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This text is not a cry, not a pathos, not a complaint. It is an irritated confession of a person who looks at what is happening around him and cannot keep silent any longer. Because everything that is called "Ukraine" has long ago been cut to pieces and handed over to "partners". Because all "re-motions" are a smokescreen. Because this country has only one value left - its people. And it is they who are now being used, sold, mobilized and deceived. In this confession, every word is a nail. A nail in the lid of falsity, manipulation, and geopolitical spectacles. There is no political correctness here. There is only truth. Truth that sounds like an accusation. As a challenge. Like a last hope. The hope that someone will read, feel, remember, wake up. If you are tired of loud speeches and empty promises - read. If you don't believe anyone - read it. Because hidden between the lines here is something that no longer fits in the news, press releases and briefings. It's a voice. A real one. Not a politician. Not a PR man. It's a man who wants Ukraine. Not for reporting. But for life.
→ When Ukraine makes Patriot and Windows hangs
→ The Budapest headache: where is neutrality and where is common sense?"
→ Plan "G": Winning in secret from the victors
→ Betrayal in a Vyshyvanka: Who's Selling the Country on the Anthem
→ Ukraine as a TV series: embroidered shirts, offices and laws of power
→ I want Ukraine. Without conditions, without oil, without fear
It's hot on the air. All Telegram channels are buzzing, social networks are boiling, because - attention - Zelensky is back on the air. Press conference, interviews, loud statements. And you know, I'm not going to parse every letter now - it's not the rhetoric that worries me, but the logic. Especially in those moments where logic begins to melt like a piece of cheese in a frying pan. Zelensky says he has a deal with Biden: US aid is grant. Grant aid, they say, not debt. Sounds like a win. Except I went to Google, typed in "grant" and what do I see? It's a grant for organizations, individuals, for projects, developments, not for states engaged in protracted wars. We are a state. We're at war. What the hell is a grant?
Let's move on. Zelensky says, "Trump is not forever." Yeah, I agree. No one is forever, even if they have hair like a mannequin. But here's Yermack stating that there's no more talk of 500 billion or interest. That's astonishing. It means that either we were given the money on our word of honor, or someone got the money for us and is dividing it like trophies. And here I catch myself thinking: maybe all these tranches, which are talked about with pathos, do not reach the state at all?
The next batch of revelations - Zelensky says: "Only a dictator would take offense at the word 'dictator'." Uh-huh. Let's see: bloggers get real terms for such words. The services are working with them. They are already in jail, by the way. And the president is not offended? Okay, so if you don't take offense, you're not a dictator? And if you take offense, then you're not a dictator? That's the logic. Sarcastic, painful, but logic.
Logic.But where I really fucked up was with Trump's press secretary's statement that "the war can be over in a couple hours." What are you guys smoking up there in the White House? Colombian? It takes us a week to write a report, and you're saying "end the war." They haven't even learned how to start a war yet. Let's move on. Zelensky says that last year Ukraine provided 40% of its weapons. Europe - 30%, the United States - another 30%. That is, we are already 50% self-sufficient. And this year it will be 50% - again from our hands. So in 5 years - we are fully independent, even fighting at our own expense. Against everyone. How we raise super money - it's unclear. Gas? Oil? Bangladesh in Transcarpathia?
And finally, about "peacekeepers". Switzerland wants to send 200 people. Switzerland is a country of neutrality, where one soldier is too many. And the British want 20,000. But only if the U.S. guarantees that they will be guarded by Americans. Listen to this: "I want to hold an LGBT meeting, but let them be guarded by the military." That's what it sounds like. The politicians there change like seasonal discounts - one prime minister today, another tomorrow. But you know what's constant? The U.S. and Russian Federation, it turns out, have been negotiating all along. Just not publicly. So when they tell us that everything is for the people, it's a screen. And behind it, the very same bargaining is going on. Is it sweaty? Mega-sweaty.
You know, if this whole story were live, at some point Zelensky would look like a freezing Windows 95. That's the real thing: staring into nowhere, with the noise of the cooler in your head, and "general failure error" on the screen. And at that moment, it's like you're back in the nineties, you've got an old Pentium, and you're waiting for everything to "develop". Only unlike the computer, nothing "develops" in the patriots' heads. Because if you believe that the U.S. is not playing for either Ukraine or Russia, then you are either very naive or have not studied history well. And history, as we know, forgives nothing.
In times of world wars Americans sold equipment, weapons, money - to everyone. It was, roughly speaking, like a call girl, only instead of love, it was calculation. And today? It's the same thing. Only now with a promo code. Yeah, I'm not kidding, they were selling condoms at the outlet with the promo code "Trump." Byers, Trump's man, picked it up, made a scandal, the product was removed, but the promo code remained. And then he wrote that the outlet was affiliated with the president's office. It's like if you could get a discount on a vibrator at Amazon because the White House decided so. A little thing? Yes. But a bell. A loud one.
