Враховуючи хвилю цікавості від західної аудиторії, чому Україна не хоче здаватися, ми підготували просте пояснення, у текстовій та відео формі англійською мовою.
Ending the war—where thousands of soldiers are dying. Good goal? Worth trying? Of course! But why is it good?
Because soldiers won"t die? Are soldiers more important than other people? Or maybe… maybe people just shouldn"t die at all?
But what if one side in this war is protecting civilians? If the war simply stops while the aggressor keeps what he"s taken, he"ll have the power to kill as many as he wants. Soldiers won"t die, sure. But civilians will. Doctors, teachers, children. Everyone who can"t protect themselves.
Soldiers go to war to defend civilians. Sometimes, they die in their place. And sometimes, they fail. And then… we get Bucha. And hundreds more like it.
Let"s look at history. September 1st, 1939—Germany invades Poland. This war will later be called World War II. Thousands of soldiers die. But by October, Poland"s fight is over. The Germans want to stop, the Polish leaders don"t—but they have no choice. Germany and Russia take everything. The aggressors lose fewer than 20,000 men. Poland? Around 66,000.
But what happens next? In the following years, nearly six million Polish citizens are killed. Three million of them are Jews.
Why bring up Poland? Because everyone knows we"re really talking about Ukraine.
Let"s go further back. The Ukrainian War of Independence, 1917–1921. The army had about 100,000 soldiers at its peak. How many died? We don"t know. But we do know this: in the famines of 1921, 1932–33, and 1947, Ukraine lost between 4.3 and 5 million people. The worst of them, the Holodomor, wasn"t a natural disaster. It was planned. The Soviet government didn"t even count the dead. They wanted to erase the evidence.
So if Ukraine stops fighting now, soldiers won"t die. But how many civilians will? We may never know—just like we don"t know how many died in Mariupol or in the territories occupied since 2014.
But we do know this: Putin has said, over and over, that he doesn"t just want part of Ukraine. He wants control over all of it. Not just land. Not just cities. But political control—over every person, every institution, every decision.
And then what? The killings won"t stop. They will just become quieter. Hidden. Uncounted. Like before.
So why won"t Zelensky accept a "peaceful" solution?
Good question…
