The expiration date of the current global security system has expired, so Ukraine proposes a new collective agreement on security guarantees as the basis for a format for a collective response to global security challenges.

This was written by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak in his column for the American edition of TIME.

He recalled that the principles of the Peace of Westphalia concluded in 1648 served as the foundation of the system of international relations: national sovereignty, separation of foreign and domestic policies, compromise as a way of reconciling national interests, equality of sovereign states, as well as pragmatization of relations between them by introducing religion.

“The war that Russia is waging against Ukraine, in fact, is a rejection of all Westphalian principles. We are denied the right to sovereignty. They are trying to dictate to us how to conduct domestic policy. Under the guise of a compromise, we are offered capitulation. We are denied subjectivity, and therefore equality. Our peaceful people are massively tortured and killed for Ukrainian citizenship,” Andriy Yermak said.

According to Yermak, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is a natural consequence of a continuous series of conflicts in which Russia participated after the collapse of the USSR.

“Moscow has deliberately chosen the path of archaization of international relations. Consistent denial of the supremacy of international law over national law, systematic violation of deals and exit from those that contradict its aggressive ambitions, torpedoing the work of international structures are signs of a desire to replace the force of law with the right of force,” Head Ofi emphasized. .

In his opinion, the true goals that Russia seeks to achieve have roots in the deep past – at least in the pre-bloc century of the Congress of Vienna.

“However, it is obvious that the current Russian regime is not a restorer. It does not need to reproduce either the Romanov empire or the USSR. Its course is reconstruction, an attempt to replay turning points in history and cancel or level out unsatisfactory results, in particular the Caribbean crisis, the dismantling of the Soviet bloc and NATO expansion,” wrote Andriy Yermak.

According to the head of the Office of the Head of State, the refusal of Ukraine and Georgia to join the Alliance became a de facto consent to Russian aggression against both countries. Thus, the time of hybridity in modern international relations is open.

As Andriy Yermak noted, this hybridity has led international organizations to demonstrate complete inability to stop the aggressor. EU consensus decisions aimed at deterrence and punishment weaken national governments. The UN Security Council has long been in need of reform and exclusion from its membership of a state that resorts to annexation, aggressive wars and genocide. NATO continues to allow Russia to intervene in the enlargement issue, both directly and through cautious politicians.

The head of the President’s Office emphasized that due to the situation that has developed in the world in recent years, the Russian leadership was confident in its right to destroy Ukraine. But the desperate resistance of the Ukrainian people changed the situation.

“And today, Ukraine is not just some country from Russia. Not a weak and corrupt state, whose leaders bought their own hands and minute meetings on the sidelines. Vladimir Zelensky is not like that at all. He is popular because he is sincere, courageous and responsible. This is a politician of a new formation. And Ukraine is a state of a new formation. This is a model of courage for the entire democratic world,” Andriy Yermak stressed.

He also noted that Lend-Lease would help Ukraine survive. Restore the integrity of the state.

“Return our people. Resolutely and severely punish the aggressor. This will be our victory. But the question of how the world will live later requires an answer now,” Yermak said.

Recall that on April 28, the German Bundestag supported the provision of heavy weapons to Ukraine. Both the opposition and the coalition voted for this decision.

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