Personally, I am against the concept of fighting to the last Ukrainian. To be honest, I'm even against fighting to the first Ukrainian, but no one asked my opinion.
Personally, I believe that people who are ready to fight for their territory are automatically better and more valuable than the territory itself and the rest of the people on it who are not. And this is a terrible logical trap - with the loss of these people, the territory becomes orphaned and poorer.
For some reason, everyone has forgotten that Ukrainians did not want this war and would never have started it themselves. That is why fighting back will be a perfectly acceptable option for us. It makes no sense to build multi-storey visionary structures in the middle of a war, hoping to ensure happiness and prosperity for a hundred years to come.
“No one has ever been able to do so, and the future has always brought new, unpredictable twists and turns that have destroyed all seemingly eternal agreements. Where is the Peace of Versailles, the Peace of Riga, and the rest of the official documents on the end of the wars signed by important men with expensive pens?”
Therefore, I believe that stopping the massacre now has more tactical significance compared to speculating on strategies so that in 20 years it will be fine. The resources required for such guesswork are too valuable.
I really want Ukraine to join NATO, not because I want NATO to fight for us. But because Russia sees Ukraine's non-membership in NATO as one of its goals in this war. By achieving NATO membership, we may alter the very significance of this conflict. It is not guaranteed, but it is possible. This is a chance that we have to cling to stronger than to aircraft.
“Yes, I would like to see a slender Hollywood plot with a happy ending, where good triumphs over evil, all criminals are duly punished, and the victim receives compensation and satisfaction. But this rarely happens in life. If we take it in the context of major wars, it never happens at all.”
In World War I, millions of people were simply slaughtered, poisoned with terrible chemical gases, committed war crimes, and then simply went home. World War II was much the same. Many people committed horrors against others, and they sincerely and justifiably hated them. But the world did not collapse and somehow went on. Until the next horrors.
Naturally, after suffering losses, grief and damage, we feel that we have the right to compensation and justice. However, no one is in a hurry to provide us with this right, and it seems that they have no plans to do so. The risks are too high. And we can't do it alone, because such things as large-scale justice are possible only collectively.
Maybe the ending will be happy for us, I don't know. At least, there is a gradual sense of something positive emerging.
About the author: Volodymyr Hevko, marketer, blogger.
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