Ukraine has to defeat Russia. Not only our fate is at stake. But also the whole world order

Without Ukraine, the imperial project of Vladimir Putin is dead. He will go for everything for his implementation. We are shedding blood so as not to become a part of Ukraine again, or rather its large part, for several hundred years it has been part of the Russian Empire. A very important and significant part of it. It can be said that it was after the so -called "reunification" of Ukraine and Russia, for Peter I, Muscovy and became known as the Russian Empire.

I will not resort to the details of how Ukraine has lostly and irreversibly lost its guaranteed in the event of a reunion of liberty. Therefore, there were many reasons, including internal, related to the Ukrainian national character - the inability to agree with each other. However, it does not matter now, although it is sometimes worth thinking about what a parade of personal ambitions leads in the presence of a strong, cunning and merciless enemy. Now about another.

Ukraine was an important part of the empire - a subordinate, devoid of independence, in many matters depressed, but the tongue will not return to call it occupied.

Despite the centuries -old attempts by the Russians to suppress Ukrainian identity, to turn the Ukrainian people into another faceless Russian tribe, Ukrainians were able to preserve the qualities that make the people - the people, and at the same time made a huge contribution to the growth of military power, material well -being, the culture of the empire, the culture They took an active part in managing it.

You can find many historical analogies of this kind of symbiosis of conquerors and conquered peoples, but again, I am not talking about it. Ukrainian hands, bread, and a little later with Ukrainian natural minerals, forged the strength of the empire, its sword, its shield, its welfare. The vast majority of Russia conquered in the east were either unsuitable or poorly suitable for agriculture.

Minerals in those territories were, and many still remain, though explored, but it is very difficult to obtain. Despite the fact that much has changed since then, Ukraine has been and remains important, not to say, the main component of the success of the Russian imperial project. This was well understood by Peter, Catherine, Alexander, and Nicholas, it was perfectly understood by Lenin, which he wrote repeatedly, and did everything to include Ukraine in the Bolshevik imperial project.

By the way, without the help of Ukrainians themselves, it could hardly come out. Therefore, an unsuccessful attempt to return Ukraine's independence in 1918-1920 and 70 years under the communist yoke is again a dance on the rakes of Ukrainian production-a coincidence of circumstances, making incorrect decisions and a notorious Ukrainian character, described by a saying about two Ukrainians and three hetmans.

There were a lot of ethnic Ukrainians among the USSR rulers, practically they made up a large part of the management elite of the suppression, technical and creative intelligentsia in the Bolshevik Empire. Today there is a war for the revival of the Russian imperial project, and the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, like Lenin in 1918, understands that there will be no empire without Ukraine.

His dream of revival of the USSR is unrealistic if he fails to capture Ukraine and join it to Russia. The creeping annexation, as in the case of Belarus, did not work, so it is a direct occupation with all subsequent actions of bringing Ukrainians to humility and forceful suppression of dissatisfied and dissenters. He is ready to go for it so that, after absorbing Ukraine, move further to the Baltic countries, and possibly south. Ukraine does not want to return to the imperial project.

Perhaps it does not want because it has been the best and the main part for too long. Today, it wages the war for her return to Europe, for independence and against the empire and dictatorship, as a form of government, perfectly understanding what this dictatorship is. He understands how Poland, as Baltic countries, as Georgia, as Moldova and Finland, at risk.

The Ukrainian War with Russia is a liberation war that we lead not only for ourselves, but for all who have escaped from the Russian oppression and do not want to return there. Without Ukraine, Putin's project is dead. Whether Ukraine wins in this war loses not only its fate, but also how the world order will look after the collapse of the international security system, what risks and what threats will exist in the post -war world.