Opinion: Ukraine has accepted the myth that it’s best to die fighting. Honour and dying for one’s country sound magnanimous — but they are only psychological constructs with manipulative power.
United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres, hit the nail on the head back in April, as he toured some of the carnage in Kyiv, when he declared that war in the 21st century is an absurdity and unacceptable.
Putin had clearly asserted he would be attacking Ukraine if it continued in its intention to join NATO. Yet, they played the pushback card and encouraged Ukraine to risk all, pledging unending weaponry and financing, and constantly feting President Zelenskyy with accolades. This in spite of fairly certain understanding that Russia will not lose, that in the slim chance it could lose it would employ nuclear force precisely because Putin has so cashed in fully on the onslaught.
Honour and dying for one’s country sound magnanimous, but they are only psychological constructs with extreme manipulative power. They are not actually real; they are made up and only have validity when concrete results can validate them. Death is real. Widespread suffering is real. Material destruction is real.
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