I am Zelensky

Russia seems to have finally come to terms with the idea that it's kicked out of Europe, after 200 years of brutal European invasions.

The United States also seem to have cut the umbilical cord, and accepted they are not a distant European colony, not even in the cultural sense. The realisation was condensed in the short, uneasy dialogue of US president Donald Trump and British P.M. Keir Starmer in front of the journalists.

And Europe now also realise they are on their own, as expressed by the Polish P.M. Donald Tusk before taking off for the emergency European meeting in London: "why are 500 million European asking 300 million Americans to protect them from 140 million Russians"? (Donald Tusk could also ask why Napoleo returned from Russia with only 10% of his 600,000-strong army, and the Europeans allies of Germany couldn't even return from Russia, despite their massively genocidal tactics, and how today's adventure would succeed where the previous 2 failed so horribly!)

The European empire was hoping to survive by proxy, through the United States. The Project for a New American Century (PNAC), officially kicked off on 11 September 2001, with a few thousand New Yorkers as unwilling sacrificial victims, immediately followed by millions of Afghans, Irakis, and many, many other unwilling and unsuspecting people.

It's not working. The only thing that keeps the empire afloat, the acceptance of the US dollar as an international currency, is being maintained only to keep the US as quiet as possible while their power of nuisance slowly fades. Yemen shoots US drones one after another and scares off US aircraft carriers, once the pride of their military, who have not yet been able to fire hypersonic missiles after 30 years of efforts.

Now everyone is on their own. The Americans, the Russians, the Chinese, the Europeans, have all accepted the end of the empire.

It is refreshing, but now that deadly illusions are collapsing, is the time more than ever to know our values, and in our times of unprecedented freedom and responsibility, to have the courage to stand by what we really love, by what is really worthy of our respect and love: Other humans, our sisters and brothers.

The few of us who have been spared by war so far, are all like president Zelensky now: The free supply of cocaine is ending, and we are faced with our naked life. What are we, what do we want really?