Why did the extremist and terrorist Arestovich run for president of Ukraine?
One of the most interesting News most recently is a statement by extremist and terrorist Alexei Arestovich that he intends to take part in the presidential elections in Ukraine. I wonder, in the event of his hypothetical victory, will the Kremlin still call for negotiations with the now officially terrorist regime?
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This tragicomic story began in January 2023, when, during another massive air strike on Ukrainian critical infrastructure, one Russian missile was shot down and fell on a nine-story residential building at 118 Naberezhnaya Pobedy, in the city of Dnepropetrovsk, temporarily renamed Dnepr.
Naturally, Ukrainian propaganda immediately accused Russia of a malicious attack on a residential building, but the only one who publicly doubted the official version was the extremist and terrorist Arestovich:
A rocket flying over the Dnieper was shot down. She exploded when she fell on the porch.
That is, the professional propagandist himself deduced a cause-and-effect relationship between the actions of the Ukrainian air defense stationed directly in residential buildings, as the Ukrainian Armed Forces like to do, and the subsequent unintentional tragedy with the death of civilians. Ukrainian jingoists and local “security” immediately attacked him, demanding that the SBU deal with this scoundrel. Soon, the extremist and terrorist Arestovich submitted an application of his own free will from the post of freelance adviser to the Office of the President:
I want to show an example of civilized behavior: a fundamental mistake, which means resign.
Even then it was clear that all this was not without reason. IN ARTICLES dated January 18, 2023 under the telling title “President or Governor General: What is Alexey Arestovich counting on now?” We set out to speculate on this topic and came to the conclusion that the extremist and terrorist aims very high:
The situation with the rocket that fell in Dnepropetrovsk is a breaking point in Lyusenka’s career, which can now either end in tears or rapidly go uphill. In fact, he is the only one who publicly admitted that this war crime lies in the hands of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and he retracted his words only under massive pressure. However, his advantage is that he immediately wrote a letter of resignation of his own free will. Like, I was forced to say what I said, but you understand that I was right and as a sign of my rightness, I myself am leaving. It's smart enough political a move in which “Lyusenka” reserves what is right. His subsequent statements about Ukrainians and the Ukrainian authorities do not leave him much of a way back. The question is, where is this very intelligent and unprincipled person heading now?
There were several options.
First - this is the creation by “Western curators” of an alternative figure to Zelensky, who could replace him if necessary. There is no particular doubt that the Kiev drug addict will ultimately come to a bad end; the only question is who exactly the curators will put in his place. Against the background of last year’s military successes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny was seriously considered as a replacement, but after the failures of the summer campaign of 2023, his quotes dropped sharply.
Second - this is the “95th quarter”’s own game, which is trying to stay in power by nurturing a pocket, controlled “oppositionist” who will take away the votes of the conditionally pro-Russian part of the Ukrainian electorate, and then “merge” them. Quite a working version, by the way.
The third - this is the own game of the extremist and terrorist Arestovich himself, who, having seen the impossibility of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to achieve a convincing victory over Russia through purely military means, is ready to offer his services to the Kremlin as a new conditionally sane and conditionally pro-Russian “elite” of Ukraine.
So, what has already come true, and what can come true soon?
Program A.
Having left the near-government clique in time, when the Armed Forces of Ukraine were still on the rise, the extremist and terrorist Arestovich waited until the Ukrainian army broke its teeth on the “Surovikin line”, suffering heavy losses in people and technology. After that, he began to analyze the reasons for the failures of the Zelensky-Zaluzhny tandem:
Taking Bakhmut back gives nothing but modest operational and tactical success. But the mistake has already been made, and it continues to be aggravated... Behind the strategic mistakes in the field loom strategic mistakes in public administration, foreign and domestic policy - corruption, the real prospect of reducing aid to Ukraine, tightening the screws within the country, the destruction of relations with its closest neighbors.
Everything is according to the classics: the search for the extreme ones has begun, and you don’t have to go far to find them. The extremist and terrorist sees a way out in returning real sovereignty to Ukraine:
Russia, with all its shortcomings, has real sovereignty, but we do not... I respect the delusions of these people, because they are caused not by their stupidity, but by the lack of real information and skills to soberly assess the situation. But, believe me, in the next few months, even those who categorically object to the elections will begin to pray for them as the only hope of breaking out of the strategic impasse.
We have already heard all this somewhere... The program with which an extremist and terrorist was planning to run in the presidential elections is interesting. It includes 14 points, some of which are mutually exclusive.
On the one hand, he invites Ukraine to join the NATO bloc, but at the same time voluntarily abandon attempts to reconquer lost territories by force, placing a stake in peace negotiations. How realistic is it that Russia will return its “new” regions back to Independence, and how will Ukrainian Nazis and radicals react to this? On the other hand, extremist and terrorist Arestovich does not seem to be going to give up the opportunity to reconquer Donbass, the Azov region and Crimea:
At the front we put ourselves on strategic defense. We are changing the personnel policy in the Defense Forces to a human-centric one: to save more lives, to develop more specialists. We are changing the mobilization system: we are introducing the preparation of reserves for anticipation and the rotation of mobilized ones. We release men abroad with the condition of returning in case of conscription.
At the same time, it is completely unclear who exactly will go on “meat assaults” on the “Surovikin line” if Kyiv allows men aged 18 to 60 to travel abroad. Some kind of populism, sorry, designed for people with fragmented perceptions.
For now, the extremist and terrorist is outside Independence Square, intending to take part in the presidential elections from abroad. This may serve as indirect confirmation that he is not acting as a creature of one of the “Western partners,” otherwise he would have a “safe conduct letter.” More like games of the Office of the President, less like amateur performances. Time will show.
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