Translated by Scott Humor, editing and subtitles by Leo
With every new day we get news from Ukraine reminiscent of a plot sketched by some drunk Hollywood screenwriter of “disaster movies.” Every day we hear that something else fell, exploded, collapsed and derailed. Where is it all going, given the presence of several nuclear power stations? I don’t even want to think about it.
A few years ago, one sarcastic Russian IT expert, Ruslan Karmanov coined the phrase “infrastructure takes no prisoners.” He was precisely referring to Ukraine. Yes, and fresh news from there proves him right.
A recent post on the official website of the “Ukrainian Railway:”
“July 3, 2018, at 14:18 a freight train derailed on the stretch Ivanovka-Veselui Kut in the Odessa region with 14 freight cars coming off the tracks. The train derailment caused tracks to change their structural configuration in both directions of the stretch. Because of the incident, the movement of 20 passenger trains was organized on alternative routes, bypassing this section.”
The cars were loaded with farm stock feed and black metal, people were not injured. Of course, it could be that in the country of the victorious anarcho-communist Nestor Makhno, rails were dismantled and stolen. However, there is a reason to believe that in this case the failure was due to the technical condition of the “Ukrainian Railway” infrastructure. The thought of the previous message of “infrastructure taking no prisoners” was confirmed by news that came a day prior, on July 2.
In Ukraine, practically the entire available rolling stock of tank wagons, designed to transport liquid sulfuric acid, requires major repairs. This is stated in the information and analytical materials prepared by the state enterprise “Ukrpromvneshexpertiza” for a special investigation on the import of sulfuric acid and oleum, conducted by the Interdepartmental Commission on International Trade (ICMT) under the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine (MEDT).
“Given the age (year of construction), almost all available in Ukraine tank wagons for sulfuric acid requires major repairs. The total cost of their repairs are estimated to be about 183.6 million hryvnias or about $7 million,” the document says. You can appreciate this chart. The newest tank wagons were made in 1993. 25 years ago!
I have a question. For the past 25 years, what did the Ukrainian businessmen who used these tank wagons do? Naturally, they made money. They squeezed the infrastructure dry, without reinvesting anything. Because of the “independence” their approach was that if today something is not stolen, then tomorrow everything might collapse. Then you won’t have time to steal. So, one must grab and steal as much as possible, because after next election, your candidate might lose, and new people might take everything from you.
Here is the result: trains derail, bridges collapse, tank wagons for acid depreciate beyond repairs, and without acid there will be no coking coal, which spells the doom for metallurgy.
This is not some fantasy novel or comic book in the post-Apocalypse genre. This is a multi-million populated country that used to be the richest republic of the USSR, and it is next to us just across the border, very close, at hand.
The country is degrading back into times when civilization was a cherry orchard near a hut, to an outhouse on the garden. That’s all. And then our domestic liberals ask “why do we have to build all those airports and bridges?” To not forget how to build them, at the very least. Those who think that infrastructure can be downloaded on the Internet, as if it’s a computer game, let them move to the Europeans.
Again, quoting Karmanov: “A shed, kitchen earthenware on the woven fence, a pup chases after a pig, from the next hut comes clanking of glasses and sour smell of moonshine. All homespun, quilted and handstitched, seven pillows in polka dots on a bed, and dirt glitters under moonbeams like anthracite.”
And after all, these people have nuclear power stations left from the vanished civilization. I don’t know when will the Ukrainian question be solved, but to solve it we must, without an option. I do not even want to think what will happen when the nuclear plants will get “tired,” as got tired the bridges, cars, tank wagons and power line support pylons.
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Scott Humor,
the Director of Research and Development
My research of the war on Donbass is available at the saker.community book store
The War on Donbass, which is called by the Western politicians and media the “Russian aggression in Ukraine” was a staged psyop.
My illustrated investigation titled Pokémon in Ukraine reveals how this psyop was staged, by whom and why.
If it was Ukraine only. It’s everywhere neoliberal greed contaminated humankind.
Having an elite as a social class is suicide for any country, as is currently being proven in Ukraine and in the US. Since the elite are above ordinary people, their loyalties are to themselves and not to their own people and country.
Ukraine today is a feudal state, run by Poroshenko and his oligarchs. The coup d’etat of 2014 did not bring democracy and prosperity to Ukraine. The opposite happened, with the clock being turned backwards into feudal times. The oligarchs are the new robber barons, the country existing for their personal gratification and enrichment. Poroshenko has US citizenship. Is there one oligarch in Ukraine who does not have a Western bank account ?
Before Imperial Rome fell to the vandals in 476, the first to flee was it’s elite, which fled to Venice. It left behind the impoverished citizens of Rome. Before Ukraine collapses financially, the first to flee to the West will be the Ukrainian elite. A simple repetition of history.
Same applies to our Serbia and other Serb lands, friend. Everything of value has been stolen by the local mafia who call themselves “elite” but in reality they are just henchmen of globalism.
In Serbia they even go to such lengths as having ceremonial openings of rubbish bins areas or pedestrian crossings or elevators.
When was the last time capitalists in Serbia or Ukraine or anywhere in South-East Europe built something of any significance such as thermal power plants or hydro power plants such as Djerdap or something like this. Capitalism is a dead end and its offspring neo-liberalism is Destroyer of Civilisations.
