GOA, India – The Western narrative insists that Russia launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. This story, repeated endlessly by the Atlantic establishment, conveniently deletes the political timeline that made war inevitable.<\/p>\n
NATO\u2019s eastward march for 30 years\u2014right up to Russia\u2019s border\u2014created a security nightmare no major power would tolerate. The United States certainly would not. Russia responded not out of imperial hunger but from accumulated strategic anxiety the West arrogantly dismissed.<\/p>\n
Europe miscalculated spectacularly. EU leaders believed they could break Russia economically with sanctions, collapse its financial core, and claim a geopolitical triumph. Instead, Russia adapted, diversified, and exposed Europe\u2019s fragility\u2014an energy crisis, political fragmentation, and the unsettling truth that Brussels cannot think independently of Washington.<\/p>\n
These are the same ex-colonial powers still addicted to telling the world how to behave, yet incapable of introspection.<\/p>\n
And at the center of this tragedy stands Volodymyr Zelensky, the entertainer-turned-wartime figurehead manufactured by Western PR machinery. His domestic mandate long expired, corruption scandals deepen by the week, and Ukraine\u2019s political institutions have buckled. Yet the EU shields him because admitting their miscalculation would be politically suicidal. Zionistically invested in his myth, Europe and Zelensky now operate hand in glove, each sustaining the other while Ukraine collapses beneath them.<\/p>\n
Modi\u2019s seven-hour whirlwind visit to Ukraine only added to the theater\u2014a token performance meant for Western approval, not Ukrainian relief. It brought no strategy, no shift, and no diplomacy. Just optics.<\/p>\n
Even Donald Trump\u2019s crude claim that he could end the war in 24 hours\u2014mocked as unserious\u2014inadvertently revealed a truth: the war could have been ended early through genuine diplomacy. But NATO whispered fantasies of membership into Kyiv\u2019s ear, Washington offered weapons in place of solutions, and the EU fed illusions of victory.<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s foreign policy establishment mistook moral lectures for strategy, prolonging a conflict Ukraine was never equipped to win.<\/p>\n
Today, Ukraine is cornered. It has lost roughly 20 percent of its territory and entire industrial zones and faces trillions in economic destruction. Millions have fled. Tens of thousands lie dead. Ukraine is broken\u2014not only by Russian firepower, but also by EU ego, American confusion, and a NATO machine that keeps manufacturing wars it later pretends to mourn.<\/p>\n
And this pattern is not new. NATO dismantled Yugoslavia, humiliating a historic civilization under the banner of humanitarian intervention. It devastated Afghanistan for two decades before walking away in disgrace. It shattered Libya\u2014once Africa\u2019s most prosperous nation\u2014leaving chaos and open-air slave markets. This is NATO\u2019s record: moralizing first, bombing next, and denying responsibility always.<\/p>\n
If the Warsaw Pact was dismantled in 1991, what moral or strategic justification allows NATO to live on in 2025? Its purpose is no longer defense\u2014it is projection. While the Warsaw Pact vanished, NATO metastasized, spreading bases, missile systems, military infrastructure, and ideological influence across regions it has no natural right to shape.<\/p>\n
NATO\u2019s expansion since 1995 destroyed the possibility of post-Cold War peace. Clinton wrecked the order; the 2008 Bucharest Summit lit the fuse by promising Ukraine and Georgia membership. Even Angela Merkel\u2014not known for geopolitical daring\u2014recognized the madness: Ukraine\u2019s entry into NATO would be existentially destabilizing. Her warning stands as one of the few honest moments in an era of Western recklessness.<\/p>\n
The West\u2019s sabotage of the Minsk agreements sealed Ukraine\u2019s fate. Minsk was treated not as a path to peace but as a stalling device to arm Kyiv. History will record this as one of the crudest acts of bad faith in European diplomacy.<\/p>\n
Today, Ukraine is the tragic victim of NATO\u2019s obsession with encircling Russia and the West\u2019s refusal to accept a multipolar world. The remedy is radical but obvious: no NATO for Ukraine\u2014and ultimately, no NATO at all.<\/p>\n
Guarantees outside NATO are the only sustainable way forward. What Europe needs is a new pan-European security pact, including Russia and Ukraine, rooted in arms control, force reductions, demilitarization, and mutual guarantees.<\/p>\n
The OSCE once hinted at such a mission; it must be revived and strengthened. Europe will never achieve autonomy until it emancipates itself from NATO\u2019s shadow. Peace will never be possible while a Cold War institution dictates 21st-century geopolitics.<\/p>\n
The world is no longer unipolar. Colonial contracts drafted in Washington and Brussels no longer hold legitimacy. BRICS, Russia, and the Global South insist on a world where the West is one voice among many\u2014not the imperial conductor of global affairs. Europe will either accept this or become strategically irrelevant.<\/p>\n
And yes, reparations must be part of the discussion. Europe pushed Ukraine into a war it could never win, fed illusions of NATO protection, financed fantasies of military victory, and prolonged a catastrophe borne solely by Ukrainians. Accountability demands that the EU help rebuild the country it helped sacrifice.<\/p>\n
A new world order must rise\u2014one not built on NATO\u2019s militarism or American exceptionalism but on human dignity, genuine sovereignty, and cooperation. Lennon\u2019s dream is no longer a song lyric. In a world drifting toward perpetual war, it is the only political imagination capable of saving us.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou may say I\u2019m a dreamer,
But I\u2019m not the only one.
I hope someday you\u2019ll join us.
And the world will live as one.\u201d\u00a0
– John Lennon –<\/p>\n
(Ranjan Solomon is a writer on peace, geopolitics, and the collapse of Western hegemony.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOA, India – The Western narrative insists that Russia launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. This story, repeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[32,2000,299,18041,332,7661,657,753,333,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-603768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-peace","12":"tag-russia","13":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-ukraine-war","16":"tag-vladimir-putin","17":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115639883386382401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}