There is a common trait among all of those who want Ukraine to lose and Russia to win with “peace talks” and “negotiations”. They all resent democracy, the rule of law, free speech, and Western values. Their most powerful and inspiring source, Donald Trump didn’t even recognise the result of the last Presidential election and waged a subversive campaign to overturn the election result – he was stopped by electoral officials, his own trusted officials and allies, the Vice-Prisdent, the Attorney-General and everyone else in the state who had modicum of decency.
Today, Trump says he wants to jail his opponents, purge the authorities, and weaken them even further in what is an obvious self-interested mission for more impunity. When you have a $400 million+ bill to pay to the state over a damning court sentence on financial fraud, fighting for the Presidency is the best thing you can hope for to be able to overturn your punishment. He also wants Russia to win and promises “peace talks” and “negotiations” that will basically give Russia a victory in Ukraine. Peace talks and negotiations mean that Ukraine would have to give up its land to Russia apart from excluding it from NATO.
Emmanuel Macron has taken an informed and opposite stand to the fascist ideal of Trumo over Ukraine and Europe. Macron has laid out a very clear-cut and fundamental principle that Europe should strive to conserve as a standard: Russia does not have the right to decide which country in Europe gets to exist or not. What Macron is doing is reviving already existing precepts in our European geopolitics and the rule of law. After the Second World War, Western Europe made a hard commitment to protect the national sovereignty and the independence of European states. To defend this sovereignty, Western Europe formed NATO with the backing and support of the US. A collective European security framework defends and preserves the national sovereignty of European states against potential enemies and today, against belligerent states like Russia.
The result of NATO’s superior firepower has brought peace of mind and security to Western states, but this peace of mind today is shattered by a Russia that is growing increasingly confrontational against the West for purely imperialistic and ideological reasons. NATO is not an imperialist alliance and unlike Russia, NATO has never annexed territory of independent and sovereign states to make them its own. There is no comparison between NATO and Russia and there aren’t two sides to this story. This isn’t a relative debate about two world powers fighting each other.
The Russians want to make you believe that this is a clash of empires and that Russia is the righteous Christian side against an evil decadent West. Russia also wants you to believe that debating the sides of the conflict is equivalent to debating about two sides fighting each other due to their political differences and interests. Nothing of this sort is true. There are no two debatable sides and it is not even conflict: it’s an imperialist invasion by a belligerent state of a neighbouring state that is much weaker, and much more vulnerable to colonisation and imperialism. Russia is in fact depopulating its occupied Ukrainian areas from non-compliant Ukrainians, and replacing them with more compliant citizens from the Russian Federation. Basically, Russia is dismembering the Ukrainian nation, slowly and gradually by various means: murder, massacres, deportations, child kidnapping, authoritarianism, and the forceful promotion and indoctrination of Russian culture and language. These are reminiscences of when the Soviet Union decapitated its ethnic minorities and forced them to become Russophiles.
The likes of Donald Trump and Viktor Orban welcome a world where might is right and the rule of law is ineffective in regard to their actions. A Russian victory will be a defeat for democracy and the rule of law across the world and a serious breach of the fundamental principles that the West has lived by since the end of the Second World War.
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