{"id":37930,"date":"2026-06-05T05:33:41","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=37930"},"modified":"2026-06-05T06:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:02:31","slug":"das-angebot-an-den-angreifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/das-angebot-an-den-angreifer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Offer to the Aggressor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia invaded Ukraine. Now Volodymyr Zelensky is offering Vladimir Putin a meeting and a ceasefire along the front line in an open letter, and the responsibility to end the war lies with the one who started it without cause!<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Russia invaded Ukraine. Every honest examination of this war begins with that sentence, and there is nothing to reinterpret about it. This was not a conflict that gradually escalated. It was one country attacking another, a war chosen by one man and continued by him to this day. On the evening of June 4, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky published an open letter on the website of his office in which he offers the aggressor an immediate meeting between the two heads of state and a complete ceasefire along the entire front for the duration of negotiations. The responsibility to end this war therefore lies where responsibility for its beginning also lies, with the one who unleashed it without cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Link to the original letter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The letter recalls that many in Ukraine viewed Putin favorably when he came to power in Russia more than twenty six years ago. That is over. Today, Zelensky writes, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainians welcome that Ukrainian long range drones visited the opening of Putin\u2019s forum in St. Petersburg and covered more than one thousand kilometers in doing so, and that distance is not the limit of what is possible. Twenty six years of his rule have reduced the relationship between the two countries from questions of trade and civilian life to one subject only: strikes and losses. Putin has spent almost half of that time at war with Ukraine. Whatever he says about NATO, geopolitics, and the Russian language, this war was his personal choice, a war without real cause, and history will remember him accordingly. This is the hard conclusion, and it is accurate. No alliance and no language forced Putin to send an army across the border. He did it because he wanted to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gradually, the letter continues, even Russians themselves are beginning to tire of the war. Putin accepts it only so long as it does not concern the security of his residence in Valdai or the parade in Moscow. His own life matters to him, while he spends the lives of others. Russians, meanwhile, dislike the drones and missiles, fuel shortages and rising prices, constant restrictions, the threat of a second mobilization wave intended to expand the war, and the prospect of a war without end. For now, Putin can still force Russians to live this way, but his means are diminishing, and eventually he will lack both the money and the political strength to continue buying their loyalty as he has for twenty six years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n