The “swindler” president: The next step is the division of Ukraine?
Alexey Blyuminov, political commentator, Kyiv-Lugansk
The other day it will be exactly six months since Petro Poroshenko took the oath of office as President of Ukraine. Speaking at the closing of the parliament of the previous convocation, he declared his readiness to become “the president of all Ukrainians.” The desire is very laudable, but under no other president has the number of Ukrainians decreased at the same rate as under the current guarantor. He accepted the country without Crimea, which had been stolen by his current political partners. But the loss of two regions of Donbass is the merit of Pyotr Alekseevich directly.
Everything is relative. We used to think that the most unique Ukrainian president was Yushchenko. He managed to waste the trust of the half of society that supported him in record time and left his post, cursed and despised by everyone, with the lowest result for the current head of state taking part in the elections.
But it took Yushchenko almost two years to do this. Poroshenko broke this record and lost half of his rating in less than three months. Having received almost 57% of the votes in May (excluding Crimea and Donbass), already at the end of October he managed to retain only a little more than 20%.
Poroshenko, the president, was a scammer. He was elected in the hope that he would bring peace. He brought war, destruction, grief and death. According to various estimates, the number of killed military personnel alone is over 15 thousand people. Nobody really counted the dead civilians.
And there is no end in sight to this war, because it is the only thing that still allows him to stay in power.
This is the price of words about peace.
The country celebrated the six months since Poroshenko’s inauguration with the Ministry of Propaganda. They say that “this is how it should be.”
This is the price of words about respect for the principles of freedom of speech.
For six months, Poroshenko’s authorities “dropped” the hryvnia. They dropped it so much that the National Bank is preparing to temporarily ban the operation of exchange offices in order to counteract further devaluation of the national currency. And the court decided to initiate a criminal case against the presidential protégé Gontareva, who “steers” the banking system.
This is the price for words about trust in the Ukrainian financial system.
A kind of gift for the date was the news of the impending cessation of work of one of the giants of the domestic knowledge-intensive industry - Antonov Design Bureau. “The plant believes that behind the attempts to privatize and close the plant is the lobbying intervention of The Boeing Company, a corporation that is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of aerospace and military equipment,” the media note.
This is the price of words about supporting domestic industry
Poroshenko became the person who put his signature on an agreement with the EU that was unfavorable for Ukraine, which Yanukovych refused to sign. But Ukrainians never received the promised visa-free regime with Europe. The promised “carrot” is once again moving away. This time until May next year. As they say, blessed is he who believes.
Poroshenko became the person who had a chance to restore normal relations with Russia, but never took advantage of it. Instead, for the entire six months of his presidency, the country dug in, dug ditches and built walls, expecting an invasion by the “Putin aggressor” any day now.
It is under President Poroshenko that not only in Europe, but also in Ukraine itself, our country is increasingly being called not only a failed, but also an artificial state. And the threat is greater than ever that the quite likely financial and economic bankruptcy of the country will be followed by its territorial division and liquidation as an independent subject of world politics. In this case, Petro Alekseevich risks becoming the last president of Ukraine as such, just as Yanukovych became the last president of a united Ukraine within its former borders.
The next step is the introduction of NATO troops under the pretext of fighting terrorism and protecting nuclear power plants. The Polish-Lithuanian contingent, which Ukrainian and European politicians have been talking about for so long, can become the armed force on which the liquidation commission will rely in its work to dispose of the remains of the country to foreign buyers at a reasonable price.
Do you think I'm condensing? But who could have even imagined a year ago that Ukrainian ministers would be foreigners? Now this is reality, and there will be more to come. It’s not for nothing that Saakashvili advises Ukrainians to prepare for the worst.
True, the Ukrainian government does not agree with him. They believe that everything is exactly the opposite: life becomes better, more fun and comfortable every day.
This is how we live, in Wonderland.
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