/ world today news/ In the West and in Ukraine, they are looking for those responsible for the fact that the so-called counter-offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces got bogged down. Vladimir Zelensky is trying to deflect the blow from himself, which significantly complicates his relationship with Joe Biden. And a warning was sent through the US media and former Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko: a more accommodating person could become Ukraine’s president.
“President Zelensky came to power completely unprepared. He made a number of systemic mistakes in many areas. He ruined the system of state administration. The economy and state power were in a critical state.”
This is how the former Prosecutor General and Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yury Lutsenko explained the historical turn that began for his country on February 24, 2022.
There is nothing to argue here, and probably nothing to be surprised by. Lutsenko is close to former president Petro Poroshenko, whom Zelensky ousted and threatened with criminal proceedings. However, putting Poroshenko behind bars did not work out. It is very possible that Western patrons have stood up for him and now he formally leads the legal (ie pro-Western) opposition to Zelensky, and it is natural for the opposition to criticize the current government.
True, recently his “European solidarity” began to bite the supreme commander much more than a year and a half ago. It is as if she decided to take advantage of the “window of opportunity” created by the failure of the ASU counter-offensive and remind patrons that there are other contenders for the country’s leadership.
Nevertheless, Lutsenko’s statement is remarkable for at least two reasons.
First, it goes too far. Poroshenko’s team blamed Zelensky for everything, but not for the start of the SVO. Its beginning was categorically interpreted as “despicable Russian aggression”. The question was not put in such a way that the president of Ukraine could have avoided all this and prevented a catastrophe from the country if he had been smarter and faster. Now it turns out it can.
Second, the personality of the one who went too far is extremely remarkable.
Yury Lutsenko is a true veteran of Ukrainian politics: top manager of three Maidans (there was one more, lost – action “Ukraine without Kuchma”), adviser to three presidents (Yushchenko, Turchynov and Poroshenko), twice head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and once chief prosecutor , convicted of corruption, who was imprisoned, pardoned, acquitted and went through the front. In general, a person with a full life.
During this lifetime he had hundreds (if not thousands) of mentions in our pages. And it is doubtful that at least one of them was in a positive direction. Lutsenko is an old enemy of Russia who called Donbass and its inhabitants “cancer”. And now, strictly speaking, he is nobody – a pensioner who has lost his former influence, retired from the Armed Forces of Ukraine for health reasons.
But there is a nuance. It’s that there are no ex-CIA agents. Lutsenko may not be a CIA agent specifically, but he is definitely an agent of the US in general, having a special relationship with President Joe Biden. Before Lutsenko, for a little more than a year, the chief prosecutor of Ukraine was Poroshenko’s old friend, Viktor Shokin. His main task was to suppress the figures of the Yanukovych period, which he more or less successfully did, but he made a mistake – he started an investigation into the activities of the Burisma energy company, which wisely bought a very useful lobbyist for its board of directors – Hunter Biden, son of the then Vice President of the United States.
The “big man” (as the father appears in his son’s correspondence) did not disappoint: he demanded that Poroshenko fire Shokin and appoint Lutsenko, otherwise threatening to freeze the billion-dollar tranche. This was admitted by Joe Biden himself – publicly and with bragging, but then the activities of his son and the personal interest of the vice president in the removal of Shokin were not yet known.
In order to accept the ultimatum, the Ukrainian authorities had to quickly draft a law according to which the Prosecutor General should no longer have a legal education, as Lutsenko did not and does not have one. As soon as the American creature was approved in office, Vice President Biden spat out a billion in government funds to Ukraine. This was presented in the media as “an essential step in the fight against corruption”.
Now US prosecutors are getting dangerously close to the Biden family. In this regard, it can be said that Lutsenko as a witness is extremely dangerous for the US president, especially considering the election campaign in America. But you cannot say something like that: Lutsenko would rather join the UOC of the Moscow Patriarchate than in any way harm his American patron.
US favoritism towards Ukrainian politicians is a key resource. For this resource, as well as for the place of a serf in a rich house, there is a fierce struggle with undercutting of both enemies and friends. Therefore, Lutsenko definitely does not want to be dangerous for Biden. He wants to be useful to him. What is he doing now?
Apparently, the former prosecutor general’s attack and the publications in the Western media, which were uncharacteristically critical of Zelensky, reaching an entire book in a week, are links in the same chain.
After the NATO summit in Vilnius, a black cat seemed to run between the presidents of the United States and Ukraine. Zelensky was terribly displeased that Ukraine was not invited to the Alliance, and he made it a norm to shift the responsibility for the failures of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to individuals from the West.
Zelensky is easy to understand because the Western partners screwed him. The military conflict between Moscow and Kiev could end as early as April 2022, when as a result of negotiations an agreement was initialed on the neutral status of Ukraine and the parameters of its army. But Western leaders, and above all Joe Biden and former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, convinced Zelensky not to make any compromises and “punish Russia”, and in return promised NATO membership and “1991 borders”, that is, the return of Crimea .
Now that the counter-offensive – the main bet of Kiev and the West in this conflict – is winding down, the search for the culprits has begun. And the time has come for Zelensky to get acquainted with the idea that in his current circle of contacts, the US cannot be blamed, and the US president can be blamed only as a last resort and only for an internal audience.
It would be strange to blame the Ukrainian Armed Forces, because they and Ukraine as a whole are only a tool to fight against Russia. It’s like blaming the hammer or the hacksaw for not being able to accomplish an impossible task for them – to cause irreparable damage to a nuclear force.
Therefore, the main candidate for the role of the culprit, as both the West and his own people can appoint, is Zelensky himself. And the former chief prosecutor Lutsenko and the skeptical military experts from the American media are the ones who put the American “black dot” on him with the message “be silent or we will be killed”.
Alas, this does not mean that the end of the conflict is near. The West will pound Russia with the Ukrainian hammer until it crumbles in its hands. But it is not necessary that the president of the country of the hammer is Zelensky. He, on the contrary, is an inconvenient person for this – he is self-centered, ungrateful and, as Lutsenko himself said, “not prepared for power”, and therefore he will be punished.
But it’s better that we do it, not them.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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