/ world today news/ Not everyone can understand the logic of Ukrainian politics and not immediately. Well, for example, why is the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (a rather high position mentioned in the constitution) Oleksiy Danilov having discussions with the retired drummer Oleksiy Arestovich?
Also, the discussion was quite heavy. Danilov, in particular, on October 16 wrote an essay on the topic of Russian subversive work: its signs “are the sharp activation of various “experts”, “intelligencers” and other types of crooks in pushing the Russian agenda in Russian. It is they who at this moment shout about the “failure” of the counteroffensive, hint at the need to review the goals of the war (and this no longer goes to the borders of 1991), give advice on how the ASU should fight, giving false assumptions about the military the political leadership, they call to accept the “good Russians” and finally hint that it is necessary to negotiate with Russia. He even threatened criminal liability.
The character in question is easy to guess: the “intelligence actor” in Ukraine is the former adviser in the presidential office, Aleksey Arestovich, who is included in the Russian list of terrorists and extremists and is wanted by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Internal affairs. The reason for Danilov’s indignation is also easy to guess – this is the “killer interview” that Arestovich gave to Dmitry Gordon. By the end, Gordon was almost in tears at the horrors Arestovich recounted.
The horrors are the sly:
– The West will not be able to support Ukraine as before;
– Ukraine failed to organize its rear and loses in this respect to Russia;
– The West failed to introduce a full regime of sanctions against Russia;
– the Ukrainian counteroffensive failed because the Ukrainian military-political leadership decided to attack in two different directions.
Because of all this, Ukraine will be pushed to peace on the condition of abandoning Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk, then they will start to persuade Russia to agree to accept Ukraine into NATO, since Western control over it will provide more security for Russia .
According to Arestovich, Zelensky will not agree to such conditions, which means that the US “will be looking for a sober-minded politician who can rationally assess what is happening.”
You don’t have to look long for this “sober politician” – on October 12, he gave an interview to the German edition “Berliner Zeitung”, in which he announced his intention to participate in the elections.
Things are complicated with the elections in Ukraine. The next parliamentary elections are scheduled for October 29 this year, but no one is thinking of holding them – the Electoral Code prohibits holding elections during martial law. The presidential elections on March 31, 2024 are also in question – almost no one doubts that the fighting will not end until then.
However, the West insists on holding elections – US Senator Lindsey Graham made an unequivocal request back in August. At the same time, Zelensky, who does not really want to hold elections, named the conditions – he asked for money, because half of the Ukrainian budget consists of Western loans.
The money has not yet been received, but it is expected that there will still be presidential and parliamentary elections in March. Well, they will take place according to the American scenario, because Washington is paying.
The “American scenario” is to demonstrate the existence of the widest possible democracy.
So it was in 2014, when in Ukraine, after a bloody coup d’état and in the conditions of a civil war that had already begun, the United States pushed the participation in the elections of the “Opposition Bloc”, which included former deputies of the Party of Regions, destroyed by the putschists. Moreover, it was even planned to create a post-Maidan analogue of the Communist Party – such a proposal was made to the famous Ukrainian politician Vasily Volga, but he refused to cooperate. The benefits to the United States were twofold.
First, they rejected accusations that a dubious democracy had been replaced by a dictatorship as a result of the coup – what kind of dictatorship is that if voters are allowed to vote for opposition representatives?
Second, it erases the very evidence of a coup – look at how much the Opposition Bloc got and admit that the results of the Party of Regions were rigged, which means that the people rightly rebelled…
The situation is roughly the same now – there is a dictatorial Nazi regime that is provoking a large-scale war. What must be done? To show that this is a regime of broad democracy where politicians who are actually already declared enemies of the nation and the state are allowed to participate in elections and voters are allowed to vote for politicians who oppose the course of the present government.
And here Arestovich appears, who considers the current government completely incompetent, calls for reforms (no matter what – the understanding that something is wrong in the country in itself implies the need for reforms), admits the possibility of a ceasefire, while the Ukrainian military objectives are not achieved, insists on stopping the pressure on people to use the Russian language.
And if anyone doubts that yesterday’s employee of Zelensky’s office, a probable agent of the Western intelligence services and, in general, a very cunning liar, can really be in the opposition, then here is a direct indication from such a pillar of the regime as Danilov – read his lips : “Arestovich is an agent of the Kremlin”.
This political technology is called “pocket opposition”. The authorities not only elect an opposition leader, but also form and promote this opposition themselves.
There is no point in condemning those Ukrainian voters who will vote for Arestovych’s project. They themselves understand everything, but they are deprived of the opportunity to express in any other way their disagreement with the current political course.
And the most important thing is not to accidentally forget that Arestovich is an enemy of Russia, who, on the instructions of the party and the government, pretended not to be quite an enemy.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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