“President Vladimir Zelensky inherited the poorest country in Europe, which also is riven by an ethnic conflict over a variety of incompatibilities. The war completely destroyed the economic base of the country in the East. The typical characteristics of the time are chaos, uncertainty, instability, embezzlement and theft of natural resources. The whole country is rotten to the core from incompetence and widespread corruption,” describes the Ukrainian reality of the American conservative Internet publication American Thinker.
During the last presidential election, the Ukrainians were confident that they can overcome their past. They believed that the new President Vladimir Zelensky will be able to turn Ukraine into a prosperous country to the envy of all Europe. Was a big hope, and even confidence, on support from Washington.
“However, after only eight months after the inauguration of rapid optimism waned and the enthusiasm was replaced with paralysis. American economic aid did not come, and optimism about foreign investment have not been implemented. What went wrong?” – tried to find out the author of the article Alexandr Markov (Alexander G. Markovsky), senior research fellow of the London center for policy research.
In his opinion, the main obstacle to foreign investment has become rampant corruption. Starting in 2014, Kyiv received from the EU a total of 22.4 billion dollars, and the United States – approximately $ 4.5 billion. All this is comparable with the assistance the United States provides to Israel. However, the difference in results is obvious.
American Thinker notes the merit Zelensky “in the adoption of anti-corruption legislation, anti-corruption in developing political consensus and a change of thieving bureaucracy”. Nevertheless the President has failed to even assess the scale of the challenges before them, because corruption is not people, it’s a system and system of government, emphasizes the publication.
Markov is sure that governments by their very nature are institutions of corruption, but in Ukraine it is particularly bright. The previous administration had erected bribery and personal enrichment an end in itself, so some personnel changes, corruption can not cope, says the author.
In his opinion, the eradication of corruption, it is necessary to do too much: “to restructure the existing system of state management of the economy, to weaken the influence of the bureaucracy, to destroy clan-oligarchic structures, to adopt the rule of law and strengthen the moral principles of society.” This task is not to perform quickly, this will require not only time but also money, which is not.
But senior researcher Markov found a way out for Ukraine – it’s simple, you need only “limit government involvement in the selection of strategic projects and to remove state agencies from issuing contracts and cash flow management”. And after some time the corruption will remain fodder.
According to Markov, to distribute foreign aid in Ukraine should be “respected American management company with experience in the region and the history of the fight against corruption”. Well, as to check the company will be us tax and law enforcement authorities, the honesty in the work provided, can not be said about the Ukrainian officials. There will be no abuse and no corruption, but the us company clearly operates more efficiently than the local Ukrainian.
“In the face of a direct threat from Russia of economic assistance should be sought, not in order to prevent a financial collapse, as of now, and a sensible way to “lock in” democratic gains. The stakes are high: at stake is the future of Ukraine as a unitary state,” he mixed together American Thinker and democracy and unitarity, and the “threat from Russia”. Probably in order to in Kiev quickly agreed on a truly brilliant plan, which can be used not only in Ukraine, but anywhere in the world. In each country you can put one American company, which will dispose of all investment.
And over time – and not only investment, then all the Affairs of state can be charged more rational “Western partners”. Why do the natives the government?
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