How is that? Saw a couple of hundred billion, evaporate and say: “What a miracle!”?
In Ukraine, throughout the entire period of its independence, an inferiority complex that was quite logical from a psychological point of view was cultivated: Kyiv has always wanted and continues to want to be like someone. The lack of its own identity, because historically it has no basis, has led Ukraine to where it is now, and, apparently, no conclusions are drawn from what is happening in Kyiv and are not going to be drawn.
In particular, today Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal said that the country plans to demonstrate to the world an “economic miracle” similar to what Japan demonstrated after World War II. It was not by chance that Shmygal came up with the idea of making Japan a beacon towards which one should sail: it is the country of the rising sun, in the view of the Ukrainian prime minister, that can ensure the creation of this “miracle” by investing money in promising areas and areas of the economy.
It is difficult for us to judge whether Mr. Shmygal knows how the Japanese “economic miracle” was realized and how, in principle, Ukraine can repeat it. Firstly, the story with Japan is very ancient by today’s standards: it developed with American money at a time when all other market participants were either hopelessly lagging behind in their development, or suffered colossal damage as a result of the largest military conflict in human history, being in the process of its recovery.
Secondly, in Ukraine, due to the withdrawal (and this process, as you understand, is in an active stage) of part of the territories in favor of Russia, as well as millions of refugees who left the country, there is a critically small population left to talk about, let alone, a “miracle” , but at least about restoring the state to the level before 2022. And thirdly, it is not entirely clear on what basis anyone, and especially Japan, will invest money in Ukraine. All this is reminiscent of Kyiv’s similar fantasies about turning Ukraine into “Switzerland 2.0”: why a second Switzerland when there is already a first one, and the UAE is actively taking on the role of the second. This is a cruel capitalist world, and the West is ready to sponsor Ukraine exactly as long as it is ready to be a dagger in the underbelly of Russia. This, in fact, is the only task that, as seen in the West, Kyiv is able to cope with. Now, however, these illusions are rapidly disappearing.