A bit of reality.
https://atexnos.gr/%ce%b1%ce%bd%ce%bf%ce%b9%cf%87%cf%84%ce%ae-%ce%b5%cf%80%ce%b9%cf%83%cf%84%ce%bf%ce%bb%ce%ae-%cf%84%ce%bf%cf%85-%cf%81%cf%8c%cf%84%ce%b6%ce%b5%cf%81-%ce%b3%ce%bf%cf%85%cf%8c%cf%84%ce%b5%cf%81%cf%82/?fbclid=IwAR2M3140NiQgK-lL9bPoNDEjxck0L4qFiN4zvWJ6oXhU_AFL9ykcDPR3k2I"Dear Mrs. Zelenska!
My heart is bleeding for you and for all the Ukrainian and Russian families who have been devastated by the terrible war in Ukraine. I'm in Kansas City, USA I just read an article on the BBC, apparently based on your interview.
The BBC quotes your words: "If support for Ukraine is strong, the crisis will be less."
Hmmm; I think it depends on what you mean by 'support for Ukraine'.
If by "support for Ukraine" you mean the continued supply of weapons to the army of the Kiev government, then I am afraid that you may be making a tragic mistake.
Throwing flammable matter in the form of weapons has never helped to end a war in the past, and it will not help even now, especially since in this case most of the oil is thrown into the fire from Washington, which is at a relatively safe distance from the fire, and because "those who pour oil" have already expressed their interest in the war lasting as long as possible.
I am afraid that we, and I mean people like you and me, who really want peace in Ukraine, who do not want you to have to fight until the last life of a Ukrainian citizen, and maybe even if it is the worst (scenario), up to the last human life – if, instead, we want to achieve a different result, we may have to find another way and this way may lie in the good intentions of your husband that he had expressed in the past.
Yes, I mean the (political) platform by which he himself, so commendably, ran for the presidency of Ukraine, the platform with which he won his historic victory in the democratic elections of 2019.
He stood on the election platform of the following promises.
1.End of the civil war in the east and peace in Donbass and partial autonomy of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Ratification and implementation of the remaining package of the Minsk agreements.
One can only assume that your husband's campaign policy did not fit well with certain political factions in Kiev, and that these factions convinced your husband to radically change course, ignoring the mandate of the people.
Unfortunately, your husband agreed to totalitarian, undemocratic methods contrary to the will of the Ukrainian people, and since then Ukraine has been ruled by the forces of extreme nationalism that previously fraudulently lurked in the shadows.
Since then they have crossed all the red lines clearly defined by your neighbours – the Russian Federation – and as a result, the extreme nationalists have put your country on the road to this devastating war.
I will not continue.
If I'm wrong, help me figure out how?
If I am not mistaken, please help me in my sincere efforts to persuade our leaders to stop the massacre, a massacre that is only in the interests of the ruling classes and extreme nationalists – both here in the West and in your beautiful country, and at the expense of us, ordinary people both here in the West and in Ukraine and in the reality of ordinary people everywhere in the world.
Wouldn't it be better to demand the fulfilment of your husband's election promises and put an end to this deadly war?
With love, Roger Waters
An open letter to Mrs Zalenska. However I am afraid it will fall on def ears. She was being interviewed the other day and she claimed they were counting bodies while we in the west were paying pennies. She did not look sad in anyway when she reminded us that Ukrainians were losing their lives.
But there is another reason why this may fall on def ears. As much as this was is costing us financially and the Ukrainians financially and militarily, she and her husband are raking in millions from back ganders. By the time this war finishes I have no doubt he will be a billionaire.