Russia invades Ukraine: General Discussion 2023

Nature is cruel therefore we are also entitled to be cruel.
- Adolf Hitler

Alas, this quote reveals how most powerful world’s leaders think.

Those who can’t correctly assess the main actors and the current world order’s rules are doomed to suffer, and to pay this mistake at the price of their lives.

This would be funny if it weren’t tragic.

Two recent cases.

Both Myanmareses and Ukrainians were conned into believing they could trust the international conventions and treaties.

Because of that fatal overconfidence they escalated with the false sense of superiority in their favor. Remove the international laws and they are naked.

The NO-FLY ZONE trap, that both Myanmarese opponents (PDF, NLD) and Ukraine begged QUAD and NATO respectively to impose never materialized.

These amateurs simply ignored that the use of no-fly zone is a privilege and not at all an international law, used at the discretion of the NATO for its own convenience only: against Iraq, Yugoslavia and Libya.

The other dangerous hype was the Responsibility to Protect – known as R2P –.


▲ Fatal mistake: Calling for an imaginary savior.


▲ Fatal mistake: R2P

Presented falsely as an international norm, this magic umbrella was never deployed to save both Myanmareses and Ukrainians.

That is why these miscalculations have costed so far thousands of preventable Myanmarese and Ukrainian deaths.


Again, I must respectfully disagree.

Iran, Afghanistan, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea, China, Venezuela, etc have something special in common. The real cause.

In all these regions, great powers have recently been defeated. Coincidence? I think not.
As a matter of fact, this can be explained by a theory, but this would be too long here and off-topic.


The UN charter was not written in hopes of preventing history from being repeated again, but as an emergency face saver.

By simply overlooking the anger of the Western citizens who witnessed first hand the horrors of WW2, the Western elite and rulers would have been overthrown by a popular uprising.

The same most dreaded fear that was haunting the Western leaders since 1815.

Same goes for the annual commemorations of war deaths.

Indeed, the popular masses are easy to fool and appease.


Ukraine might survive but probably diminished in superficy.