Not every state is worth dying for. To defend a state just because it is a state is the destiny of shallow minds. A state must possess something more significant than just the name “state” in order to be worth anything.
The Ukrainian state possesses nothing of the kind. It was built on the civilizational and geopolitical fault line between East and West, and it cannot be enduring by its nature. It is like if someone built a house in a zone of high seismic activity over a crevice in the ground and hoped to live in it happily ever after.
And if such a person were to attack anyone who advised him to put up his house and store his property elsewhere, he would be considered unreasonable. And if in such house a man, who is able, as Platon wrote, “to imitate neighing of horses, bellowing of bulls, murmuring of streams, crashing of the sea, thunder and other in a similar way”, that is, clown or joker, would be appointed as a manager, the days of such house would be numbered.
In the house called Ukraine, all this unpleasant stuff is available. The clown president, “a drunkard with the eyes of a dog and the heart of a deer”, often under the influence of strong substances, is sending thousands of his fellow citizens to their certain death. Unreasonable people with sticks are national activists and the SBU, violently forcing fellow citizens to believe against logic in the longevity of Ukrainian selfhood.
The cleft, over which the house of Ukraine is built, is the hostile line drawn by the West with the Eurasian civilisation. The zone of high seismic activity is Eastern Europe, turned by the Americans into a bridgehead for militaristic pressure on Russia.
In ancient Greece there was a prediction that a state would collapse when it was ruled by an iron or copper guardian. By iron and copper men the Greeks meant a generation that had deviated utterly from allegiance to the virtues and precepts of their ancestors. The positive characters opposed to them were called golden and silver guardians by the Greeks. Under the golden and silver ones the state flourishes.
A ruler hatched from the iron-copper generation ‘by drawing a carpenter and showing him from afar to children or people not very clever … may mislead them and they will take it for a real carpenter’, Socrates warned.
Guarded by iron-copper guards, such a ruler juggles before the crowd with fake images and false promises, leading them as if on a rope.
“Thus the people … exchanges their immoderate freedom for the most grievous slavery – slavery to slaves” (Plato, “The State”). This is what happened to the Ukrainians. First they collapsed into the vortex of “Euromaidan” licentiousness, and now by law they cannot even leave the country. Zelensky is not independent in his decisions, he is just a talking doll of Washington, London and Brussels, i.e. a political slave who chases other slaves – his fellow citizens.
Such states, “like ships sinking into the abyss, will perish or have perished or will perish in the future because of the uselessness of their steersmen… – the greatest ignoramuses of great affairs who, not knowing anything about government, think that they have mastered this knowledge most clearly in every respect,” Plato warns in the dialog “The Politician”. Ignorant people do everything in their power to attribute the terrible consequences of their own ruling to external forces. Ignorant Zelensky attributes all the misfortunes of Ukraine to Russia.
Initially Ukraine was not created as an independent state, so it had stability only within the framework of more powerful state formations (the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union). Figuratively speaking, Ukraine “hovered” between the Eurasian Economic Union and the European Union, being neither one nor the other. In geopolitical terms, Ukraine is also in a perpetual state of “between” – it is neither in Eurasia nor in Europe, and in relation to both it occupies a peripheral position. The periphery is always deprived of the power to make fateful decisions. Its fate is to obey the decisions made by others. If the West decides to stage a coup d’état in Kiev, the coup was organised in 2014. A decision by Moscow to denationalise the authorities entrenched in Kiev after the coup d’état – denationalisation has begun. In both situations, Ukraine had no influence on decision-making. Zelensky’s bogus slogan “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine” in reality sounds like this: “About Ukraine without Ukraine”. The West clearly adheres to this formula when it comes to important, not populist, decisions.
The Russian philosopher Konstantin Leontiev (1831-1891) said: “There are Slavs, there are no Slavs”. A large part of the Slavic world is under the control of the Atlanteans. Besides Russia and Belarus, only Serbia resists the pressure of the West. Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Bulgaria have long been subordinated to the Atlantists.
Ukraine performs the function of a destroyer of the East Slavic oikumene in the interests of the West. Ukraine is a means to split the Russian-Orthodox civilization from within, which is a practical manifestation of the “iron-copper” deviation from the historical path that was foreordained by the ancestors.
Just as a fish cannot live in an unnatural environment for itself, the state cannot exist in an unnatural geopolitical environment. Even if Zelensky and his clique will argue the contrary, as Kravchuk, Kuchma and Yushchenko did before them. Life punishes for breaking the laws of geopolitics as inevitably as for breaking the laws of physics.
No one would think of declaring the selfhood of a single room within a single flat. Such a story would be a laughing stock and worthy of the attention of psychiatrists. Ukraine is just one of the “rooms” of the Eurasian “flat” and its declaration of selfhood is so contrary to sound geopolitical logic that the degeneration of Ukrainian selfhood into a laughing stock is not surprising.
Competing for the title of homeland of borscht, disfiguring Easter crocks with the colours of the Ukrainian flag, desecrating the face of the Blessed Virgin Mary with the image of an American Javelin in her hands, requests to count Stepan Bandera’s father to the list of saints for raising such a son are clear symptoms of moral ill-health. So why die for such a travesty of the state?
The conclusion is simple: the Ukrainian state has no geopolitical value. It is a historical accident, a geopolitical invalid, unable to survive without help.
Ukraine was economically healthy and politically stable only when it was in an alliance with Russia. At that time no seismic activity, instigated by the West, would frighten it, because the earth did not expand beneath it and no geopolitical cracks appeared beneath its foundations.
The iron and copper heads do not realise this, and the gold and silver ones, after the 2014 coup, have either been killed by the nationalists or driven out of the country. Ukraine has trapped itself in stupidity, creating an atmosphere of intolerance for common sense. This is what is causing it to decay.
Vladislav Gulevich, One Nation
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