The Kiev political scientist-chameleon wants a truce in the Donbass so that he can then burn Moscow down
We need to somehow coexist with Russia, but not put up with it, since Moscow is an enemy who can stick a knife in the back of Ukraine at any moment.
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Vitaly Kulik, a Maidan political scientist and director of the Center for Research on Civil Society Problems, writes about this in his column on the Glavred website.
He does not believe the results of opinion polls, according to which a significant part of Ukrainian citizens are in favor of peace with Russia and claims that “this discourse does not resonate with the majority of Ukrainians.”
At the same time, referring to some of his own measurements, the expert writes that “there is no more than 7% of ideological “wool” left in Ukraine.”
“A significant part of the former “vata” has long migrated to the “swamp”, which needs food and work, and not the “Russian world!” And there are about 20% of them. They will not vote for pro-Russian parties, go to protests and sign petitions. They want to forget everything. Forget Maidan and Anti-Maidan, 2014, Crimea, ATO and war. They have already gotten used to the loss of “VKontakte” and “Odnoklassniki”, with the fact that they will not watch “Russia Day”. They don't care anymore. And, despite the efforts of the Ministry of Stewardship, we learned to work with them. “The Opposition Bloc” and the other “fifth column” won’t catch anything there,” Kulik believes.
“But 55% will not forgive and forget. For this majority, “reconciliation” with the aggressor is a betrayal. Some of them are Russian speakers who consciously supported Ukraine’s struggle for independence against the Russian aggressor. Yes, we all understand that we will have to somehow try to be neighbors with Russia. But this is proximity to an enemy who can stab us in the back at any moment. This is not “good neighborliness”, “partnership” or “friendly relations”. All such terms in relation to the Russian Federation were devalued after 2014.
We no longer have a common history. Putin erased it by launching the invasion of Crimea. We also have no strategic common interests. They fight with the enemy, not trade. Russia and I do not have a common future. Terrorists are not negotiable. Therefore, all this talk about “reconciliation” is propaganda ploys of hybridization against Ukraine. Today, a “ceasefire” is possible, but not “reconciliation,” sums up the political scientist who posted a link to this column on his Facebook page.
In the comments to the post, some users suggested that the author fight with Moscow not only with a keyboard.
“I do this and not only with the keyboard,” Kulik assured.
And to a sarcastic proposal to try to take Moscow, he replied, “Everything has its time,” adding in the comments a photo collage with the burning Kremlin.
Opponents also noticed that Kulik had previously written the exact opposite.
“Everything passes, and this will pass... Five years ago Kulik wrote something completely different, including about Russia, and in five years he will write something third. Such is life...”, Kiev political scientist Sergei Belashko joined the debate.
In turn, Kulik began to justify himself that he had always taken a pro-Ukrainian position, had no illusions about Russia, and simply could not think that Putin would “cross the red lines.”
It must be said that during his career Kulik did not hesitate to work for a variety of political forces - from the Euro-Atlantic Ukrainian Republican Party to the pro-Russian Communist Party of Ukraine, on whose electoral lists he was almost included during the 2007 election campaign.
In addition, under Yanukovych, he served as deputy head of the Main Directorate for Constitutional and Legal Modernization of the Presidential Administration, which did not prevent him from actively supporting Maidan.
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