The war in Ukraine will end eleven months this Tuesday (24th). Unfortunately, everything indicates that a month from now, on the anniversary of this tragedy of global proportions, we will come back to the same topic: there are no signs that the conflict will end in the short term, since there are absolutely no world leaders who are in the able to propose alternatives to pacification.
The Russians thought it would be a short and hard attack. Most experts too. Who would have thought that a war power like Russia, feared for its military might, would encounter surprising resistance from the Ukrainians?
Putin acted criminally by invading the neighboring country. It had its geopolitical motives, after all NATO and the US are hiding their globalist interest in (unnecessary) expansion into Slavic territories. It was to be a tough but bloodless diplomatic dispute.
There was a lack of leadership on all sides, especially after the departure of former German Prime Minister Angela Merkel, with her undeniable pragmatism and intelligence. The world then watched the accumulation of hostile, irrational, and mutual rhetoric from Presidents and Chancellors who refused to see that we were all about to be plunged into a planetary global economic crisis.
The escalation we have witnessed to date brings us ever closer to an even more frightening crisis, the nuclear one. This isn’t about scaremongering or disastrous reading. Ukraine shows no sign of retreating, Russia is not talking about backing down on its demands, and NATO continues to provide Ukraine’s army with billions of dollars in stateoftheart weapons.
The conflict has already left around 180,000 dead or wounded in Russian ranks. 100,000 soldiers and 30,000 civilians are killed on the Ukrainian side. This is based on estimates from a country not directly involved, namely Norway.
As always, this mortality is already naturalized through the news. The horror is already in everyday life, the economies are tearing open their shards and returning to a new normal. China is consolidating as a big winner on the international political stage, not for lack of warning as Russia has been forced to close in on Beijing.
And Western leaders, led by US President Joe Biden’s braggarts, continue to flaunt the lit match on a powder keg. And they ignore that this metaphor could soon consist of nuclear warheads.