Russia at war with the West

By: Luis Gonzales Posada - 23/12/2024

Putin is a psychopath with nuclear power, as demonstrated by his challenge to "a high-tech duel between the Oreshnik missile and the US anti-aircraft defense systems," specifying that the scene of this aberrant competition would be kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, which has a population of 3 million.

This insane proposal was made after the assassination of General Igor Kirillov, head of the troops that use radiological, chemical and biological weapons, an attack that shows that Ukrainian intelligence services can easily access Russian territory, because the crime occurred 7 km southeast of the Kremlin.

A week earlier, Mikhail Shatsky, the designer of the Kh-59 and Kh-69 cruise missiles, was shot dead outside Moscow. The media recall that in September, "Alexei Kolomeitsev, a colonel who trained specialists in the use of attack drones, was killed," and a month earlier, a car bomb killed "the commander of the 41st missile ship brigade of the Black Sea Fleet, Valery Trankovsky, in the city of Sevastopol, illegally annexed along with the rest of the Crimean peninsula in 2014," who was responsible for launching missiles against civilian targets.

In this context, the European Community's complaints about the use of prohibited weapons against Ukraine, which cause irritation of the lungs, eyes and skin, as well as vomiting, nausea and diarrhoea, if not death, are relevant.

In response, the United Kingdom, through Foreign Secretary David Lammy, warned that it would not "stand idly by while President Putin and his mafia state trample on international law," including the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, signed by 195 countries, a principled position shared by the United States and Western democracies.

This nightmare began in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and intensified from February 2022, that is, two years and 10 months ago. There is no certain data on the number of deaths, but various analysts agree that some 600,000 Russian soldiers have died, losses that have led the Kremlin to hire North Korean mercenaries.

It is also a very costly war. Russia has spent 35 billion euros; Ukraine has received 42 billion euros in military aid from NATO and 450 million dollars from the United States, and according to the World Bank, the destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure is estimated at 40 billion dollars.

There is no indication that the conflict will end with Trump's arrival at the White House, because Putin has maintained that there will only be peace if Ukraine agrees to lose part of its country.

History shows that a satrap is defeated by force of arms, not at the negotiating table, because they are not willing to compromise and make their positions more flexible.

And in this context, once again the United Nations is portrayed as an organisation that is absolutely ineffective in enforcing its founding charter, to the point that the repeated calls for peace by the Secretary General, Ambassador Antonio Guterres, have fallen on deaf ears.

Furthermore, due to this roulette among the five powers with veto power in the United Nations, Russia now presides over the Security Council of the highest world body, a status that guarantees the satrap to continue killing and destroying to expand his empire.

The only thing left to do, then, is for Western countries to send troops to protect Ukraine and suspend their diplomatic, commercial and financial relations with the Kremlin. It will be costly, yes, but there is no other way to prevent Russian expansion, which is now setting its sights on Finland and the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, annexed by Stalin until they regained their independence in 1991.

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