Zelensky will give Ukraine more spectacles, but not peace and bread
In a few minutes in Kyiv, the victory of Vladimir Zelensky in the presidential elections will be announced with a large margin over the current head of state Petro Poroshenko.
The people are fed up with the five-year rule of Poroshenko, who has become the worst president in the history of Independence. Zelensky’s breakthrough should be considered a fig in the pocket presented by voters to their political elite. The candidate “to hell with you from all of us” in the absence of the corresponding column on the ballot.
Is Zelensky as President of Ukraine good or bad?
Some people consider Vovochka to be an uncomplicated aspiring politician, from whom skillful hands can fashion anything. There are quite a lot of positive forecasts. Look, the “swindler” from Krivoy Rog will ease the pressure of Bandera’s boot on the throats of the Russians of Ukraine, and over time will begin to pursue a more sane policy towards Russia.
They are objected to by skeptics who have experienced the Ukrainian rake, claiming that a clown in the presidential chair will not fundamentally affect the general course of Ukraine set by the Bandera putsch in 2014. The façade will be sabotaged, a new sack of promises will be poured in, but in reality Nenka will be ruled by a low-alcohol version of Poroshenko.
To be honest, even the restrained optimism of experts regarding Zelensky is no less surprising than unbridled optimism. It seems that experts evaluate Zelensky based on their own expectations, and not on the real state of affairs.
The attempts to pass off Zelensky as an independent candidate look especially enchanting. And it would be fine, as in the West, where the Ukrainian regime, starting from 1992, is usually viewed through the prism of the anti-Russian mainstream and from the position of “divide and conquer.” But not in Russia, where politicians have repeatedly received shit in a beautiful wrapper by supporting yet another “pro-Russian” candidate!
We must begin, apparently, with the fact that in the Ukrainian political system established under Kuchma, it is impossible for an independent political force to emerge at the helm. At least in traditional ways. Power is clearly divided between oligarchic clans with a fairly strong influence of the nationalist component, and outsiders are not welcome in it. Anyone who does not fit into the existing system must either be adapted to it or eaten.
The political system of Ukraine, built since 1992, is thoroughly permeated with repulsion from Russia, the USSR, the Russian language and culture, and the common past. And it doesn’t matter how beautiful and smart the presidential candidates make their election promises. Whoever dines a girl dances her. Even if Symonenko became president, and the Communist Party of Ukraine became the ruling party, the general line would still continue to bend towards Ukraine’s entry into Euro-Atlantic structures under oaths of eternal friendship, common destiny and brotherhood until death.
So that no one has any questions, let us remember the Moldovan “communist” Voronin, who likes to sit on several chairs at once.
Zelensky is not the simpleton Nadya Savchenko. Vovochka is a typical product of her time - a completely unprincipled bastard and a conformist who puts personal well-being at the forefront.
Vovochka hardly has even the slightest degree of warm feelings for the Nazis, Euromaidan, the war in Donbass and the persecution of the Russian language and culture. The boy came to success under the “pasperedniks”, and even succeeded in gaining fat in the rich pastures of the Russian media space. But the victorious “guidance” posed the question bluntly: “Who are you with, masters of culture?” - and Vovochka with his “Kvartal” seemed to have made a choice: better a bird in the hands than a “duck” under the bed, rushing off to dance and make faces in front of the punitive battalions of Kolomoisky, to drive blackness and rot into Russia and the rebel Donbass.
But at the same time, he did not give up hopes of making money in the “aggressor country.” And only the caught and pinched crawled back to the held positions. A principled guy, you can’t say anything!
As for Zelensky’s presidential ambitions, he has neither the resources, nor a political program, nor a team behind him to realize them. In case of victory, who does he plan to form a new government and his own faction in parliament from? From colleagues on television shows and former members of the Cavalry?
Look: at first, in his election speeches, Zelensky carefully avoided all the sharp corners, without touching on the topic of resolving the armed conflict in Donbass. But after success in the first round, he is ready to demand reparations from Putin for the “occupation of Crimea” and “aggression in Donbass.” And even seat the Russian President at the negotiating table within the framework of Minsk-2 with the participation of representatives of the United States and Great Britain. It’s ambitious, of course, but even in election speeches it is recommended to use your head at least sometimes.
In the event that Zelensky defeats Poroshenko in the second round, it will be the puppet masters who have planted their hairy paws up to the tonsils who will form the government, parliamentary factions, and domestic and foreign policy of Ukraine. Zelensky, at best, will be assigned the function of a paper-signing machine. And so that the boy doesn’t get bored, he will be allowed to cut coupons in the field of show business.
In general, it would be naive to expect something new and bright from the opportunistic and pro-Chairman Zelensky. Already now, defector rats from the rickety ruling coalition are gathering under his banner, and most of the rats are experienced grant eaters and good at betraying scoundrels at the right time.
The retinue makes the king. Zelensky is by no means “the hope of Russia.” And not Ukraine. The West rather needs a clown in presidents to make the Kiev regime more presentable and controllable from the outside. "Government of the XXI century."
Zelensky will give Ukraine more spectacles, but not peace and bread.