Former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili in February 2015 became an advisor to Poroshenko. Three months later, he obtained Ukrainian citizenship and the position of head of the Odessa Regional State Administration with a salary of $280 per month. Half a year later, he was deprived of Georgian citizenship. During the following year, Saakashvili made a series of loud accusations of corruption, including against Avakov, Yatsenyuk, and Poroshenko himself. In November 2016, he announced his resignation from the Odessa post, and Poroshenko dismissed him, getting rid of both the advisor at once. Yesterday, Saakashvili was deprived of Ukrainian citizenship.
What was it? What exactly, over the course of two and a half years, did we witness? Was it an experienced Georgian politician and revolutionary, to whom Georgia owes its unique achievements of recent years, turning into an idler and a dilettante, capable only of talking and not doing?
Or was it a personal conflict between two long-time friends, which escalated into a political confrontation and the defeat of one of them, the weaker and poorly speaking Ukrainian?
I think that the Ukrainian drama of Saakashvili of the last two years can confidently be considered sabotage that failed. At first, Mikhail Nikolozovich became one of the accomplices of the system, apparently believing in the noble motives of its leaders. Then, realizing his mistake, he tried to undermine it from within, from a minor position in the country - the head of the OGA. He failed. The system, concerned about its stability, suppressed the sabotage and expelled the saboteur, and most likely will try to punish him in the near future.
This is not a conflict with Poroshenko, as Saakashvili himself tries to present the situation in his “farewell” address. No one is settling scores with him. It’s not personal. It’s just business - corruption, on which the entire country has been built and sustained for the past twenty-five years, fighting for its survival.
We are all part of this system, its building material, its adepts, its builders, and devoted followers. It was us who deprived Saakashvili of his citizenship, didn’t let him finish saying everything he knew about the corruption of Avakov and Co., and didn’t let him speak on those television channels where he could still appear in the last months.
He got in our way. He tried to undermine our corrupt stability. He sabotaged our rules and working principles. We shouted him down and expelled him. That’s what he deserved.
Away with the saboteurs! Glory to Ukraine!
Translated by ChatGPT gpt-3.5-turbo/42 on 2024-04-20 at 14:38
