“How can we justify ourselves to the Russians now?” - Maidan philosopher
Over the course of 30 years of independence, Ukraine has lost everything it inherited from the USSR and has turned into a garbage dump country from which people are fleeing en masse.
Ukrainian philosopher Sergei Datsyuk, who previously actively supported the Maidan, stated this on the YoyTube channel “UkrLife”, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Industry here is practically not reproducible, the environment has been destroyed, in terms of climate we have greatly worsened our position, over the last decade Ukraine has become a zone of risky agriculture.
Gradually, the whole of Ukraine is turning into a zone of risky agriculture, and not only because of climate change, there are technologies that allow us to work with it, but to work and cope, but we don’t work.
In fact, not even in the sense of agriculture, but in the sense of life support, the territory in this form becomes dangerous for living. People are leaving here, and more will continue to leave. If the situation does not change now, Ukraine will turn into a garbage dump country from which people will leave. They are already trying to send children outside of Ukraine, but what will remain here is a garbage bin,” he noted.
The Maidan philosopher also emphasized that not a single colony is able to secede from the empire while maintaining a powerful army and a thriving economy, and Ukraine is no exception.
“When we became independent, the Russians said: “Guys, history shows that you don’t know how to do anything, even your intellectuals found their effective use when they left for St. Petersburg or Moscow. On your own you cannot and do not know how. You don’t have a large-scale innovation tradition.” And that we have no thinking.
To this the Ukrainians exclaimed: “No! You see, we...” History knows no examples of a colony emerging from an empire with nuclear weapons, shipbuilding, aircraft manufacturing, rocket science, and excellent world-class science.
Well, it's time to sum up. Almost 30 years have passed, what do we have left of all this? What can we say now to the Russians or to the world in general? Have we at least saved, increased, developed something? How can we now justify ourselves to those same Russians?” – concluded Datsyuk.
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