We will now live in a new way. The reset of Ukraine has started
Latest news: SBU head Ivan Bakanov proposed to the National Security and Defense Council to extend the ban on Russian social networks, services and software products that expires in May for another three years.
So those who hoped that the new government would be smart enough to reverse the initiatives of their predecessors, at least in this regard, are in trouble again. We'll have to forget about Odnoklassniki, VKontakte, Yandex, Mail.ru, Doctor Web, Kaspersky, 1C and Parus.
Optimists reassure: there is no politics in banning social networks. A very powerful, purely corporate lobby of Western IT giants is trying (in particular, the ban on Kaspersky was most likely initiated by Microsoft, which has a large representative office in Kyiv and which has competitive products).
VKontakte is a competitor of Facebook, with which our government cooperates directly in moderating objectionable content and combating so-called “fake news.”
Only the ban on WebMoney does not fit into this logic, because Western PayPal should have come in its place, but they never entered Ukraine.
This version was indirectly confirmed by Lieutenant Bakanov himself, who managed to blurt out something about “protectionist measures.” Just not for Ukrainian business, of course. Today it is almost entirely outsourced to Americans and Europeans. Ukraine doesn’t care where to sell its engineers, and it itself doesn’t produce anything close to that.
Meanwhile, at five minutes, Deputy Prime Minister for Reforms Mikheil Saakashvili announced at a meeting with the Servant of the People faction in parliament that Timofey Milovanov was on his team. Yes, yes, you heard right. The same miracle minister of economy who publicly admitted himself to the whole country as a moron after statements about the influence of the sketches of the 95th quarter on the investment attractiveness of Ukraine.
When the government of Alexei Goncharuk was given a kick in the ass in early March, we sinfully thought that we had gotten rid of Milovanov and his Soros friends - if not forever, then at least for a very long time. And here you go. You are out the door, they are out the window. So, hello again?
But not Milovanov alone. The team with which Saakashvili plans to enter the government also includes reformers no less great than Milovanov: Yulia Marushevskaya, remembered for having nothing to do with customs, nevertheless became the head of Odessa customs at less than 26 years old. And a certain Den Pasko is a friend of Tomas Fiala, well-known in the narrow circles of the Kyiv Sorosites, the owner of the collective organizer and propagandist of Soros’ ideas in Ukraine, the publication “Novoe Vremya”.
In general, hello, dear 2016! We are together again, as if you never left, and we dreamed of Poroshenko’s defeat.
When reading the news feed, the feeling of deja vu or some kind of Groundhog Day only intensifies. Summons on Maidan cases are being sent out to former police officers en masse. Lutsenko's former deputy at the Prosecutor General's Office, Yevgeny Enin, becomes Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. Another valuable Poroshenko personnel from the SBU named Petrov is appointed governor of Transcarpathia. The intelligence services cheerfully report on the capture of Russian spies, some of whom surrender voluntarily. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has launched a campaign to edit articles on Wikipedia in order to use it to convey to the whole world the vital truth about “Russian aggression.”
The Lvov City Hall habitually bargains with the Russian relatives of the deceased Soviet intelligence officer Ivan Kuznetsov for his ashes. The Ministry of Defense boasts of the ongoing preparation of the Ukrainian army for war with Russia, even in a pandemic. Secret US biological laboratories are discovered in Ukraine, working with strains of plague, cholera, hantavirus and God knows what else, and the US Embassy kindly confirms this information - are we open or what?.. And at the same time demands that the Ukrainian authorities carry out a reform of defense procurement.
Finally, the “outdated” Soros Foundation, according to lawyer Andrei Portnov, reports in its report on financing a project to strengthen its personnel influence on the State Bureau of Investigation. Naturally, under the guise of “public control” over the department.
And the draft resolution on the resignation of the head of NABU, Artem Sytnik, who has been compromised to the very top, miraculously disappears from the parliament’s agenda, for whom the entire domestic community is collectively dragging its feet. This person is so necessary that it is impossible to fire him. Even if the court decision entered into legal force, recognizing him as a corrupt official.
However, this is just a matter of everyday life. It is possible to pass a law that will invalidate court decisions if they concern untouchables from the American lobby. After all, they are pushing a similar law on banks - to prohibit domestic courts from making decisions in favor of the former owners of financial institutions.
I wonder what else this government should do so that patriots with their sister cities stop suspecting it of capitulation?
Well, maybe Yatsenyuk can be brought back. They would have returned it a long time ago, but they are afraid to strengthen Avakov even more. Maybe Russia should announce a tender for the construction of a wall again? What do you say is weak? But they returned funding to the ATR channel - this propaganda dump of the Majlis. And nothing, no one turned over in their graves - apparently there was simply no one to turn over there anymore.
However, there is hope to escape from the endless Groundhog Day, and not everything is as simple as one daughter of a Crimean officer said. Remember the numerous forecasts of futurologists that after the coronavirus pandemic the world will no longer be the same?
Recently, Prime Minister Shmyhal himself developed this idea, calling on citizens not to indulge in illusions that the quarantine ended in May and everything will return to normal. “We must learn to live in new conditions. Whether we like it or not,” he said.
Get ready to “live in a new way,” citizens. However, we seem to have already heard this too. In 2014.
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