From: Meanwhile in Ukraine 🇺🇦 We want to share with you a precise metaphor by Ukrainian journalist and analyst Vitaliy Portnikov:
“The war in Ukraine can be compared to a cancer in the world. If it had been treated quickly and with the proper medicine, the events of October 7 in Israel would not have happened.
But the treatment used was not surgery and chemotherapy, but observation, homeopathy and powders. And the thought that “it’ll dissolve on its own”.
Eventually, it has led to metastases and they’re growing. The result may be that the whole world ends up in a hospice – this is the metaphor.”
In July 2023, the first leader of independent Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis, said the same thing:
“Russia has become a cancer of Europe and the world. If it is cured, the world may survive, but if not, it may lead to the destruction of the world.”
The same thing, even earlier, in May 2022, said the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki:
” ‘Russkiy Mir’ (‘Russian world’) is a cancer which is consuming not only the majority of Russian society, but also poses a deadly threat to the whole of Europe. Therefore it is not enough to support Ukraine in its military struggle with Russia.
We hope that world leaders will realize that fact before it is too late.
Voice of Ukraine 