Theme: Crisis

Well, while you’re sentiment’s correct, technically speaking, the UA never had the chance to get a ‘leadership’ because between organized crime, the oligarchs, the corruption of the remaining post-soviet bureaucracy, and those who were ‘bought’ by the Russians, they couldn’t produce a leadership until this war gave them both leadership, and the means of gutting all four sets of parasites.
Fixing a post-soviet country without a wing of the government that is large enough, to exert power in favor of the people, is almost impossible. Belarus is small and homogenous enough to do it. Ukrainian east west divide plus all the corruption organizations made it very difficult. (And I had some very minor role at the very fringe and it seemed impossible -which is why the UA population wanted to join the EU: it would force that cleanup in their favor.

Well, while you’re sentiment’s correct, technically speaking, the UA never had the chance to get a ‘leadership’ because between organized crime, the oligarchs, the corruption of the remaining post-soviet bureaucracy, and those who were ‘bought’ by the Russians, they couldn’t produce a leadership until this war gave them both leadership, and the means of gutting all four sets of parasites.
Fixing a post-soviet country without a wing of the government that is large enough, to exert power in favor of the people, is almost impossible. Belarus is small and homogenous enough to do it. Ukrainian east west divide plus all the corruption organizations made it very difficult. (And I had some very minor role at the very fringe and it seemed impossible -which is why the UA population wanted to join the EU: it would force that cleanup in their favor.

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