Welcome to Hell

Donald Trump's envoy, Keith Kellogg, denies that he spoke about dividing Ukraine in a manner similar to the post-war partitioning of Berlin. He claims that The Times distorted his words.

The Times presents this statement as a direct quote from Trump's special representative. The journalists must have a recording of the conversation, which they should publish to prove their responsibility and accuracy in quoting. At this point, there is no refutation from the editorial team.



If such an idea exists in American political circles-that Ukraine can be divided "like post-war Berlin"-this is deeply troubling. Most current American politicians probably have little memory (or pretend to have little memory) of the Budapest Memorandum or the "assurances" they gave to a disarmed Ukraine. The example of post-war Berlin's division as a template for Ukraine is critically incorrect. Germany was punished for starting a war. The idea of dividing Ukraine into parts to appease Putin is more reminiscent of the division of Europe after World War II at the so-called Yalta Conference in February 1945, when the entirety of Central and Eastern Europe was handed over to the Stalinist regime. A dozen European nations were effectively "cut off" from Europe and delivered as trophies into the Stalinist Gulag. U.S. and British leaders Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt paid for their supposed peace with the lives and freedom of these unfortunate nations.

Why "supposed" peace? Because the Cold War dragged on for decades, exhausting the resources not only of war-addicted Moscow, but also of the civilized West.

Ukraine, it seems, is being punished for agreeing-under U.S. pressure-to transfer its nuclear arsenal to Russia, and for the fact that Ukrainians have now been resisting Russian occupiers for eleven years. There is, of course, an internal reason for this suffering as well. When Russia began preparing for an invasion in the late 1990s, the Moscow regime forced kleptocrats in Kyiv-effectively under its control-to hand over what remained of Ukraine's defense potential: non-nuclear cruise missiles (now used by Russia to strike Ukraine) and strategic bombers.

What is the fundamental mistake of the "peacemakers" who believe that peace can be achieved by carving Ukraine into pieces?

Such a move would mean that the democratic world and the United States-once the leaders of the free world-are now publicly kneeling before the Russian dictator Putin, agreeing that internationally recognized borders can be redrawn by brute force and human-wave assaults. It would mean tossing aside all post-war agreements, the Helsinki Accords, the principles of national coexistence and inviolability of borders, which for decades served as safeguards against new wars. Those safeguards are gone. And we are witnessing the start of processes around the world that may become irreversible.

Perhaps to the soundtrack of this "new order", every global monster with nuclear weapons will begin taking whatever they want. So-welcome to hell. The gate is open.

Under these conditions, the fragmentation of the world can take place across multiple dimensions: Putin wants to take Ukraine, Xi Jinping wants Taiwan, and Trump has his eyes on Greenland and Canada. But that's not all. Russia wants Ukrainian land and millions of people. Trump, meanwhile, appears interested in Ukraine's rare earth mineral deposits, which he believes Ukraine should offer in return for the aid already provided by the American people (via the U.S. Congress) to a country at war.

In this way, Ukraine-a nation waging a defensive, liberation war-might be dissected and humiliated, while the true aggressor is rewarded and satisfied. And that would be the true opening of the gates to hell.

We now live in a world where nuclear monsters believe they have the right to divide the globe as they please. But history has its own logic. And a world thrown into hell will eventually begin to recover and develop new forms of defense-including protection from unhinged leaders and dictators who view people merely as biomass, to be sacrificed to their personal demons and mental pathologies.

But the laws of physics will not be repealed by Putin, Xi Jinping, or Trump. As always, according to Newton's Third Law, every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

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