The thing about Ukraine is that I see my own country in it—not the war itself, but the after. We had ours forty years ago and we still cannot agree on what happened, still vote to keep a dictator's laws. The Russians will leave someday, or they will not, but either way those people will spend decades arguing about memory while trying to rebuild. I watch the videos from Mariupol and I think about Valparaíso in winter, how the sea takes what it wants and you cannot negotiate with it, you can only survive or not. Zelensky understands something that most politicians never do—that you do not need to be liked, you only need to be clear about what you will not give up. That kind of certainty comes from somewhere real, not from a speech.
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