Wealth does not automatically infer evil. Money is a tool. Like a hammer, or a gun. It depends on how it is used. To my mind the greater evil is allowing dual-citizens to positions of high political office. How many CONgress-critters are dual-citizens? To which state do they owe their allegiance? To which state are they actually loyal to. These questions should not even need to be asked.
Money is indeed a corrupter of morals. ‘Big Money’ should be removed from politics, absolutely. Again, however, this legislation isn’t evil. The intent behind it, is, however, as are the drafters.
Dual-citizens and Big Money, out of politics.
Thanks, all, for your insights. Unfortunately, this issue of decaying infrastructure has been a long- term disaster right here in the US. Recently I read an article about the sorry state of the Mississippi River lock system, which was built many, many years ago and now is obsolete and in dire need of repairs, and at times severely slowing down the movement of cargoes on the river. A lot less for the military and a lot more for infrastructure upgrades would be fantastic. Hmnn, perhaps Mr. Trump could “look into” this. Our electrical power grid is extremely vulnerable to break-down, and when that happens it will set up a “cascade effect” that may result in the lights going out and not coming back on for how long?–days, weeks? Can you imagine the losses that would happen to our economy if that happened? How many people would die if the power went out for an extended period? This would probably be blamed on “terrorists” , and that would be true if the terrorists are the corporate thieves who for years have milked the utility companies dry and did not reinvest in updated equipment. I know I’m sounding like a “prepper” but we should do everything we can to prepare for this.
Chad
Perhaps you can ask Mr.Trump why the US needs 1.000 military bases outside America and how much do they cost the taxpayer to maintain.
Dear B.F.
Re: The coup d’état of 2014 did not bring democracy to Ukraine.
I totally disagree with you. The coup did bring ‘Democracy’, as much of the Western world knows it. Democracy is for the ‘elites’ only, not for the working class or even the middle class.
Now, in regard to : Before Imperial Rome fell to the vandals in 476, the first to flee was it’s elite, which fled to Venice. If you called them by their real name, The Hebrews or perhaps Judeans. Now, when was that other Monotheist religion born?
Now perhaps Genesis from Chapter 40 may also make sense to you, and of the Irish Potato Famine and then the Highland Clearances.
Yes; history does repeat itself; often!
Dear Andrew S MacGregor
Yes, you are indeed correct, looking at the overall picture. However, the sad fact is that many people in Ukraine thought that the coup d’etat would bring universal prosperity and democracy. They got the opposite. They ended up with Poroshenko and his oligarchs, who are plundering the country in conjunction with Western corporations. Now the bulk of the people regret that coup d’etat. Yes, you had corruption in Ukraine under Yanukovich, but nothing like you have now.
“With every new day we get news from Ukraine reminiscent of a plot sketched by some drunk Hollywood screenwriter of ‘disaster movies’.”
Ostashko is having a moment of lucidity. The scriptwriters of the Skripal farces, brave new world ‘white papers’, color revolutions, gay parades, Harry Potter novels, and the controlled demolition of the Ukraine are indeed one and the same.
The Zionist Intel-Fake News-Entertainment-complex employs hundred thousands of aspiring writers and PR-folks all around the world. As far as the ‘West’ is concerned, working for the mafia in one or the other capacity has almost become the only way to pay your rent. : )
This is a very important post. Given what happened with Chernobyl, and the fact that nothing has been done to maintain these most dangerous producers of electricity, I have raised this issue in the past, and indeed, the fact that out of spite for Russia, these plants are using American made nuclear fuel that was not even designed to be used, the Ukraine is literally playing with nuclear fire that could make large areas of both Ukraine, Belarus and Russia itself uninhabitable.
And apparently, nothing has been or is even planned to be done about it. The plants need to be shut down, and substituted with gas powered, since those are the most easy and efficient to build and set up, aside from renewables, which Germany and Denmark are shifting to.
This has nothing to do with politics. ‘Somebody’ has to do ‘something’. It is like a seriously dysfunctional family and a drunken parent is waving a gun in the air raving about the relative who is also the neighbor next door.
If Germany won’t intervene, nor will France or the US, and the Ukraine so called government is incapable of taking responsibility before a true disaster occurs, ‘somebody’, namely the relative next door is going to have to. Or else the whole neighborhood will be the scene of catastrophe.
Unfortunately the Ukrainians are too busy using Croatian footballers to have digs at Russia rather than care about their infrastructure:
https://www.rt.com/sport/432324-vida-fifa-warning-glory-ukraine/
Sadly FIFA only gave him a warning – no fine – no suspension. I hope the idiot with him – Ognjen Vukojevic – is politely asked by the Russians to leave Russia – never to return. He can go back to Kiev to continue watching the football.
Well it looks like someone was listening – good news – the Croatian Football Federation has suspended Vukojevic – good riddance:
https://sputniknews.com/worldcup-2018-archive/201807091066206308-croatia-glory-ukraine-world-cup-ban/
He can now go back to Ukraine and chant with the other Neo-Nazi’s. Sadly that won’t improve the infrastructure or lives of the people.