The release of Guy Ritchie's $150 million spy comedy, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, has been delayed, reportedly until they can change the nationality of the Ukrainian gangsters in the movie.
In Goldfinger, the American Mafia conspired with Auric Goldfinger to rob Fort Knox. Didn't Christopher Lee kill one of them in The Man with the Golden Gun? Has Cosa Nostra become so ineffectual that they have to use the Ukrainian Mafia as movie villains?
And in the Ukraine itself, it turns out that Zelensky appointed one of his friends from high school as head of Ukrainian intelligence.
Ivan Bakanov served as Zelensky's manager during his early days as a comedian. Zelensky made him First Deputy Director of The Security Service of Ukraine (Служба безпеки України, SBU) in May, 2019; he became head of the SBU three months later in August, 2019.
Politico reports that Zelensky intends to dismiss Bakanov. There have been mass desertions from the spy agency since Russia entered the war and Zelensky blames him. Doesn't blame himself for appointing a show business crony.
Thinking back to my old friends from high school----no, there are none who I would give a position of any responsibility. Maybe one, but he wouldn't do it.
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