{"id":1329719,"date":"2025-12-07T10:35:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/who-in-ukraine-thinks-about-the-day-after-tomorrow-and-why-is-it-almost-no-one\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T04:25:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:25:36","slug":"who-in-ukraine-thinks-about-the-day-after-tomorrow-and-why-is-it-almost-no-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/who-in-ukraine-thinks-about-the-day-after-tomorrow-and-why-is-it-almost-no-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s \u2018Day After Tomorrow\u2019: Who Cares, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Author’s Facebook<\/a> page<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have learned to say \u2018after the victory\u2019 with the same ease we once said \u2018after the New Year\u2019 or \u2018after the elections.\u2019 It has become a convenient temporal shelf, a place to store all that is complex and unwelcome: real reforms, changing the rules of the game, discussions about power and responsibility, and rebuilding the state.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

The war has only legitimized this habit. Now it has an alibi: \u201cNow is not the time.\u201d We live on the horizon of the next air raid alert, thinking only of the next morning \u2014 making it until the evening, surviving another strike, closing the collection, pushing for the next purchase, agreeing on another tranche. This is the circulation of life in a country in shock \u2014 and there is nothing shameful in that. This is how they survive.<\/p>\n

The problem is different: a state that survives but does not plan beyond tomorrow can very easily awaken in someone else\u2019s future. And a society accustomed to living only \u201cuntil morning\u201d will sooner or later find itself facing a reality someone else has quietly drawn for it.<\/p>\n

If we ask honestly: who in Ukraine today thinks professionally about the country not in terms of the budget year, grant cycle, or election calendar, but within a horizon of ten to fifteen years, the answer is disappointingly short.<\/p>\n

The government, which should function as the main think tank, operates like a dispatcher on an emergency train: extinguishing crises, patching holes, filling cracks with the phrase \u201ctemporarily, for the duration of martial law.\u201d Its \u201cstrategies\u201d are either translations from English presentation templates or sets of technically correct formulations, lacking political will.<\/p>\n

Political parties, which in a normal state compete with long-term visions, are preoccupied with simpler matters here: surviving until the next elections, not completely falling out with the current government, and staying in the good graces of their sponsors.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost think tanks concentrate on practical but narrowly defined issues: tax reforms, sectoral changes, and regulatory risk assessments. They work within existing frameworks, meticulously refining what is already in place. Their \u2018strategies\u2019 serve to maintain the current system, rather than to propose ways to transform it.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t