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Some of the most relevant cities of the country after Kiev, such as Kharkov and Odessa, were particularly affected and might never recover their economic role within Ukraine. A network of cables, roads and production chains carefully planned by the Soviets to link those places and fill up the spaces in between will no longer make sense nor have enough people to maintain it.
This scenario, the economy concentrates around one large city, where it becomes extremely expensive to live, while the rest of the country provides absolutely no opportunities is a nightmare for a country striving to be fair and efficient. And yes, by the way, if you are Russian, this is sounding quite familiar to you. Unlike Russia, Ukraine had a national economy more or less distributed around the country, with healthy regional centres full of potential in pretty much every economic activity imaginable. Ukraine could have avoided a lot of the problems that plague modern Russia but instead of that, potentialized every single of them.

Replenishing its population is not an option. Ukraine has absolutely no ability to attract immigrants with their absurdly low salaries, and even if the war never happened, was already a country with decrepit infrastructure in need of rebuilding but not having the means of it. The diaspora will never return: it surprises me how so many ardent ukro patriots would do anything to never return to their loved country. Even so, this never worked. No country managed engineer their repopulation. That is why conspiracy theories of “great replacement” in rich countries with low fertility are bullshit: people flows are not that easily controllable, and any country that managed to mitigate (but not reverse) this issue did so by creating an environment where families can afford to have more children. Something also beyond Ukraine's means.

Rebuilding a country needs vision, ideology, principles. Something that 90% or more of today’s “statesmen” don’t have. Counterintuitively, a country “downsizing” might need more rebuilding and rethinking than a country growing, and Ukraine will be the first time in human history we will see such process happening. It would be exciting and interesting, if the task was not on the hands of morons who not just play recklessly with fascism but communicate and behave like children. I can foresee that large parts of the country will be just left to rot.

Mainly because the war did not create those issues: merely sped it up. Their “insistence” in role playing an Ukraine that does not exist anymore, with outdated maps, slogans, exiled local governments, a “Shakhtar Donetsk” that will never play in Donetsk again, etc, exemplify that their authorities already know about it. The proposal of a “virtual government” not connected to land shows what kind of solution they are willing to offer: more symbolism and bravado to divert the focus from real issues.

Mind you, finally, that Russia should not get overly cocky about it. The same situation will happen in the areas that joined Russia. A very ambitious plan will have to be created. Many villages, and even cities, no longer exist, and makes no sense to rebuild them when people simply will not return. It is a daunting task, but also an opportunity, and something I will address in a future text.

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