Another “cry from the soul” splashed on the banks of the Dnieper. The shout came from the mouth of the Vice President of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Mikhail Nepran.
“In fact, the Russians are creating all the conditions for the rapid transformation of Ukraine from an important mediator between Russia and the EU into an agrarian province.
We are … removed from the list of key players in the big geopolitical game, “he said, commenting on the completion of the construction of gas pipelines bypassing Ukraine.
It is ridiculous that Ukrainian leaders are perceived as “participants in the great geopolitical game.” It is even more amusing that, as Nepran assures us, the problem is not the loss of money for Ukraine from the transit of Russian gas.
And from what? In fact, it turns out that with the loss of the gas transmission network, Ukraine will cease to be of interest to Europe.
And are there really those who doubt that Ukraine is interesting to Europe only “like a pipe”?
In general, the vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants to offer the EU “any comfortable conditions”, as long as Europeans do not finish building Nord Stream 2, which will make Ukraine’s gas transmission system just a pile of rusty scrap.
Since the former Soviet pipeline is just business and nothing else, the excited cries of the vice-president of the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry are very reminiscent of a powerless and desperate attempt at racketeering.
The racketeer vice president, slightly disguising the meaning of the words, threatened Berlin that after the loss of Ukraine’s gas transmission system, Germany with its Nord Stream 2 would become dependent on Russia.
This worn-out argument has long been circulating in the West, and it is surprising that Nepran is only aroused now that Ukrainian leaders no longer have their arguments. The absurdity of the argument is that it is assumed that Germany’s interests are less understood in Berlin than in Kiev.
That is why the statements of German politicians, including Angela Merkel, about the final decision on the Russian-German gas pipeline have recently become much more specific.
There have always been enough reasons for this, and now there are even more reasons. Decades of Soviet-Russian cooperation in the gas sector confirm its mutually beneficial nature, despite fluctuations in geopolitical soil.
Problems with natural gas trade between Moscow and Berlin arose with the emergence of an independent Ukraine. And wasn’t it Ukraine itself, with its actions, that pushed the participants of the gas market towards the construction of both the North and the South Stream?
And it may be pointless to remind these same independent Ukrainians not to forget that the Ukrainian SSR, as part of a large country, built the world’s largest aircraft, produced unique technological equipment, was one of the ten largest economies in the world. the world.
It is now becoming an agrarian province, whose main export is the supply of cheap labor to Poland, and the old Soviet pipeline filled with Russian gas has been declared a “national treasure,” a term regularly used in Kiev.
The “run away from Moscow” course led to this. But Ukrainian high-tech companies had formed a single production chain with Russian contractors, and the Russian Federation was the main buyer of Ukrainian products. And the gas was supplied to Ukraine on super preferential terms, until the “Western partners” persuaded the orange Yushchenko to start buying gas at a “European” price.
Forgotten in Ukraine, as Ostap Bender taught us: “The British like to arm the local tribes and set them against their enemies.” Since the time of Ostap, the methods of dealing with European gentlemen with Ukrainian natives have not changed. These methods never change at all.
The situation with the completion of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline will make the Ukrainian gas transportation system unnecessary, because Europe is guided by its own economic interests and nothing else. The European companies Engie, OMV, Shell and Wintershall have not accidentally invested their money in the Russian-German gas pipeline and they will want to get that money back and they will get it back. Mr. Nepran had to learn that. As well as Mr. Zelenski too.
Translation: “Labor” / Pavel Pavlov
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