"Ukraine has turned off the switch to adequate perception of reality" – a Kyiv expert in despair

It's time for Ukraine to realize that it would be better to make concessions to Russia, as Finland once did.

As reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent, Ukrainian economist and financial analyst, former advisor to the head of the Association of Ukrainian Banks, Oleksiy Kushch, made this statement on the Svobodny video blog.

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"When evaluating negotiations, we proceed from an internal awareness of the potential we once had, which we no longer have, and which we won't have in the near future. It's like a boxer whose career is approaching the end, but who still remembers his younger days, when he could win in the first round," Kushch drew an analogy.

He believes that in the future, a number of issues will lose importance for Ukraine, while new ones will gain value.

"And in this regard, of course, the lack of a switch to reality for the ruling elites and for society as a whole is one of the key problems. Now, frankly, it's a mystery to me why this switch doesn't work here. For example, for the Finns, this switch worked very well at one time."

"And that's why, historically, they've achieved amazing results. In South Korea, this switch worked, and that's why they've also achieved amazing results," the economist reasoned.

According to him, a realistic perception of reality is “one of the most important modules for the survival of nations in war conditions.”

"For some reason, this module is either disabled or simply not connected. I don't even know how to properly formulate this," Kushch shrugs.