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I replied to a comment earlier similarly:
Go watch Servant of the People, it’s an uncanny coincidence that he is the real president now.
Damn that sure is a lot of corruption. >

Much remained unchanged since USSR days.
Oligarchs owned everything, controlled everything, etc.
With the ru backers no longer in positions of power, reform is finally possible.
Also, a requirement for EU membership, hence many laws now passed to that end. >

The EU requirement is the big thing. If they didn’t make moves to embrace western democracy and remove political corruption they would not be joining the bloc after the war.
Possibly join NATO maybe, but not the EU. >

The EU just granted Bosnia a place even though they are near the bottom of the corruption index >

Yes but that's simply to say they're a candidate. They can be a candidate and the EU will regularly be checking in to see that they're making the required reforms for actually becoming a member. If they don't make the reforms, they don't join. If they take decades to reform, then it'll be decades before they join.
Ukraine will be in the same boat. >

Candidacy is pretty much a given they will be in soon.
Romania and Bulgaria (two other corrupt countries) were given candidacy in 2004 before being accepted in 2006 (and officially becoming members in 2007) 
They both applied in 1995 while Bosnia applied in 2017 so slightly quicker for Bosnia but now it's when not if and when won't be that long. >

Turkey had applied for candidacy years ago and that was revoked when it became clear that Edregon’s policies did not respect the impartiality of the judiciary or of the press. So it can be revoked, it’s just that the EU takes educated guesses on who likely a country is to clean itself up after membership. >

Turkey is totally different because they just stick 2 fingers up to membership (or Erdogan on behalf of Turkey does).
Turkey was a founding member of the council of Europe after the war and only fully left the EU sphere in 2011.
If they really wanted to get back in they could. >

The perfect time to do it. The common man fighting for their freedom will not stand by with their lives on the line to accept corruption anymore. Its either "you're with us or against us" attitude. >

Speaking of the “perfect time,” I imagine that nearly one year into an existential war Zelensky can probably feel out who in power is for it selflessly and who’s been in it for themselves.
In other words, the tree’s been shaking long enough for the rotten apples to fall. Perhaps even the rotten branches. >

Considering the mess he inherited from the ousted Russian puppet, I can image it’s been an extensive pruning job >

Poroshenko was the president before Zelenskyy until 2019. Yanukovych was the one ousted in 2014. Poroshenko was a flawed president with a lot of issues but one thing he was not was a Russian puppet. His govt started European integration and the massive military reforms which have formed the significantly improved Ukrainian Army we see today. >

My mistake, I forgot there was someone between Yanukovich and Zelenskiy >

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 88%. (I'm a bot)


A number of Ukrainian officials have been dismissed or resigned over the last four days amid corruption allegations as Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, attempts to take a zero-tolerance approach to the issue.
Fifteen senior officials have left their posts since Saturday, six of whom have had corruption allegations levelled at them by journalists and Ukraine's anti-corruption authorities.
The shake-up continued on Tuesday afternoon with Ukraine's cabinet of ministers announcing that five regional heads had been dismissed, only one of whom is being investigated for corruption, along with a further three deputy ministers and two heads of state agencies - none of whom stand accused of corruption.


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Gotta say, that man really rose to the occasion that only unique difficulties can bring.
I've never witnessed the making of a legendary statesman before, but I'm sure this is the real thing.