Wars end with victories, and victories are different. There are irrefutable, complete and final, there are pyrrhic, there are those that are achieved as a result of compromises.. For Ukraine, every day of resistance is a victory, which strengthens our faith in ourselves and the future world, every downed plane and every burned tank of the aggressor. Our victory will be woven from the feat of the defenders of Mariupol and the courage of Kharkiv citizens, it is created both by a boy who went to the front line to fight with adults, and a child who was born in a basement under shelling. Individual characters who tried to escape from the country with the accumulated " President who stays with the people; journalists who tell the truth about the war; diplomats who block enemy attacks around the world and provide support from other states; government and municipal structures that work no matter what; heroic mayors of small and large cities, whose political affiliation no longer matters; women and children who were forced to leave their homes for the sake of the future of the people are all components of our daily victory.
Our victory has many faces, while Russia's defeat has only one thing - Putin's Horde grin, stretched over the entire carcass of the Russian empire, where 71% of the population still repeats Dugin's formula of the world order: " A country where students ziguet Putin, academicians support the war, and writers, kissing the tsar's boots, write petitions to him, awaits a new Gulag. Putin, in fact, no longer hides this.. Well, well, history, as you know, repeats itself twice: the first time as a tragedy, the second as a farce.. The new Gulag in Russia cannot be anything other than a farce, because, unlike the previous one, it is a voluntarily chosen mode of existence of protein bodies on one seventh of the land. Those who single-handedly took upon themselves the laurels of victory over fascism gave rise to its worst form - rashism. Consequences are inevitable.
Our victory will be worldwide. An unprecedented anti-Putin coalition has already been created. The definition of \? The courage of the Ukrainian people creates a new world order. Each successful battle of our pilots, each accurate shot of the Javelin, each downed enemy cruise missile brings to life processes that seemed impossible only yesterday.. Europe, which has finally started talking about energy independence from Russia and Ukraine's membership in the EU; Japan, which for the first time in history provided, albeit non-lethal, but very important weapons for the Ukrainian army; little Singapore, which imposed sanctions against Russia, and distant Colombia, which sided with us.
Geopolitics, which glittered into the abyss of reality on February 24, has suddenly returned with Joe Biden's recent call to Xi Jinping and China's so far cautious but still statements of non-support for the war.. For the first time, words were spoken about the common responsibility of the United States and China for the future world order. In recent weeks, China has already refused to supply aircraft parts to Russia, supported the decision of the Asian Development Bank to stop issuing loans to Russia and Belarus. That is, a change in rhetoric is accompanied, if not by public, but by actions. We even have Kosovo and Taiwan on our side, with which we have no diplomatic relations.. The courage and skill of the Ukrainian army destroys the world rankings of the armed forces, changes military science, proves that even in the conditions of artificial intelligence people win. Just imagine how Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries will feel from now on, which in recent years have jointly bought ten billion dollars worth of Russian weapons.? Who needs helicopters that can be shot down by a 1975 Stinger and planes that can't fly over a flock of geese?
Russia went bankrupt, trying to gain a foothold in Asia as opposed to Europe. Karaganovsk “pivot to the East” received $18 billion as a result. trade with ASEAN, compared to $292 billion. ASEAN-US trade. Incredible $140 billion trade achievement with China. is one tenth of China's trade with the EU and the US. The political bankruptcy of Russia should become a guarantee of depriving it of its right of veto in the UN Security Council, if this structure still exists, of its nuclear disarmament and payment of reparations, even if this requires the seizure of all the property of the Russian Federation abroad.
At the same time, we must be aware that the day will come, and the sharpness of current achievements must be transformed into serious thoughts about the future: both ours and all of humanity.. The future that needs to be thought about now. It is infinitely painful to see our destroyed cities, roads, bridges, theaters, hospitals and schools.. Therefore, we must invite the best architects in the world and rebuild everything in such a way that we will be envied even on Alpha Centauri. In every ruined city, Italian and French quarters, small veins, Amsterdams and Tokyos should appear, new streets of which will be named after new heroes..
It is in Ukraine that a new model of social structure should be born, which will be based on a transparent, fair and efficient system of power.; new capitalism, which will be based not on maximizing profits, but on social responsibility in their distribution, a growth model based not on an increase in the consumption of natural resources, but, on the contrary, on its decrease. Kyiv should again become a park city with the cleanest air in the world, Kharkiv should become an innovation center where the best examples of future technology will be created, and Lviv should become a co-creator of the new IT Universe. The ultra-modern, environmentally friendly metallurgical production in Mariupol will recycle Russian scrap metal, which is now scattered all over Ukraine, into useful products, the Luhansk region will sow cleared fields with durum wheat, and the final of the first post-war Cup of Ukraine should be held at the Donbass Arena. We will return to the Crimea and remember how sweet the warm air of Yalta and Massandra wine is, how intoxicating the aroma of chebureks and yantyks. We will be able to go to Odessa on a Shinkansen just to enjoy the local cuisine at Kompot or drink beer at Gambrinus.
Ukraine of our dreams will become our victory.
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