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Russia: Once Unthinkable, Capitulation Is Now a Possibility

 

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Leonid Gozman's article in The Moscow Times states – "The war started by Vladimir Putin has no goals that can be achieved. It's not about trying to prevent Ukraine from joining NATO — that can’t be resolved through warfare. It’s not about ensuring that people can speak Russian in the Donbas — they could do that anyway. It’s certainly not about destroying U.S. labs manufacturing infertility viruses targeting Russian women: those simply do not exist.

This war is solely about destroying Ukraine: as a state, as a culture, as a nation. Putin does not like Ukraine: it's as simple as that. He has also never tried to hide his goals: Putin has said repeatedly that Russians and Ukrainians are one, speaking the same language, and that Ukraine is the invention of Lenin.

We have grounds to believe that destroying Ukraine is just an intermediate goal to be followed by another war to subjugate the entirety of Western civilization to Putin. Though I doubt he plans to incorporate France or Spain into Russia, Putin is serious about restoring the former Warsaw Pact states to Russia's "sphere of influence" and perhaps taking Finland "back."

As Ukraine can never agree to Russia's demand that it cease to exist as a state, the war cannot be ended by signing a peace treaty.

This war can only be followed by peace if it ends with the complete military and political defeat of Putin’s Russia and the dismantling of the current regime. Putin’s state must cease to exist: not Russia, but the current state, hostile to the entire world, itself included. Any other outcome would only result in a temporary ceasefire, as once Putin’s regime will simply go on another attack as soon as it's replenished its strength."

Read the rest of this article for yourself. Yevgeny Prigozhin, sponsor of the paramilitary Wagner Group, has stated his goal is to retake the former central-european Soviet empire, then Germany, France, the rest of Europe, and eventually the whole world. Newsweek's article "Could 'Putin's Chef' Yevgeny Prigozhin Be Russian Leader's Biggest Threat?" reports that Prigozhin's officials have asked his fighters returning from recent assignments "if they would agree on engaging in military activities on the territory of Russia proper, including 'urban warfare battles with automatic weaponry and mortars on the streets of Moscow.'" Things are not looking good for Putin!

Russia has offered various reasons to justify its invasion of Ukraine: NATO's eastward expansion, Ukraine's westward orientation and its request to join NATO, rampant pro-homosexual and -transexual movements encroaching upon Russia, etc. These usually call for an immediate ceasefire and Ukraine ceding territiory to Russia: see "Getting the Suffering in Ukraine Stopped" – a leftist Evangelical viewpoint. The basic issue isn't NATO or homosexuality: the countries that have joined NATO have done so voluntarily in order to protect themselves from an aggressive Russia. And Russia – a "self-proclaimed paragon of virtue" – has its own homosexual community, as we know from living in Russia for 17 years.

BTW, a good article on a Christian approach to homosexuality is "Seven Questions to Open People’s Ears to the Truth About Christianity and Homosexuality (A Practical Ministry Explainer)." This contemporary contentious issue should be seen in in the perspective of Matthew 10:14-15 – "Whoever doesn't receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake off the dust from your feet. Most assuredly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah on Judgment Day than for that city." There are plenty of other sins as equally sinful as sodomy (homosexuality): greed, lust for power, fornication, gluttony, blasphemy, etc., but the greatest sin, as verse 14 states, is rejecting the Good News of salvation in Jesus Christ.

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