Where there is a hook, there is a crook
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. - Socrates
Having not received responses from outgoing mail and from what responses I have been sent being akin to monkey puzzles (men in my life, it seems, are playing out "International Men of Mystery and Intrigue" Week), I am greatly concerned - so the above mentioned quote is apt. Especially when I think I have been played. And very well so too.
Direct 'war' with your foe can be exhausting. Pitched battles back and forth, etc. Look at football - lucky if there is even a score after hours of intense concentration and hard work (btw Blokhin will now be coaching a Moscow team.) So why not make it easier on yourself? Become 'one of them'? Turn oneself into a shining, glorious example of the opposing side. After all you do know their rhetoric, values, belief system, etc. Pitch a tent, set up camp and hang out a flag and then wait to see who comes a 'knockin. Invite them in, make them feel at home, be a 'warm stove' (in meantime id'ed their static IP addresses, discovered who they are and been welcomed into their 'families'), and gathered up enough intel, to turn chatter and whispers, on the net into names, addresses, etc. It is called a honeypot.
Sounds unlikely? far-fetched? and how does it relate to Ukrainian politics, if at all? Well, this technique is very commonly used and was most recently used by members, leaders, followers of what was formerly known as the 'anti-crisis coalition'. Like soilders who dress themselves in uniforms of those who they have killed, in order that they may walk amongst their foe in safety (another recent news story in Ukraine.) Slogans used by their counterparts were being stated in speeches, overtures were made ('see, we are the same you and I'), time and time again. 'Come, we are 'brothers' let's talk at the same table.' And so on and so on. Well, no broad coalition materialized despite rumors which truly gained momentum and leaped from 'speculation' to 'fact'. Faced with the election to PM of Tymoshenko in what would be a stunning defeat for the political party which did receive the highest number of votes, the rostrum was again blocked by Party of Regions deputies.
Upshot: The PoR got what they wanted - concessions were made and some very valuable posts for their own were obtained. And NO vote for Tymoshenko was held today and next Tuesday her candidacy for PM will be voted on by a show of hands.
PoR showed over the past year, how government can 'work' and now is showing how to 'work' in opposition. (Good guys/girls always finish last.)
IIU
in 11) Tymoshenko - Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko, 07) Political History, 12) Yanukovych - Party of Regions, 13) Yushchenko - Nasha Ukrayina, 40) Ukrainian Popular Culture
|
6 Comments
View Printer Friendly Version
Email Article to Friend
Reader Comments (6)
Where is the call to the people to safeguard their sacred right to have every single vote count? To stay home now in the kitchens grumbling, and continue functioning according to the ingested paradigm that it has nothing to do with John Q public, that this is all a fight between elites, etc. - the battle is lost before it ever even started. Why the silence from the Lady? Methinks she does not want to be PM.
As for Tymo, it’s no secret that the PM job is just a stepping stone for her. She's bound to do battle with glass ceilings. That’s why, I think, she needs to be PM at least for a few months — to make her voters feel the difference.
Then she can let herself be derailed back to the trenches until the final showdown.
In terms of Tymo and the PM slot - her BIG win was at the polls, proof that her/BYuT strategies are working, increased number of voters, inroads into traditional Eastern strongholds, etc.
Becoming PM is a win, not remaining PM for long is a win, etc. What is not too like with her position??? It is a no-lose proposition under any circumstances.
But is it good for the nation? Is it in the country's and the people's best interests? With drive Ukraine will become a two political party system with PoR and BYuT but how close will it resemble the party of wolves and the party of wolves with sheep's masks??? until finally culminating with both political parties being in nature wolverine but sporting embroidered,French couture designer lambskin. ???
Of course, I hope that I am wrong. I hope to be proven wrong but just in case looking up supply houses of silver bullets and chomping away at the garlic.
The two-party system will be the product of "NUNS' Suicidal PoRnification," a chemical reaction explored in one of my posts. Joking aside, I don't want this to happen to my country.
But should this PoRnification take place, Tymo will have my full support. Together, we'll make them pay.
I should have written my views about NUNS as well - because do I think that NUNS has a chance of surviving as a true political party? No absolutely not. It is too fragmented and its individual parts do not wish to give up their fiefdoms even though they all have more in common that not. The only way for NUNS to survive is to become one party but its members are going to fight this tooth and nail and in the meantime lose time. Lose valuable time to other political parties that will gain and increase in voters who are disappointed in the waffling of the Keystone Cops (OU esp.).
When NUNS ship finally hits a sand dune or is sunk by the collective ramming of BYuT and PoR, then of course its individual sailors will go to both parties increasing their numbers, while some stalwart souls remain in a NUNS lifeboat but will have the same sort of power and influence that CPU have - only if they are a barnacle to someone else's boat.
Interestingly there is in UA politics the possibility of a strong third party but it would have to be inclusive (not perceived as pro-nationalistic) - could be patriotic but carefully so (as like in BYuT no pics of her marching for UPA or as in PoR Yanu no audio of him speaking in Ukrainian in Crimea, while he does so in Kyiv.)
btw of GREAT interest to me why the support of Tymo in expectation that she will smash PoR???? Any evidence of this (past votes indicate BYuT voted with PoR with no problemo)? What BYuT will do is smash NUNS. Look at Ukrayinska Pravda - funded by her party - more negative coverage of NUNS prior to elections than of PoR???? So her eventual destruction of the Yush and NUNS in your estimation is a good thing? You do realize that she will take down the country as well - i.e. military, banking, economy, etc. My only hope is on Pinzenuk.