From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (1257th day)
Why does ruzzia keep waging wars?
Jacob Fraden, in his powerful article “Perpetual Russian Wars,” traces the disturbing truth: war isn’t just part of ruzzia’s history — it’s the very foundation of its existence. In a 1900 memorandum, ruzzian5 War Minister Kuropatkin admitted that over the course of 200 years, ruzzia spent 128 years at war — and only 5 of those were defensive. The rest? Pure aggression beyond its borders.
The Soviet Union inherited this mindset and expanded it, dragging half the world into its chaos. And post-Soviet ruzzia picked up the torch with relentless violence: Georgia, Chechnya, Syria, and now Ukraine.
Fraden’s thesis is chilling but clarifying: the goal of ruzzian war is war itself. Ruzzia doesn’t need Ukraine. It doesn’t even want victory. What it needs is the state of war — because war keeps the dictatorship in power. War justifies the repression, the censorship, the poverty. It provides an external enemy to distract from internal collapse.
Even if Ukraine were conquered (which won’t happen), it would not bring peace. Ruzzia would just move on to its next victim — Moldova, Georgia, the Baltics. The war machine must keep moving. It knows no other way.
That’s why Trump’s ultimatums are empty. That’s why diplomacy keeps failing. Because peace would destroy the very structure that holds ruzzia together and it would destroy putin. Fraden is right: the only way this madness ends is not through negotiation — but through defeat. Total, undeniable defeat. Only then is there hope that future generations of ruzzians may be cured of their imperial obsession.
Until then, Ukraine fights not just for survival, but to stop the cycle of perpetual war. And the world must choose: help us win — or wait your turn.
Voice of Ukraine 
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J.R.R.Tolkien to his son Christopher
April 30 1944
My dearest:
I have decided to send you another air letter, not an airgraph, in the hope that I may so cheer you up a little more. … I do miss you so, and I find all this mighty hard to bear on my own account and on yours. The utter stupid waste of war, not only material but moral and spiritual, is so staggering to those who have to endure it. And always was (despite the poets), and always will be (despite the propagandists) – not of course that it has not is and will be necessary to face it in an evil world. But so short is human memory and so evanescent are its generations that in only about 30 years there will be few or no people with that direct experience which alone goes really to the heart. The burnt hand teaches most about fire.
I sometimes feel appalled at the thought of the sum total of human misery all over the world at the present moment: the millions parted, fretting, wasting in unprofitable days – quite apart from torture, pain, death, bereavement, injustice. If anguish were visible, almost the whole of this benighted planet would be enveloped in a dense dark vapour, shrouded from the amazed vision of the heavens! And the products of it all will be mainly evil – historically considered. But the historical version is, of course, not the only one. All things and deeds have a value in themselves, apart from their ‘causes’ and ‘effects’. No man can estimate what is really happening at the present sub specie aeternitatis. All we do know, and that to a large extent by direct experience, is that evil labours with vast power and perpetual success – in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in. So it is in general, and so it is in our own lives. … But there is still some hope that things may be better for us, even on the temporal plane, in the mercy of God. And though we need all our natural human courage and guts (the vast sum of human courage and endurance is stupendous, isn’t it?) and all our religious faith to face the evil that may befall us (as it befalls others, if God wills) still we may pray and hope. I do.
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Matt. 28:20 “Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the world.”
Jesus promised Christians
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