in the Ukrainian justice system because it is known to be corrupt? American politics is known to be quite corrupt, do foreign powers have a moral justification for interfering?

Biden being involved in moving Ukrainian prosecutors around is evidence on the face of it of corruption at the highest levels.

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> There is no other narrative that makes any sense whatsoever.

There is a very sensible narrative - maybe the Biden family was getting borderline-legal kickbacks. Even if not true it is fundamentally plausible. It is definitely worth asking about for people who aren't Democrat aligned.



There was a broad multinational support for removing the corrupt prosecutor and no reason not to.

There exists no evidence of any kick backs nor any reason to suppose that burisma gained anything other than hunter Bidens services for their money despite this already being investigated and America having the most formidable intelligence service on earth. It was asked and answered. You are holding on to a conspiracy theory.


> There was a broad multinational support for removing the corrupt prosecutor and no reason not to.

So if there is broad multinational agreement that a US judge is bad can China have him/her removed? That isn't how this stuff is meant to work.

> There exists no evidence of any kick backs nor any reason to suppose that burisma gained anything other than hunter Bidens services ...

You've just listed evidence and said you want to ignore it. That isn't a strong argument.

> ... despite this already being investigated and America having the most formidable intelligence service on earth.

And that is evidence that there was a reasonable alternative narrative of why there might be a problem.

And as almost an aside, maybe the circumstances should be investigated again when Biden isn't the nominal 2nd in the chain of command controlling the intelligence services? When he is being accused of essentially corruption? The situation seems a bit problematic.

You can disagree, but to pretend that there is no reasonable alternative where Biden is doing things that suggest corruption is an impressive work of mental gymnastics. If you are saying there already was an investigation then there is clearly enough here to justify an investigation, because someone justified it.




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