The real war Russia is fighting is not against Ukraine, but against reality itself. And reality is winning.
This is nothing more than a deranged, militaristic fever dream—a grotesque mix of self-pity, delusion, and bloodlust wrapped in the tattered remnants of nationalist mythmaking. It is the language of a state and a people so desperate to justify their crimes that they’ve contorted mass death and destruction into some kind of divine rite of passage. Let’s strip this nonsense down to its bones.
1. “Three years of war that began painfully unexpectedly…”
Unexpectedly? The Kremlin spent years preparing for this, stoking hatred, fabricating grievances, and amassing forces on Ukraine’s border. The only “unexpected” thing was how spectacularly Russia failed in its initial objectives—how its vaunted military was exposed as a corrupt, bumbling, underequipped horde that thought it could take Kyiv in three days. That dream died fast, along with thousands of its conscripts.
2. “Three years of losses. Three years of incredible gains.”
Losses, yes—catastrophic ones. Hundreds of thousands dead, a nation crippled by sanctions, entire generations of men wiped out or maimed, its best minds fleeing abroad, its economy increasingly dependent on North Korea and Iran. Gains? Only in body bags. Only in the realization that the Russian state sees its own people as expendable meat for the grinder.
3. “We must prove that we are Russians by right… by combat skill, labor, talent, strength, selflessness, by love and honor, by our Orthodox faith.”
Ah, the usual mix of militarism and mystical nationalism, the idea that to be “truly” Russian, one must fight and die in pointless wars for the whims of a corrupt elite. There is no “love” in this—only an ideology that needs fresh bodies to fuel its machinery of repression and expansion. And as for Orthodoxy? The Russian Church has been reduced to a propaganda wing of the state, blessing bombs instead of saving souls.
4. “We are learning to love.”
This is perhaps the most grotesque lie of all. Love does not massacre civilians. Love does not kidnap children. Love does not raze entire cities. Love does not send waves of prisoners to be slaughtered in suicidal charges while oligarchs in Moscow hoard stolen wealth. Love does not build an empire on the bones of its own people. This isn’t love—it’s a cult of war, death, and submission.
5. “Victory will be ours.”
Russia has already lost. Not just in the military sense, where its failures are evident, but in the deeper sense—morally, politically, and historically. This war has destroyed what little credibility Russia had left. It has turned the country into an international pariah, a vassal of China, a supplier of weapons to terrorist states. And what is “victory” anyway? A pile of rubble where Ukraine once stood? A nation turned into a graveyard? The world will never forget what Russia has done, and history will record it as a tragedy, a crime, and a folly.
The entire rant is the rhetoric of a state that cannot admit the truth: that it has damned itself. That it has been led to slaughter by liars, thieves, and war criminals. That its grand illusions of empire have collapsed under the weight of their own absurdity. And that, for all the self-mythologizing, the real war Russia is fighting is not against Ukraine, but against reality itself. And reality is winning.
