https://x.com/banderafella/status/1932093487115117037 What we are witnessing is the self-destruction of an empire that mistook mass murder for strategy and decay for destiny.
In just three years, Russia has burned through centuries of geopolitical illusion. It is no longer feared. It is no longer followed. It is no longer relevant. Its once-vaunted status has been shrunk to the scale of village assaults and drone panics in places no one in the Kremlin could find on a map before 2022.
And yet — it won’t stop. Because it can’t.
This war is no longer about territory. It’s not even about NATO, or the West, or some twisted tsarist fantasy. This war is now about Putin’s survival. About obliterating Ukraine not to win, but to delay Russia’s collapse.
They are not fighting to take Kyiv. They are fighting to avoid looking inward.
The Kremlin still believes that if they can just erase Ukraine, everything else will reset. The global shame, the economic rot, the failing periphery, the haunted faces of their own returning soldiers — gone, as if Kyiv was a magic key to 2021.
So yes, they will throw everything at this. Men, fuel, history, lies, future — everything.
Because without Ukraine’s destruction, the mask falls. And behind it, there is no empire. No rebirth. Just a scorched skeleton of power, gnawing at its last illusion.
Russia doesn’t want peace. It wants amnesia. And Ukraine refuses to die for someone else’s denial.
