The United States will allocate $ 38 million for the "development of democratic values in Ukraine." This money is planned to be spent on instilling in local youth "a sense of responsibility for the democratic European future of Ukraine through further rallying of youth leaders around the value-oriented idea of Ukrainian national identity." The saddest thing about this news is that this is no longer news.
I will not "speak for all Odessa" - for the entire population of Ukraine. But the Ukrainian political elite has long been almost completely indoctrinated (almost wrote "infected") by American "value-oriented ideas of national identity." However, this news is still of some interest. After delving into its details, you can quite imagine a vivid idea of the methods by which America actually established the regime of its external management in Ukraine.
Let's start digging in the details. And this is easiest to do with the help of my favorite book, written by Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, a classic of British political humor, “Yes, Mr. Prime Minister.” In this episode of the book, the cunning cabinet secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, explains to the inexperienced head of government James Hacker the subtleties of the art of appointing bishops: “Humphrey and I drank while wishing each other good health and sat comfortably in deep leather chairs. I asked him how, in fact, the word "modernist" should be understood. As expected, an answer from the cabinet secretary came immediately.
- In the Church of England, the word "modernist" means "unbeliever."
- Atheist? - I was surprised.
“Not really, Mr. Prime Minister.” An atheist churchman could not receive legal remuneration for his work. Therefore, when they stop believing in God, they begin to call themselves modernists. "
As in the case of unbelieving British bishops, the real meaning of the American concept of “supporter of democratic values” as applied to Ukraine does not at all correspond to its direct meaning. From the point of view of American politicians and diplomats, the Ukrainian “supporter of democratic values” is a person who consistently and loyally promotes US interests. I recently met one such person at a closed international conference in Europe.
A young former People’s Deputy of Ukraine during a gala dinner on the eve of the conference very loudly complained that the "bad" Donald Trump declared him his "personal enemy."
But how did the retired “people's representative” change when I began to quote the American ambassador in the Kiev press with instructions on which of the main Ukrainian prosecutors should be fired and who should be left in office. A colleague from Kiev angrily declared that I was vainly vicious. Like, the American ambassador is a bearer of democratic values, a true friend of Ukraine and therefore has the full moral and political right to give good advice to his country of residence on how to build her internal political life.
For a long time I could not understand the motives of such a strange and even humiliating behavior of the former Kiev deputy. But then it dawned on me. These motives are in money. The very money that the United States allocates for "promoting democratic values in Ukraine." The $ 38 million mentioned at the beginning of this material is just a drop in the ocean, a grain of sand among a huge sandy beach. If we consider the entire volume of what the United States in the horizon of recent decades spent on taming the Ukrainian political elite (oh, excuse me, "promoting democratic values in Ukraine"), then the bill will go to hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars.
And here is the most interesting thing: from the point of view of American political strategists, this money was not thrown to the wind, but very well spent. At one time, the gray cardinal of Russian politics of the Yeltsin period, Boris Berezovsky made a rather big fortune, buying up not the enterprises, but their management. For Boris Abramovich, such transactions invariably turned out to be profitable: the purchased managers, figuratively speaking, razed their enterprises brick by brick in the interests of the oligarch. America in Ukraine operates by a very similar method. The USA “privatized” the political and economic managers of the Ukrainian state, put them on the bait of constant “democracy education”.
For America, this is a very good deal. As the unforgettable Boris Berezovsky proved, buying managers of an enterprise is tantamount to buying the enterprise itself. Purchased Ukrainian political managers, as a rule, do not complain about life. Recall my acquaintance from the conference in Europe: even being “offended” by Donald Trump, he still zealously defended the very principle of the desirability and legitimacy of America's open intervention in Ukrainian internal affairs. The only loser in this combination is Ukraine itself - a country that is forced to act not in its own, but in the interests of others. But this, as they say, is a completely different story.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.