Ukraine Asks for Peace. The World Answers in Deals.
Zelenskyy wants understanding, strong friendship and no misunderstandings. Here is what that wish is up against.
If your wishes alone could bring an end to this war, it would have ended years ago.
If your wishes alone could set things right, no country that dares to think for itself, assert its sovereignty, or dream of charting its own future would be suffering under the conspiracies, greed and hatred that run deep within Donald Trump, Elon Musk and this administration. Their target is every nation that refuses to give up its independence of thought and action.
The louder you stand up for yourself, the harder those drunk on power will try to shut you down. The moment your questions challenge their authority, threaten their interests or expose their intentions, they will go to any lengths to serve their own ends and remind you how weak they believe you are without them.
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And when the United States is involved, words such as peace, prosperity, sovereignty, rights, right and wrong, and coalitions seem to lose their meaning. Every one of those words is packaging. The product is the deal. It is all driven by calculation, manipulation and the pursuit of advantage.
As long as the deal enriches power-hungry leaders like Trump, as long as it brings in enormous profits for them and serves their political ambitions, personal agendas and the collective stakes of those they choose to reward, you may be allowed to survive on terms they find acceptable. You may even be permitted to prosper, provided your prosperity does not imperil their designs or contest their supremacy.
The moment that equation changes, so do the terms of your survival. When push comes to shove, you are expendable.
Greed has no permanent home. Self-interest recognises no lasting allegiance. Those consumed by a lust for supremacy have no true companions, only temporary partners whose usefulness lasts as long as their agendas line up. There is no honour among thieves.
Wherever that mindset takes hold, instability sets in, alliances fall apart, autonomy wears away and destruction is left behind.
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