The writer Vasily Sheribani, head of the Visual Culture Research Center in Kiev, claims that the West fears Ukraine's victory, and that this fear made it impossible for its countries to reconcile with the reality of this war, and he attributed this fear to 3 reasons.
Sheribani says - in an article in the American magazine "Foreign Policy" - that the West's actions during the first day of the all-out Russian war on Ukraine reveal its belief that Ukraine's surrender is the lesser of the two evils.
He adds that the uncomfortable truth about Russia's "genocide" against Ukraine is that it became possible not only because the aggressor conceived and carried it out, but also because the West did not stand up to it.
The writer believes that the major strike against democracy at the global level was not the war itself, but rather the recognition by European countries - and Western countries in general - of the possibility of Russia occupying Ukraine, otherwise it would not have evacuated its embassies in Kiev, as he put it.
The West acts as if the war is not its own
So far, the writer says, the West is behaving as if the war is not its war, and Western political discourse continues to issue from the ivory tower of non-escalation and non-provocation, essentially revolving around how best to ensure that exposure to the risk of military aggression and constant death is limited to Ukrainians.
The writer identifies 3 main reasons for the West's fear of Ukraine's victory. The first is the depth of "non-revolutionary" in the West.
Ukraine's victory over Russia will indeed mean a real revolution for the West, because the field revolution in Ukraine requires - in the first place - from Europe a radical transformation, and drags Europe to its roots in the struggle for democracy, freedom, justice and the fight against oligarchy.
The second reason for the West's inability to accept Ukraine's victory over Russia is Europe's colonial legacy, its current post-colonial position, and its direct participation in these ongoing experiences of oppression.
The European Union is immersed in its colonial mentality
It highlights that Eastern Europe has always been considered as a buffer zone between Western and Russian capitals, and when the European Union established its policy for Eastern Europe, called the "Eastern Partnership", it was described as a policy towards the distant "neighborhood".
Post-Soviet Eastern European countries were assigned a functional role for borderlands or buffer zones that provided huge benefits to the European Union in terms of various supplies and resources, which exposed Eastern European countries to Russian retaliation, at a time when the European Union indulged in its repressed colonial mentality, and separated Same as uncivilized Eastern Europe.
The writer adds that the unwillingness of Western capitals, Berlin and Paris in particular, to recognize the full sovereignty of the countries of post-Soviet Europe, explains the constant slowdown and delay in the delivery of weapons to Ukraine.
The third reason, according to Chiribani, is that the EU has so idolized the idea of peace that it has completely suppressed the realities of war, making it completely unprepared when the oppressed Ukrainians managed to take the initiative.