Angela Merkel went to Ukraine

Chancellor Merkel’s visit to Ukraine is another foreign policy action that Moscow views with unfounded skepticism, writes Alexander Noah in Jung Welt. The Chancellor seeks to consolidate the influence of German politics and the interests of German capital in Ukraine, although the United States still plays the first violin. But the regime of the "chocolate king" Poroshenko has already exhausted itself.
While the North Atlantic alliance last week, provoking Russia, began large-scale exercises in northern Europe, to which the Bundeswehr alone sent a fifth of its military, the chancellor Angela Merkel went to Ukraine.

That is, another foreign policy action is being held in recent days, which is viewed by Moscow with unsubstantiated skepticism. In Ukraine, Merkel will meet with Petro Poroshenko, the "demand" president. With his visit to Kiev, the chancellor seeks to consolidate the influence of German politics and the interests of German capital in Ukraine, which made a pro-Western turn in 2014. The participation of the federal government in regime change, carried out with outside support, was not in vain. But still the EU, where Germany plays the dominant role, in the country on the Dnieper is not the first violin, but only the second. Because without the consent of the US representatives in the Ukrainian domestic and foreign policy, nothing happens.
Poroshenko’s puppet regime politically exhausted itself. Stabilization of anti-Russian Ukraine is needed. This is complicated by the fact that the economic situation in Ukraine is much worse than it was before Maidan. This is connected not only with Kiev’s maniacal Russophobic policy aimed at breaking the centuries-old ties between Ukrainians and Russians, including economic ones. A strong blow was also dealt with the association agreement with the EU and the IMF reduction and privatization regulations. Ukraine had to open its market for EU goods, which entailed the expected consequences. The growing need pushes millions of Ukrainians to labor migration - including in the EU. This is done consciously.

Widespread corruption five years ago became a pretext for demonstrations on the Maidan. But under the regime of the "chocolate king" Poroshenko, who, contrary to his statements, did not abandon his stakes in his own company, corruption assumed unprecedented proportions. So, discontent with the power of oligarchs in Ukraine is now higher than ever. To this is added the exhausting war of Kiev against its own population in the Donbass, which drains all resources from the country.

Without Western supplies of arms, military instructors and financial injections, Kiev would not be able to carry it on.
In domestic politics, Poroshenko and Prime Minister Groisman can hold their positions only by suppressing any opposition. Since 2014, terror has become their instrument of domination. All the more noteworthy in this connection is the meeting of Merkel with the fascist and chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Andrei Parubiy, the “commandant of Maidan”. In pursuing its geopolitical interests, Berlin’s foreign policy, which is supposedly based on values, does not stand on ceremony, as cooperation with the fascists (in Ukraine) or the Islamists (in Syria) shows.