A-Infos (en) Italy, UCADI, #205 - UKRAINE: The solution lies on the battlefield (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Four years after the start of the war between Russia and Ukraine, it is 
becoming increasingly clear that this war cannot be ended through peace 
negotiations but will only be resolved on the battlefield, as evidenced 
by the failure of all peace talks and initiatives. ---- This war is 
increasingly less talked about, even though its human, economic, and 
social cost is only growing, and its consequences are increasingly 
falling on the shoulders of the Ukrainian people and the peoples of 
Europe, sacrificing the interests of the less well-off classes and the 
economies of the EU member states, polluting their institutions, 
irreparably damaging social cohesion, perverting the values of 
individual freedom and religious freedom, causing irreparable damage to 
culture, the arts, and the sciences, and contributing significantly to 
the continent's overall decline in the
political balance between the major regions of the planet, which are 
being redefined.

The sacrifice of the interests of the less well-off classes

The war in Ukraine and its objectives have been shared and embraced by 
European governments. This choice impacts the interests of the less 
well-off classes, who are forced to make sacrifices to secure the 
resources needed to finance this war. These resources are becoming 
increasingly scarce with the passage of time, the deterioration of the 
situation on the battlefield, and the withdrawal of the United States 
government from the conflict.
This requires the renunciation of the welfare system, which workers and 
the less well-off classes of Western European countries had so 
painstakingly won, at the cost of hard struggles and sacrifices, during 
the eighty years since the end of World War II. By choosing to support 
the war, the results achieved by the class struggle, which had produced 
well-being and benefits that are now disappearing, are being sacrificed, 
one after another, under the weight of the cost of the war effort. This 
is also due to the loss of the supply of low-cost energy purchased from 
Russia, from which every country in the European Union benefited and 
which allowed the economic and industrial apparatus to be competitive 
and profitable, without entirely shifting the burden of capitalist 
accumulation and profit extraction onto the cost of labor, and therefore 
onto workers' wages.
All this was done to finance the ambitions of Ukrainian nationalism, a 
multiethnic, and entirely undemocratic country that, after being scarred 
by a coup and triggering a civil war by using its army to repress the 
Donbas separatists demanding autonomy, saw war as the price to pay for 
creating and strengthening a national identity. It conceived a project 
of ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and religious superiority-absolutely 
authoritarian, xenophobic, hostile to the values of individual and 
collective freedom, and corrupt in its institutions, as, alas, the facts 
have demonstrated. The Russian invasion of February 22 was merely one 
stage in this long process of degeneration of the Ukrainian state and 
was part of the pre-existing civil war that followed the 2014 coup.

The damage to the economies of the member states of the EU

To achieve its goals, Ukrainian nationalism became both the servant and 
ally of Great Britain, which throughout history had sought to divide the 
peoples of Europe, to shatter their unity, to better exercise its 
political and economic hegemony over them. Britain aspired to possess a 
means through which to shatter the unity of the Russian state, 
balkanizing it and dividing it into small states, thus enabling it to 
enter into agreements with them aimed at the exploitation, utilization, 
and appropriation of their notoriously rich natural resources.
Britain's objective soon became that of Anglo-Saxon capitalism, 
gravitating around the London Stock Exchange and the United States, 
which declared themselves willing to aid Ukraine and directed its war 
efforts to cut off the very sources that fueled the economies of Germany 
and Europe as a whole. Hence the attack and destruction of Nord Stream 2 
and the interruption of supplies of cheap Russian gas and oil, the 
growing and structural crisis of the economies of European countries, 
forced by the power of the declining US empire to purchase US energy at 
a much higher price and, above all, to channel their savings into 
investments in the United States, so that the center of the empire could 
reindustrialize at the expense of its vassals.
By ensuring their support for Ukraine despite it being contrary to their 
interests and lending credence to the narrative that Ukraine stands as a 
bastion of liberal democracy and an attacked country, Western European 
countries created the conditions for the United States to disengage from 
all support and assistance to Ukraine, not after having been paid by 
forced contracts for the exploitation of their resources, thus burdening 
the costs of the continuing conflict with European Union countries, 
forced to purchase American weapons to supply them to Ukraine.
All this while, meanwhile, Ukraine was bleeding to death in the war and 
losing half its population, forced to flee the country by the outcome of 
the war and the underlying causes of the conflict. The systematic 
destruction of Ukraine's infrastructure, the sacrifice of its 
population, were imposed by a nationalist oligarchy willing to do 
anything to enrich itself through corruption, profiting from war 
profits, resorting to the ostracism of the Russian language, burning 
books inconvenient to those in power or written in Russian, imposing the 
state church, fomenting a split within the Orthodox ecumene, and 
forcibly recruiting the population to be sent to the trenches.