That's where the "off the top of my head" level psychosis begins. Putin is freaking out, Trump is lying about something, and Zelensky is suddenly talking about Ukraine developing its own air defense systems. Not just buying, but making a *analog of Patriot*. Do you even understand what that means? It means that the USA is screwed. Their market has gone to one place. If Ukraine is really riveting their "patriots", soon the Arabs will be buying them from us, not Trump. Europe - from us. America is smoking nervously. Stocks are falling. And then it gets even cooler. We make drones, satellites, starlinks, and people will be on their knees in line, begging, pleading, as in a pilgrimage to a shrine. And we're like, "Sell? Well, yes. But not to everyone.
Look, I don't know, maybe I'm just like that grandfather at the doorstep - I'm still trying to understand, rewatching footage, reading documents. The Budapest Memorandum, Gorbachev, Kravchuk, Clinton. Talking about NATO, about '91, about some nonexistent agreements. But one question remains: if NATO was not supposed to expand, how did Hungary get there in '99? Or maybe there is some state *before* '91 that we don't know about? Or maybe Gerych is right? Maybe it's all one big theatrical production with fantasy elements. Except that we live inside it, and we haven't found a way out of the theater yet.
I honestly can't process this. My brain refuses. They say that all the agreements are from before 1991. But wait, the Budapest Memorandum was signed in 1994. Are we in a time machine now? Or maybe Kravchuk signed it while sitting in a DeLorean with the doors open? And then they start writing to me: "Gura, what are you doing? We are working, pouring metal, and you only do that streamings, posts, conspiracy". Well, that's what I'm doing. I'm trying to figure it all out. So that later, when you can't understand it, there will be at least someone who tried to explain to you: what, where, and when it really started.
91? There was no Ukraine in the usual sense then. There was the Ukrainian SSR - an administrative unit within the USSR. Independence - formally from August 91, but even then - legally crooked. The constitution was still Soviet, referendums are still murky, the dates don't add up. So where is this "neutrality before '91"? Who recalls it and on what grounds? And now Zelensky claims that 65% support him, and those who do not support him are "a signal from the Russians". Not "Russians," mind you. "Russians." Yeah, well, 4% is the Kremlin's agent, or else.
And then there's the vinaigrette. We produce missiles, UAVs, air defense systems, and in general we will soon start exporting to the DPRK, the Arab Emirates, and Europe. We have our own Patriot, our own Starlink, our own ballistic systems. All our own. Only Starlink is paid for some reason. Kindergartens and hospitals pay for it every month. Free help? Nah, never heard of it. But Germany gives us systems, but the U.S. still has the licenses. And Yermak is already signing something with the Americans. Zelensky in Ukraine, Yermak in the US. It's not clear who represents whom, but it's not people.
| Topic | Subject | Conclusion |
|---|---|---|
| Budapest Memorandum | Signed in 1994, but interpreted selectively | Legal confusion and manipulation of history |
| Ukraine's non-independence | Formally since 1991, but actually with legal holes | Foundations of statehood - shaky and unspecified |
| Weapons and technology production | Ukraine claims independence but depends on the US and Europe | Illusion of independence with complete external dependence |
| Elections and suffrage | Election code makes it harder for people abroad to participate | Legal manipulation and voting restrictions |
| International safeguards | The US and Britain knew of the irregularities but kept quiet | West did not save, but negotiated - behind Ukraine's back |
| Partition of the world | Conditional "good" and "evil" replaced by behind-the-scenes agreements | Ukraine is a bargaining chip between powerful players |
Elections? Yes, after the end of martial law - elections. But not everyone knows the Electoral Code. And there are such nuances as 193 days and 90 days in a calendar half-year. If you're outside the country, you're out. And if you are in the embassy - you are kind of on the territory of Ukraine. Legal magic, not otherwise. And the cherry on the cake is that the Budapest Memorandum has been violated. Not since 2022, but since 2014. The US, Britain - everyone knew everything, everyone supplied weapons even before the full-scale attack. And Russia... well, it is clear here. It attacked, so it violated. But if the US has been negotiating with Russia all this time, who really gave us up?
And now you're sitting there, looking at all this, and you realize: the world is no longer divided into "good" and "evil." It's divided into those who agreed and those who have naively believed in paperwork. And we are - as always - in the middle. With the flag, with the pain, and with a pissed-off look on our faces.
