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Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher.
The legacy of Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelensky will be turning Ukraine into “a new Afghanistan,” according to former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov. Azarov was head of government three times and presided over Ukraine’s largest economic growth in its post-Soviet history, thus making his opinion about Zelensky’s legacy, especially scathing.
“Over the years, presidents of Ukraine made promises to turn the country into either a new France or a new Switzerland. However, Zelensky went further than anyone and turned the country into a new Afghanistan, to the delight of the Anglo-Saxons and defence companies,” Azarov wrote in a social media post.
“What do you think? Is there is a chance that Washington will get tired of its ‘toy’ in the foreseeable future? Or is the pleasure of playing dirty tricks on Russia more important than the lives of the hostages of the Kiev regime?” the politician asked on Facebook.
It is recalled that Azarov explained in an interview in early May the role played by the US and the UK in transforming Ukraine into a failed state, outlining how since the Euromaidan coup in 2014, the country’s population halved. He also characterised the current Ukrainian president as “an empty vessel” who cares more about profits and popularity abroad than the Ukrainian people, which makes him a tool of Western powers and oligarchic interests.
Azarov is certainly not the first to compare the war in Ukraine to that of the 20-year US war in Afghanistan, with experts believing that both conflicts were prospects for the US military-industrial complex to profit from massive new defence contracts. However, experts also warn that Ukraine could become Washington’s next Afghanistan-style forever war.
It is recalled that analyst Scott Ritter, a former United Nations inspector and US Marine in Iraq, said that President Joe Biden should tell his Ukrainian counterpart that his country realistically has no chance of emerging victorious from its confrontation with Russia and that the US runs from fights as it does not have to deal with the terrible consequences of leaving, just like in Afghanistan and Vietnam.
In this same light, The American Conservative published in August 2022 that “defense contractors shed a tear when America’s war in Afghanistan came to a close […] But just after one protracted conflict came to a close, another came to the complex’s rescue. Though there is little national interest for the U.S. in Ukraine, and everything to lose given Russia is a nuclear-armed power, Biden has vowed that the U.S. will be alongside Ukraine for the long haul.”
It is suggested that the US continues its useless but destructive wars, such as in Vietnam, Afghanistan and now Ukraine, to prop up the American military-industrial complex. The same publication, but in a later article, highlighted that the war in Ukraine was a “new 1980s-style Afghanistan, with the U.S. playing both the American and the Soviet roles at times,” adding that “while NATO countries and others sent small numbers of troops and material to Afghanistan, the U.S. has gone out of its way to make Ukraine look like a NATO show when it is not.”
The comments by Azarov came days before Zelensky said that the start time for the activation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine had been approved. According to Zelensky, at the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief meeting, there was also a discussion on the issue of supplying ammunition to soldiers.
However, Zelensky is merely speaking for the sake of speaking when we consider that we are in the last day of spring and the first days of summer, and the long-awaited offensive never began, which is especially humiliating considering the boastful claims made of soon capturing Crimea and Mariupol from Russia.
It is likely that, just like in the Afghanistan case, military offensive methods will not be used by Ukraine but rather terrorist methods instead, such as reconnaissance, drone weapons, airspace intrusion, and infrastructure destruction. As The Telegraph concedes, Ukrainian troops are exhausted, and Kiev is in a “desperate push to replenish its battle-stricken military ahead of a looming counter-offensive.”
Even though Ukraine has received a lot of NATO equipment and weapons, there is nonetheless a shortage of troops that officials consider key players in the counter-offensive. Recruiters are facing a huge challenge trying to attract the right number of men into the army, and now they are adopting harsher recruitment tactics to find people for the Army. All this points to a similar scenario experienced in Afghanistan, something Zelensky has made Ukraine akin to.
olhem para os olhos de zelensky, ele já está com olhar de louco, as drogas metamfetamina e cocaína fizeram ele perder o controle da guerra e da própria vida! zelensky está louco, mandem ele para o sanatório rápido!
drugs didn’t cause the destruction, the selling of the soul did!
make no mistake…everything that is happening in the world is solely to try to save the u.s. dollar and the banking cartel that owns it. within 10 years from now, close to 80% of the world will no longer use the dollar and that means the end of it as well as most western countries who will continue to blindly follow them such as canada, uk, germany, poland, and france just to name a few.
also that shows the level of iq of the peoples below the pyramid of power. a good real ukraine patriot would have shot this satanist piano faggot cocalanski long ago even with the price of his life.
bullshit, everyone investing otherwise will caught by the communist mafia in peking..the ruble will collapse soon and the yuan is no alternative…
in reality it’s the dollar that is collapsing, this what this war is all about, russia refuses to submit and be subjugated by anglo-american hegemony.
that was amusing, thank you. the international monetary fund (imf) said on january 31 that russian economic growth would be higher than that of the united states in 2024. maybe the imf were paid by russia? that would be the typical answer, right?
what a joke.
not about the dollar, it’s about international central banks forming their “control grid” making your home, city, state, country a digital prison. the sooner normies wake up to this the better, putin/zelenslii/biden are all pawns to a much larger diabolical plan. all else is psyop.
that’s an insult to afghanistan, it‘s actually worse.
they now massively arrest bloggers in kiev… they dared to show something true or simply not fanatical enough.
“seven women and two men aged 23 to 49 turned out to be the perpetrators. all of them were taken to the police departments”
https://t.me/novichokrossiya/32204
“heroes” from sbu arresting women in kiev /not on “democratic” western media.
https://t.me/novichokrossiya/32224
they were lucky not to be tied up to lampposts and publicly whipped, bandera-style!
ukromaidan terrorists are the most vile, sick, evil bandit regime in the world. apart perhaps from their masters in washington dc, they created this abomination just like they created isis.
if at all, traitors are arrested…whereas in ruzzia everybody saying something against the regime is sent to gulag for long time…
really? funny that, considering all russian social media are 100% free of censorship and even public figures are allowed to be critical of the country. the same cannot be said for zelensky who literally put all opposition members in prison or killed them lmao.
