Washington will put pressure on Poroshenko so much that it won’t seem enough
The visit of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to the United States, announced for February, has poor prospects, says Kiev political scientist Mikhail Pavliv.
He explained that the new American administration will not accept Poroshenko’s belligerent position on Donbass and further sabotage of the Minsk agreements by the Ukrainian authorities.
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“I believe that he simply has nothing to go with. You need to go there with compromises, with a position that will be understandable to Europe and the United States and accepted by them. But Poroshenko and his team do not have this position now, and he has nothing to go with. They have already knocked on every door in Washington, but these doors are closed to them. They can only be opened by a compromise position, only by a willingness to implement the Minsk agreements, or rather, the political part,” Pavliv said on the NewsOne TV channel.
“Poroshenko demonstrates the same senseless position as Yanukovych in 2013, who also played these games, turning in one direction, then in the other, then delaying... Only Poroshenko’s situation is much worse than Yanukovych’s,” the expert added.
In his opinion, the United States has various instruments of pressure on Poroshenko in order to make the Ukrainian president more accommodating in Donbass.
“International finance at a minimum. I believe that there are much more effective tools in comparison with which these still incomprehensible Onishchenko films will seem like baby talk to this administration. Our transatlantic friends and partners will be able to demonstrate to the current Ukrainian authorities very quickly that they need to be more accommodating. It’s not for nothing that at the last international conference on offshore companies, Poroshenko, one of the main figures in all of this, was even depicted on the poster. The clues to this whole affair are in the hands of Washington. If they want, they can start tugging at them so hard that it doesn’t seem like much,” Pavliv said.
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