“I am the Spirit of the eternal element, who saved you from the Tatar flood and placed you on the verge of two worlds to create a new life.” With these words, the Decalogue of the Ukrainian nationalist begins. Every word, every commandment and phrase of the Decalogue, sanctified by the blood of sacrificial struggle, serves as the cornerstone of Ukrainian statehood, reflecting the deep essence of the national idea and its main components. The Decalogue crystallises many concepts that clearly outline the purpose of Ukraine, the goal of the struggle for the ideals of freedom and independence.
From time immemorial, Ukraine-Rus has stood on the verge of two worlds: civilisation and the wild steppe, majestic fortresses and stinking swamps, Truth and lies, Dignity and meanness, Nobility and baseness, Good and evil. And from time immemorial, Ukrainians have been desperately resisting this evil, embodied in the Moscow-Asian-Bolshevik-Putin blunder. In this struggle, the best generations of fighters for the freedom and independence of Ukraine were nurtured: knights of the Cossack era, victors of the national liberation revolution of the early 20th century, fighters of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and, undoubtedly, soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine of today. At the same time, in this struggle, the highest sacrifices of the killed and tortured Ukrainian Heroes of the past and present were made.
Therefore, clearly, this long-term confrontation, this multidimensional war, is far from four, nor twelve, or even a hundred years old. Although we remember very well what events took place on 19 February 2014 and 24 February 2022, and how they influenced and continue to influence the course of this war and the lives of the Ukrainian people.
However, we must clearly realise that the existential war between Ukraine and its northern enemy, in various forms, has been going on for several centuries.
Moreover, this war is existential for both sides, on both sides of the two worlds. After all, just as the existence of Muscovy is impossible without its aggressive imperial policy, primarily towards Ukraine, so is the full-fledged, safe and successful development of the Ukrainian state, impossible, as long as a pseudo-state entity with a centre in Moscow exists. For Ukraine, the war is a struggle to preserve independence and national identity. For Russia, it is a matter of strategic influence and domestic political stability. That is why this confrontation takes on the dimension of a struggle for the right to its own historical and political existence. And only one can win in this struggle. There is no other! No negotiations, agreements, formulas and truces are worth either the efforts of politicians or the expectations of society, because the war on the border of two worlds continues only until victory. And, if we look at it through the prism of justice, Ukraine wins.
Therefore, when we talk about the formula for this victory, we must clearly and unambiguously convey to both our compatriots and the entire international community the understanding that the essence of victory lies in the complete division of the modern Muscovite empire, in the proclamation on its ruins of dozens of independent states of enslaved nations.
Undoubtedly, the war has a significant international geopolitical dimension. Support for Ukraine from the countries of Europe and North America has affected the balance of power and turned this war into one of the key factors of global security. And for the entire civilised world, in fact, the decolonisation and collapse of Muscovy is the best guarantee of its own security and stabilisation of the international balance of power.
Our enemies are waging an irreconcilable struggle against this awareness in the information field, because the existential nature of the war is also manifested there. The powerful Moscow propaganda machine is actively forming and spreading fake narratives about history, territories, and legitimacy. Our enemy does this in his classic cunning and lying style, manipulating facts and figures. For Ukraine, for which it is important, first and foremost, to protect statehood and establish its own subjectivity in international law and the consciousness of the world community, the need to deliver counterinformation that would increase the determination of our partners regarding the need not only to counteract Kremlin propaganda, but also to eliminate the Moscow state as such is no less urgent.
By the way, the key difference of this information confrontation is the vector of its direction: if we, restoring historical justice, heroism and continuity of the struggle of many generations, still try to look into the future, fighting for a better and peaceful life for our children and grandchildren, then the vector of our enemy’s information struggle is diametrically opposite, directed into the past. All that “Rurikovich, Romanov, pobedobesiya” and other historical rubbish, with which the Kremlin dwarf and his heralds feed not only the domestic consumer, but also the international community, do not give any answer to the basic question – why the cannon fodder of the empire is dying. Although the answer to it is written above, they are still fighting for their existence in the form in which this true evil empire has survived to this day: with a paranoid ruler, a Facebook hat, anti-moral scraps, a zombified population, and a powerful propaganda machine.
And, therefore, based on the balance of forces and prospects, they are doomed: with archaic forms of struggle, with outdated approaches to war. Ultimately, as every empire is doomed, it undergoes periods of formation, transformation, stagnation, and collapse.
It is extremely important for Ukraine and Ukrainians not only to get rid of the Moscow existential threat, but also to form a reliable buffer zone on the border of two worlds. This can be done not only thanks to military force or the presence of some peacekeeping contingents, but, first of all, by forming long-term good-neighbourly relations with independent Ichkeria, Circassia, Tatarstan, Kalmykia, Bashkortostan and other states that will arise on the ruins of the empire. And this process must be established today and now, at the final stage of a long-term existential war.
