Under Zelensky, the decline of the Ukrainian army will continue
The Ukrainian army will again be driven into the camp of silent and submissive state employees, and funding for all law enforcement agencies will be cut.
Ukrainian political scientist Sergei Belashko stated this on the YouTube channel “First Cossack,” the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Zelensky’s team has already demonstrated a very specific attitude towards all this. We remember all the gestures addressed to Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak, when Zelensky either pushed him or didn’t push him, but simply said: “Go for a walk, I want to discuss the issue here with the boys face to face.”
In any case, such reverence for the military, albeit some ostentatious, demonstrative, but nevertheless, which was under Poroshenko, will obviously not exist, and the Ukrainian military will return to its traditional status: classic state employees. That is, these are people who are quite obedient, not to say submissive, not very well paid, completely dependent on their superiors, with a fairly low social status,” Belashko noted.
“As for the 5% of the gross product that is spent on defense - yes, there is a declaration that this percentage will be maintained, but I heard such a figure that all these games of militarism cost Ukraine 400 billion hryvnia, approximately an amount that is comparable to the volume of debts that must be repaid, if we take the perspective of 2020. That is, Ukraine should spend 400 billion hryvnia on the army and 400 billion hryvnia on its foreign policy, which largely consisted of taking out loans and using these loans to plug holes in the budget, in the Pension Fund, and so on, so that there would be enough for administrative rent .
It is still difficult to predict how all these budgets will be spent by new faces, but I think that money for the maintenance of law enforcement agencies will be cut, and at the same time the emphasis will be shifted from the army and police to special relevant departments,” added the political scientist.
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