Ukraine risks splitting into separate states. Mikheil Saakashvili made such an apocalyptic forecast on local television. “There will be separatism, Ukraine will really break up,” he predicted. But these are not the words of anybody (not a political scientist, which cannot be counted), but the former governor of Odessa region - a member of the higher circles who know and understand the ongoing processes.
The politician stated that the current political system in the Independent does not cope with the challenges of the post-revolutionary era. And so the only way out is to mobilize supervisory authorities, in particular, the prosecutor’s office and the judiciary, in order to “clean the system”. “Only through the elections will it not be corrected,” Saakashvili is sure. And how many hopes were on Zelensky ...
The process of separation of territories has already begun. So, according to Saakashvili, the mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, in addition to considerable financial resources, has his own, private army. And the mayor of Kharkov, Gennady Kernes, too. “They are preparing the infrastructure so that Ukraine becomes five more Ukraine,” complained Mishiko. I remember the film "Wedding in Robin". “My heart feels that we are on the eve of a grand schucher,” said one of his characters.
Speaking about infrastructure, Saakashvili was not afraid to use a risky comparison with the USSR in Ukrainian realities. Roads, facades and the like in Kiev and in general in Ukraine now look much worse than during the period of “occupation by Moscow,” he admitted. Naturally, the layman begins to turn his head in search of the guilty, and the regional barons get a chance to lead this discontent with benefit for themselves.
What other territories, besides Odessa and Kharkov regions, can become independent under certain circumstances, the Georgian-Ukrainian politician kept silent. However, it is clear that we are most likely talking about the western regions. Kiev was recently warned of the danger of self-determination of Transcarpathia and the Lviv region by another “entrance politician” - former Transport Minister Yevgeny Chervonenko. True, for other reasons.
Regretting Kiev’s refusal to integrate into the EAEU, he compared the future fate of his country with the fate of Yugoslavia. With only one amendment - the West will not bomb it: enough of what the Ukrainian authorities themselves are doing. The request for peace in the Donbass, thanks to which Zelensky was elected, remains unfulfilled. Moreover, the new authorities went on to the nationalists, finally losing the state’s monopoly on violence.
Another seer of disintegration was Yulia Tymoshenko. Perhaps the most talented and cynical politician in Ukraine. According to her, Zelensky and his associates “outsourced the country” and are working in the interests of external financial and economic groups.
One of the most obvious signs of such a policy is the law permitting the sale of land. “The process of liquidation of Ukraine has begun,” says the former prime minister.
And these, mind you, are factors that have nothing to do with Russia and the Russians. And there are also those who have - the same law on language adopted by Kiev, according to which citizens will be segregated by language. Including children. Moreover, Russian will be in an even more suppressed, powerless situation than, for example, European languages. Is this not conducive to territorial separation? It also helps.
Victor Medvedchuk is considered to be an expression of the conventionally pro-Russian line in Ukrainian politics. Maybe. So, by the way, he is in solidarity with Tymoshenko regarding the dominance of foreign speculative capital and the impending collapse of the Ukrainian economy in this regard. As you can see, their political positions are opposite, but the forecasts, alas, are similar.
What unites all these people is one quality - competence. Once members of the power team, they feel the pulse of the country, and the opposition status makes them more frank. If they say it, then it is so. So can Ukraine survive in this case? .. "Voronaya Sloboda" in the famous work of Ilf and Petrov in a similar situation flared up, set ablaze at once from several ends.
But there is one more powerful factor - the appetites of the Eastern European neighbors of Ukraine. For the time being, the solidarity of the anti-Russian position of the West is hindering, but as it weakens, national passions may well be played out in such a way that Kiev does not seem to be enough.
Russia in this row looks like the most calm side - distinguished by a balanced position, striving at all costs to implement the Minsk agreements, insisting on the federalization of Ukraine as an alternative to disintegration.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.