Signs of a new World War and Ukraine’s place in it—opinion

Opinion

18 July 2025, 01:18 AM

Dmytro Tuzov

Political commentator, host on Radio NV

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin asked U.S. President Donald Trump for 60 days to finish off Ukraine from the air and bite off as much territory as possible. Trump thought about it and, in principle, agreed—he gave Putin 50 days for the job.

He only promised Ukraine some Patriot air defense systems. As for the 50 days of destruction and looting of Ukraine—that clearly contradicts U.S. interests. And no, I’m not talking about international law, democracy, and justice. All that has long been discarded. I’m talking about the direct interests of the United States, made manifest when Washington forced Ukraine to sign the so-called “minerals deal.” Putin and Russia are striving for resources that will make his military dictatorship—ruled by the same person for a quarter of a century now—even stronger in military terms.

What’s on Moscow’s mind?

Russia is trying to capture not only all of Ukraine’s key deposits of natural resources, including gas, lithium, and coal. Moscow has seized the largest nuclear power plant on the continent, Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), and is extracting manganese, iron ore, and titanium in the occupied Ukrainian territories. Russia is attempting to seize and incorporate into its militarized economy the most industrialized regions of Ukraine. This suggests that the Russian Federation, with support from China and its satellites—North Korea and Iran—is preparing for a major war with the West. By the way, North Korean soldiers are already fighting against Ukrainians. On the map of the “axis of evil,” Ukraine is seen as a “donor territory” meant to fuel the economies of Russia and its partners in reformatting the world—with raw materials, electricity, and food. The huge Russian, Chinese, and North Korean armies need to be well-fed so they can move quickly from one European city to another. These dictatorships also need people who will accept what Russians call the “new realities.” More precisely, they don’t need people at all. They need obedient cattle that can be dressed in uniform and driven to slaughter.

Tell me, can anyone calculate how many combat drones could Russia manufacture by connecting ZNPP’s six nuclear reactors to its grid? Enough to exhaust the air defenses of European countries, which have a limited number of air defense systems and missiles. And how many missiles and tanks will Russia produce if it captures all of Ukraine’s power stations? Is anyone in the West considering this?

Tell me, who needs lithium for battery production? I imagine Moscow will share this valuable element with its Chinese patron. Who, through Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, have already told European partners that China “will never accept” a Russian defeat in the war that Russia itself started. Of course, the Russians will not share this bounty for free: it will be done in exchange for munitions that will reduce another European city to dust. By the way, China’s presence on Ukrainian territories occupied by the Russian Federation is well-documented. What do you think they’re doing there? Studying the basics of modern combined arms warfare and helping to extract natural resources. In occupied Crimea, China plans to build logistical infrastructure projects. China loves logistics: the “One Belt One Road” initiative, infrastructure, transport hubs, ports. Beijing needs a corridor connecting it to pro-Russian countries in Europe, through Georgia to Hungary or Slovakia. Xi Jinping will reach an agreement with the regimes of Viktor Orbán and Robert Fico, just like it did with Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus. But according to Ukraine’s “mineral agreement” with the United States, there’s no place in Ukraine’s postwar reconstruction for countries that sided with Russia, meaning that China gets nothing. It’s likely that Beijing interested not only in ensuring that Russia doesn’t lose, but that Moscow occupies all of Ukraine. And that a puppet administration under Russian control, like the one in the terrorist enclaves “L/DNR,” opens the road west for the Chinese. By the way, Russia’s fascist TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov has already foamed at the mouth on his show, proposing to give the Ukrainian city of Lviv to the Chinese. He said, “It would make a fine Chinese city, Lviv.” Do you think freaks like Solovyov would utter a word on air without Kremlin approval? And the longer Ukrainians and Poles dig into their historical traumas and argue about who killed whom over the centuries, the more likely it becomes that Russians will offer Warsaw to China as well. I “congratulate” our Polish friends on the opening of a special exhibition in Brussels (according to Inforesist and Zaxid.net) in which Ukrainians are portrayed as enemies. Given the clear and present danger Russia represents, this feels like a stab in the back to those who are stopping another partition of Poland—something that has happened more than once in its history.

Western civilization and the specter of war

Now, what about the “collective West?” Is it preparing for a major war, the signs of which are obvious? The strong and those inclined to resist are indeed preparing. They’ve finally begun allocating funds and restarting their defense industries. The weak and those inclined to collaborate with the enemy are preparing to accept the invaders. As they’ve done many times, welcoming either Hitler’s troops or the Soviets, one after the other. Slovak PM Robert Fico is once again screeching about Russian gas and blocking EU sanctions against Moscow. If one day, God forbid, the Russo-Chinese world with North Koreans in the vanguard approaches tiny Slovakia, its government will snap like a twig, and they won’t even notice the moment it happens. Tell me—at that moment, when elected officials are rounded up by Russian and North Korean troops, will anyone in occupied Slovakia, care about Russian gas? Fico probably doesn’t imagine such a picture. Maybe he thinks the Russians will just alter the Slovak flag to look like Russia’s. Naive man—he should read about Alexander Dubček and the Prague Spring. The Russians didn’t kill Dubček. There was no need. But they occupied the country for decades.

 

Great Britain—Great Ukraine

Ukraine lies between the Russo-Asian alliance and the weaker part of Europe that has often surrendered to invaders. Only somewhere in the far west of the continent are there forces ready to fight. So, we have no choice. We must build a strong state—one that is feared by our enemies and their “fellow travelers” like Hungary’s Orbán, Slovakia’s Fico, and U.S. commentator Tucker Carlson. A state respected by our partners and the so-called “neutrals” who don’t care who kills whom—as long as gas prices don’t rise by a few cents.

We’ve already lived in a weak state, one that disarmed its own military. That’s enough. Life in a weak state is a waste of time. Sooner or later, you’ll be bombed, shelled, and killed in your own house. Because larger, more aggressive neighbors always seem to lack something: territory, people, power plants, airfields, fertile soil, ports, lithium mines, recognition of their “greatness.” And every aggressor will invent a theory about why you must be killed. In Russia, they created the theory of “Ukrainian Nazism,” easily implanted in the minds of the zombified population under Putin’s regime.

Therefore, if we want to survive, we must fulfill this prophecy: if in the far west of the continent there is Great Britain, ever ready to fight for its existence, then in the east, a Great Ukraine must rise. A Ukraine that enemies fear to touch, one that is respected not only by friends but also by the “unaligned” members of the global community.

You might ask: how do we turn a wounded, bleeding Ukraine, already having lost chunks of territory to Russian vampires and left behind by millions, into a strong and great country? I will explore that in the near future.

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