All of us who think with excitement and sympathy about Ukraine have been following the course of the War with a high degree of anxiety – especially during the last two months.
It is very difficult for Ukrainians. Damn hard. Against them they have a monster state that literally overwhelms them with corpses on the battlefields.
This is how Russia has fought and is still fighting now – it does not value human life at all, whether it is its own or of the others. But if once (or at least sometimes) there were causes that somehow justified such brutal disregard for people's lives and such cruel treatment of the individual, now everything is more ugly and nasty, barbaric and inhumane.
Putin's Russia is a sick country with a sick public psyche, with a sick people and, most nightmarishly, with a sick dictator. Putin is mentally ill; he is a bloodthirsty and antediluvian combination of psychopath and sociopath at the same time.

We can also suffer for the pains that the Ukrainian people are experiencing, but when I talk to my friends there, I know very clearly and with full reason – yes, we all do not have even a partial idea of what Ukrainians are feeling and experiencing today. It is unbearable and unimaginably hard for them! And it's getting harder for them. To exhaustion...

Today I happened to pass by Vitoshka Street in Sofia - life is life, endless celebration, who is like us! Life flows to the max.
Along with Ivayla Alexandrova's great and terrible book about the tragic death of the poet Vaptsarov (in 1942), "Lead Silence", I read a number of other books about him, published until 1989 - chronicles, handwritten legacies, memories, eulogies. And there I often came across descriptions - for example, the year is 1940, everything in Sofia is running at full speed, people live as if they were the last, they don't care at all what is happening in the world and what is roaring and approaching us.
As my grand-grandfather, a tried and convicted by the communist regime “enemy of the people”, used to say: One thing happened on September 8, something completely different happened on September 10 (in 1944) when the communists came to power. It changed tragically in a matter of hours! And in no time it became scary, scarier even than death. Death for many was a relief. In Bulgaria then, life was scarier than death!
That's how it happened at that time and that's how it can happen in our time in our country. Let there be another bacchanalia of violence. And we, who write the most about Ukraine, will turn out to be the new “enemies of the people”... I have no doubt that some of those who also write about Ukraine now will hide in mouse holes. This is our national sport – hiding in mouse holes. While those who don't are beaten and killed.

Of course, the operation of the Ukrainian armed forces in the Kursk region played a positive role. It brought refreshing sips of optimism among the Ukrainian society and among those like us, the pro-Ukrainians - the pro-Ukrainian Bulgarian minority. It also caricatured Putin.

But!
This operation is also a tragic act of desperation! It may turn out to be like the feat of the Spartans at Thermopylae.
Putin does not care about Russians, about any Russian territories. He wants meaty assaults in the Donetsk region, he predatorily feels that the front there can crack and even collapse. Putin orders furiously, he has bared his predatory teeth and with a hideous cannibalistic face anticipates the breakthrough...
I hope the Ukrainians hold out!

But!
If the Americans, if the Westerners in general do not allow the use of long-range missiles, if they do not increase the aid, then the cost of the Ukrainian resistance will become terribly huge!
The coming months can be fateful!

Let's pray for Ukraine! For the victory of Ukraine! For the existence of Ukraine!
Ukraine is on the edge – of endurance, of will, of strength, of faith!

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Just two more things.

The first is - let's face it - related to the weakness and often nefariousness of Biden and his administration!

Yes, Trump is an abomination, Trump is a disaster. Trump must be stopped! Trump can destroy the West.

But!
Biden...
What a sinister irony of Fate - that Biden is the president of the USA!
For Biden to be in the White House where Eisenhower, Kennedy, Reagan were...
Ukraine is also a victim of Biden.
In relation to Ukraine, Biden was a tool in the clutches of the vile creature Sullivan.
To that scoundrel Sullivan, whose badge says the same thing as my badge, when, driven by the desire to be of service to my country, I lost five years and my moral right to engage in politics because I happened to be in the right place and supposedly at the right time (when Bulgaria was joining NATO and the EU) - with the most inaccurate person possible as president...
By the way - is it the most inaccurate? Maybe not after all. The most inaccurate thing in the world is our current president - shame and dishonor to our Fatherland kindly!

With someone else in the White House, not Biden, Russia might have been defeated long ago. But at least Ukraine would not lose so many people and blood.
Biden is a symbol of the West's fear of Putin, of Putin's false racketeer bluffs.
Biden is a reflection of the infamous Atlantic Trembling - lest the red lines be crossed drawn mainly by the hopeless and numb alcoholic Medvedev.
Biden is a grotesque puppet of the West's refusal of will and courage.
Biden is a geopolitical coward who has reached the highest strategic peak in the world.

And Biden is not so ridiculous. Biden is just a graphic illustration of what the West has become today.
Earlier, the West had real leaders - who went through all the dramatic trials of the Cold War.
Leaders ready to put the Soviets and their general secretaries and generals in their place, all those Soviet megalomaniacs who waved their nuclear-missile scarecrows, but when the West gnashed their teeth, cowered and curled their tails in disgrace.
These were leaders of the West with character, with backbone.
Leaders of another, radically different breed.
Not all among them were readable as individuals, not all were moral, not all were role models, not all were intelligent enough - but they were truly of character, with backbone, at the height of their posts and missions. Because they were formed in conditions of fierce confrontation and extremely complex and risky geostrategic games!
They had read George Kennan's long telegrams and knew how to restrain the Soviets and how to show them their place - in the corner of History, and if they knew much - outside of History.

Yes, but in the 35 years after the end of the Cold War, a whole generation of Western politicians grew up - all mama's boys, all parquet losers, all characterless outsiders, all with soft geopolitical wrists, excuse my politically incorrect expressions!
Temporary politicians who imagined that the End of History no longer required courage and more will, vision and mission. Those who believe that this is how it will be from today on - the West triumphs, everyone else folds and listens; that here the Western will is listened to and the West is the Big Boss.

