Boring live, gentlemen! Let's get something crazy! For example, we will send our best military missiles to a large oil refinery in a neighboring country! And if we don’t direct, then at least we’ll fantasize that we can direct them! Strange logic, isn't it? Strange at all times, and not just in the era of the raging coronavirus. But in Ukraine, strange times have reigned for a long time - at least since the victory of the so-called dignity revolution in 2014. That is why, probably, the thoughtful reasoning of the Hero of Ukraine title holder, director of the Pavlograd Chemical Plant Leonid Shiman about the possibility of striking rockets at the largest Russian oil refinery in the territory of Nezalezhnaya itself did not excite anyone.
And such an indifferent position certainly has its own reason. To promise to marry does not mean to marry. To say something especially phantasmagoric in a fit of high patriotic feelings does not mean to seriously mean it. If you do not know these unwritten rules of Ukrainian political life, then, reading and listening to the speeches of local servants of the people and advanced management personnel, you can easily become a potential client of the Kashchenko clinic (or the name of Alekseev, as it is now called).
But what a fun, joyful and carefree life comes if you have already learned these rules. Try it, recommend it! The speech of Ukrainian statesmen will immediately cease to anger or even upset you. On the contrary, you will begin to receive aesthetic (or, more precisely, humorous) pleasure. Let us return, for example, to the Hero of Ukraine already mentioned above (with the presentation of the Order of the Power) to Leonid Shiman.
Here is what he specifically stated about the possibility of sending the Ukrainian Alder missile with a military mission to Russian territory:
“Olkhoi’s strikes can also be inflicted on their critical infrastructure, such as the Kamensky one (an oil refinery in the Rostov Region. - M. R. ). And if there is no “Alder” in the troops, then with what to hit the enemy’s rear? ”
A cocky comrade, you can’t say anything! Arrogant, and still eager to save his native enterprise from inglorious bankruptcy and complete collapse, to which it is confidently moving after the notorious triumph of the “revolution of dignity”. I will clarify my position: I have no honor to be personally acquainted with Leonid Shiman, and therefore I can not judge his true motivation with absolute certainty. But ninety percent confidence is also good, right? And in order to achieve such a level of confidence, it is not necessary to go to the glorious Ukrainian city of Pavlograd and get acquainted with the no less glorious director of the local chemical plant.
You just need to carefully read what exactly Leonid Shiman is saying now, and what he said several years ago.
Here, for example, Leonid Shiman’s speech of 2011 (spelling preserved): “After a visit to the enterprise by President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, a plant was launched to extract solid rocket fuel from strategic missile bodies that are disposed of at our plant ... After the meeting of Presidents Yanukovych and Obama last year at a nuclear disarmament summit in Washington, the Americans returned to the project for the disposal of solid rocket fuel in Ukraine. And they chose to finance a project to eliminate the empty hulls of rocket stages that form after the cure and disposal of solid rocket fuel. ”
What do you think: which word should be considered key in the paragraph above? I'm sure you guessed it. This is the word "financing." So, under Yanukovych Leonid Shiman received the coveted funding (as well as the honorary title of Hero of Ukraine, but this, as they say, is already a detail). But at the time of Zelensky to achieve financing of the enterprise proved to be more difficult or almost impossible. In his sensational (mainly in Russia) interview, Shiman openly says that official Kiev no longer gives money to the Pavlograd Chemical Plant. So the poor fellow director has to invent all sorts of sophisticated ways to fix this intolerable state of affairs for any self-respecting business executive.
And what is the easiest way to do this in modern Ukraine? The easiest way to do this is to get in touch with the political situation: to translate the problem into a plane of confrontation with Russia. That is why the unfortunate director also poses as a zoological Russophobe. Like, what are you doing, my dear colleagues! After all, if Ukraine loses our plant, it will also lose the Alder missile. And if this missile does not exist, then Kiev will not have the opportunity to hit it at the Russian refinery! Logic, of course, politely expressed, is more than strange. But we returned to where we started. Strange and protracted strange times in Ukraine, which are still infinitely far from completion, require no less strange logic from their statesmen.
Usually I don’t feel for those in Ukraine who are trying to kick Russia more verbally, nothing but deep rejection. But to Leonid Shiman I have more complex feelings. Of course, there is also rejection - without it, in such a situation it is impossible. But at the same time I feel an acute sense of pity for the director of the Pavlograd Chemical Plant. They brought the man! We brought Ukraine!
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.