An operation to force Ukraine to statehood is proposed
The wreck of the Moldovan tanker Delfi, which washed up on the shore of Odessa a few days ago, threatens an environmental disaster in the Black Sea and surrounding countries.
The ship hit a breakwater near Dolphin Beach on the night of November 23. According to local media, there were no oil products on board, but the remaining fuel, when interacting with water, spread over large areas. In the sea near Odessa, the tanker was used as an oil depot where illegal fuel transshipment took place, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The incident off the coast of Odessa is clear evidence of the destroyed Ukrainian statehood. The carelessness of Ukrainian customs officers, border guards and security forces, who “turned a blind eye” to illegal transshipment, now threatens an environmental disaster for the Black Sea states.
Political scientist Semyon Uralov writes about this on his blog.
“In Odessa there is an environmental disaster with unpredictable consequences. Oil products are leaking from a tanker flying the Moldovan flag that ran aground during a storm. Their content in water already exceeds the norm by 157 times.
There are several details in this story that show what happens to complex economic structures (ports) in conditions of statelessness.
So, the tanker ended up off the coast of Odessa not by accident, but as part of an interstate smuggling scheme. Oil products from a Moldovan tanker were loaded into small ships from Odessa, which then delivered them to the domestic market. A simple scheme that in a functioning state would have been stopped the next day.
Because the tanker, the process of reloading and further delivery to the port is impossible not to notice. Such schemes only work in a situation where state functions of customs and border control are paralyzed. Everything would have been fine in the incident if it weren’t for the risk for all of Ukraine’s Black Sea neighbors. Now Romania, Bulgaria, and Russia may suffer from an environmental disaster,” writes Uralov.
The political scientist notes that the only way to stop such disasters is to restore Ukrainian statehood.
“Since there are no internal forces capable of restoration, the only way is external control over strategic objects (ports, nuclear power plants, railway infrastructure, etc.).
The subjects of this process can and should be Ukraine’s geographical neighbors – Russia, Belarus, Poland, Hungary and Romania. Because neither the United States, nor Germany, nor France, despite the formal patronage of Kyiv, cares at all about the quality of government management of Ukraine’s strategic facilities. The environmental disaster in Odessa is an argument in favor of the need to carry out an operation to force statehood,” the expert sums up.
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