After Munich: We No Longer Plead. We Act.

1. The West Has Chosen Fear Over Victory

The United States, France, Germany, and Britain made their choices long ago. They do not seek Russia’s defeat. They seek “balance.” They fear collapse in Moscow more than victory in Kyiv — a collapsed energy market, nuclear instability, migration.

They believe they can still negotiate with Moscow. And Ukraine stands in the way of their illusions.

If they truly wanted Ukraine to win — the Kremlin would already be on its knees. Instead, we hear: “dialogue,” “war fatigue,” “peace plan.”

And under Trump’s leadership, the U.S. is no longer a protector — but a profiteer. Trump wants to bring Europe to its knees. To make it buy American weapons, gas, and insurance. Ukraine gets in the way — because it refuses to surrender. Because we stand.

2. Pseudo-Allies and Sanctions That Mean Nothing

Ten years of sanctions — and no strategic result. No frozen war machine. No collapsed economy. No halted aggression.

Sanctions have become an alibi — not a strategy. We get standing ovations while we fight. But silence when we ask for missiles. Promises when we bury heroes.

As Ukrainian writer and soldier Maksym Kukhar put it:

“While we lose our best in combat, Western leaders play deaf and prepare for another phone call — not with us, but with Moscow.”

3. The Best Are at War. The Convenient Stay Behind.

The front line holds our best. Maksym Kukhar — writer and soldier. Yuriy Butusov — war reporter turned rifleman. Hundreds of artists, teachers, volunteers — will never return.

These are the people who could have rebuilt Ukraine. But they are dying. And those who never saw a trench, who stayed silent in 2014 — now govern, now speak for “unity.”

The war filters. It chooses heroes — but also conveniently removes critics. For the current government, the frontline has become a silent graveyard of opposition.

4. Our Shield Is Not in Paris — It’s in Warsaw, Bucharest, and Riga

We are done waiting for miracles from NATO. Our real shield is in Eastern Europe — where people still remember Soviet tanks, KGB prisons, deportations.

Poland remembers that it defeated Moscow together with Ukraine. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth held the line of civilization — just as we do now.

The Baltic nations know what “Russkiy mir” means. In Soviet times, people in Riga avoided speaking Russian. But when they heard our Ukrainian accent, they said:

“We’re prisoners too. Just in the next cell.”

We must build a new union — not of words, but action. Joint intelligence. Drone programs. Ammunition. Logistics. Readiness.

5. Memory of Enslaved Nations Is the Key to a New Coalition

Lithuanians remember the Siberian trains. Latvians — the families that vanished. Estonians — the quiet of repression. They didn’t read this in books. They lived it.

Hungary and Slovakia have forgotten 1956 and 1968. But memory can be awakened — not through guilt, but through example. Ukraine is that example.

6. Who Will Be Next — And Who Still Can Say “No”

France surrendered long before Kyiv ever did. In 1940, they welcomed Hitler’s officers and drank coffee in Paris cafés. Today — same scene, new dictator.

Germany doesn't want to be a Reich. But it doesn’t know how to be a force either. Oktoberfest comes before Bakhmut. Sausages before solidarity.

History knocks. But their windows are soundproof.

So we turn away from those who forgot. We call on those who still remember — and still stand.

7. And Putin? His Death Will Change Nothing.

Some whisper that Putin is already dead, lying in a freezer, while his body double “rules” under Patrushev’s eye.

The real purpose of this myth is clear: To shift blame away from the system and onto one corpse. So that oligarchs, generals, and functionaries can escape justice by saying: “It was all him.”

But the truth is simple:

Putin was not an accident. He was the product. Even if the body is cold — the system is warm. And alive.

Russia is not a hostage of its dictator. It is his accomplice. As Lenin once was inseparable from the “party and the people,” Putin is inseparable from the imperial mindset of modern Russia.

Until the empire collapses — until it shrinks to the size of the Moscow region — we will always hear the rattle of sabers from behind the fence.

Conclusion

Ukraine no longer begs. Ukraine acts.

We look not to Paris and Berlin — but to Warsaw, Vilnius, Bucharest, Riga.

Because if Ukraine falls — Eastern Europe will be next.
But if we stand — the whole architecture of Europe will change.

There will be no more Munichs.