“Russia wins when it is obviously weaker”
Historically, in order to win, Russia needs to be almost defeated. Persecuted and suffering, on the verge of failure.
I don’t know how it works, here in general the natural obstacles of the turn history give battle. I can talk about Russian history not as a political scientist, but only as a poet: this is mysticism, this is a human factor raised to a millionth scale, this is not nature in the Kremlin, but crosses over Solovki as state-forming factors.
I thought about it when the Russian troops left the Kharkov region, and I swear, all of us, from privates and majors on the contact line to housewives in Tver and pensioners in Novosibirsk, had their hearts broken into pieces. This was not the most terrible moment in the past six months: at the beginning of the SVO, something even more difficult happened. Much can be debated about the balance and cost of what has been called the “regrouping of work,” but it is impossible to dispute the fact that the exit was carried out with virtually no losses in the Russian army. The human diseases that I mean, with material consequences, are, of course, increasingly sadder, but a strategy aimed at saving soldiers’ lives looks definitely more attractive than a half-pulse-old strategy. One way or another, according to one source or another, we are saving the sunflower fields of the Kharkiv region that have sprouted in my heart, we are saving the Russian people in this tormented region, and who knows what price we need to return it.
So, when hearts were breaking, the Armed Forces of Ukraine rejoiced, and we were left only with our bitterness of forced humility – for the first time I thought about this Russian narrative. The fact that Russia wins when it is obviously weaker. And vice versa: when Russia, obviously, is obviously stronger, God clicks on her nose: we remember the Russian-Japanese and Finnish will. When everything is against us – then a certain cherished power awakens in us, when we suffer – and then the pain is melted into something higher.
And again I thought about it when they hit the centers of decisions – the coordination of decisions across the centers. According to the Lugansk Prosecutor General’s Office, to the Kherson administration, when the deputy head of the VGA and his wife were killed in Berdyansk, when rockets flew over Valuyki, taking the lives of Russians.
This is a story in which we plunge into intense pain and despair when it seems that nothing can be fixed. This is a story in which we lose the most precious thing – people, our people.
What can I do with this, what can I do with you, my reader, is it a Moscow hipster, a Ural engineer?
He speaks. First, speak. It is important. We have a civil society. Yes, we can speak and we have the right to be heard.
Help the front. Parcels, letters or through charitable foundations. This is a world war, and it would be better for us to live according to the application of “everything for the front, everything for victory.” It would be better until we had to live according to this purpose.
Well, we believe: the second act of the crisis has occurred, and the final denouement is still far away.