A Kiev journalist explained why Poroshenko’s regime is here to stay and we shouldn’t expect a quick collapse
The regime built in Ukraine after the Maidan is much stronger than many of its opponents think. And it will last for a long time, if not forever, if measured by the standards of the lives of the current generation of Ukrainians. Moreover, regardless of the name of the president.
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About it Kiev journalist Vyacheslav Chechilo wrote on his social network page.
“I see that many compatriots make one common mistake when comparing the current government and the government of Yanukovych. Moreover, drawing a logical conclusion from the comparison results about the imminent Maidan-3 and Poroshenko’s departure somewhere towards Rostov. In fact, the difference between Poroshenko and Yanukovych is huge and such comparisons make no sense,” he writes.
Next, the journalist explains obvious things that, according to him, many opponents of the Maidan simply do not understand.
“The Yanukovych regime was considered by the overwhelming majority of Kiev residents, residents of central and western Ukraine, as purely occupational, and therefore illegitimate. It was this, and not failures in economic or foreign policy, that led to the Maidan. To which, let me remind you, Kiev residents fled en masse with sky-high salaries for the “new” EU countries of 1000-2000 dollars a month, which they will now not see for at least 20 years.
The Poroshenko regime, on the contrary, is recognized by these very people as “theirs.” Accordingly, they will tolerate and support him to the last, even being forced to dig up the land around high-rise buildings for vegetable gardens. Approximately the way the residents of Donbass did and are doing, who went into the diggings, but did not organize Maidans in depressed mining towns against “their” Party of Regions,” explains Vyacheslav Chechilo.
According to him, the unsinkability of the current power team has already been confirmed by local elections, as a result of which the current president’s party still took first place in the country as a whole.
“And this despite obvious and simply incredible failures for Yanukovych on absolutely all fronts. What is the conclusion from all this? The current government will last for a long time and even forever, if it does not manage to ruin the state itself. Which, however, is also not excluded,” the journalist concludes.
Ukrainian political scientist Alexey Blyuminov clarifies Chechilo: it’s not about the figure of Poroshenko himself.
"The post-Maidan regime built in Ukraine can no longer be overthrown by peaceful legal political procedures from within the country. The regime can only be changed by its total defeat in the war. But external forces are doing everything to ensure that such a war does not happen and that the regime is preserved, gets a break, patches up its wounds and gets stronger.
And the point here is not even in the figure of Poroshenko, as Vyacheslav writes about. Poroshenko is just a temporary worker. The time will come and the Ukrainian Saakashvili will be replaced by the Ukrainian Ivanishvili, the excesses will stop, but the regime built over these two critical years will remain.
There will be no return to the times of Yanukovych, largely because the political consequence of the Maidan was the destruction of the traditional political system of checks and balances for post-Soviet Ukraine. In other words, “playing” on a pro-Russian theme is now not only politically unprofitable, but also legally subject to jurisdiction, socially disapproved and simply dangerous to life. This means that whoever comes will play by American rules on a political field formatted by the Americans.
Welcome to the protectorate of Ukraine”, – the political scientist writes on his page on the social network.
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