Despite Moscow’s insistence to the contrary and Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s suggestion during presidential campaign that there is a party of war in Ukraine, Andrey Piontkovsky says, Ukraine “by definition” does not have “a party of war.” As the victim of Russian aggression, it has only “a party of resistance and a party of capitulation.”
The only “party of war” in this conflict is in “the criminal military political leadership of Russia,” the Russian émigré commentator says.
“Ukraine is not capable by military means of recovering the territory seized by the enemy. But Ukraine has been able by increasing the military capacity and making use of the political support of its friends and allies to stop Russia from further aggression.” Thus, there are “only two parties [in Ukraine]: the Party of Resistance and the Party of Capitulation.”
After all, as he points out, the West will never be more “pro-Ukrainian” than the government in Kyiv. Too many politicians in Western countries simply want an excuse too back away from Ukraine and cozy up with Moscow. Consequently, when the deeds of Zelenskyy overwhelm his words, they will be ready to act – and Ukraine will be the victim.
To avoid this outcome, Piontkovsky says, requires two moves, one foreign by the Ukrainian government and a second domestic by the opponents of both the physical and political technological “Zelenskyy.”
Only by defining its task in this way will Ukraine be able too “stop the bloodletting, minimize the chances for further Russian aggression, and at the same time not make any political concessions to the aggressor.” Moscow for its own reasons will find it more difficult to oppose these ideas than many suppose.
And having achieved that, Ukraine, “by preserving its principled position on the issue of illegally occupied territories will be able to concentrate on the most important tasks of its domestic development, the very same on behalf of which the best people of Ukraine died at the Maidan.”
Consequently, “what a tragic mistake it would be for Kyivan Rus after so many centuries of heroic resistance to the Horde to capitulate today before this zombie.”
But the party of resistance must also work at home: It was seriously contest the party of capitulation. That would not be hard given that the party of capitulation reflects only a tiny minority (less than 10 percent) of the Ukrainian population were it not for the influx of Russian money and Russian political technology.
There is now hope that the party of resistance will not allow that to happen. It is gaining new leaders from a new generation “not connected with the traditional Ukrainian political class and weighted down by its mistakes. Among the is Sviatoslav Vakarchuk who can certainly “mobilize the country in opposition to the capitulators, obvious and hybrid.”
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