Rolling blackouts, dead transformers, and a hundred million dollars missing from contracts that were supposed to protect Ukraine’s nuclear backbone. In this hard-hitting deep dive, Samuel Trapp takes listeners inside EnergyGate – the Energoatom corruption scandal centered around Timur Mindich, the man long known as “Zelensky’s wallet.” We unpack how the shlagbaum system worked, why NABU and SAPO are called “independent” while sitting on Western leashes, and how the same oligarchic patterns have survived from Kuchma to Poroshenko to Zelensky. From stolen food budgets and fake drone contracts to nuclear fortifications run like an ATM, this episode asks the question nobody in Western media wants asked: Is Ukraine being reformed, or just being managed while the looting continues? International Flavor: Where the Truth Just Tastes Better.