Ukraine needs money to develop, and Western countries are obviously unwilling to cultivate a strong competitor for themselves. They are more concerned about the so-called "democratic enlightenment" of Ukraine and using it as a pawn to contain Russia.
So cooperate with Russia? This is even more impossible. The two nations had conflicts before, and later Ukraine had a very unhappy relationship with Russia in order to gain independence from the Soviet Union.
The Ukrainian leader at the time had a very fierce feud with Ye Liqing!
During public debates they shouted to each other:
"We won't give you an engine!"
"Then we won't give you gas and oil!"
"Then we won't give you food anymore!"
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This scene is like a child's quarrel. In terms of national policies, such an approach will naturally not bring good results.
Since no one is helping Ukraine, just make money yourself. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, a local Ukrainian leader became president. Like his Russian counterpart Ye Liqing at the time, he firmly believed that Ukraine's economy should get out of the stagnation of the Soviet Union at the end of the year.
In such a state, a strong dose of medicine is needed! Therefore, Ukraine followed Russia’s example and engaged in “shock therapy”.
Then, naturally, Ukraine suffered the same fate as Russia. The economy turned from stagnation to complete chaos. Prices soared, the currency devalued, a large number of industrial enterprises stopped working, and public dissatisfaction boiled.
The only "gain" is that some senior officials in the Soviet era took the opportunity to use their power to transform themselves into oligarchs.
Because of the failure of economic reform, the president could only step down in despair.
The person who came to power next was Kuma, who had a good attitude towards Russia. Ukrainian companies almost breathed a sigh of relief, but "almost" and "success" are completely different results.
This Kuma himself is not a clean person. After taking power, he used nepotism and cultivated relationships. However, he had a very friendly attitude towards Russia and wanted to restore relations between them. As a result, the Westerners stopped.
When Western countries saw their chess pieces changing sides, they saw it in their eyes and became anxious in their hearts. They quickly used Ukraine's newly learned parliamentary system to install a reliable person as prime minister, and this was Zalenko.
During the Kuma era, Zalenko was the deputy prime minister. His combined time as deputy prime minister and prime minister was only more than two years. However, in these two years, the Ukrainian economy completely fell into the abyss.
Even before he came to power, he took advantage of his close relationship with President Kumar to seize the opportunity to embezzle state-owned assets. After becoming deputy prime minister and prime minister, he even supported a group of energy oligarchs as his "white gloves" to make money.
In 1997, Prime Minister Zalenko had a falling out with Kuma and eventually lost his official position and had to flee overseas. By this time, he had amassed a huge fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars!
At a critical moment when funds are urgently needed for industrial transformation, such huge amounts of funds were misappropriated by corrupt officials and oligarchs, which undoubtedly caused Ukraine to lose extremely important development opportunities.
For Ukraine, this may be the only chance to regain its glory.
Zalenko ran away, but the oligarchs he supported are still there and continue to control Ukraine's economic lifeline.
For example, Ji Mo Shenke, known as the "Natural Gas Princess", is one of them.
Under Zalenko's protection, she not only became one of the few oligarchs in Ukraine, but also entered politics and became prime minister.
Naturally, the other oligarchs will not be idle either, and they are having a great time.
The governors of all Ukrainian states are basically rich people, and more than 400 people in the 450-member parliament are millionaires.
If it is a great misfortune for Ukraine that the oligarchs control the economic lifeline, then it is a complete tragedy that its position is unclear and it is completely lost between the East and the West.
Western countries regard Ukraine and Ukraine as important pawns to contain Russia, and do everything they can to prevent it from falling to Russia.
Couma was only friendly to Russia, and Russia had too much to take care of at the time, so the West was not too nervous at that time and only promoted an agent as prime minister.
Later, Yanukovych, who was obviously pro-Russian, gained momentum and was very likely to aspire to the presidential throne. At the same time, Putin came to power and carried out some rectification, and Russian social order was basically back on track.
At this time, Western countries could no longer sit still and launched a "color revolution" without hesitation, bringing their favorite combination of Yushenko and Moshenko to power.
There is no doubt that after this pair of "golden boys and girls" came to power, they must return their favor and start to distance themselves from Russia.
Yushenko is an economist and has worked in the economic sector for a long time. From a purely purely economic perspective, many of the development plans he proposed are relatively practical. However, he hopes that the West can invest large sums of money in Ukraine.
, obviously too naive.
No matter how huge the amount of funds required to support Ukraine's development is, how could they be willing to support a strong competitor?
The most important thing is that Ukraine's energy is almost completely dependent on Russia, which determines that Yushenko will be unable to do anything once there is a stalemate with Russia.
The West, which has always been very calculating, will not engage in any business that may result in loss of money.
And Moschenko happens to be Ukraine's largest oil and gas dealer, and he made his fortune by earning the price difference on natural gas imported from Russia.
Therefore, in order to gain support from the West, it is okay to oppose Russia on the surface, but if she really wants to fight with Russia to the end, wouldn't she be cutting off her financial resources?
Therefore, the cooperation between the two ended almost as soon as Tymoshenko became prime minister, and what followed was an endless battle between the two.
Before the "color revolution", despite being trapped by the oligarchs, the Ukrainian economy still recovered a growth rate of about 5%. After all, units like the Southern Design Bureau were technically strong enough. Even if they could not launch satellites themselves, they could still rely on selling rockets.
Save some money on engines and satellites.
And the T80 tank produced by Kharkiv, the world's number one tank factory, was very popular in the Soviet era, and there are many customers around the world who are optimistic about it.
However, Yushchenko and Tymoshenko began to fight fiercely after they came to power, and Yakovich, who was looking for an opportunity to make a comeback, kept interfering on the sidelines. The political scene was "lively" for four years until 2008.
, the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis shocked the world economy. Under the impact of the financial crisis, the Ukrainian economy shrank by 15%, and the inflation rate exceeded
The pro-Russian Yanukovych came to power and became president, but the situation did not improve. Western countries were very angry and instigated a color revolution and supported the anti-Russian democrats to come to power.
Politicians are making money while looking for support from abroad. Naturally, their political performance is a mess, but they have to fool the people, so they start to incite nationalist sentiments.
Later, due to ethnic issues, Ukraine simply started a civil war. After five years of civil war, the situation became "interesting". Ukraine, which was originally a major military production center, reached the point where the government forces had to reach out to Western countries for assistance. If it was
It’s okay to ask for oil, but what I want are vehicles, weapons, ammunition, food, and even military uniforms. Your mother, you already have these things at home, okay?
This makes many people who don't know what's going on think that Ukraine is originally a third-world agricultural country that can't produce anything, perhaps not much better than Afghanistan.
The common people suffered, and the Ukrainian industrial system suffered even more. The Southern Design Bureau was still profitable before 2013, but it suffered serious losses in the next two years and was about to close down.
The famous Antonov Design Bureau was even worse. Its main customer was Russia, so it firmly opposed the Ukrainian government's torment with Russia. As a result, the leadership was kicked out.
The enterprise has no benefits at all, and it is inevitable that people will be unstable and the technical backbone will be dispersed. Kowalski, the chief engineer of the An-225, the world's largest transport aircraft, was reduced to having to go to the streets to collect foreign exchange in order to make a living at the age of 81. He was also arrested by the police for this.
He was beaten, and it was not until the aircraft design drawings were found in the briefcase beside him that he learned of his respected identity.
This is what Ukraine will experience, a military power that is disintegrated bit by bit by Western countries and their internal chaos.