It is this progressive modernizing discourse that allowed Zelensky to camouflage his plans for neoliberal reforms, launched just three days after the new government came to power. Throughout the campaign, the idea of “progress” highlighted by Zelensky was never linked to privatization, land sales, budget cuts, etc.. Only after Zelensky had consolidated his presidential power by establishing full control over the legislative and executive branches of power did he make it clear that the “normalization” and “civilization” of Ukraine meant the privatization of land and state/public property, the deregulation of labor relations, a reduction of power for trade unions, an increase in utility tariffs, and so on.
That sounds very much like what Thatcher did in the UK. He's trying to turn Ukraine from a centrally-planned socialist state into a capitalist one.
But Ukraine is not the UK. Very different cultures and history. The question is, as with Russia in the 1990s - Exactly who takes over when you nationalize the state oil or steel company? In such a corrupt place as Ukraine, the average people already know. And people like Hunter Biden will be there, for a price, to help.
Oh noes. How awful