Does it matter who’s right? For those involved in the conflict, of course. Because they are at war in the name of their truth. Whose truth is right? Well, we usually only find that out afterwards. History is written by the victors. Whoever wins will be right. And that’s why there are slim chances for peace in the near future. Because those involved will go to the grave for their truth.
Of course, the Ukrainians are right. Russia attacked Ukraine. There is nothing to relativize in this. The Ukrainian soldiers are defending their country. We Hungarians would do this as well. We must always keep this in mind, no matter what we think about the conflict.
But from here we can start analyzing. As you should. Naturally, this conflict did not erupt out of nothing. Russia didn’t just attack Ukraine out of nowhere. The American measures that lead to this war – the ways in which they angered Russia against Ukraine and manipulated the Ukrainian people and global public opinion has been the subject of analysis for years (at least for those interested in reality). In one of my former videos, I thoroughly present the reasons and circumstances for the outbreak of this war.
Russia is correct in that a great power was unwilling to accept its geopolitical status and used a third country for these purposes.
And this third country played its own part in the story. It wanted to break out of the Russian bear hug – so it did not reject the United States’ hug. Which included jointly weakening Russia. And the Russian bear responded with “nyet”.
The USA instigated a local conflict, or rather, saw the potential to assert its own interests in an existing local conflict. So, it did everything it could to heat up the longstanding “lukewarm” tensions into a full-scale war – even risking world war. Of course, the sacrifice will be made by the Ukrainians. It is a financial burden for the US as well as they are putting billions towards Ukraine, but they see it as an investment. Zelensky himself said this in his speech at the national congress, and the American leaders backed this up. And this investment is certainly worth it for the US. They can push Russian raw materials out of the European market and force Europe to mainly buy from the US at much higher prices. With the consequential energy crisis and rising prices in Europe, the competitiveness of factories, plants and production companies here is significantly reduced, allowing American companies to swoop in. Also, many European companies will transfer production to them.