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First, a recommendation:
Read this analysis —
https://sofrep.com/news/ukraine-may-not-win-but-it-will-not-lose/?utm_so...
UKRAINE MAY NOT WIN, BUT IT WILL NOT LOSE
by Benjamin Reed
Since we all have opinions about everything, and since the war affects us all, we must seek objective analysis and adequate information.
Only then will we stop behaving like football hooligans and start forming informed, reasonable positions.
Now to my message:
Today, Bulgaria resembles Ukraine before 2014 —
With one difference: our own corrupt, ruthless, dangerous and grotesquely harmful “Yanukovyches” come in a pair, not just one.
And our “Maidan” is only just emerging — still peaceful, still bloodless. Thank God — for now!
This is why Ukraine — since before 2014 and until this very moment — is a memory from the future for Bulgaria.
Through Ukraine, the Future is knocking on Bulgaria’s door.
No — it’s kicking that door in, about to barge in like a black swan, catching us in our underwear.
What is happening in Ukraine now is a direct consequence of the processes from 1991 to 2014.
A divided country, strangled by pro-Russian loyalists and “volunteer” KGB types, corrupted beyond belief, blind to the Russian threat, full of “waiters” hoping for Moscow’s return — Ukraine seemed like an easy, juicy prey for Putin.
The analysis I linked above is not about that Ukraine — it’s about today’s Ukraine.
The Ukraine that is bleeding out.
Let me add two things — and share one disagreement with the article:
1.
More and more Ukrainians are realizing: some of the territories stolen by the Putin monster are lost — forever or for a long, long time.
There, everything Ukrainian has been erased, torched, looted.
Men are sent to the front lines to die. The intellectuals rot in prisons.
Many Ukrainians are asking: why must our sons, fathers, husbands, brothers die for these swamps of crime, landslides of chaos, ruins beyond repair, and caves full of people with brainwashed minds and castrated consciences?
2.
The West remains hesitant.
One step forward, two steps back.
"Hold me back or I’ll do something!"
"Wait, let me roll up my sleeves first!"
The US will get tough with Putin — in 50 days.
Europe will impose harsh sanctions — in 60 days.
But 50–60 days is all Russia needs to continue calmly slaughtering Ukrainians — soldiers and civilians alike — during its summer offensive.
My disagreement:
Even this otherwise solid analysis still pays the price of the West’s pathetic, inherited delusion from the Perestroika days — Russia first.
God forbid something terrible happens to Putin’s Russia!
But it will. The real problem is not fear — it’s fear of fear itself.
The West suffers from terminal panic. From meta-fear.
Empires have perished. Empires have survived.
But the ones that died were always those who succumbed to fear of fear.
Existential fear. Ontological fear. Epistemological fear. Meta-fear.
No empire burdened by such fear has ever survived.
Empires have fallen before barbarian invasions.
Today’s Russian forces are the new barbarians.
And if Europe does not awaken, these filthy, thieving, alcoholic invaders will storm across the continent.
They will rape our women, murder our men, plunder our lands.
The barbarians are already at Europe’s gates.
How much longer can Ukraine hold?
Has Europe even asked this fatal question?
This is not a war for Ukraine and in Ukraine.
This is a war for Europe and in Europe.
July 23, 2025
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