As Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares for possible negotiations, friends and neighbours should be gearing up for industrial warfare<\/p>\n
Whenever I come to Ukraine, I find words that have lost their essence elsewhere swell again with meaning. The fight for \u201cfreedom\u201d is not a pretentious slogan here, but just what you do every day. \u201cSovereignty\u201d is not a slippery abstraction, but the difference between deciding your own fate or having it decreed in Moscow.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also in Ukraine that one realises that \u201cfreedom\u201d and \u201csovereignty\u201d exist in a collaborative relationship with others. Ukraine is now defending its neighbours\u2019 freedom from an advancing Russia. Kyiv\u2019s resistance is benefiting Taiwan\u2019s freedom, too. Meanwhile, without help \u2013 especially from America \u2013 Ukraine would still fight on but, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy admits, would find it hard. As speculations about negotiations and potential peace deals loom over 2025, the precise meaning of Ukraine\u2019s relationships will need to be defined. What does being an \u201cally\u201d really mean today? What is a true \u201csecurity order\u201d? Will peace just mean, in the words of Olga Myrovych, CEO of the Lviv Media Forum,<\/a> that Ukraine should \u201crest in peace\u201d?<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepares for possible negotiations, friends and neighbours should be gearing up for industrial warfare Whenever I come to Ukraine, I find words that have lost their essence elsewhere swell again with meaning. The fight for \u201cfreedom\u201d is not a pretentious slogan here, but just what you do every day. \u201cSovereignty\u201d is not … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}