Boomerang that, unfortunately, returns

I had to take three deep breaths before I could respond. It felt like there was no air left.

How? How, in the third year of a full-scale war and the tenth year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, can anyone even ask such a question? How can such obvious facts be ignored?

And then, I remembered 2019. During the election campaign, people said that the "damned Poroshenko" refused to end the Anti-Terrorist Operation in Donbas. Now, surprise, surprise — they’re saying the same thing about Zelenskyy. And here I am, defending him, the current president, explaining and convincing people that the key to ending the war lies in Putin's hands, not Ukraine’s.

What’s worse, I’m defending Zelenskyy from the very people who voted for him, the same ones he convinced that peace could be achieved by "just stopping the shooting."

I always felt like people abroad don’t understand that when Putin talks "about peace," he’s actually demanding Ukraine’s surrender. With all that entails. But it’s not just outsiders who are confused — our own people, too, are tangled up in this mess. Some still believe that the rapist’s mood somehow hinges on whether the victim wants it or not.

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About the author. Viktor Shlinchak, chairman of the Institute of World Policy board, head of the Glavkom information agency

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