(ANSA) – ROME, AUGUST 24 – “The Russian empire will bleed from a thousand cuts, will get sick and rot from the inside, until parts of its body begin to fall off”: this is what the advisor to the Ukrainian president, Mykhailo Podolyak, wrote on Telegram on the day of the 33rd anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. “Not every generation has the opportunity to witness the death of an empire. The very empire that loves to sell death and violence… We were truly lucky to become not witnesses but direct participants for the second time. After the Soviet empire, it is time to lay its heir in the coffin – the Russian one. Because this is a mandatory and irreversible historical development,” the message reads. “Despite all the strange analytical reflections on the stability and resources of Russia, which seem to allow it to survive the long aggressive war it has started, this is not the case. This is not the case at all. And in any case, there will be no more Russia in its current form… By the way, we have learned several lessons from the 1980s.” “The first is that the collapse of an empire happens unexpectedly for outside observers deceived by the soothing and even defiant tones of state propaganda,” Podolyak continues. “Secondly, there will not be a single event that will put an end to the empire. It will bleed from a thousand cuts, get sick and rot from the inside, until parts of its body begin to fall off. There will not be a single event, but there is a factor. It is called Ukraine. A pearl coveted by empires, it is also a black mark for them. All states that tried to dominate it ended up in the dustbin of history.” “Throughout history, it has been rich in resources and talents, inconvenient, rebellious to the point of anarchy and always ready for systemic resistance. And again, as in the times of Russia, it is a regional superpower, absolutely subjective, diplomatically and militarily powerful. I congratulate you on the day of independence of the country on which much of the world today depends,” concludes the main adviser to Volodymyr Zelensky. (HANDLE).
2024-08-26 02:48:34