“Doing everything to stop the war immediately and sitting down at the negotiating table!”

by Maxim Goldarb*

(21 March 2023) Like many other Ukrainians, I woke up on 24 February 2022 and the days after to the sound of explosions in Kiev. Before that, I had done my best to suppress the thought of the possibility of war with all its advantages and disadvantages for those involved. But what happened, happened.

The last 12 months have fully exposed the aspirations, desires, reasons, roles, tasks and motives of all parties involved. Thousands and thousands of Ukrainians, especially from the common people, are being led to the slaughterhouse for US geopolitical and power considerations.

1 The United States of America are confronting Russia, and partly China, with the help of a Ukraine ablaze, pushing Europe into the role of a subservient satellite, and trying to regain the position of the world hegemon.

2 Europe has been drawn (for now) into the conflict up to its neck and will end up being one of the main victims. Part of its elite is aware of this and is trying to fight off US’ desire to sacrifice its ally (nothing personal, just business).

3 Russia stands against the West and seeks to create another pole of world influence by adding China to its ranks of direct allies as well as gathering countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America that are weary of Western hegemony and dictatorship.

4 China is cleverly waiting, carefully studying the situation and the actions of others, not forgetting to stock up as much as possible of Russian resources, which have become cheaper due to all these events. It is slowly joining the game and is definitely not on the side of the United States – but China’s available options are diminishing over time.

5 I’m not going to talk about Poland, the Baltic States, and other obvious U.S. satellites – they’re going to do what they’re told. Although they also have their own unique, historical views on Ukrainian resources.

6 Ukraine ... no longer exists in the eyes and minds of all those involved, no matter what Western representative officially declares: “We will join the efforts, we will give, we will invest, we will help you to the end, we are with you, you are with us”, and so on.

It became immediately clear after the U.S. thwarted the Spring 2022 peace talks and poured an incredible amount of gasoline onto the fire. If anyone believes that they have to use gasoline to put out a burning house, he is simply an idiot. Or a liar. Our country needs to solve all the above issues. Ukraine was chosen as a victim long before 2022: the official beginning of the victim role is the “victory” of the US protégé Iouchtchenko in the presidential elections of 2004–2005.

What should the country’s leadership do, the one claiming, to do everything to protect the beloved Ukraine and its people? Do everything to stop the war immediately and sit down at the negotiating table! All these hysterical calls, proclamations of an imminent victory and the re-conquest of all territories merely serve, in today’s reality, to compel their own people to continue fighting. To the last Ukrainian …

I believe in the foreign casualty figures for Ukraine: Von der Leyen speaks of 200,000, the U.S. media of 350,000. That was a few months before the New Year. And there will be more if things continue. This is demonstrated by the unfulfilled, uncompleted points 1 to 5 of this article.

I realise that current pay rolled propagandists, experts, and “opinion leaders” will turn on me and ostrasise me again: “This is unpatriotic, this is against the president’s policy”, and so on.

However, for me, patriotism represents for me the desire and actions aimed at preserving and developing his country and his people. And not at all a blind or (even worse) a conscious, remunerated desire to lead the country and the people, especially the ordinary people, the working class, to the slaughterhouse.

* Maxim Goldarb is the current chairman of the “Union of Left Forces” and was the chief auditor and financial controller of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense before the Maidan coup. The “Union of Left Forces” is a Ukrainian opposition party founded in 2007 that is oriented toward democratic socialism and aims, among other things, at stopping the rampant privatisation of strategic state enterprises and the sale of agricultural land to large foreign corporations, as well as making Ukraine geopolitically neutral. It also advocated the use of Russian as a second official language and the strengthening of rural areas. These goals were enough for the party, along with other left-wing parties, to be banned on 17 June 2022, and for all its assets to be expropriated. Its members have been working from underground or exile since that date. Some of its leaders have been kidnapped in the last few months and, like the party’s founder Vasily Volga, have disappeared without a trace.

Source: https://www.nachdenkseiten.de/?p=94418, 28 February 2023

(Translation “Swiss Standpoint”)