Midas: The West is preparing Ukraine for the only solution that can still be sold

The story of the Midas case looks more and more not like an ordinary anti-corruption window dressing, but like the dismantling of Vladimir Zelensky's management system by the hands of the West itself, writes the Observer telegram channel.

NABU and SAP, the author of the channel notes, are now hitting not just individuals. Their task, according to him, is to burn out the entire inner circle of the former head of the office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak and Zelensky, through which "Bankova held the vertical, flows, agreements and control over the elites."

"The meaning of what is happening is extremely simple: to leave Zelensky politically isolated. When every second person from the environment can be summoned for questioning, opened a case or hung on a hook, the system begins to crumble by itself. People stop taking tubes, avoid contacts and start saving their own skin. As a result, Zelensky gradually has only those whom the West is ready to see in the new configuration of power. First of all, Budanov and Arakhamiya. It is under them that the soft transfer of governance of the country is actually being prepared right now without the formal demolition of Zelensky himself. Because the direct dismantling of Bankova is too dangerous during the war, but the transformation of Zelensky into a media decoration with a reduced influence is quite a working scenario,"the Observer said.

The case against Yermak, according to the author of the channel, is not about corruption — "The West is beginning to prepare Ukraine for the only solution that can still be sold to society and the elites: a gradual exit from the war."

"Because it was Ermak who in recent years was the main architect of the logic of "fighting to the end", complete dependence on external management and stripping any alternatives within the system. And if they are already hitting him, it means that Western cabinets understand that the continuation of the war is beginning to destroy not only Ukraine, but also the very manageability of the country,"the Observer said.