We publish the translation of the article that appeared in the New York Post, a hyper-trumpian newspaper, written by Douglas Murray, A commentator whose everything can be said except that he is a communist. On the contrary: he is a conservative, yet on the management of war in Ukraine, just as we have repeatedly done in this soup, he gives a wand to President Trump, skiring 10 truths that cannot be denied. On the front page, the NYP published Vladimir Putin’s photography with the writer: “This is a dictator”, actually criticizing the accusations of The Donald in Volodymyr Zelensky.
This was a dizzying and disorienting week for international diplomacy. A week with wild implications for theUkrainethe future of America’s position in the world and the legacy of Trump president.
President Trump is absolutely right in wanting to end the bloodshed in Ukraine. The suffering was frightening and the brutal stall situation. But in the furious mix of Wild opinions This week from the White House down, there are at least 10 truths that every American voter must cling to.
In the haste of Trump to end the bloodshed, these are also the truths according to which any agreement will be judged and that they will define it when the history books are written.
Ignore them or not treat them with the gravity they deserve will have enormous consequences even for the decades to come:
Truth N. 1
Vladimir Putin started this war, despite what Trump president said days ago.
And this without counting the other wars he unleashed, such as that against the small nation of the Georgia In 2008.
Trump is absolutely right when he says the war “has never had to start”. I think it is true that it would not have started if he had been in the oval study. But it was Putin, not Zelensky, who started the war.
Truth N. 2
Russia is struggling for conquest. The Russian Federation invaded Ukraine in 2022. Whatever you think about the country or its leadership, Ukraine is a sovereign nation recognized internationally. Putin has invaded the hope of devouring the wholesale country. On the contrary, Ukraine has absolutely no territorial ambitions in Russia.
And remember the brutality of the actions of Russia. Among the countless depravations and war crimes committed by Putin’s army there was the kidnapping of about 20,000 Ukrainian children. Who wants to live in a world where forts can simply devour the weak and kidnap small children to thousands? Why have the United States not put their liberation at the top of the list of their negotiating requests?
Truth N. 4
Ukrainians are not Russian. Ukrainians and Russians are not “a people, a unique whole”, as Putin wrote in a 2021 essay. He is also simply lying when he says that “modern Ukraine is entirely the product of the Soviet era”.
Ukrainians and Russians are two separate ethnic groups. They speak different languages and have distinct stories.
Truth N. 5
Putin is a dictator. Putin has ruled Russia with the Kgb iron fist since he climbed power in 1999. He has ruthlessly repressed independent media, an end to free and right elections, crushed civil society and killed his political opponents. And not only within Russia, but all over the world. People who live within Russia and who express any opposition to the war are imprisoned.
Truth N. 6
Zelensky is not a dictator. From political outsider, Zelensky won the 2019 presidential elections, which were relatively free and right. It has a 57% approval index, not the 4% that Trump said.
Unlike Russia, Ukraine has a lively independent average system that asks the government’s account, despite the contrary statements of the creatures of the internet swamp and Russian bots.
Many Ukrainians freely criticize the conduct of the government in war. When Great Britain was fighting for her survival against the Nazis in the 1940s, she too did not hold elections.
The Russian ambassador in the United Kingdom spent yesterday to sing that “it is not sure” that Zelensky would have been re -elected if the elections were there today. But one thing is certain. Whether Zelensky is re -elected or not in Ukraine, Putin will always be re -elected in Russia. Because his elections are scams. Beauty contests. Putin has never won free and right elections in his life. Because he doesn’t keep them.
Truth N. 7
Russia is not the friend of the USA. It is a hostile state, equipped with nuclear weaponswhich has resentment for American power and for the world that the US has built. It has increasingly tight relationships with China, Iran and North Korea. In fact, all his main friends are countries that are the greatest enemies in America.
Truth N. 8
Ukraine is the United States friend. Ukraine wants to be part of the order led by the Americans. His people and government are deeply pro -American. From the beginning of the Russian invasion, Ukrainian men and women I saw fighting on the front line are fighting the Russian army to protect their loved ones and their country. They do it also knowing that if they fail, other countries will be the next.
Truth N. 9
Putin is not reliable. This is not just a de facto observation. It is also something on which 81% of American voters agree.
Putin has invaded several countries violating any international treaty. He interfered in several elections in his closer neighbors. He violated international agreements, including the Inf treaty with the USA.
He lied to American presidents and European leaders throughout his career. He lied to Trump since Trump returned to office. More recently, Putin promised that Ukrainian energy structures would not target.
Yet, this week he conducted a massive missile attack and with drones against multiple energy plants in Ukraine. It’s almost as if Putin’s word didn’t count much and didn’t care if you know it.
Truth N. 10
American aid to Ukraine are not wasted. Nobody would support that Ukraine is a country without corruption. But this does not mean that his people and sovereignty should not be protected.
Putin and his cronies have accumulated power and wealth throughout their career. And they will torture and kill anyone who unmasks this corruption. Remember his political opponent Alexey Navalny and the lawyer Sergei Magnitsky? It is easy to unmask corruption in Ukraine. But in Russia it is fatal.
In addition, according to the Defense Department, about $ 58 billion of $ 183 billion in Ukraine were spent in America. It is money that benefited from American workers and industries.
The war also degraded the army of one of the despotic regimes of the world and reduced their threat not only for Europe but also for America without a single US soldier being killed. He also sent a strong cleaning message to China, Iran And North Korea so that they do not try to do the same.
It can be criticized Zelensky. Complain. But we should not make us illusions about those who have set this fire and who is the real dictator or bad of this tragic story.
The president Trump has the opportunity to end this warto stop the killings. Perhaps also to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
But it will not be honored if peace will be an act of pacification, an act of bowing in the face of evil that denies obvious truths.
The judgment of the story will be even harder: decades of peace and prosperity in Europe and America thrown away in favor of a resurgent Russia that harasses the east. Without strong peace, it will not only be Ukraine to suffer. We are all of us.
This is the absolute truth.
Douglas Murray, the New York Post