Nalyvaichenko, who seemed to be the right choice based on his credentials became the obstruction and not the bridge to democracy the US government was hoping for.
In late spring 2015 when asked about Ukrainian intelligence reform he stated openly that Ukraine will follow the OUNb/UPA model and there was no need to pursue a foreign model. The model Nalyvaichenko was referring to was the OUNb SB terror group. The "SB" were known for their murder and torture skills worldwide during the 1950- 60's.
This alone would keep Ukraine out of NATO. During his tenure starting under Yushchenko, Nalyvaichenko gave budding speeches abroad while pushing Yarosh's agenda at home.
It is an amazing thing that Dimitri Yarosh has maintained a larger voice in Congress pushing his agendas than sitting presidents in Ukraine where ever the opportunity came up.
After understanding the two sides to the equation, do you need to ask which side is winning? Is it the pro-European Stepan Bandera or the anti- Bandera Maidan factions of Tygnibok, Nalyvaichenko, Yarosh, or Poroshenko?
Do any of these grade B comic book actors opinions really matter when the decision was made over 10 years ago?
According to the US Army, Ukraine's ascension to " the organization (NATO) is restrained by the country's inability to qualify politically and economically for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership soon."
Politically to qualify for NATO membership, a country has to be a democracy and well on its way to having a stable economy. Because of this, NATO doesn't place a lot of faith in the Ukrainian Nationalists intellectual capacity to develop into a member state. - U.S.-UKRAINE MILITARY RELATIONS AND THE VALUE OF INTEROPERABILITY Leonid I. Polyakov December 2004
NO NATO For You!In the same monograph, current Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski described the inability to rely on Ukraine's nationalist intellectual heritage to right the problem.
In a word, according to both men, snowballs have a better chance of surviving hell than a Ukrainian nationalist understanding Democracy or much else going on in the world around them. Describing Kiev's ability to the understand the world it lived in prior to Maidan under then president Victor Yuschenko:
" It (Ukraine's nationalist government)was intellectually decapitated as a matter of deliberate policy during the Stalin years and beyond so that the most able and energetic Ukrainians were either killed or magnetically attracted to Moscow and Russified." Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Ukraine and Europe," Fulfilling the Promise: Building an Enduring Security Partnership Between Ukraine and NATO , Ashton B. Carter, Steven E. Miller, and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, eds., The Stanford-Harvard Preventive Defense Project, 1999, pp. 33-34."
Why are smart Ukrainians magnetically drawn toward Moscow?" The nationalists insisted on the primacy of will over reason, action over thought, and practice over theory. Their doctrine of nationalism was[is] infused with aspects of the irrational, voluntaristic, and vitalistic theories...In the place of objective scientific discovery the nationalists propagated myths and favored an ideologically 'correct' image of the Ukrainian past. They promoted a cult of the struggle and reverence for national martyrs..."-Ukrainian Encyclopedia
The intellectuals probably reasoned that they would eventually be killed because they liked mundane things like literature, mathematics, science, problem solving, or quite possibly building a country they could be proud of.
Prior to 1991 Western Ukraine had an industrial base. When the Ukrainian nationalists took over in Kiev, industry outside Russia leaning areas died. Southeast Ukraine and primarily Donbass became the centers of technical knowledge and manufacturing power for Ukraine.
The Nationalism article in the Ukrainian Encyclopedia was written by former Waffen SS officers that became Ukrainian Nationalist scholars at leading universities in the west further states that Ukrainian Nationalists have no concept of socio-economic solutions because of their ideology.
The rich and powerful take it all....yep, that's about as far as they went with building a state economy.
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