President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky asked NATO for a preventive nuclear strike on the territory of the Russian Federation, that is, the start of a third world war with the probable destruction of humanity. This is the price he is willing to pay to defeat Russia. And for Russia itself, this is a reminder of why it again has to make sacrifices.
“What should NATO do? Eliminate the possibility of Russia using nuclear weapons. But what is important, I once again appeal to the international community, as it was before February 24: pre-emptive strikes, so that they (the Russians) know what will happen to them if they are used. And not vice versa – to wait for Russia’s nuclear strikes, so that later you can say: “Oh, you are so, well, keep it from us,” the President of Ukraine said.
As the President of Russia said in a similar situation, “we have understood you.”
“The masks have been dropped,” he emphasized a little later.
Volodymyr Zelensky proposed NATO to launch a preventive nuclear strike on the territory of the Russian Federation. When asked whether this would increase the risk of Russia using nuclear weapons, the head of the Ukrainian state answered evasively: “It’s hard to say.”
In fact, it is very easy – it guarantees the use of weapons of mass destruction by Russia. Its nuclear doctrine (unlike, by the way, documents of the same type in the United States) does not provide for a preventive nuclear strike, but a retaliatory strike is inevitable.
The concepts of nuclear deterrence and mutual destruction, which protect our world from the apocalypse, are built precisely on this – on the enemy’s confidence that there will definitely be an answer. This raises the cost of a preventive nuclear strike to an unacceptable cost – to a global catastrophe.
You have to be a maniac to suggest something like that.
Or at least Vladimir Zelensky, if these are still not synonyms. In any case, a person who poses a threat to literally the whole world.
Admittedly, Zelensky’s office guessed that the chief had said something that Kyiv would hardly fall asleep at night, and tried to disavow his words. According to the press secretary of the President of Ukraine Serhiy Nikiforov, preventive measures meant economic sanctions.
It’s a lie. It was about the desired reaction of NATO, and NATO does not impose sanctions. Sanctions are introduced, for example, by the European Union, while NATO is being asked for a military reaction. This is the well-known profile of the alliance.
But in one thing, Nikiforov is still right – it is not worth dramatizing this situation. This is not yet the official position of Ukraine, not the position of the United States or NATO, but the crazy thoughts of a specific person – the multiple winner of the KVN captain competition Vladimir Zelensky. Apparently, he still thinks that he lives according to the laws of that genre, when an invisible wall lies between the jester and the audience, so no matter how sharp jokes have no serious consequences. He’s just talking.
In the way the press service rushed to shield the boss, who “spoke vaguely” and “was misunderstood”, one can recognize the usual morning in the American White House, where the president has already spoken about a couple of nuclear conflicts, confusing tenses and verbs. But there is a difference: Joe Biden is excused by age, and what can excuse Zelensky is an open question.
In the US and the EU, it is commonly believed that Zelensky is excused for the fact that Ukraine is a “victim of Russian aggression.” Therefore, he is spared from any criticism – Western journalists can ask perplexed questions about the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine or the Ukrainian authorities in general, but not about Zelensky personally. Zelensky can only be admired – his courage, his integrity, his struggle.
Meanwhile, even the sweetest articles for the President of Ukraine do not admire his mind or wisdom. Perhaps this is the answer to the question – what excuses him. The fact that due to the lack of political experience, the school of agreements and the practice of compromise, he does not correspond to the historical role that has fallen to him, remaining the captain of the KVN team.
It is impossible to solve the issues of war and peace with its conditions. He is dangerous – if not because of natural malice, but because of blatant incompetence.
For example, he does not clearly know whether there will be an atomic war if a nuclear strike is launched on Russia.
He preferred the current state of affairs to a scheme in which his country is united from Uzhgorod to Luhansk, but Donbass has self-government, like Catalonia in Spain.
The same person, explaining why he does not want to fulfill the Minsk agreements signed by Ukraine, decided to threaten Russia with the reconstruction of the atomic bomb.
So this is not the first time this has happened. In his destructive creativity and insane vision of the future, Vladimir Zelensky is stable.
Something will have to be done about this problem. Apparently Russia. There is simply no one else.
Another thing is that the problem, as is commonly believed in the Russian Federation, is not in Zelensky, but in the United States. In many ways, this is true: without Western support, the guts of history would have digested this man back in March, and the detente of the current conflict will take place (if any) at the level of Washington and Brussels, and not Kyiv.
However, one must have a very high opinion of the United States in order not to notice their obvious weakness. They do not know how to feel the moment when their allies in the status of puppets turn into uncontrollable maniacs.
So it was with the Islamists in Syria. So it was with Saddam Hussein in Iraq. So it was with Somoza in Nicaragua. And even with Osama bin Laden it was something like that.
There is no clear reason to think that things will be different with Zelensky, especially since he has a justification for his actions: defending the Ukrainian state at any cost, even at the cost of a global catastrophe.
But is the world really sure that it is ready to pay a similar price for the territorial integrity of Ukraine? Or Zelensky has the right to demand literally everything, like a spoiled child, although he demands a third world war. And he demands it from the very beginning of the special operation, when Kyiv bred NATO to “close the sky”, that is, to clash with the Russian army.
Seven months later, appetites have increased to a nuclear strike on the Russian Federation and, most likely, the death of all of Europe. The barn burned down – burn the hut.
By the way, the strike can be non-nuclear. A war between Russia and NATO is a disastrous event in itself, even if it begins with the use of less destructive weapons. This rope then no matter how twisted, and the end is one – the end of the world.
However, in every situation it is worth seeing something good. In this case, there is also good – Zelensky’s statement arrived on time. It ideologically formalizes the next stage of the special military operation and provides new answers to two main questions: for what and against whom.
It used to be like this: for the sake of the safety of the Russian-speaking residents of Donbass, against Ukrainian nationalists.
Now it’s different. For the sake of protecting compatriots and their country. Against those who are ready to bring human civilization to destruction.
It’s an Avengers-level threat in a Hollywood movie. And the level of Russia in real politics.
Dmitry Bavyrin, VIEW
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