On the other hand, who's going to object if the government reworks everything during a wartime 'state of emergency'? And if any part of the 'reset plan' doesn't work, the failure will be irrelevant, because the apologists will point out Ukraine was in the middle of a war. It's a 'win-win' situation for the authoritarians, with little potential for harmful fallout (other than the radioactive kind ;>)...
They can do whatever they’d like, probably without objection; the people there don’t seem infuriated that their corrupt government knew since 2014 that this was a possibility and still ended up distributing arms to civilians because they wouldn’t invest in and train a modern military.
My point was that whatever they could accomplish in a failed state that is 30 years old isn’t necessary an indication as to how it would play out in countries with less corruption that are centuries old.