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Year of the biggest theft

2 January, 2023 Monday
21:26

A year has been stolen from every normal person on the planet in favor of the ambitions of a few dictators who dream of continental or world domination

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2022 is the year of the biggest theft in recent human history. A year was stolen from every normal person on the planet in favor of the ambitions of a few dictators who dream of continental or world domination.

Putin dreams of seizing Ukraine and bringing war to the western part of the European continent. To assert Russia as the main military and political power in this part of the world. China, led by Emperor Xi, calmly waits and continues to dream of world domination and, without attracting much attention, creates points of tension throughout East Asia. Iran supplies Russia with weapons and has traditionally threatened Israel and its Muslim neighbors with missiles, drones and the potential to acquire nuclear weapons.

“In addition to the threat to the democratic system, Russia, the Chinese communists, and the regime of the ayatollahs bring to the world the mindset of the beginning of the 20th century, at best”

The leading societies and economies of the world are forced to turn away from solving global problems in favor of the need to wage war for their survival. Because China, Russia and Iran threaten not only Ukraine, Taiwan or the Middle East. They threaten the whole world. Because, in addition to the threat to the democratic system, Russia, the Chinese communists, and the regime of the ayatollahs bring to the world the mindset of the beginning of the 20th century, at best. 

We are forced to produce tanks, guns and missiles, forced to waste time on war, although we could fight environmental pollution and climate change. And now they are forced to rebuild industry and energy to meet the needs of the war.

“The world could invest this time and money in medicine: the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's disease or other things that reduce the length and quality of people's lives. Instead, we invest in the need to protect ourselves from obsessed, propaganda-poisoned zombies who want to kill us”

The world could invest this time and money in medicine: the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's disease or other things that reduce the length and quality of people's lives. Instead, we invest in the need to protect ourselves from obsessed, propaganda-poisoned zombies who want to kill us.

We could fight hunger and water shortages in the least developed parts of the world. Instead, we are forced to invent different formulas to simply bring Ukrainian grain to Africa and prevent millions of people from dying of hunger.

Or we could invest even more in the study of space, which is the dream of the entire progressive part of humanity. But instead we will once again produce more and more weapons and missiles just so we don't get killed.

Finally, we could be fighting global poverty and inequality, but dictatorships that want to dictate their "will" to the world by force of arms and violence have stolen 2022 from us.

“2022, which they stole from us, teaches us only one thing - in the next 2023, we have to stop them.”

Russia and those who support it are like the Nazis, fascists and Bolsheviks of the first half of the 20th century. They are doing everything to steal a normal, peaceful future from humanity. And the year 2022, which they stole from us, teaches us only one thing - in the next 2023, we have to stop them.

We will not be able to bring back the lost time and the lives of people who were killed by dictatorships. But after the victory and taming of these dictatorships, we will be able to move on.

What I wish for all normal people. Let 2023 be positive for us and destructive for thieves.

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About the author. Hryhorii Malenko, public figure, politician, head of the Holos faction in the Kyiv City Council. 

The editors do not always share the opinions expressed by the authors of the blogs.

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