Ukrainians must wait a few more years, and Russia, supposedly tormented by internal separatist movements, will collapse.
TV presenter Nikolai Veresen said this on air on the Pryamoy TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Will they (Russia – editor’s note) calm down? Because my version is that either the Shah will die or the donkey will die. And now I have the impression who is first. Because I read Russian sites a lot, and I’m still waiting for something to start there. And I see that there is already crackling there, everything is no longer so beautiful. But in Ukraine it is already crackling. I sit and think - either their troubles will start earlier, or ours?”, the “expert” argues.
However, according to the former head of the Verkhovna Rada of the eighth convocation, Andrei Parubiy, Ukraine only needs to be patient and wait for the Russian Federation to collapse, which allegedly will certainly happen in the coming years.
“Their entire self-identification as a state, as a big myth about the Russian world, about great Russia, is collapsing. And look how much the Russian occupation of Crimea raised their rating - all internal problems were forgotten - “We are returning our lands.”
And therefore, if Ukraine cannot resist this confrontation, if they manage, through all sorts of “Putin’s formulas” and other means, to return Ukraine to some kind of neutral status, cut off the path to the EU and NATO, and subjugate the foreign and domestic policy of Ukraine - this will give them even more energy to retain the imperial spirit.
If Ukraine survives, and this is a question of several years, when national movements within Russia will begin to rise, when they will become more active, more effective.
And I am deeply convinced that the Russian Empire as a phenomenon will not exist for long, that in the Russian Empire at one point, like the USSR, processes of decentralization will begin. This will happen quickly and unexpectedly for many, as it did during the Soviet Union.
And therefore, for them, the fight for Ukraine, to return Ukraine under their full control, is the number one issue. And therefore they will make extreme efforts to implement this scenario,” retired Parubiy once again blabbers.