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Two themes, two accents, two facts—or perhaps two talking points—will likely appear with increasing frequency in the international debates about the War of barbaric Russia against European Ukraine:
1. By the middle of the approaching month of January, this treacherous War will surpass in duration the so-called Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. And it will inevitably be emphasized by many that back then there was first a retreat to Moscow, then long and bloody battles until the Soviet army reached Berlin; whereas now, in the same amount of time, Russia has bogged down near Pokrovsk, fighting over a few already destroyed small towns and villages where practically no one lives anymore.
2. Europe will be "pressuring" Ukraine not toward the Korean variant (South Korea and North Korea), but toward the Karelian one—following the example of Finland, which, as a result of Soviet aggression, lost Karelia but preserved itself and its national dignity, remaining an independent and democratic country. Thus Ukraine, according to European leaders, will have to, figuratively speaking, gnaw off its paw, give up part of its territory in order to preserve itself and its national dignity, to remain an independent and democratic country.
Another matter is that Putin will try in the coming months to seize another few percent of Ukrainian territory and call it "Russian"; he will do his utmost, together with Trump, to remove Zelensky from power, and then to have someone convenient for the Rashist arithmetic installed as the new president (Poroshenko, Tymoshenko, Arestovych, or even under certain conditions Zaluzhny), so as to impose on Ukraine a kind of hybrid Chechen-Georgian political project—with Trump’s support, with European leaders grinding their teeth nervously, and with Ukraine’s future as a viable state remaining uncertain.
Here I will only add my personal, non-binding opinion: Putin is fatallly wrong.
I have no doubt that Russia’s collapse is ahead.
I hope that Russia’s collapse in financial and economic terms will precede Ukraine’s collapse in military and social terms. In fact, I do not only hope—it is my near conviction that it will happen this way.
05.09.2025
