By Reni M. Valenzuela
Russia’s Vladimir Putin wanting all of Ukraine is equal to wanting more killings and deaths. Is that human? Or is Putin a human being?
Combining military and civilian casualties from both sides, the total number of deaths is estimated to be over 1.2 million as of this writing. If you can’t have mercy for the Ukrainians, have it for your own people, Mr. Putin.
The figure underscores the vexatious, maddening madness of the war (your war), markedly in terms of human cost devastation, even as the number of deaths and injured continues to rise by the passage of days, weeks, months and years.
Those who died were humans, lest you forget. They are not to be counted as mere war statistics. Only the devil, the heartless and soulless (and your advisers) do that. The casualties, even soldiers have their respective families, children, spouses and loved ones to care for, yet these loved ones ended up grieving and deprived — for the rest of their lives.
Oh, the stigma, destructiveness and inhumanity of war.
No country ever won a war who started the war and continued warring — choosing war over peace or dashing the restoration / prospect of peace by giving peace a chance through peaceful negotiations if only to put a halt to the senseless killings, and give way to stability and sanity, and revival and progress, shared progress.
Central Powers of Austria-Hungary, Germany and others started World War I, but in the end lost the war to Allied Powers led by France, Britain, the United States and other nations. The war ended with these rescuing, defending superpowers emerging victorious, rendering the Central Powers powerless and suffering a humiliating defeat.
World War II was more complex and more catastrophic. It was ignited by Germany’s invasion of Poland on Sept. 1, 1939, led by the Nazis under the totalitarian rule of dictator Adolf Hitler.
But the war silently began even before the invasion, through the Soviet Union’s craving to invade the same country, which the Soviets did on Sept. 17, 1939 under orders of another dictator, Joseph Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1953.
Such invasion of Poland by the Soviet Union aggravated the conflict and virtually served as the main catalyst for World War II. In response, Britain and France quickly acted / initiated (to be later joined by the US) a move to declare war on aggressor countries that same month, officially marking the start of a widespread, global fighting and conflagration.
The Soviet Union, which was supposed to be a part of the Axis Powers, craftily entered into a pact with Germany prior to it all which included, alas, a secret protocol dividing Eastern Europe. The USSR eventually occupied as well the Baltic States and parts of Romania.
To cut the story short, we know who lost — the Axis Powers, which included Japan with its Hiroshima, suffering an apocalyptic beating of the worst kind. And we know too who won the war as history bears record — the heroic, noble Allied Forces (less Russia) that came in for the defense of the weak and for the reign of justice and goodness.
The Russia-Ukraine war shows the world yet again the biggest and most tragic mistake mortals can possibly commit if only for mortals to learn a lesson through psychotic, neurotic, lunatic acts —the act of invading fellow independent nations (or territories not their own).
US President Donald Trump can’t be more forthright and right in describing the Russian president as “absolutely crazy” when the latter personally opted out of the peace talk in Istanbul, Turkey, which the former and other concerned world leaders arranged between him and the Ukrainian president.
War is animalistic, a godless means whatever its objective may be, beyond just being an ungodly feat and exploit. Barbarous.
Hey, Mr. Putin, the question you should be concerned about at this juncture is not how much the war (your war) has cost you and your nation so far -- but more importantly the question: How much more will the war (your war) cost you and your people (and the world) if you would opt to still continue with the “war game,” much less now that the ball is in your hands?
War, once started, can only be expected to worsen from being a seemingly ‘harmless,’ restricted armed conflict to being a crime of genocide, a catastrophe of massive, horrific proportion against populations of innocent people and economies/properties of nations.
War is never progressive, but all the time retrogressive, satanic. Wake up. You have started the Ukraine war. Didn’t you? And, alas, it appears you have no intention to end the war until perhaps countless millions more lives are lost in “your war.”
I have just watched a few documentary films about Adolf Hitler and World War II. You’d better learn from devil Hitler, Mr. Russian leader. Watch your steps because you might already be following Hitler’s footsteps.
You are a dictator too no question and perhaps you even have exactly the same height and physique as the German dictator who committed suicide at the end of World War II. However, you need not suffer the same fate as Hitler suffered.
You just need to wake up.
I beg you, sir: Don’t drag (wittingly or unwittingly) more / other countries into this insane “game” of yours -- I mean those extending support to and siding with Ukraine (in principle and supplies), namely the US, Germany, Britain, United Kingdom, France, Poland, Canada, Japan, Australia, Czech Republic, the Baltic States and the rest of the world -- soon to become “World War III” Allied Forces.
Be forewarned. Wake up.
It’s great that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, agreed/consented to a ceasefire and table talks with you, to finally put an end to the hell you created and started in that part of the world -- a “hell” that may soon spread to burn all of human race should you persist and insist on remaining “absolutely crazy.”
Wake up indeed, Mr. Putin!
The most powerful nation and other superpower nations of the world (militarily) are highly concerned and troubled to help resolve “your issues” (or non-issue, actually) with Ukraine in order to end the war (your war) -- ASAP.
But not on your terms, your covetous, carnivorous, hard-nosed terms; certainly (for them) not at the expense of world justice, world righteousness, world peace and order.
There is a God who rules the world. And that God is not you. You’d better read the writing on the wall and hear the sound of the trumpet, loud and clear.