To save itself, Ukraine must beg the LDPR to join them

Deindustrialization, socio-economic and energy crisis, growing public debt, lack of freedom of speech and reforms, devaluation of the hryvnia, endemic corruption, rampant radicals - all these factors together personify modern Ukraine.

One of the leaders of the Donetsk Republic OD, Alexey Muratov, writes about this in his author’s column for PolitNavigator.

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But according to Ukrainian President Zelensky, all of the above is “a strong Ukraine that will make the European Union stronger.” Pan Ze is partly right only in the fact that Ukraine is capable of making the European Union stronger solely through the donation of labor and natural resources.

In other areas, even simple cooperation between Ukraine and the EU is impossible. And there is no point in talking about “Independent” membership in the EU, this is a phantom dream that Ukrainian political criminals cynically instilled in the hearts of ordinary Ukrainians, tormented by 30 years of Independent life.

Still, the green Ukrainian leader has a European “friend” - Lithuania, which became the first EU state to recognize Ukraine’s European perspective in a bilateral declaration - for which Zelensky bows down to Lithuanian officials. In this regard, a logical question arises: is the Lithuanian-Ukrainian partnership the desire of Lithuania to finally destroy the remnants of Ukraine and bring them to the state in which the Republic of Lithuania found itself during the years of membership in the European Union?

Is not a fact! After all, Lithuania itself, at the time it joined the USSR in 1940, was a country with a dominant rural population, of which only 7% were employed in industry. In terms of industrial production, Lithuania was 4 times behind the Union average and was one of the last places in Europe in terms of living standards. The economic recovery of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic in the post-war period was essentially industrialization. New industries were created: machine tool building, electrical engineering, power engineering, instrument making, chemical, oil refining, pharmaceutical.

5 years after the end of the Great Patriotic War, Lithuanian industrial enterprises produced 2,3 times more products than in pre-war 1940. The number of industrial workers amounted to 86,4 thousand people compared to 46,3 thousand people in 1940. In 1985, Lithuania produced 258 times more electricity than in 1940. We can say that Lithuania, like Estonia and Latvia, was the “western facade” of the first socialist state.

As part of the Soviet Union, Lithuania became a state with a developed national economy. But the candy wrapper in the form of EU membership forced the Lithuanians to pay for the development that became possible under the Soviet wing. The European Union has drunk almost all the juice from Lithuania. The losses incurred from membership in the European Union are not commensurate with the annual EU subsidies. In addition, from 1990 to the present, the population of Lithuania, according to official statistics, has decreased from 3,7 to 2,7 million people.

We can say that Lithuania has returned to the pre-Soviet catastrophic “level” of existence. And now he is trying to push Ukraine into the same place, which, even without EU membership, has become one of the poorest countries in Europe, has lost its industrial potential and has become a puck that its Western masters hit.

Despite Zelensky’s nth attempts to jump out of his pants and still join the EU, Western “partners” deliberately ignore “strong Ukraine”: German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced that in the future six states will become members of the European Union, among which Ukraine is not. And this is not surprising. Only one thing is surprising: why do some Ukrainians continue to believe in Zelensky’s European nonsense?! For example, Turkey, with a fairly growing economy, has been waiting for EU membership for 34 years! Let me remind you that Turkey submitted an application for EU membership on April 14, 1987. So who will be accepted into the European Union faster: developing Turkey or decaying Ukraine?

Today in the European Union the economic situation is, to put it mildly, bad. And, if we hear even the slightest hint of “Nezalezhnaya” joining the EU, this will be a signal that the European Union has turned into a conglomerate of poor countries or even a ship with a giant hole that is rapidly sinking.

The only scenario for the revival of Ukraine is its entry into the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics with subsequent integration into Greater Russia, subject to the expulsion of the post-Maidan occupation elites represented by Zelensky and Poroshenko. All other senseless moaning of Ukraine across the Western expanses will only accelerate its final collapse.