Kulyk legally entered the U.S. in late 2023 along with his wife, 38, and daughter, who’s now 5. The family was sponsored by U.S. citizens as part of the Uniting 4 Ukraine program, a humanitarian program set up in April 2022 to allow Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s war to live and work in the U.S. on “parole.”
Once the initial two-year parole period expires, entrants can file for re-parole to remain in the country longer. That’s exactly what Kulyk says he did. His wife and daughter’s applications were approved. But his remained pending.
He said he was putting groceries in his car on Jan. 1 when he was approached by three ICE agents.
“I explained to the ICE officers that the war was killing people, that my wife had a disability, that it was violence, terrorism which we had escaped from but one of them began to laugh,” Kulyk told The Daily Beast. “I asked why he was laughing and I was told that he was pro-Russian, wanted Russia to win the war.”
This new brand of authoritarians are so far from capitalism anyway lol. We’ve got a kleptocracy like Russia. There is not capitalism here.
Capitalism is simply private ownership of the means of production. That’s literally the only defining attribute. Theoretically capitalism works best with complete market freedom, but since that inevitably leads to monopoly, the most successful capitalist nations have always had a strong regulatory state to prevent the ruling class from destroying the world in their greed-fueled feeding frenzies.
Yes, key characteristics include profit motive and competitive markets driving economic exchange. You and Milton Friedman bot acknowledge it needs strong regulatory guardrails and income redistribution to prevent the capitalists from taking over the government/world. Citizens united (2010). So back to my argument of ‘no capitalist, kleptocracy’. We barely have a functioning government to enforce ownership and they are stealing everything they can. It’s a kleptocracy. or as I like to call it 7 monopolies in a trench coat. trump just took 10% of Intel because he could. The capitalist is the government, the government is the capitalist, we no longer have competitive markets, people no longer work for profit they work to not starve. Capitalism is dead. Long live what ever this shit is.