The rationality of evil

Why Russia bombing grain terminals of Ukraine

It often seems to us that in crimes and cruelty, our country has already reached the limit. But there is no limit: the Russian Federation recently committed a qualitatively new crime, finally equalizing itself with a terrorist organization.

But in order. For these almost a year and a half, we are accustomed to murders. Messages about the dead Ukrainians go every day, the shelling of peaceful cities has ceased to surprise and attract attention only when it is something completely shocking: like the last raids on Odessa, or the first to Kyiv, or when the sacrifice account goes for dozens.

Why is Putin doing all this? The first explanation is that he simply hates Ukraine and Ukrainians. This, of course, is so.

This is his “historical” land, which means that the people inhabiting it should be in the same serfdom as his Russian subjects. And it is not the fact that he needs Ukraine so hard: he could have done, but they were fugitive slaves, and therefore should be returned. And punished for the escape. So he punishes, apparently in the feeling that he will not have to pay for these crimes. I would like to believe that he is mistaken.

Another reason for hatred is somewhat more rational. The movement of Ukraine to the sides of Europe already demonstrates that the Slavic country of Orthodox culture can fit into modern European civilization and European institutions, which means that one of the main arguments that substantiates our isolation from the world, “we have special mentality, their Western freedoms are not suitable for us,” does not work. Ukraine could well become a destructive example for the Putin regime. Therefore, it should be destroyed. Actually, it was for the destruction of Ukraine that Putin began this war.

But the atrocities that our country creates on the earth of Ukraine is not only the result of hatred, coupled with the illusion of permissiveness, but also the tool for achieving the goals that the Putin regime set for itself.

The bombing of Ukrainian cities and mass killings pursue certain goals. Putin expects that sooner or later Ukrainians will get tired and demand from their authorities to go to an agreement with Russia - Gori, they say, by fire and Crimea and Donbass, it is necessary that this nightmare stops. Similar motivation was when shelling of energy objects: they will freeze, spit on everything and demand from Zelensky to retreat.

Actually, Peskov said about this a few months ago: stop resistance - and the bombing will immediately end. True, a few decades before him, the leaders of the Third Reich addressed him with a similar call to Britain: the British government, they say, may well stop the suffering of the British people, it is only necessary to meet the fair demands of Germany.

You can’t refuse logic, but it did not work - neither the Nazis nor ours. Although the Kremlin does not despair and continues to bomb further.

But now a qualitatively new crime has been committed: attacks on Ukrainian ports and grain terminals, the destruction of grain prepared to send. This is not at all the same as the destruction of other sectors of the Ukrainian economy. Yes, this is a blow, yes, it will entail additional problems for Ukraine: it will not receive the money she counted on. But even our outstanding thinkers cannot but understand that this blow will not be fatal: the allies will help Ukrainians in this. Then why?

The purpose of these blows is to cause hunger, and perhaps the hungry death of people living thousands of kilometers from the theater of military operations. Putin, inspired by his historical predecessors, decided to fight on two fronts: now not against Ukraine and NATO, but against the poorest countries of the world.

And here, too, there is a completely understandable plan. This is such an attempt to force the world. A desperate request for a truce and ceasefire.

Our country tells humanity that now it will kill not only Ukrainians, but also people in Africa and Asia, and will do this until Zelensky goes to negotiations,

- And in fact, for surrender. Of course, the victims of these actions of Russia, of course, cannot influence the victims of these actions of Russia. Ukraine, all the more, will not give up to Putin's mercy out of sympathy for the starving Africa. The calculation on the fact that the West will not accept the humanitarian disaster, that Western politicians and Western society will not be able to calmly watch how in the twenty -first century people die of hunger. That is, the calculation on the fact that in the eyes of the Kremlin chiefs it was always the weakness of the West, which caused their ridicule and contempt - a calculation for humanity and humanity.

It is not known how correct the calculation is. Firstly, maybe the grain disaster will not be as terrible as many say about it: they will come up with something, redistribute flows, find resources for replacement, and so on. Secondly, the naive and unexpected faith of the Kremlin in the humanism of the West may also not work: the West may be deteriorated, but nothing to do, transferring everything to charitable organizations.

But here it is important that this new villainy of our country will lead to the desired goals, but the very meaning of this action: this is nothing more than the capture of hostages. Suppose terrorists burst into school and say that they will kill children (patients in the hospital, visitors to the cafe, in general, hostages), if they are not provided with an airplane and ten million dollars, or they will not free their comrade sitting for the murder of one hundred and fifty people, or they will not withdraw troops from there, where, according to terrorists, they should not be. The Russian Federation (permanent member of the Security Council, Great Culture, Gagarin, Tolstoy, Tchaikovsky, then according to the list) behaves today in the same way.

We are not a sponsor of terrorism, which we have already recognized us. We are terrorists. Only now the attacks rarely end successfully for terrorists.

And if at the head of the state or states that they are trying to blackmail, strong people are standing, then instead of an airplane and ten million, bandits receive bullets. Moreover, even if criminals manage to achieve their goals, they are found and destroyed later, as Israel did with those who killed athletes at the 1972 Olympics.

And the removal of grain from Ukraine can, of course, be restored by trying to persuade Putin (and he will feel like the king of the mountain), but it is possible - by force, that is, by ensuring effective cover for the grain to the grain and reliable air defense to Ukraine. By the way, Ukrainians, I hope, will receive additional air defense systems as a result of this new Russian adventure.

And the good news is finally. In September, representatives of Taliban will come to Russia. Discuss with their Russian colleagues the problems of combating terrorism.