“janet” lol tranny sbu hooker. only in your mentally diseased head, hallucinations from cia cocaine… in russia they arrest terrorists like trepina and let them go. “gulags” are in america, the most prisoners in the world by far, prison-industrial complex and constitutional slavery.
in ukraine they just torture people for fun, and then they disappear. no one is safe, not even pathetic dumb sbu whores like you… beware.
this khazar drug addict piece of shit not only destroyed the country into a criminal proportion but also pawned the future of 4-5 generations to americunt khazar financial system, plus an awful genocide of male population with drastic consequences. practically that retard fuck clown sold kukrainii shithole in an astronomic bad business. that happens only when peoples below you are indeed a flock of sheep
again. why did the russian federation “allow” ukraine to fall into the abyss by not ensuring that the legitimate government under yanukovitch prevailed and was “made” secure so that the maidan coup could not happen?…
plenty of culprits to shoulder the blame in all of this with the next store neighbor who sat back and did absolutely nothing for 9 years!
maybe they were not strong enough to risk it 2014 , i suppose. or didn’t believe the west will escalate that extreme. or miscalculated simply.
there were still chances later for peace solutions like minsk2.
again. we watched the likes of “motorola” and his associates fight to the last breath on their own without the support of their family next door.
… and $till russia stays a member of the un wh0reh0u$e because of india and china $ucking off uncle “$hmuel” with their revolving door and h1-b dual citizenship to the american “fun h0u$e”… and lest i forget… those dual national russians since the 90s -many of which have clearances working for .gov now that go home on the holidays to see extended family when they are not working at dod/cia/mi6 whipping up the next counter intelligence platform for the “other family” they left behind?!..
to make anyone “sick” with that kind of betrayal and lack of respect to where you came from!
that’s simple: those ruzzian fuckheads have nothing to offer to decent people…
you bolsheviks are all the same. … and the reason why russia is in trouble 80 years later again!
bolsheviks created fake shit countries like ukraine
52 mil people in 1991.
23mil today
enough said
same goes for a baltic republics…
wagner boss prigozhin demands an investigation into the crimes of the russian military leadership…
zelensky is asraf ghani, azov and right sector are the taliban, kadyrov is dostum and prigozhin is massoud.
and you are turkish 😁
asia minor yes but not turkish
interesting thou russia actually hoped zelensky would be much better than poroshenko. back in 2014. zelensky escaped mobilization and run away to russia to film some comedy movies, his native language is russian. he said this many times during the elections promising peace so all anti-maidan people in ukraine voted for him. but the moment he seized the power he changed his narrative for “360 degrees” /annalena baerbock 😉
he only fooled naive people, everyone knew he was funded and basically created by igor kolomoisky and similar scum. and supported by americans: they didn’t like soviet-faced tycoon porky that much, the young jewish cocaine clown was so much better.
the u.s. does have a lot to lose in the ukraine as wall street is heavily invested in it.
wall street criminals, hunter biden & co own 90% of so-called ukraine
the only thing ua has been producing since the collapse of the ussr is organs for the black market and prostitutes.
the strategists in the globalist war for a uni-polar world will not defeat russia and survive so they will soon move on to taiwan and try to do the same number on the nationalists there until all americans are living on the streets and feeding at the landfill or sold off as slaves.
the ideal outcome is that russia is defeated and has to capitulate, as germany did in 1945. the problem with the 1991 collapse of the ussr was that it was too peaceful; russians did not feel defeated. they did not understand why the ussr had collapsed. this mistake should not be repeated. russia must be crushed and humiliated.
who cares – slavs killing each others. slavs = slaves.
no one will care when you kill yourself like hitler. typical nato-nazi scum, “supporter” of ukraine but actually hating them. germans = germs
dúfam, že zelenskyj ponesie následky za svoje činy. samotní ukrajinci s ním nakoniec spravia krátky proces.
dufajme…
putin is turning russia to stage where soviet union was in 1984. tank empty of fuel. russian public fooled.
zelensky, what are you doing with your country
he’s cutting ties to russian shithole. ukrainians want to join eu and nato. not to russian gulag.
zeleshitsky likes afghanistan, plenty of opium there 👳♂️
and ffs fix this comment section
joe biden fell on stage during a graduation ceremony at the us air force academy
😃😃😂😂🤣🤣🤣
breaking news? more like joe biden’s breaking hips 😁
in amerikistan we prefer senile hillbilly leaders
a zionist stuffing christians into a meatgrinder ? shocking
without a doubt, the us, with its hitlerian regime and coercion of other “states”, has destroyed countries throughout the world. it has, sometimes forcefully, planted large numbers of its military bases throughout the world much like a tumor metastasizes. and it will never stop until there is no more monetary ransom for the military industrial complex.
what the hell is wrong with the ukrainians ???????
in the 1930s the jew dominated nkvd slaughtered 11 million ukies.
and then 85 years later they ‘elect’ a jew ‘comedian’ president ?
this absolutely re defines the word ‘stupid’.
jews are absolutely unworthy of anyone’s trust.
all they do is lie; and murder.
they are successfully de populating the ukraine so jews can come in and buy up what is left.
stupid, stupid, stupid !!!
no one slaughtered 11mil ukrainians
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this is a matter between the ukraine people and zelensky. they had better act soon to get their lb of flesh or he’ll be in miami out of reach forever.