'Timeless' Russia doesn't care about crimes "without a statute of limitations"

Today, the presidents of 11 EU countries condemned Russia's massive missile attacks on Ukrainian cities. "We remind you that war crimes and crimes against humanity do not have a statute of limitations and are subject to the jurisdiction of courts around the world. On behalf of our countries, we demand that Russia immediately stop attacks on civilian objects," the joint statement of the leaders of European states says. 

Such documents would make sense if their audience was a civilized country living in sync with civilization. All attempts at dialogue or rationalization of Moscow from the standpoint of modern ideas about the world will fail and will never be heard due to one and only one circumstance: Russia lives in timelessness.

No, not even by Soviet standards or worldview - the ideological aura of the lame empire is a macabre cocktail of stereotypes and superstitions from the Horde to the age of the Internet. Moreover, archaic accents still dominate it.

Adepts of "Eurasianism" and the "electoral club" do not even hide their fascination with the history they have distorted, and thus with the current reality. We are not talking about the future, especially about such legal definitions - "without a statute of limitations". Egor Kholmogorov, an ideologue of Novorossiya, writes directly that "the defeat of Russia in Ukraine will mean the defeat of Russia as such, as well as the defeat of the Russians' national myth about the fictional 'Russian world'. And most likely a final defeat." And further: "Defeat in Ukraine will mean the collapse of the Russian national myth and self-awareness. This means that victory must be won. If necessary, at the cost of Ukraine's existence. If necessary, at the cost of the existence of the world. We must not allow ourselves to be erased from history. If necessary, history must end with us."

However, we have already heard about "nuclear ash" and about a special "Russian paradise" from "Putin himself". After all, his expansionist and imperial delusions fit perfectly into the equally unenlightened ideas of his ideological inspirer, the ideologist of Russian fascism, Ivan Ilyin: "The tribal seams of Europe and other continents do not coincide with state borders at all. Many "small tribes'' survived in history only because they were adjacent to more powerful peoples... Separating these small tribes would mean either handing them over to new conquerors, or losing them altogether."

"If Russia, as an empire, did not broadcast its ideas and standards, it would have ceased to exist a long time ago"

The fact is that if Russia as an empire did not broadcast its ideas and standards, it would have ceased to exist a long time ago. Even taking into account the conviction of the same Ilyin that "fascism was right, because it sought just socio-political reforms" and that "at the time of the onset of leftist chaos and leftist totalitarianism, this (fascism - Author) was a healthy phenomenon, necessary and  inevitable".

Broadcasting, even projecting to the world the Middle Ages and the lack of alternatives to dictatorship, is the main pillar of this war.  Putin wants not only a complete "resolution of the Ukrainian question", leaving no alternative for Ukrainians, Putin wants to destroy democracy as an institution, as a form of government, incompatible with his ideas about the life of communities.

Therefore, telling him and his followers about "crimes without a statute of limitations" and about some "conditions" or "frames of decency" is a useless matter.

I have emphasized more than once and more than twice that the only acceptable result of this war, both for Ukraine and for the world, will be the destruction of the Russian Federation, its radical dismantling, demilitarization, denazification, and 'deputization'. Because any other intermediate final will always be a pregnant revival of Russian fascism and obscurantism.

"The position in which Russia became something like the "heir of the USSR" and took over both nuclear assets from the Union republics and completely illegitimate participation in international organizations, in particular the UN, gave Putin grounds to consider himself the "master of the post-Soviet space"

If someone in high political offices thinks this option is "unacceptable" or "short-sighted", then I dare to remind you that very recently humanity experienced the "catastrophe" (according to the definition of the same Putin) of the USSR's collapse. Despite the warnings of Western politicians, the apocalypse did not actually happen. On the contrary, it was the incompleteness of the process that caused the current aggravation of the "Russian ego." It was the position in which Russia then became something like the "heir of the USSR" and took over both nuclear assets from the Union republics and completely illegitimate participation in international organizations, in particular the UN, that gave Putin grounds to consider himself the "master of the post-Soviet space", and strive to restore the empire.

This time humanity cannot afford another "dance on the rake". It should put an end to the existence of the Russian Federation. It is the international community, because the infantile and propaganda-corrupted Russian plebs will once again give birth to a monster.

About the author. Ihor Hulyk, journalist, Editor-in-Chief of the Espreso.West website. 

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