Ukraine needs money for development, and Western countries are obviously unwilling to cultivate a strong competitor for themselves, they are more concerned with the so-called "democratic enlightenment" of Ukraine and using it as a pawn to contain Russia.

So cooperating with Russia? This is even more impossible, because the two peoples had contradictions before, and then Ukraine had a very unpleasant quarrel with Russia in order to become independent from the Soviet Union.

The leaders of Ukraine at that time were fighting with Yeliqing, it was quite intense!

During the public debate, they shouted to each other:

"We don't give you the engine!"

"Then we won't give you gas and oil!"

"Then we won't give you food again!"

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This scene is like a child's verbal battle. In terms of national policies, such an approach will naturally not bring good results.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the local leader of Ukraine became president, and like his Russian counterpart Ye Liqing at that time, he firmly believed that in order to get Ukraine's economy out of the stagnation of the last years of the Soviet Union, it was necessary to take a strong medicine! Therefore, Ukraine followed Russia's example and engaged in "shock therapy."

Then, logically, Ukraine ended up in the same fate as Russia, the economy went from stagnation to complete chaos, prices skyrocketed, currencies depreciated, a large number of industrial enterprises stopped working, and popular resentment boiled.

The only "gain" is that some high-ranking officials in the Soviet era took the opportunity to use their power to become oligarchs.

Because of the failure of economic reforms, the president had to step down in disgrace.

The person who came to power was called Kumar, and he had a good attitude towards Russia, and Ukrainian companies had almost breathed a sigh of relief, but "almost" and "success" were very different results.

This Kuma himself is not a clean person, after holding power, he allowed cronyism to engage in relations, but he was very friendly to Russia and wanted to restore relations, but the Westerners did not do it.

When Western countries saw the defection of the chess pieces, they were anxious in their eyes, and hurriedly took advantage of the parliamentary system that Ukraine had just learned to put a reassuring person on the prime minister's throne, and this is Zarenko.

In the Kumar era, this Zarianko was the deputy prime minister, and he served as deputy prime minister and prime minister for just over two years combined, but in just over two years, the Ukrainian economy has completely fallen into the abyss.

As early as before he came to power, he took advantage of his close relationship with President Kumar to wait for opportunities to embezzle state-owned assets on a large scale, and after becoming vice prime minister and prime minister, he even supported a group of energy oligarchs as "white gloves" to make money for himself.

In '97, Prime Minister Zarenko fell out with Kumar and eventually lost his official position and had to flee overseas. By this time, he had amassed a huge fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars!

At the critical moment when the industrial transition is in urgent need of funds, such a huge amount of funds has been embezzled by corrupt officials and oligarchs, which has undoubtedly deprived Ukraine of extremely important development opportunities.

For Ukraine, this may be the only chance to regain its glory.

Zalenko is gone, and the oligarchs he has raised are still there and continue to control Ukraine's economic lifeblood.

For example, Ji Moshenke, known as the "natural gas princess", is one of them.

Under the protection of Zalenko, she not only became one of the few oligarchs in Ukraine, but also stepped into politics and became prime minister.

Naturally, the other oligarchs will not be idle, and they will have a good time.

The governors of all Ukrainian oblasts are basically big-rich, and more than 400 of the 450-member parliaments are millionaires.

If it is a great misfortune for Ukraine that the oligarchs control the economic lifeline, then it is a complete tragedy that the oligarchs have an unclear position and are completely lost between East and West.

Western countries regard Ukraine as an important pawn to contain Russia, and in order to prevent it from falling to Russia, they will do everything they can to prevent it from falling to Russia.

Kumar only expressed friendship with Russia, and Russia was too busy to take care of itself at that time, so the West was not too nervous at that time, but just praised an agent as prime minister.

Later, Yanukochi, who was obviously pro-Russian, grew in popularity, and was likely to win the presidency, and it coincided with Putin's coming to power to carry out some rectification, and Russia's social order was basically back on track.

At this time, Western countries could not sit still, and did not hesitate to carry out a "color revolution" and put their favorite combination of Yuxianko and Moshenko on the stage.

There is no doubt that after this pair of "golden boys and girls" came to power, they must return the favor and begin to distance themselves from Russia.

Yuxianko is an economist who has been engaged in practical work in the economic sector for a long time, and purely from the perspective of the Ukrainian economy itself, many of the development plans he proposed are quite realistic. However, it is obviously naïve for him to hope that the West will invest large sums of money in Ukraine.

Regardless of the amount of money needed to support Ukraine's development, how can they possibly be willing to prop up a strong competitor if they take 10,000 steps back?

On top of that, Ukraine is almost entirely dependent on Russia for energy, which determines that Yuxianko will not be able to do anything if he falls out with Russia.

The West, which has always been calculating, will not do a loss-making deal.

And Moshenko happens to be the largest oil and gas merchant in Ukraine, and he made his fortune by importing natural gas from Russia to earn the difference.

Therefore, in order to gain the support of the West, it is okay to oppose Russia on the surface, but if she really wants to make trouble with Russia to the end, isn't it self-defeating?

Therefore, the cooperation between the two ended almost as soon as Tymoshenko became prime minister, and an endless fight between the two ensued.

Before the "color revolution", although trapped by the oligarchs, the Ukrainian economy still recovered about 5 percent growth rate, after all, a unit like the Southern Design Bureau is technically strong enough, even if it can't launch satellites by itself, it can still make some money by selling rocket engines and satellites.

There is also the T80 tank produced by the world's first tank factory in Kharkov, which was powerful in the Soviet era, and there are many customers around the world who are optimistic about it.

However, after Yushchenko and Tymoshenko came to power, they began to fight fiercely, and Yakovic, who was waiting for an opportunity to make a comeback, kept mixing on the side, and the political arena was "lively" for four years, until 2008, when the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States shocked the world economy, and the Ukrainian economy shrank by 15 percent under the impact of the financial crisis, and the inflation rate exceeded

The pro-Russian Yanukovych came to power as president, and the situation did not get better. Western countries were very annoyed and instigated another color revolution and fostered the anti-Russian **** to come to power.

Politicians are making money and looking for support from abroad, and their political performance is naturally a mess, but they always have to fool the people, so they start to play nationalist sentiments again.

Later, because of the national issue, Ukraine simply started a civil war, and after five years of civil war, the situation became "interesting", and Ukraine, which was originally an important military industrial production town, reached the point where the government army had to reach out to Western countries for assistance. If you want oil, it's fine, but all you want are vehicles, weapons, ammunition, food, and even military uniforms.

This makes many people who don't know what is going on think that Ukraine is originally a third-world agricultural country that can't build anything, and maybe it's not much better than Afghanistan.

The common people suffered, and even more so the Ukrainian industrial system, the Southern Design Bureau was still profitable before 2013, but it suffered serious losses in the next two years and was about to go out of business.

The well-known Antonov Design Bureau is even worse, its main customer is Russia, so it is firmly opposed to the Ukrainian government tossing with Russia, as a result of which the leadership is swept away.

Enterprises have no benefits at all, and they will inevitably fluctuate and the technical backbone will be scattered. Kowalski, the chief engineer of the world's largest transport aircraft, the An-225, was reduced to the point that at the age of 81, he had to go to the streets to make a living to make a living, and was beaten by the police for this, until he found the design of the plane in his briefcase.

That's what Ukraine will go through, a military power being dismantled little by little by the West and the chaos within them.