The question of compromise with the Russian State

A common position held by many a pacifist across the globe, for it is simple to just state the willingness to negotiate, however, for any sort of negotiation to take place, both parties must agree to it. In the case of the Russo-Ukrainian War, only one side is truly pushing for negotiation – the aggressor. The irony of this is at its highest, when the aggressor is bogged down, or pushed back, then, and only then, do the waterworks turn on.

These calls are a façade, so the aggressor has time to regroup and continue their advance into our lands. Should we take ideas of compromise from those, who on day two of the full-scale war, outlined the main goals of the war, more specifically – the final solution of the Ukrainian question, hauntingly parroting the National Socialist doctrine towards the Jews after 1942.

This word-for-word retelling of those talking points is no coincidence, for the Russian propaganda machine had found a new calling in the last 20 years, after ditching the Soviet model, one of revenge for the collapse of the USSR, which aligns itself well with the methods and words of Dr. Josef Goebbels, which were adopted on masse by the Russians in the new millennium.

The build-up towards this war was a haunting rehash of the Second World War, an inactive and appeasing West alongside a new wannabe Führer in Vladimir Putin, who was given free reign over Eastern Europe, as long as the oil flew into Europe, there was no need to do anything. Western pacifists played into the hand of this new type of Russian Tsar – totalitarian and heavily inspired by Hitlerian talking points.

For those wanting to compromise here, you are nothing more but “Little Russians”, that need to realize, that Ukraine gains nothing from compromising with those, who want to destroy us not only culturally, but physically as well. Screaming for peace will only benefit the Russian state, allowing them more time to rethink their strategies and replenish their capabilities to wage a terror war here. Is this what we really want? Ukraine is put into a position of victory or death, and these “compromises” are nothing but a prolonged state of post-mortem convulsions.

There is no other choice for Ukraine, but to fight for our very survival. Any sort of compromise with the closest equivalent to the Nazis since the actual NSDAP, will lead to no peace or resolution, thus this idea of current negotiations is laughable. The long history of conflict, oppression, and violence of Russians against Ukrainians has created deep wounds that make the ideas of co-existence, compromise, and brotherhood extremely difficult to envision at this time.

By O.E. Efremov