Russia just issued an ultimatum to Ukraine, which is of course a mere formality; they expect the Americans – pardon, Ukrainians – to respond in their usually arrogant fashion, to which they will shrug and start the long-prepared winter offensive.

This seems to answer my question from the previous article: they will cease their present, highly effective “meat grinder” strategy and wipe out NATO and the local fascists from Ukraine, because they assess that this situation, where the entire NATO is accumulating forces that perform probing attacks so close to the Russian border is an unsustainable strategic vulnerability and they basically need to end this failed experiment with “Ukrainian statehood”, which started illegitimately and against the wishes of the majority of the people, and everything went downhill from there.

What am I talking about? Soviet Union referendum, 1991. Question: “Do you consider it necessary to preserve the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics, in which the rights and freedoms of a person of any nationality will be fully guaranteed?” Result: Ukraine 71.48% “Yes”. Regardless, independence of Ukraine was declared due to the fact that the west-Ukrainian (Galician) nationalists pushed for Ukrainian statehood. Ukraine since then fell into a vicious circle of corruption and Western influence feeding it, and eventually became a failed state directly controlled by America in the Maidan coup of 2014. This failed state outlawed all non-fascist political parties, implemented an open reign of terror, propagandized its population with lies, and continuously killed Russians in Ukraine for 8 years, and the fact that America calls this “democracy” is very revealing, regarding American definition of democracy.

Also, the very idea of “Ukrainian nationality” before 1918 would be completely unknown; there was no such thing, and this BTW is the answer to the Croats who for some reason identify with the Ukrainians; no, those two identities have nothing even remotely similar or common. Croats are an ancient people who were already known as such between 6th and 7th century. “Ukrainians” are a political artifact of the 20th century; this identity is historically unknown prior to the 1st world war. Basically, it’s a political invention of Lenin, later enforced by Hitler and the Banderists as an instrument of fighting Russia, and this worked because the western Ukraine is a mixture of so many different national identities and groups, that telling them they are their own special thing, which is defined by being opposite of Russian, apparently worked, because weak and insecure people are always easily convinced to hate. That’s another difference between Croatians and Ukrainians – it’s interesting how the Croats in the 1991 war never hit back at Serbia. The entire war was fought on our territory, and when we got the Serbs to fuck off, the war ended. It was never a “civil war”, it was never “you hit us, so we hit you”. It was Serbs trying to secede parts of Croatian territory, Croatians taking the territory back, and Serbs fucking off, and then there was peace. We didn’t hit Belgrade, or Niš, or Pančevo. The very idea would be seen as insane here in Croatia – why the fuck would we do that? We just don’t want them fucking with us, but other than that, we have no interest in hurting them or anything. There was a joke during the war of building the great wall of China at the border between Croatia and Serbia, and that basically summarises that “fuck off” sentiment; we don’t want them being able to invade us or try to convince us that we are some kind of Serbs, but other than that they are perfectly free to do their own thing, as far as we are concerned.

The “Ukrainian” defining quality of hatred for Russia and trying to be part of “the West” is an element of inherent instability that causes them to seek conflict and acts like some kind of a virus that tries to convert Russians into hate-Russians, which is why Ukraine would be more accurately and appropriately called “Haterussia”. Such a hate-based national identity would not be unheard of, but what makes this one particularly dangerous is that it is weaponised by America, which is systematically feeding the most malignant nationalist elements in all post-Soviet and former Warsaw-pact countries, feeding the sentiment that everything bad that ever happened to them was caused by the Russians, and in order to be free, progressive, democratic and “Western” one needs to hate Russia, which explains why “Haterussian” identity transcends Ukrainian borders.