Zhou Bajun Studio Special Author: Sun Yuliang
It's a rare outrage! According to the Global Times, on January 20, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy tweeted "lashed out" at US President Joe Biden. Why is it that Ukraine has asked for the United States, but it is angry with the United States? It turned out that US President Biden exposed an "insider" on the 19th, and there was disagreement on how NATO members responded to Russia's possible "invasion" of Ukraine. While Biden's statement is that the attitude of the United States and the West depends on the scale of The possible Russian "invasion" of Ukraine, Biden's hint is that a "small invasion" may not get a harsh response.
This attitude of the United States was unacceptable to Zelenskiy, so he angrily pushed back. "I want to remind some big countries that there are no small invasions and small states," Zelenskiy said, figuratively making a metaphor: "Just as there are no minor casualties and minor grief caused by the loss of a loved one."
Is Zelensky right? Very true. But Zelenskiy's anger did not help. On this side, Russia has 100,000 troops on the Russian-Ukrainian border, and the difference between Ukraine and Russia's strength is too far, whether it is economic strength or military strength, it is not a grade at all; on that side, although Ukraine has thrown itself into the arms of the United States and NATO, the United States and NATO and the European Union only sympathize with Ukraine and support Ukraine, but they have not accepted Ukraine to join these organizations. Ukraine took the initiative to throw in the arms, but the United States and NATO half pushed and half pushed, which should be a very embarrassing thing. In the past, the United States and NATO may have considered that the conditions for Ukraine's accession were not ripe, and now they have added the russian threat not to allow Ukraine to join NATO, otherwise what will happen.
Caught between the two great powers of Russia and the United States, Ukraine has lost the ability to stand on its own two sides, and it is very passive in accepting the arrangements of fate, but it has the attitude of asking the United States and NATO, and it cannot bring it anything but sympathy. Weak countries have no diplomacy, and Ukraine has once again vividly interpreted this truth. A country that cannot defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity on its own is doomed to tragedy. And the source of this tragedy comes from Ukraine itself. Because Ukraine and Russia were originally one country, and they were also one of the nuclear powers after independence, no country dared to bully it. But it listened to the rhetorical "advice" of Russia and the United States, self-destructed the Great Wall and abandoned the nuclear bomb, so that it lost the cost of negotiating with others.
What happened to Ukraine has taught the rest of the world a lesson. The reason why many small countries resist the pressure to develop nuclear weapons is because with this thing, they are tough when they speak, and others dare not speak easily with their fists. The most typical example is North Korea, because with a nuclear bomb, the United States does not dare to do anything with it, and South Korea does not dare to do anything with it. Of course, there are Chinese factors in this, but the main thing is that North Korea itself can rely on itself, which is called self-help; the other country is Iran, the United States abolished the Iranian nuclear agreement, but made Iran hardened, and in turn, the United States wants to restore the Iranian nuclear agreement as if the United States has asked for it. Although Iran is sanctioned by the United States and has a difficult time at home, it has avoided the subjugation of the country, which is much luckier than Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan, which have been bullied by the United States to the point of subjugation.
Speaking of this, we should thank Chairman Mao and the founding fathers of that generation, when New China was also subjected to blockades and sanctions by the United States and Europe, but the older generation of revolutionaries headed by Chairman Mao withstood heavy pressure and relied on self-reliance to create China's "two bombs and one satellite", and only then did they avoid the humiliating fate of the imperialist countries riding on their heads and commanding. Now that China has developed into the world's second largest economy, although the United States and some European countries still want to bully us and sanction us, we can not eat that set, and we can counter-sanction them. What is the dignity of the state, this is called the dignity of the state. Where does the dignity of the individual come from without the dignity of the state? Ukraine cannot have such dignity, precisely because it does not have this kind of confidence, and can only look up to Europe and the United States and issue the cries of the weak. As one American netizen poked at Zelenskiy on Twitter, "It sounds like you're picky, maybe you're better off on your own." How important is self-reliance, what this American netizen said is the real big truth.