I am so tired of all misunderstandings of Russia’s war against Ukraine & the US role:
- Russia is pursuing a major colonial war.
- No colonial power has won such a war after World War II.
- Nations are born out of war & this war has cemented the Ukrainian nation.
- For Ukraine, this war is existential. In Russia, it is only existential for Putin.
- Therefore Ukraine cannot give up & Putin will lose (though we cannot know when or exactly how).
- This war has united Europe & given it a new purpose. The old purpose of the EU was to keep peace internally. The new purpose is to stand up to Russia.
- Trump has taken the US out of the war & the US is not likely to come back. Trump is Putin’s obedient servant (though fortunately dumb & incompetent).
- Europe needs to take over NATO since the US is abandoning it.
- The new forms of warfare & the current US incompetence are likely to render the US military & arms obsolete very fast.
- The EU needs to embrace Ukraine & Moldova & Western Balkans & invite the UK, Norway & Iceland.