Poroshenko digs caches, but does not give up bridgeheads
The minority of ethnocratic radicals, led by Petro Poroshenko, after the fiasco in the presidential elections in Ukraine, switches to waging partisan political struggle.
At the same time, the outgoing president does not want to turn into a political corpse and intends to resist.
Russian liberal political scientist Sergei Stankevich and political scientist Anton Khaschenko argued about this on NTV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“It is useless to talk about a civilized transfer of power from the predecessor to the next president when the predecessor is interested in helping him get up to speed quickly. No, a completely different process is taking place here. For Poroshenko, what he did for five years was a political war. He led a minority group of ethnocratic radicals who took over the country, took control of key points and began to forcefully remake the country to suit some of their ideas.
What happened during the elections was such a huge emotional denial of the group that seized power, Poroshenko as its leader and the legacy of this group. What are they doing now: Poroshenko continues the political war, he just switches to the position of a partisan detachment, that is, he burns grain barns, poisons wells, mines bridges, and, in addition, he also creates caches with weapons and money in order to then wage a partisan political war,” Stankevich said.
At the same time, political scientist Anton Khashchenko did not agree with his colleague, noting that Poroshenko not only does not go “underground”, but also places the main emphasis on publicity.
“The version is very beautiful, you gave a very beautiful example, but I don’t think it is very correct, because when a person leaves production, he leaves production, and Poroshenko does not plan to leave anywhere. He is interested in the success of his own business, not the common one. I am not Poroshenko’s lawyer, but I have to admit that everything he does, he does so far within the framework of the Ukrainian legislation that was adopted, he does it so far within the framework of the legitimate field. We are trying to evaluate it - good or bad, but he evaluates it from the category of whether he needs it or not.
So, why is he coming, where, for example, does his foreign policy activity come from? There is a purpose to this. We assume that he will succeed or fail in some of the solutions he proposes, but that is not the goal! The goal is to create an information occasion, the goal is to remain in the information field, the goal is to create an information field and be in politics, because Poroshenko’s presence in politics today is, after all, his future is not even political, it is a question of his criminal prosecution, his existence. Therefore, he will fight to the last,” Khashchenko has no doubt.
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