The pollution of political institutions

The West, rushing to support Ukrainian nationalism, did so at the cost 
of denying its founding principles, including the rule of law, 
individual liberties, religious freedom, the secular nature of 
institutions, and the separation of Church and State. A notoriously 
corrupt political class, as demonstrated by the scandals involving 
bribes received on war supplies, seized control of the country, 
prostituting itself to the Ecumenical Patriarchate and paying extortion 
money to secure autocephaly for the schismatic Orthodox, eager to seize 
the wealth of the canonical Orthodox Church, chasing faithful from their 
churches and forcing them to join the new Church.
This accentuated characteristics and behaviors that were widespread in 
the country even before the war. In Ukraine today, you can avoid going 
to the front, just pay; you can leave the country, just pay, even if 
martial law doesn't allow it; you can have anything not available on the 
market, just pay, and above all, everything related to war supplies is 
traded. In Ukraine, public land has been sold to national oligarchs and 
multinationals investing in the sector, seeking territorial ownership 
and economic control. National agricultural production has been 
destroyed, concentrating land and mineral resources in a few hands. The 
war-related displacement and exodus have been exploited to carry out 
massive real estate deals aimed at seizing vacant lots and buildings. 
The repression of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been 
exploited to seize its assets and art treasures. In short, a war economy 
has been built that has enriched many and impoverished the majority of 
the country's population.
In particular, the creation of the autocephalous Orthodox Church, aimed 
at supporting Ukrainian nationalism, has led to the violation of 
property rights, the right to freedom of worship, equality between 
different religious denominations, and the secular nature of the state, 
all of which are enshrined in law and endorsed by a judiciary 
subservient to power. It has allowed, aided by the state of war, the 
plundering of the country's religious cultural heritage and the exodus 
of countless works of art from Ukrainian territory, ostensibly to 
protect them from destruction, but with no guarantees that they will be 
returned to the country and will not constitute part of the price paid 
for the funding received. What was not sold-the wealth of books, 
cultural artifacts, and archaeological finds-was burned, destroyed, and 
banned, deemed the fruit of Russian cultural colonialism in the country, 
thus destroying millennia of Ukrainian history and its roots.

The irreparable damage to social cohesion

The suffocation of Ukraine's multi-ethnicity in the name of an 
all-encompassing nationalism, characterized by ethnic, 
cultural-religious, and linguistic factors, leads to the marginalization 
and alienation of the Polish, Hungarian, and Romanian components of the 
population, as well as the Russian one, creating the conditions for the 
territorial downsizing of the country, stimulated and produced by the 
outcome of the war, which is turning in favor of the Russians. This 
makes it possible to reduce Ukraine to a downsized state, increasingly 
deprived of access to the sea. Therefore, the outcome of the conflict 
merely sanctions a de facto situation that corresponds to the feelings 
of the remaining population settled in the territory, given that the 
continuation of the conflict and its inevitable outcomes will lead 
Russia to acquire not only the territory currently claimed, but probably 
that of Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv, as well as a buffer zone in the Sumy 
region that protects the border with Russia. This, while the Russian 
General Staff does not rule out the capture of Odessa in the event of 
the Ukrainian army's collapse. It should be clear by now that Russia is 
willing to commit all its forces to victory in the war on the ground and 
that, in the event of insurmountable difficulties on the ground, rather 
than lose the war, it would certainly resort to nuclear tactics, 
overcoming the resistance of the moderate Putin, convinced of the 
unequal balance of power to his advantage with the European Union, NATO, 
and the United States, certainly not willing to die for Ukraine and face 
a nuclear holocaust to defend its integrity.
It must be acknowledged that the war in Ukraine has introduced a poison 
into the European Union that will corrode it from within, determining a 
rightward shift in the political axis, causing economic and cultural 
decline, lowering the level of well-being of the population, social 
protections, and civil liberties, imposing the verticalization and 
regression of its form of government towards illiberal authoritarianism, 
favoring the transformation of state management into democracy: 
precisely the political regime and transformation hoped for by Punti.

The perversion of the values of individual and religious freedom

To achieve this goal, it was essential for Ukraine to overcome, by 
denying, the separatism between state and churches (a choice immediately 
supported by the Baltic countries), and to adopt, in the name of 
national interest, a state religion that legitimizes power and allows 
for the management of freedoms and consciences. It was also essential to 
control political participation and civil liberties-in other words, to 
structure social relations to mirror those of the enemy, with the 
declared intent of fighting it, unaware that it is taking on its 
characteristics.
In this vision, Ukrainian society, perpetually militarized and shaped by 
war, equipped with a battle-hardened and experienced army thanks to the 
conflict, would join the European Union to form the Praetorian Guard 
corps called upon to defend its member states, with external and 
internal defense functions (the US Ice Border Patrol being a prime 
example), transformed into democracies, generated and produced by the 
conflict.

