Putler’s Golden Fish and the Art of Celebrating Defeat

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“We want to live. Our neighbours want to see us dead. That leaves little room for compromise.” — Golda Meir

Well, my cats and bunnies, it seems pretty clear to everyone — or should I spell it out even more?
There will be no “compromise peace” – neither “decent”, nor “just”, nor unworthy and unjust. None.

And this — like this entire war — is not our choice at all.

“In recent months, many Western partners and a large part of our exhausted society have been obsessed with the dangerous illusion that a quick, somewhat acceptable peace is possible.”

For the sake of this illusion, Puylo was offered terms so generous that it’s almost shameful to mention. Yet the result caught our Western partners by surprise — though it was clear to me from the very start

He… you won’t believe it, my cats and bunnies… suddenly demanded much more! It’s never happened like this before, and suddenly, again! (c)

Puylo’s latest statements and interviews are so explicit that one must strain both imagination and fantasy to interpret them as anything other than a clear decision to fight until “complete and final victory.”

And for him, this “victory” has nothing to do with the administrative borders of Donbas — or even the so‑called “four constitutional regions.”

Puylo’s recent declarations make his minimum demands unmistakable:

– The entire “Novorossiya” must be incorporated into Rashka. Puilo is again using this term, long-unused.” Let me remind you: beyond Donbass, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions, it also includes at least Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, and Odesa regions; opinions differ regarding the Kropyvnytskyi region.

– These territorial gains, along with Crimea, must be recognized as legally Russian, not kept “suspended” as occupied territories.

– Everything that does not become part of Rashka must be “denazified,” “neutralized,” disarmed, and prepared as much as possible for an easy future occupation once Rashka recovers from this war — or for a rapid transition into its sphere of control through non‑military means, as in Belarus or Georgia.

Yes, under such conditions, Puylo is truly ready to end the war immediately — even today. And why wouldn’t he, if he gets everything he wants, or, in their Newspeak, “achieves all the goals of the SVO”?

Let me remind you that the goal of the “SVO” is defined by him as the “final solution to the Ukrainian question” — in precisely the same sense in which Hitler “solved” the Jewish question.

So we do not have the luxury of choosing which intermediate options to accept or reject.

There are only two paths: either accept all of Puilo’s demands and allow him to “settle the issue once and for all,” or continue fighting. To keep fighting until we secure victory.

Our choice lies strictly between these two outcomes — there is no third option, and there will not be one.

Puilo leaves no room for illusions: this war will end only with a Victory Parade.

Whether it will be theirs on Khreshchatyk or ours in Sevastopol remains unclear at the moment.

Whatever our timid partners may say — those who at the beginning firmly believed in the “invincibility” of the Russian Federation, and when that belief collapsed under the weight of reality, suddenly began to panic about Russia’s defeat and disintegration — the truth is this: the winner of this war has not yet been determined.

Yes, the current situation at the front may seem to be inevitably tilting toward a Russian victory.” But things looked no better in the summer of 2022. And by the autumn of 2022, we were already mentally sipping coffee on the Yalta waterfront — while our enemies looked at the battlefield with the same confidence of imminent triumph.

The pendulum of this war has already swung from one extreme to the other many times, and it is far from finishing its arc. It is not ready to stop, nor to hang limply in the middle.

Both sides are exhausted and fighting at the limit of their strength.

“The Russians may currently hold the advantage, but this is only because they have been exhausting all available resources and capabilities over the past three years. In contrast, we still possess substantial untapped reserves — human, financial, and industrial.”

Yes, using these untapped reserves and resources will require a tremendous effort — on the same scale as the extraordinary effort of 2022.

Are we capable of repeating such an extraordinary push now? Time will tell. And given the limited options, I still believe we are.

If we succeed, Vladimir Vladimirovich’s extreme ambitions, uncompromising nature, and insatiable greed — his refusal to be satisfied with the enormous gains the frightened West offers him “on a silver platter” (and which the exhausted, seemingly abandoned Ukrainians were almost ready to accept) — may push him toward the finale once described by “their own” Alexander Sergeyevich in the tale of the Golden Fish.

But for Puylo, a broken trough can appear far larger — like the collapse of a castle after a lost war.

However, what are fairy tales — something very similar has already happened in real history.

It has long been known that Puilo supposedly admires Stalin, yet for some reason, he diligently cosplays not Stalin, but Hitler.

Sometime in February 1942, after the Red Army’s defeat in the summer of 1941 and the halt of the German offensive near Moscow, Comrade Stalin reportedly offered Hitler a peace treaty very similar to the Peace of Brest in 1918. Hitler was to be given the Baltics, Belarus, Ukraine, and apparently the Don and Kuban regions as well…

In essence, he was offered official recognition of everything that the Wehrmacht physically controlled at that time. Doesn’t that sound familiar?

Hitler refused because he wanted to continue the war all the way to the Urals — and, as is well known, ended up in a bunker in Berlin.

Putler’s story is already in many ways similar to Hitler’s. His current refusal to accept peace on fantastically favourable terms may one day be remembered in the same way as the Führer’s fatal mistake in February 1942…

Of course, if we are still capable of extraordinary effort.

So, my cats and bunnies, enough of sucking up different options – 28 points, 19 points, 24 points… All these are fantasies that Putler clearly and unequivocally put an end to. It’s time to understand this and get out of reality.

The realities of war lead to a clear victory.

And it only depends on us to whom.

Only we, and no one else, can become an angry crucial carp for Putler. However, as before. Nothing new, the same war, the same stakes of life or death.

Glory to Ukraine.

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