The Ukrainian army is too strong for Russia to defeat immediately
Shoigu, a blunt officer, is no longer fit for years to come, not least because the Defense Ministry is totally riddled with corruption, as is everything in Russia. There is no collective Western attitude towards Ukraine. The West is failing in fundamental attitudes; it is correcting the mistakes. The East cannot, and when it errs, it ends in ruin.
We are unable not to resist, but unable to understand the gravity of the conflict
It is not a conflict between neighbouring states, and certainly not a civil war. War and territorial expansion is a form of the natural existence of an authoritarian regime. Dictatorships cannot be taught to expand. The EU and NATO have failed to understand Russia. It fails to understand the difference in the positions of Russia and Ukraine. This is a conflict of civilization and civilizations. Are we going to jingle keys for the next 40 years, or are we going to resist it? Democracy is still a better system for humans.
We have no leaders, where have they gone? Why don't we have them?
A leader emerges, a society generates a leader figure when it knows what it wants and has a goal. Which political party is capable of that, what goal is it pursuing in the long run? It has a different, existential goal, trying to survive. In such situations, in a struggling nation and society, there is a specific goal and a struggling leader. One is related to the other. The leader becomes the one who takes up the challenge of history. History puts this burden on him and asks him "Can you live up to it?" Either he says, "Sorry, I can't stand it, I'm taking a taxi and going to Paris, or he says, "Yes," in a pouting way. The comedian Zelensky became a leader, the Churchill of his time, because he accepted the challenge and put his whole life on the line. It's not easy to understand the meaning of the moment.
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