Peace Through Ukrainian Victory - First Posted 24 Feb 2025

 Putin had peace, and he chose war. 

Putin chose to murder and terrorise innocent men, women and children. He chose to bomb schools and children's hospitals, and to send murderers and rapists into the homes of the peaceful, of the hopeful.

Putin's war was never just a war against Ukraine, but against the very ideas of freedom, sovereignty and choice. Against democracy, liberty and international order. Not only in Ukraine, but to everybody watching.

Be grateful that brave Ukraine continues to stand fast, holding Putin's terror machine within its own borders, because Putin does not recognise those borders and will continue westward if Europe allows him.

Putin does not want peace. If he wanted it, he would have kept it. He wants expansion of his territory, ideals and power. Putin does not respect you, and every sign of your weakness is an opportunity he will seize. In 2018 Putin deployed a chemical weapon on the streets of the United Kingdom. How foolish must one be, to believe he will respect your children's lives.

So send your best cowards to sue for peace. Send your infantile, verbally incontinent US President to bend the knee. Send Farage suckling desperately at his teat, for every drop of validation. Send Orban and Le Pen. Let them wave their piece of paper before the world. 

It will not buy you a peaceful sleep. It will reward Putin for his terrorism, and it will send him a clear message: that slaughter is a prosperous endeavour. Putin will rearm and then redouble, safe in the knowledge that neither NATO, nor Europe has the courage to stand up for their neighbours. Your piece of paper will wither under artillery as did Chamberlain's in 1939. 

Xinping is listening.

Europe must now come together as never before, operating as though a single, unified state: diplomatically, economically, defensively. With or without the United States, the United Kingdom must take its place at the table. Canada, Australia and New Zealand must be welcomed.

In 1945, the world came together to destroy Hitler's industrial murder machine. He died broken and afraid in Berlin. 

The cost was over 70 million lives.

You may yet have your peace for our time, but it will only last with Putin unseated, or with Ukraine as a member of NATO.

Cam.