Irreparable damage to culture, arts and sciences

It goes without saying that such a plan, once implemented, would cause 
irreparable damage to culture, the arts, and the sciences, triggering a 
regression of the entire continental region toward a pre-Enlightenment 
culture, hostile to any separation of powers, a form of participation in 
the management of power by the lower classes, characterized by 
neo-feudal economic relations, an illiberal culture controlled by a 
science subservient to power, where free teaching and the right to 
education are denied. A militarized society, in which an authoritarian 
approach to social relations prevails, economic management is entirely 
in the hands of large-scale employers, but in which the
preservation of the population's ethnicity is safeguarded, immigration 
is effectively opposed, and gender relations are restored along a 
patriarchal axis, respecting tradition and the centrality of the male.

The overall decline of the continent in the political balance between 
the large areas of the planet that are being redefined

Thanks to this set of choices, the political balance between the major 
regions of the planet, which are being redefined, would be affected, 
assigning Europe and its peoples the role of a province of the US 
empire, a structurally subordinate role that places the European 
consumer market at the disposal of the empire's prosperity and the 
continued growth of capitalist accumulation and US dominance over the 
Western world.
This choice, in addition to marking the decline of Europe and its 
culture, and its role in human history, unbalances the balance of power 
between the various geopolitical regions and contributes to altering the 
balance of power in a multipolar world, strengthening one of the players 
in the field, which can thrive and thrive on the exploitation and 
enslavement of another potential player.

The War in Ukraine: An Unwinnable War

Those pursuing these goals have paid the price without paying the price, 
that is, they have failed to consider that the war in Ukraine cannot be 
won, even if it leads to the more or less complete extinction of the 
Ukrainian people. These four years of war have demonstrated that it has 
been useless to recruit volunteers, professional soldiers from Western 
armies who have formally resigned from their respective armies, to go 
and fight as contractors alongside mercenaries recruited from around the 
world; to supply the country with every type of weapon; to provide 
military instructors and support activities; to allow criminal gangs or 
guerrilla groups to use the battlefield of the Ukrainian war for war 
lessons; to enable and assist Ukraine in carrying out unorthodox warfare 
actions such as the attack on bombers belonging to the Russian strategic 
triad. Slowly and decisively, but steadily, Russia increased its war 
production, improved its armaments, developed new warfare systems, 
encouraged and imitated by Ukraine, placed its industrial and economic 
structures at the service of the war effort, while maintaining constant 
GDP growth not only stimulated by the war economy, making a qualitative 
leap with the entry of missiles such as the Oreshnik into operational 
weapons.

The rejection of the Russian oligarchic model and of any form of 
oligarchic democracy

Awareness of these facts does not mean siding with Russia or Putin or 
supporting his arguments, but simply being aware of the interests of the 
Italian proletariat and that of Europe as a whole, on whose shoulders 
and pockets the cost of the war effort falls. We are opposed to all 
wars, especially those that are contrary to our interests and those of 
the workers, who are ultimately the ones who suffer the greatest harm. 
This is because war deprives states of the resources necessary for the 
well-being of their citizens.
As anarchist communists, we oppose a state like Russia, which has 
adopted a capitalist economy, albeit a planned one, based on the 
five-year plans of the Soviet tradition. We abhor the model of relations 
between the state and the churches, whether the Orthodox Church, which 
is prevalent and legitimizes the Russian state, or those of other 
faiths. We do not share, and consider liberticidal, the essential 
symbiosis and division of powers between the temporal and the spiritual, 
typical of the political system currently in force in Russia. We oppose 
a society dominated by oligarchs who pursue profit and the exploitation 
of man by man, merely by a different name from the most rapacious 
capitalists. We oppose power politics and, above all, wars that 
slaughter men and women, children and the elderly, which destroy and 
annihilate humanity, causing loss and ruin. We oppose the 
gender-discriminatory policies practiced in Russia. Above all, we oppose 
nationalism, wherever it comes from and whoever it belongs to, be they 
Ukrainian or Russian. This does not prevent us from analyzing the facts 
and seeking to understand.

Gianni Cimbalo

https://www.ucadi.org/2026/03/01/ucraina-la-soluzione-e-sul-campo-di-battaglia/
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