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As the shelling of Ukraine becomes more frequent and widespread, and as the West fears a future war between NATO countries and Russia, I would like to remind you of the chances the world has missed to destroy the Russian empire. Over the past hundred years, the United States has repeatedly had the chance to end Russian imperialism forever, but it has never seized the opportunity. The first time was when William Bullitt brought back from Petrograd in 1919 Lenin's proposal for a ceasefire and fixing the borders in their current state, i.e., dividing Russia into five or more sovereign states. For some reason, Woodrow Wilson did not even find time to respond to such an excellent proposal. Moreover, the famous Fourteen Points, in which he outlined his vision of the international order after World War I, despite promises, were not implemented. Even then, it was clear that the terms of the Treaty of Versailles would push Germany and Russia into each other's arms, and that World War II would become inevitable. Bullitt made his attitude to this fact clear by resigning from the State Department in protest. The second chance came during the Second World War, when the United States began to help the USSR by providing arms, ammunition, food, transportation, and ammunition under the terms of the Lend-Lease. This dramatically influenced the course of the war and allowed the USSR to defeat Nazi Germany. Having such a favorable negotiating position, the #US government, for some reason, did not receive any written guarantees from the USSR that the population in the liberated European territories would not be subjected to the criminal, communist ideology. Moreover, at that time, it was even possible to demand that Stalin soften the internal policy of the USSR. This could have significantly affected the fate of the peoples enslaved by the communist regime within the then Soviet state. But Roosevelt did nothing in this direction. Now we all understand the reason why. According to researchers, Franklin Roosevelt's administration was literally crawling with Stalinist agents. In particular, his most trusted man, Alger Hiss, head of the Office of Special Political Relations, whom Roosevelt had instructed to work out the creation of the United Nations, was a spy for the USSR. Roosevelt was satisfied with Stalin's vague promises that he would not use terrorist methods in his zone of influence. Stalin once again deceived the U.S. leadership by not keeping his word, and as a result, 140 million Europeans were thrown into the hell of Soviet dictatorship for more than 50 years. The third chance came in 1991, when the USSR finally collapsed. The U.S. government was supposed to support all necessary democratic transformations in Russia until its complete de-imperialization. For some unknown reason, Ronald Reagan's assertion that Russia was an evil empire was ignored. Historical lessons were not taken into account, for example, George Kennan's "Long Telegram," in which he described in detail the impossibility of cooperation with the USSR "Soviet leaders are driven [by] necessities of their own past and present position to put forward which [apparent omission] outside world as evil, hostile and menacing." I would like to remind you that William Bullitt and George Kennan studied Russia very well, communicating with the intellectual elite of the USSR at the time. It is an interesting fact that "Bullitt and Kennan were friends with Bulgakov, and became the prototypes of the characters: Voland and Koroviev in The Master and Margarita. Despite Bullit's warm personal relationship with Stalin and other Soviet leaders, he informed Washington about the real, terrifying nature of the USSR." Instead of obstruction, the U.S. offered Russia the scam of taking the USSR's seat in the UN, thereby demonstrating its willingness to indulge the Kremlin rulers' further imperial ambitions. By neglecting the global denuclearization of Russia, the U.S. allowed the entire nuclear stockpile of the USSR to be concentrated in the hands of one crazy scoundrel. Very soon, we will win this war, and by "we" I mean Ukraine and the collective West. We have no right to ignore such hard and tragic lessons of history and not take advantage of the fourth chance to end Russian imperialism. Russia must be finally denuclearized, de-imperialized, disarmed, go through the process of purification, and be under external control for at least 20-30 years. It must be finally understood that there is no point in negotiating with Russia and that the fifth chance to end the Russian empire may not come. Russia is not a state, but a terrorist entity, and after its defeat, all its territory will have to come under the trusteeship of the United Nations, and only under such conditions will it have the opportunity to become a civilized country for the first time in its existence. #unrussiaUN #russiaisateroriststate #UkraineRussiaWar #StandWithUkraine