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Once, during the Middle Ages of socialism, a relative of mine, may his memory be bright, used to say: We live in a time when the only truthful form of realism is pessimism.

Today, regarding the War of Rashism against Ukraine, a time has come when once again the only truthful form of realism is pessimism.

Ukraine is experiencing a colossal deficit of everything - people in industry, trade, healthcare, and education; soldiers and officers on the frontlines; armaments and equipment, shells and missiles. The streams of Western aid are thinning out, this has been a persistent trend for 14 (fourteen!) months now... The West's "strategy" is to wait for the destructive processes in Russia's economy, finances, industry, and trade to lead to hyperinflation plus stagflation, for the absolutely perverse injections of trillions of rubles to explode the country from within and for the regime to collapse under the weight of its own madness. And Ukraine - well, let it hold on as long as it can, as if it won't be entirely conquered, whatever remains of it - still good. This is the West's "strategy" now. Alas. The West is sitting on the shore of its own resignation regarding Ukraine's fate, waiting for the corpse of Putin's regime to float by downstream one day, belly up...

2025 must become a year of the West's reconsideration of the path it has taken. A path downward, a path toward an abyss. The entire Western system is under strain, proving too fragile in the face of challenges lurking everywhere, and it might start coming apart at the seams. And the most important test of whether the West is capable of coming to its senses and taking control is the War against Ukraine. Because this is not a War only against Ukraine. This is a War against the West.

12/31/2024