When you have existential enemies, you must have strong claws and teeth, you must be ready to fight and even fight. Because it depends on you whether our Civilization will exist or whether various dark geeks and scum will threaten its existence.
By and large in the West, power belongs to random people and skillful users of democratic procedures; of cowards and short-sighted people.
And so it could go on for a long time - as long as no one defiantly threw down the gauntlet to the West and wanted to destroy the pro-Western paradise.
Democracy knows best of all and can live peacefully and optimistically, magically and happily.
Democracy works wonders when it wants to create mood, give birth to joy, organize holidays and create beauty.

But!
But no one has removed from democracy the responsibility for itself, for the West, for humanity, for the Planet!
And bearing this responsibility, you must be ready to defend the Future of Humanity! To defend it, to defend it from fascists and rashists, from Hamases and Ayatollahs, from North Korean nothings and religious fanatics.

Let me say it again and again - the West is experiencing an acute shortage of Leaders, of brave, fearless, unwavering, alert, visionary and visionary Leaders.

...

And the second thing I want to say here at any cost...
It is actually a reflection on the same thing.
In the era of the End of History, in the era of Western liberal market-democratic triumphalism, the so-called Dividends of peace.
Any savings related to defense and security were announced in the name and justified precisely with these Dividends. Dividends of peace became the lens through which he envisioned and strategized! On stage, the main actors were the Dividend Masters! The Dividend Prophets!
And in this atmosphere of ecstasy and celebration, we Eastern Europeans, for example, were hammered into our heads that we need such tiny, mobile, formal, decorative armies.

I am grossly exaggerating, of course. But it is because of the memory of that rage of mine, which made me ask on forums and in publications - Such armies are fine, but who will fight on the battlefield if necessary?! How long will NATO - look at its documents at the time (all boring and bureaucratic, operated by visions, and neutered from perspective thinking) - pursue resource-oriented strategies?
And I kept writing - Another time is coming - the time not of resource-oriented, but of GOAL-ORIENTED STRATEGIES. Of strategies based on challenges and risks, on goals and objectives.
We will build such an army not with whatever resources we have, but with whatever challenges are before us, such an army we will build.

In the conditions of the End of History, when you see, everyone is only thinking and dreaming about how to become like the West, you really, really don't need a fighting army. A few special forces and all will be all right!
And if some larger countries in the West at least pretended to have larger armies, we in Bulgaria have faithfully and gullibly provided ourselves with just such an army - tiny and mobile, formal and decorative.
If Ukraine had such an army in February 2022 (as it had in 2014 according to similar wise advice and with the same faulty logic), it would really be "Kyiv for three days".
It is not the cabinet mental tensions and scarce resources in theory (and if the resources are scarce in theory, they inevitably become scarce in practice) determine what the national defense system will be, but the enemies, the adversaries!
On the real battlefield, one fights not against illusions and phantasmagoria, but against real and heavily armed hordes.

A very third question is that, in addition to being tiny and mobile, formal and decorative, our army is also consumed, especially at the top, by racism and pro-Putinism. She is ready for only one thing - to organize a parade to welcome Putin's military marauders in their march "Sofia in three hours"!

But let's face it - if the personnel selection of our army is our Bulgarian half-mortal sin, then the principles by which this army was assembled carelessly and indecisively are the result of the West's historical delusion that the times of high-intensity wars have passed.
Well, it is good that these wars are taught, small and large doctoral dissertations are written about them, associate professors and professors are swarming, horarium is filled and fees are collected, but that's it. Nothing more than that.
Military academies have become places where soldiers and civilians are trained not at least for the past war, but for the war in the parallel reality.

We must make radical efforts to rebuild our army - to make it a Western, Atlantic, European and Bulgarian army. As long as there are still brave, bright and brave men and women in our country who are ready to be part of such an Army.
The first step is to de-rashialize, to de-putinize our current Bulgarian army...

I'll say it one more time:
Let's pray for Ukraine!

In Ukraine, we are witnessing the first phase of the Last Great War, the “either-or” War:
The War of Human Civilization against the Monsters of Evil.
The War of the Future against the Past.
The War of the World of high genetic, medical, information, communication and space technologies of Artificial Intelligence and quantum computers against the World of obscurantism, of barbarism, of hate to the different, to the Others.
In this War, the World of Mankind is at war against the remnants and refuse of the World of Bipedal Freaks and Beasts.
This War cannot end in a draw. It will have a winner.
Hopefully that winner is us normal people ie. The people.

Along with that, I'll write it once more:
Let's pray for Bulgaria!

Let's realize that perhaps today on the calendar of Bulgarian History is September 8. And there is very little time left until September 9. And if he comes again, then on September 10, Bulgaria will be radically different - the bacchanalia of violence and the orgy of obscurantism will rage in it.

Don't judge me for the sharp words in this text - they are emotion. They are the form. But think about the content. It is an expression of my not at all bright premonitions that Bulgaria has gone down the path leading it to the abyss. And this chasm attracts Bulgaria with increasing force, deceives it and pulls it towards itself.

Bulgaria is not what it should be. Increasingly, it is not. We are just a few steps away from the irreversibility of the collapse.

As we can see - today nobody really rules our country. Bulgaria is without government. Bulgaria is moving by momentum. No authority, no legitimate authority. No strategy.
Today, Bulgaria is holding on only to the small and permanent thing that the Transition to democracy built as a market, as a business, as managers, as young and enterprising people. It is what keeps us going. But his creative and resistance powers are running out.

And I desperately wonder - does no one else notice this infinitely sad and insanely tragic fact?

08/29/2024