Everyone is talking about the stalemate in the War of rashism against Ukraine. And that this stalemate is the reason for the growing doubts in the West about the outcome of the War and for the obvious hesitation of the West regarding financial and military aid to Ukraine.
But such a perception of what is happening in the War – among Western leaders and Western public opinion – is not only completely unfair, it is absolutely false!
It is not the stalemate in the War that is the cause of the processes in the West. This stalemate is a consequence of them.
The stalemate in the War is a consequence of the stalemate both in the West and with the West's support for Ukraine!
The West finds neither the leaders nor the moral strength to break out of this stalemate.
Yes, the West is tired of War.
Yes, the West was not prepared mentally, financially, militarily, industrially and socially for the War.
Yes, the West has a number of other too serious problems except the War for the War to be consistently a top topic for it.
Yes, the West is stiffened by the uncertainty of the elections in a number of European countries and especially in the USA.
But all this is an explanation, not a justification, for the present state of the West and its thinking and perception of War.
The West found itself in a stalemate and read this situation as zugzwang – the absence of a useful move.
⁕ The stalemate in the West consists in the lack of a strategy – an effective and sustainable strategy – towards the War.
Because the thinking:
--- we must not let Ukraine lose, we must not let Russia win;
--- to continue the war as long as possible to exhaust Russia,
it's not a strategy, it's some rudimentary, first-signal tactic packaged as (and thought of as!) a strategy.
⁕ The stalemate in the West consists in the collision of two moods, of two torments –
(1) Ukraine should be helped, after all we are the West; and
(2) is Ukraine worth pushing a dictator to the wall and having him use nuclear weapons?
⁕ The stalemate in the West consists in the desire of the West to continue living as it did before the War – day by day, hedonistic, sensual, self-satisfied, rich, selfish, myopic, ultra-liberal, God-chosen – without realizing that many of the escalating processes, tearing the world apart and disintegrating it – the rise to power of Putinists, Trumpists, populists, Nazis, Islamists, extremists, terrorists, Hamasists, Ayatollahists – are a consequence of precisely this behavior, of his inability to fulfill his role as a Leader of human civilization, from, figuratively speaking, the self-immolation of the West in the cabin of the world liner, so that it does not care, does not see and does not hear what happens in the liner itself, what demons, psychopathies, cannibals and barbarities are gaining strength and bitterness in him.
⁕ The stalemate in the West consists of the hen-blindness of the West to understand,
That, as in War, there are no "and-and" - both the lamb (in this case, Ukraine) should be whole, and the wolf (Russia) should be full;
in the global plan too there is no "and-and" (both the West and all the above listed destructive, malicious, malignant and catastrophic destroyers of human civilization and the world order to coexist somehow).
And this does not allow the West to realize that things are "either-or" and on the scale.
This does not give the West, also, to understand that the War in Ukraine is the FIRST ANTI-WESTERN WAR.
The war in Ukraine is the War of all who are against the West, who are against not only what the West DOES, but what the West IS.
When the War on Ukraine began:
--- In the beginning, the West passively expected Kiev to fall in three days or at least in three weeks, in three months at the most. This was the same West that spared Crimea and a large part of Donbass and continued to do business as usual with Putin and his gang of oligarchs and FSBs.
--- After that, seeing the incredible resistance and shocking military counteraction of the Ukrainians, the West began to be the West and the financial and military support for Ukraine was more and more large-scale.
Rashist aggression was proving to be a house of cards collapsing, the rashists fleeing in disgrace, leaving their wounded soldiers to rot and perish on the battlefield, abandoning vast amounts of military equipment.
--- Then, after the brilliant victories at Kharkov and Kherson, came the most unfortunate, with obvious elements of incomprehensible meanness (yes, the word is ugly, but very close to the truth) of the West, which in November'22-February'23 not only stopped the Ukrainian offensive, but also reduced the aid to Ukraine several times. Yes, several times!!!!
This saved Russia, gave it the opportunity to mobilize, entrench itself, mine vast spaces, deploy its military industry in three shifts, tour the countries of the Axis of Evil and receive from them invaluable, sometimes exceeding the entire EU, military aid. Iranian drones destroy Ukrainian infrastructure, North Korean shells kill Ukrainian civilians.