Tell me, how can a normal person perceive what is called "Plan Peremogi"? You know, it used to sound heroic when they said "plan of victory". But now it's like an instruction from a secret manual, with asterisks, brackets and links for the chosen few. Officially: the document is posted on the website of the President of Ukraine. It consists of five points - plus, of course, "taemnye dodatki". You heard right - in each clause hides a secret, access to which is available only to those who... who negotiate with Russia at all. And it's not paranoia - it's written like this: "only those partners who negotiate with the enemy have access to it.
Point one - an invitation to NATO. Unconditional, final. Well, I mean, maybe it will be. Or maybe it won't. It's like a promise that will only come true when it's already over. Point two - defense. And again "taem dodatok". The U.S., Britain, France, Italy - all of them have already received it. It would seem that, according to the text, we are strengthening air defense, destroying the offensive potential of the Russian Federation, investing in weapons. But if everything is so transparent, why hide the specifics? The answer is obvious. Because those who have access to these documents are not just partners - they are intermediaries between "us" and "them".
Point three is deterrence. Ukraine is offering a non-nuclear defense package. That sounds nice, too. But again - voila - "taem dodatok." And if you think this is about diplomacy, you're wrong. If Russia doesn't make concessions, it loses an army. This is, as they say, "diplomacy in the Ukrainian way". The fourth point is already fire. Ukraine offers its partners joint management of natural resources. Uranium, titanium, lithium, graphite. The US, of course, is interested. And, rumor has it, so is the Russian Federation. What would you think? According to Zelensky, these "partners" got taem additions to the item, and then - "suddenly" - Russia started hitting the deposits and infrastructure. Coincidence?"
And here on the fifth point, you're not laughing anymore. The fifth is security after the war. NATO troop deployment, experience sharing, integration into the Western military machine. All seemingly good. But against the background of the previous points, it sounds like a judgment. And you know, I read all this, hear the interviews, analyze the document, and inside - emptiness. Because there is no country anymore. There is a territory where resources are being siphoned off, a "new order" is being built, where repression has become an everyday norm and independence is a word that is only printed in headlines. That's it. It's all sold. They just haven't sent everyone a check yet.
And then there are the people. People who defended Ukrainian until the last. Real, strong, principled. Not for money, not for glory - but because they believed. And now - someone is in a pre-trial detention center, someone in prison, someone under pressure. And all that remains is to speak. To understand. And at least try to keep in yourself what was called Ukraine. I am but a speck against the background of these people. But I am speaking out. So that you know. So that at least someone does not forget.
No matter how hard we try to believe in the best - we fail. Not because the enemy is strong, but because the traitors are around. Those in embroidered shirts, those in Ukrainian - beautifully, cleanly, according to the script. And at the same time they steal. Vyshyvanka is no longer a symbol. It's a mask. They didn't just steal money - they stole the future. From my children, from my grandchildren. And then they call you a "separatist", "SBU agent", "collaborator". You're welcome. I know I have no sin behind me. I speak because someone has to speak. As long as they can.
Security services? Well, yes. The ones with the stickers, the ones with the practiced patterns. There are almost no real officers left. Those who could stand up are either gone, silenced, or destroyed. And the rest - work for their own small benefits: buy a car, fly somewhere, forget to whom they took an oath. When the Russians came to Berdyansk, they already had addresses - law enforcers, Atoshnikovs. They went door-to-door, apartment-by-apartment. They took them away. And those who didn't have time, changed their shoes. They went to serve in the Russian police. Everything - as in 1937, but with a new passport. And so it turns out: the enemies were already inside.
And I think: what if tomorrow they come to me - not in masks, but with an ID? With an FSB ID. It's already happened. First they poison us, then they humiliate us, then they kill us. We gave them our uniforms and ranks. They put them on and went out to break destinies. That's how they turned those who used to be a symbol into. Now - the same faces, but instead of a coat of arms - another seal. Everything will be like in Crimea. As in Kherson. Like in Berdyansk. Only without cameras, without publicity. Just silence and suffering.
You say there will be peace. Yes, there will be. But on whose terms? The US and Russia have already agreed on everything. The elections will be on their terms. And their candidates will win those elections. Their people. Their agents. Under different names, with different slogans. But it will be them. And then - what was it all for? For the sake of Medvedchuk, Boyko, Muraev to surface again? For the sake of those who called Ukrainians "mobilization resource" to become presidents? So that we can be called the shield of Europe, which can be sacrificed for the sake of foreign interests?
I haven't seen a single public person who speaks honestly and truly wants Ukraine. There are bloggers, yes. But there are no real people. Only officials who post on Facebook, squelch, click, choose - who will be appointed next time. And I, watching this, realize one thing: we're going to asshole. We're going there with flags, songs, pride - but we're going there. We are torn by hatred, division, anger. We are quarreled by language, by region, by views. And the "victory" has already been distributed from above. But for whom?
