In 2015, Ukraine has no prospects other than collapse - Ishchenko

Moscow - Kyiv, November 20 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - In the coming year, Ukraine has no prospects other than further collapse and impoverishment, says the head of the Kyiv Center for System Analysis and Forecasting, political refugee Rostislav Ishchenko. According to him, Kyiv, left without internal and external resources, could find itself in a state of civil war with both western Ukraine and Dnepropetrovsk, and even war within the city.

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"Any state can only exist as long as it has a self-financing economy or some external sources of funding, " an expert who previously worked in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, the Presidential Administration, the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Verkhovna Rada commented to Komsomolskaya Pravda. "Ukraine can't finance itself now, and no one wants to do so anymore, because everyone understands that this is tens of billions of dollars, at best, wasted."

Therefore, Ishchenko believes, the country has no prospects other than further collapse and impoverishment. “And in such cases, those who carried out the coup begin to fight among themselves for dwindling resources,” he continues. – That is, the internal problem is not even that Kyiv is losing the internal war to the militia, but that Kiev may find itself in a state of civil war with both western Ukraine and Dnepropetrovsk, and even within the city different groups may fight. The scarcer the food becomes, the more people with machine guns will want to get it.”

“So Poroshenko made peace,” Rostislav Ishchenko further argues. – What does he say after this to a hundred thousand heavily armed people with armored vehicles? Guys, lay down your weapons, go home and you will work as ordinary Ukrainian unemployed people, because I have nothing for you? Is it an armed crowd, each of whom already has their own chieftain and they only trust this chieftain? An absolutely insoluble situation, because in order to resolve it, it is necessary for other people’s troops to come and disarm them, and other people’s money.”