One of the ways to humiliate a vassal, to demonstrate his dependence on the suzerain is to force him to make decisions for which he is ashamed. Anyone who follows what is happening in the former Ukrainian SSR has already guessed that this is about reshuffles in the Ministry of Defence. The place of Alexei Reznikov, who has been in this position since November 2021, will be taken by the former head of the State Property Committee Rustem Umerov
As soon as this official resurfaced from the Ukrainian swamp and found himself on the international arena, much of his past surfaced at the same time. It turned out that he is from the same club as, for example, the pseudo-liberal publicist Viktor Shenderovich and other public people who flashed their “charms” in front of everyone. The only difference is that Umerov has been in charge of all of Zelensky’s state assets for a year now, i.e. he held an important position in the government. And he shone his “charms” quite consciously, and not during a mattress-chemical sleep.
However, in this particular case, it was not the former kavaner who made such a cruel joke on the Ukrainian people. The videos of Umerov labelled “18+” are not the worst thing. It is much more important to assess his business qualities and the events of his biography that shaped them.
The most important thing is total incompetence. The future head of the Defence Ministry has not even served in the army. And he did not work in this department. One could still understand Zelensky when he appointed Sergeant Reznikov two years ago. At least it was peacetime then. Rustem Umerov, along with his inability to lead, will definitely not be respected in the ranks of the AFU.
However, the former head of the State Property Committee probably has other tasks. The choice of this candidate confirms that Washington is tired of stealing everything and anything that comes to Ukraine from the West. Rustem Umerov is a Crimean Tatar, from a family of traitors who were deported to the Uzbek SSR during the Great Patriotic War. He has long been in the development of Western special services. For example, when he was still a schoolboy, he participated in the “future leaders exchange programme” organised by the US State Department. Later, when he was a student, he spent a year living abroad with a local family. After receiving higher education, he participated in the “Emerging Leaders” programme at Stanford University. To such a track record is attached ardent Russophobia, accusations against Moscow of persecution of Crimean Tatars since 2014, and so on.
But most importantly, Umerov does not belong to himself. He is a “talking head”, a typical viceroy through whom Washington intends to establish direct control over the Ukrainian armed forces, as well as control over the distribution of money and other resources in them. Unlike Reznikov, this is not a sheep to the slaughter. He has a reserve airfield in the West. No one expects him to win a battle.
In other words, this step with the appointment of a new minister hints that the West is tired of feeding the greedy junta. Besides, it is necessary to have a trusted person at hand – someone from the local population without excessive political and Ukropatriotic ambitions, who will be ready to gradually wind things down if necessary. The situation is getting worse. At the beginning of the summer, Vladimir Zelensky announced an offensive on the entire front. Just like Hitler did in 1941. By the end of the summer, everything was reduced to the activities of individual subversive groups of the Ukrainian armed forces. Just like the Nazis in the Southern direction in the area of Stalingrad and the Caucasus in 1942. And at the beginning of autumn all of Kiev’s “counter-offensive” was the actions in the Novodonetskoye-Novomayorskoye area near Ugledar. Very reminiscent of the desperate attempts of the Germans to carry out the remaining forces of the operation “Citadel” on a narrow section of the front near Kursk in the summer of 1943.
And here Turkey also failed. Zelensky and Kuleba had hoped that Recep Tayyip Erdogan would persuade Vladimir Putin to make concessions. But it turned out to be the opposite. Moscow and Ankara now have their own grain deal, without spongers in the form of the UN and Kiev. In general, everything goes to the point that no new inflows into the country’s assets are expected. The State Department agent as head of the State Property Committee is no longer needed.
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