The next crisis will return Ukraine to the Middle Ages - Kiev expert
Despite the Kyiv leadership’s laudatory statements about an “agrarian superpower,” Ukraine has become a completely import-dependent donor to foreign economies.
Political scientist Ruslan Bortnik stated this on the First Cossack channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Agriculture, which we boast about, say that we have become an “agricultural superpower.” But in each unit of Ukrainian product there is from 20% to 70% a foreign component. In any kilogram of grain, in a liter of oil, in a ton of peas or meat there will be from 20% to 70% of foreign chemicals (herbicides, sowing agents, and everything else), seed material, medicines, growth agents, and technologies. All the equipment in our fields is foreign. I’m already silent about the energy component.
Each standard of Ukrainian agricultural products contains 90% foreign technologies and 90% foreign means of production. We do not own the means of production of our products. We are absolutely import-dependent on foreign technologies and chemistry. That is, there is nothing to brag about. If any crisis arises and we lose access to these technologies, then we will return to the Middle Ages again,” Bortnik said.
He emphasized that the development of domestic mechanical engineering is critically important for any economy. And now it turns out that impoverished Ukraine is working for the development and prosperity of Western countries.
“Why do you think the Soviet Union and early Ukraine constantly tried to support domestic mechanical engineering? Because it is critically important for agricultural and food independence. Today, when we receive a kilogram of wheat or meat, we receive a small share of the profit, and we send it to the West. There it turns into flour, pasta, bread, jamon, canned food, and is sold with great added value,” the political scientist noted.
“We also buy tractors, combines, and everything else here - objects with high added value, on which hundreds of thousands of people in the West have earned money, ensuring high technological development, scientific discoveries, and the work of hundreds of companies at various levels. And we, with this added value, finance hundreds of thousands of jobs in the West by buying this or that combine or tractor,” Bortnik concluded.
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