And the West refused to provide Ukraine with fighter jets, long-range missiles, demining equipment and even different calibers of projectiles.
In the West, the undermining of the authority and moral image of President Zelensky intensified and became systematic, there were periods when the critical materials in the leading Western publications about the Ukrainian president were 3-4 times more than the critical materials against the rashist president!
This created all the prerequisites for the emergence of a stalemate.
And finally, the fact that the stalemate situation actually arose was contributed by the measly aid of the principle of one teaspoon once a month, which the West gave to Ukraine after the beginning of the so-called Ukrainian counteroffensive in May (or early June).
▪ The Ukrainian counteroffensive did not achieve its goals not because of the Ukrainian armed forces, but because of the extremely insufficient military and financial support of the West.
▪ The Ukrainian counter-offensive did not achieve its goals not because of the wrong strategy chosen by the Ukrainian military leadership, but because of the unsustainable (multiple at that) corrections imposed on the Ukrainian military leadership in this strategy by Western military strategists, who (some of them) live with the notions for the Iraq war, where, however, the main work was first done by the combat aviation, or who (like 90% of the NATO senior military) have not even smelled a war in their lives, but only know it in theory.
▪ The Ukrainian counter-offensive did not achieve its goals not because the rashist senior politicians and generals had already learned in these two years how to fight and how to mobilize their society to support the War, but because of the inability and/or unwillingness of the Western senior politicians and generals to learn how war should be fought and how to mobilize their society to support Ukraine in the War.
▪ The Ukrainian counter-offensive did not achieve its goals not because of war-weariness among Ukrainian society, but because of war-weariness among Western societies.
This is how it slowly (slowly indeed?) became mercilessly clear that by the month of August a stalemate had arisen on the battle fronts and fields.
And this stalemate is because Ukraine without the help of the West cannot defeat Russia, and the West does not give Ukraine the help to help Ukraine defeat Russia.
And so we send off the year 2023, the second year of the war, in a radically different mood than how we greeted it.
We welcomed it with hopes that she would bring us the victory of Ukraine, inspired by the brilliant victories at Kharkiv and Kherson.
We are sending it with a stalemate on all fronts and battlefields.
We are sending her with another 100,000 dead and 300,000 wounded glorious Ukrainian men and women, faithful sons and daughters of Ukraine.
We are sending it with leaders of public opinion who have proven their true nature, allegedly pro-Ukrainian at the beginning (Latinina, Shvets) or have crossed over to the other side (the degradation of Arrestovych).
We are sending it with more doubts and worries about the future of the West than hopes and optimistic expectations.
We are sending it with a more divided West and more united tyrants and villains.
We are sending it quite dejected and with great pain in our hearts for Ukraine.
The shameful action of our government, which allowed the inhuman Lavrov to pass through our airspace, also fits into this dejected picture.
Shame, shame, shame, shame!
Yes, we admire our Prime Minister, we cross our fingers for our Minister of War, but these are like some kind of emotional amphetamines to keep us in a euphoric mood and with faith in a bright future, until:
--- Boiko Borissov continues to be an unscrupulous and insulting unavoidable factor in Bulgarian politics;
--- Delian Peevski behaves more and more brazenly as a real ruler of the state.
--- “Gerb” controls 80% of intact state and municipal administration;
--- The oligarchs are oligarchizing us all the time and even more.
--- The rotation, although it has not yet taken place, is already taking (in the case of Lavrov) the decisions personally and single-handedly, to show us what it will bring us in the near future.
--- Bulgaria is becoming less and less Western and democratic and more and more noticeably non-European and orientalizing.
The decision about Lavrov should be seen not as an isolated case, but as part of all those processes in the West that are making the West less and less the West. And Bulgaria – even less the West.
Shameful decision!
But I don't want to end with this shameful, anti-Western or at least non-Western decision...
Still, as my father used to say, nothing is as bad as it seems, although it is not as good as we want it to be.
We have no choice but to hope that, although the West is not what it was and has not yet become what it should be, it will again show an instinct for self-preservation and show and prove that the rumors of its sunset are again greatly exaggerated.
I still believe that Ukraine will win.
Thanks to the West.
And in spite of the West.
11/28/2023
