Geopolitics is a harsh mistress, and Ukraine had a great chance to become a bridge between two civilizational clusters (cf. Finland before 2022, Turkey, Kazakhstan, or Uzbekistan). They’ve chosen the road of post-colonial victim syndrome and entered the besieged fortress mode. Well, at least, their dismal example is already cooling a lot of hot heads in the grey peripheral area betwixt the EU and Russia.

But then again, hardly could things have gotten another turn. Many have chosen that path before, among them Syngman Rhee and Ngô Đình Diệm, and this is no different. Ukraine in its modern dismal state is, and will continue to be, a monstrous mess produced jointly by the Western and Eastern collaborators. There’ll come a time for the Ukraine war (including the civil conflict phases in 2014 and then 2016–22) to be evaluated as yet another ‘tragic miscalculation’, where ‘staggering variety and complexity’ gracefully sings along with melancholy strings of ‘the geopolitical intentions of our adversaries’ which the US turned out unable to comprehend.

This is a classic example of Hobson’s choice, and Zelensky has nobody to blame but himself, Boris Johnson, and Biden-Harris administration: the war could, and had to, be shut down already in Istanbul by any means necessary.

Let's hope Ukrainian "activists" have wisely preserved at least some of monuments and bas-reliefs of Russian Imperial and Soviet eras they were busy dismantling in BLM-style (though it'd be more correct to say that BLM flashmobs were modelled after Ukrainian test drive).

Because, you know, somebody among them already begins to suspect that they might be forced to restore what they had desecrated:

Also, I don’t envy Baltic “activists” who were actively toadying to their Ukrainian friends and Dem Party bosses. I don’t envy them in the slightest.