It's worse than we thought

Better if history just repeats itself instead of becoming a worse version of it.

ALONG THESE THREE YEARS, I LOST MOST OF my ability to cry, and instead, my body finds other ways to balance my feelings. But I'm sure many people are crying as they realize what is happening.

Trump is making a deal with Putin.

Why? Why would anyone want to align with someone like that?

Illustration: Marian Kamensky

How can someone announce negotiations with the person who is commanding an invasion of a foreign country, where his armies stand accused of the worst war crimes?

The worst part of it all is not the war crimes themselves, as terrible as they are. The worst is that Trump is doing exactly what he said he would do. He is behaving exactly as predicted, following his agenda of insensitivity, hate, and recklessness.

He is exactly as we have always known, yet many times we failed to believe it. We thought our institutions were powerful enough to prevent the worst from happening. The worst inside the worst-intentioned human beings. And our institutions are strong.

But just like eight decades ago, we are living in a perfect storm.

This storm is what makes things worse.

This storm happens when someone emerges from obscurity and achieves domination of the discourse, exploiting contradictions within our societies and spreading distorted narratives with alarming speed. As the storm unfolds, large segments of society rally behind their ideas, forming a cult-like following where violence and hate become the norm.

Those who seize power in such conditions are far more dangerous than they appear. They develop influence to a level that even history’s most notorious totalitarian regimes struggled to achieve.

The moment of Trump's announcement was when I realized that history is clearly repeating itself. It was impossible to recall 1938, when Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich waving a document and claiming it “peace for our time.”

We know today that he had been deceived by Hitler. The historical judgment of Chamberlain is controversial, but he is often associated with innocence or ineptitude. Eighty-three years later, Trump is going one step further.

He isn’t being fooled by Putin. He’s collaborating with him.

This isn’t just politics. This is about power, control, and the erosion of everything we hold dear. The world can’t afford another Munich moment. Putin’s ambitions won’t stop at Ukraine, just as Hitler’s didn’t stop at Czechoslovakia.

I know what I'm saying. I'm in Ukraine. I feel the war. I witness its horrors every single day. My life has became living every aspect of this war. I see the widespread destruction Putin has inflicted on my family and every family in my country.

And I will keep fighting. For my nation, for my people. For my survival. I will be right here writing and telling my story to the world. Not just until Ukraine prevails, but until this empire of hate, terror, greed, dystopia, and vulgarity is completely defeated everywhere.

Because as long as these people have power, our planet will never be certain if it will survive another night.

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