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It is June 12th. A new soldier recently joined my military unit. He's fairly young, just over 30, and originally from Donetsk. Let me remind you, that's a Ukrainian city Russia has occupied since 2014. Right after the occupation, this guy fled to the free part of Ukraine, but his father stayed behind in Donetsk.
took Russian citizenship and eventually moved somewhere into Russia. Now that father fervently supports the war against Ukraine. He even sends money to the occupying forces, donating part of his salary to units fighting the Ukrainian army. That means he is also funding the war against his own son.
Sometimes this father writes to his son about how much he hates Ukraine and how he regrets having a child who doesn't understand that it's better to be Russian. He says Ukraine has no right to exist and that he's willing to accept his own son's death
if that's what it takes to destroy Ukraine. This is pure schizophrenia to wish so obsessively for the destruction of the entire country that you'd be willing to sacrifice your own child for it. And there are millions of people like him.
Another kind of schizophrenia is believing that the war will end soon and everything will go back to how it was before. Russians will travel freely to Ukraine again, Ukrainians will forgive them and there will be genuine peace.
That's the delusion world my brother, for example, lives in. He recently wrote to our uncle in Kharkiv, a city bombed daily, saying that as soon as the war ends he'll come and help rebuild it and that our uncle should wait for him because he's coming soon.
What's interesting is that the Russian government supports both of these schizophrenic delusions, even though they directly contradict each other. Putin regularly spouts nonsense about how Russians are destined to be friends with what he calls the Ukrainian part of the Russian people, while one of his goons, someone like Medvedev,
Medvedev will immediately follow up with claims that Ukrainians will be completely wiped out and forgotten by history. Schizophrenia in its many forms has become the norm in Russia. They are consumed by madness, the entire society. Putin has turned his country into a massive asylum for the deranged.
These madmen are allowed to do anything. To kill and rape Ukrainians, to loot and burn down entire cities, to believe that it will all soon end and true peace will return like in the distant past.
The only thing they are not allowed to do is question the war, to question whether the killing and raping is really necessary. Tragically, the Western world still tries to engage with these extremely dangerous lunatics as if they were ordinary people who just have
a political disagreement with Ukrainians, but they have a disagreement not with us, but with reality itself. And we are proud of it while your politicians keep dancing before the chief murderer and looter, before the chief 21st century schizoid man.