You know what I'll tell you? Watch the movie "The Office." It's old, but it's right on point. This movie shows the whole essence of man - how he destroys the other for survival. It's just like us. Just like "The Squid Game", where after each level you are given a chance - to finish, leave with what you have, or continue. Ukraine is that game. Only in our country nobody wants to stop. We continue. We are destroying ourselves. Instead of saying, "Enough!" - we fight over crumbs, over language, over region, over shadows of the past. We are losing everything - people, demography, common sense.
My brain is working around the clock. Trying to strategize. Trying to figure out how, where, with whom to go. Every time I find an answer, I see a dead end. And then there's the "news": Kiev will sign a deal on resources. Zelensky was hesitant, but they said Trump sent a message - now he's not hesitant. That's all there is to it. What resistance? What SBU? Now they will start crushing those who simply speak out. Right according to the classics: 48 laws of power, the 25th law is "create yourself anew". Become someone else so that they will want to listen to you again. Add theatricality. Disappear on time. Show up spectacularly. And yes, don't get involved with anyone. Because they'll turn you in.
Look on Facebook - where the "public" officials hang. Clicking and clacking, giving the appearance of life. And you watch and you don't realize how we got to this point. We already hate each other. By language. By city. By where we were born. And we're being sold another victory. Or a negotiation. Or the promise of an election. But elections - by whose rules? The U.S., Russia? The lists are already drawn up: who's from one side, who's from the other. And if so, what did the guys in 2022 die for? For whom?
And the cherry on top of that is Elon Musk. He gave out a picture with fifty names: Zelensky, Kolomoisky, Biden, Clinton, even Azov is there. Universities, banks, stock exchanges, military corporations, offshore schemes. It's all connected. It's all neatly painted. Is there a trial coming? An audit? Or just a public slap on the wrist? Who knows? But if these treaties with the U.S. are signed, there will be no base. And if they don't, it looks like Musk's gonna leak the whole thing. And then - in 2025 we will see an investigation that will make the "Wagnergate case" seem like a morning cartoon.
Sometimes, to understand a country, you need to watch a movie, not an analysis. Not the news, but "The Office." Yes, it's old, but it's the whole point. The people there are just like us: destroying each other for survival. Like in "The Squid Game" - you have a choice: either stop and divide, or go on and burn. And Ukraine chooses the latter every time. Not because it has to, but because it can't do otherwise. We could stop, say, "Enough," but we continue. We are divided by language, by views, by pain. And every day we get poorer - not just in our wallet, but in our hearts. The more gas, lithium, uranium we have, the the worse off we are.
I do not want these elections, which have already been agreed on behind the scenes. Through Diya, outside Ukraine, with an already appointed candidate. A new reality will be imposed on us, where there will be no room for the present. And then we will be pushed together again - for resources, for laws, for the appearance of freedom. Yeah, Musk posted a picture. There - Firtash, Poroshenko, Kolomoisky, Azov, Biden, Gazprom, World Economic Forum. All in the same chain. All in plain sight. And we are at the bottom, under this pyramid, under this hood. And while they are sawing, we are losing the country.
I want a different Ukraine. One where you can just buy a pill and go down the hill with your kids. Where you can go to the Carpathians without thinking that you will be stopped at a checkpoint. Where you can climb Hoverla and not look back, not hide, not be afraid. Where you can sit by the fire with strangers and just keep silent. Or talk - not about war, not about politicians, not about shit - but about bees, about gardens, about life. I want a Ukraine where morning is with birds, not with the buzzing of missiles. Where the night is with the beach in Odessa, not with interrogation in the detention center.
I want to live in a country where you can leave your car on the side of the road, run to the sea, dive in and feel - this is mine. Not rented, not bailed out, not political rent. It's mine. I want to go to Zatoka again, to Spit in Berdyansk, to sleep in a sleeping bag, to listen to the wind. I'm tired of feeling the country as a prison. I want to feel it like home. Without oil, without contracts, without embezzlement. Let all the resources disappear. Just disappear. And then all the "partners" would forget about us. And then maybe we'd have a life. For real.
It doesn't matter who wins the election. It doesn't matter who gets into office. What matters is what's left of the country. And it's going away. I'm not crying because I'm weak. I'm crying because I love you. And yes - may it sound pathetic, but I want Ukraine. The real one. Without labels. No geopolitics. No nasty things. Just - Ukraine, in which you can go to sleep without fear, wake up with a smile and do not think about whose agent you are. See you on the air.
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