/View.info/ On the big ship – big sailing, for the small boat – the local pond. A month ago, a pan-Western summit on the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine was held in London. Indeed, they were not talking about the hypothetical recovery once, but about the risks of investing in the Ukrainian economy right now.
The reason is clear – the West is pragmatic, and the expectations for the existence of at least some combat-capable Ukraine after the end of hostilities seem more and more fantastic with each passing day. On the other hand, they would like to somehow withdraw the money already invested – the good should not disappear with the failed state.
The Ukrainians were offended. They hoped that the West would announce another “Marshall Plan”, distribute several hundred billion dollars, most of which would immediately disappear into the bottomless pockets of those involved in the distribution decision, but several tens of billions would go to Ukraine, and they could easily to be “abbreviated” at least half in “a narrow circle of worthy people.”
But Ukrainians are a stubborn people, especially when it comes to accessing other people’s money. Since it is not possible to take a lot at once, then it is necessary to take it in parts. A month after London (July 28, 2023), the Ukrainians gathered in Warsaw with the Poles, who are friendly to them and also love other people’s money. They decided to discuss the restoration of Mariupol.
Why Mariupol, you ask? Why not the port of Odessa, so important for “saving the planet” from the “food crisis”? Why not the energy infrastructure in the territories still controlled by Kiev, because autumn is coming soon, and then winter, with the traditional problems of the heating season?
Obviously, because Kiev really does not expect to last until winter. But even if Russia does not have time (or does not want) to occupy the entire territory of Ukraine this year, it does not matter, because Zelensky’s gang lives on other people’s money. And they hope to get funding to meet their needs, at least as a government-in-exile. It’s not like hoarding bacon, of course, but you can’t spend your own savings on political activities.
Well then “to restore Mariupol”, sitting in Kiev (and even better in Warsaw) is very comfortable. However, Russia is still working hard to restore it, so you can always provide documentary evidence of the revival of the city, and whoever wants to check how the money was spent – go and check.
Of course, neither hundreds, nor tens, nor even simply billions of dollars can be collected from this. But “the hen pecks at a berry’. Plans, projects, conferences – all this will cost ten to twenty million, and the zealous Ukrainians and no less zealous Poles do not neglect a penny.
The mayor of Mariupol, in the opinion of Kyiv, Vadim Boychenko even managed to sign a memorandum in 12 Polish cities and a separate declaration with the twin city of Gdansk on how they will spend “recovery budget” later, in the indeterminately distant but bright day of the European future.
Meanwhile, the main income comes from bribes from fees of architects, urban planners and experts preparing projects for “Ukrainian Revival” of Mariupol, as well as from “organizational costs” for the conference itself. Akhmetov’s SCM spent money on its implementation.
Rinat Leonidovich never understood that in 2014 he made the wrong choice, fell on the wrong side, and the assets he lost in Donetsk and Mariupol are far from the last, there will be other losses. Akhmetov still believes that “the West will help him” to return “hard earned” and although he is impoverishing in front of everyone, having already lost ¾ of his assets after the 2014 coup, he can still fund dozens of such conferences without much difficulty.
And what else is left for him. Belief in the final American victory warms the soul and gives hope for the return of influence in Donbas, which would at least partially compensate for the losses of the last decade. However, SCM also has properties in Europe (in Hungary, for example). It might even save them.
And the Shakhtar football brand can be used anywhere in the world. If you want, even in Alaska to make a football team out of the Inuit – from the point of view of the Western agenda, it is very modern and relevant – you can at least count on the help of the local budget.
It is a shame, of course, that Akhmetov will be retrained from an influential billionaire to a simple poor millionaire promoting football beyond the Arctic Circle. But at least he won’t go hungry.
But the most interesting thing in all this gathering of naive businessmen and experienced swindlers is not the fate of Akhmetov’s former properties. It rose with the growing importance of Donbass in Ukrainian politics, with the withdrawal of Donbass from Ukrainian politics, its destruction began, and with the end of Ukraine, Akhmetov’s “business” will also end.
No matter how hard you try to pass for a European, he can only work in Ukrainian, under a powerful political “roof”, able to provide exceptional conditions “for their own”. That is why he once made a choice in favor of the Maidan and the Americans, because the American political strategists he hired very convincingly told him how quickly the West, with its 55% of the world economy, would “torn to pieces” Russia with is one and a half percent. Well, and still waiting and hoping.
The most interesting thing is the infantile naivety of the “mayor of Mariupol” according to the Kyiv version, Vadim Boychenko. Trying to please the Polish hosts, he said: “Polish cities also went through the path of revival from the ruins after the Second World War. We strive to learn as much as possible from their experience and the main moments that helped their rapid recovery to rise and become leading cities in Europe. In Warsaw has this experience in particular”.
The Poles will no doubt tell him how they recreated “Stare Miasto” from old photos, but they won’t say where they got the funds to restore facades and quickly restore normal life in war-torn Polish citiesas well as where they found a market for Polish goods.
Post-war Poland was clothed, shod, fed and rebuilt by the Soviet Union. Of course, the construction workers were mostly Polish, not counting Soviet specialists and German prisoners of war. But everything else, from money, equipment and construction materials to food and manufactured goods, was delivered to the devastated Poland by the USSR.
Therefore, normal life in Poland was restored by the early 1950s, while in Western Europe, even taking into account the American “Marshall Plan”, they began to emerge from the post-war crisis only in the middle to the end of the same decade.
That’s why even now, while Boychenko and company are extracting money from Akhmetov and other naive oligarchs for a cocktail and cookies on the sidelines of the conference on “the recovery of Mariupol”, for now they discuss “projects of European designers – urbanists” that will never be implemented, Mariupol is rebuilt by Russia and Russia restarts the economy in the liberated territories.
And to understand how it was, how it is now and how it will be in the future, Boychenko and the company did not have to go to Warsaw at all. It is enough to turn to the history of Ukraine. They never came from west to east to build and develop. They only came to rob and destroy.
After the ruins of the seventeenth century, Malorossiya was restored by Russia. After the ruins of 1917-1920, the Ukrainian SSR rebuilt the RSFSR. After the Great Patriotic War, Ukraine was restored by the USSR. And now the restoration of normal life (as far as this is possible under the ongoing Ukrainian shelling) is happening only in those territories that Russia has freed from the power of the Kiev regime and its Western masters.
And where the Americans, the Poles and the “Euro-Ukrainians” rule, the state of ruin deepens with each passing day. The economy is gone, gone, and lately people have started to disappear too.
So happiness is not in Warsaw. You must go to Moscow to find out who and how restored Poland.
Translation: ES
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