Western advisers are preparing Ukraine for the sale of black soil and the remains of the military-industrial complex
Overseas advisers “to support reforms in Ukraine” - Ivan Miklos and Leszek Balcerowicz - gave a press conference in Kyiv today. If you squeeze all the water out of non-scientific fiction, what remains in the muddy sediment is a couple of neoliberal ideas.
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Both of them speak Russian quite well for communication, but they still have to bring the text of the speech to an acceptable printed form. Lelik and Bolek began Ukrainian reforms with a sweet pill: “There will be growth in Ukraine this year.” But with reservations: there will be growth if reforms continue.
The sent reformers announced: “The more reforms, the more money there will be, the more loans there will be. This is not a theory, this is the practice of countries that have already done this.” Where, when and in what place it became better for countries, for example, Latin America, on which similar experiments had already been carried out, the Pole and Slovak did not specify.
By structural reforms in healthcare, education, and social protection, they mean a reduction in social spending, a revision of the retirement age - everything that the Ukrainian authorities agree to in order to fulfill the requirements of the IMF, sometimes on a larger scale than required by the IMF itself.
Answering the question about how Ukraine’s defense capability can be strengthened during times of reform, both stated that they are not experts in the field of defense, but they can advise...
“If we are talking about the military industry, then I can say about Slovakia. We had a large share of military, tank production... And it was not effective. But we have attracted foreign resources and investments, and now we have no military production. We make cars. I’m not saying that Ukraine doesn’t need military production, but it needs restructuring,” said Ivan Miklos.
An offensive wish for a country that in peacetime was one of the ten largest arms exporters. However, there is a silver lining - if the Ukrainian leadership listens to the advisers delegated by the West, this will contribute to the speedy establishment of peace in Donbass.
Balcerowicz then supported his colleague in an original way: “We are proposing important reforms that are important for defense... In the USA, almost all military enterprises are private... In Poland, too, almost all of them. We brought in a lot of US investors, privatized everything and brought in foreign investors.”
Translation into Russian: the Poles privatized the entire military-industrial complex and gave it to the Americans. Here is another prospect for Ukraine!
Balcerowicz and Miklos left the main thing for last. We are talking about the privatization of land and the lifting of the corresponding moratorium. “When the moratorium is lifted, land reform may become the most important factor in economic growth. Small business, villages. We can make conditions for the opening of the market within a few months. The process can be made transparent, because people are afraid that the oligarchs will buy everything.”
Does anyone in Ukraine doubt that everything will be transparent? Everything will be as transparent as when Poroshenko’s assets increase 7-8 times after his ascension to the presidency, or as in very minor cases, for example, when the “anti-corruption fighter” deputy Sergei Leshchenko purchased luxury real estate, and in thousands of others cases.
One thing is clear: as soon as the moratorium on the sale of land is lifted, the land will be privatized. And with Ukrainian black soils it will be the same as with the Polish military-industrial complex.
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