01/16/2026
Commentary by Said IsmagilovMufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Ukraine “Umma”
The Ukrainian nation stubbornly does not want to die. It seems that THEY no longer know what to do with us. The Russians are trying to kill us, the American Trump administration is trying to break us at the knee, our own government is trying to sell us out somehow. And the Ukrainians are fighting in the trenches, the Ukrainians are not for sale, the Ukrainians are openly mocking the American businessmen without positions and responsibilities who pretend to be peacemakers. Some completely chaotic statements in various government offices signal to us that we could all be sold, but it is impossible to sell what is not for sale. The Ukrainian nation has stupidly stood at the throat of the whole world. No one knows what to do with us. Everyone would be happy to come to an agreement with Putin on Putin’s terms, but we are not going to capitulate, we are holding our weapons, and we are holding our ranks.
Questions hang in the cold air on different continents. Why don’t we come out with our hands up? Why don’t we lay down our weapons and continue the resistance? Why don’t we sprinkle ashes on our heads? Why don’t we dig our own graves? Why don’t we agree to give away everything we have? Why don’t we idolize power and want a king for ourselves?
A very uncomfortable nation. No joke, in our place anyone would have broken down by now, because no one in the world is ready for a modern high-tech war against a number of nuclear countries, which have been trying to crush the only non-nuclear country for four years. They have already connected the hysterical Trump with his air traffickers. Our neighbors, all sorts of Orbans/Ficoes, are stabbing us in the back. Crazy money is being invested in propaganda. And the same crazy money is being stolen from the Ukrainian budget. And Ukrainians stubbornly do not want to be slaves. Outright. Not under any sauce. No promises. No pressure and threats. Of course, there are still Little Russians among us who are ready to fall on their knees before the Moscow murderers, but they no longer decide in the country.
Finally, you did it. Centuries of enslavement, famines, mass executions, repressions, deprivation of our own language and culture, deportations, torture and humiliation have given us immunity and a thirst for survival. We no longer believe in guarantees of security, we do not believe that everything will pass, we do not believe that someone will stand up for us. We believe only in weapons in our own hands. An armed and united Ukrainian nation is the only guarantee of our security and survival, the only guarantee of the existence of Ukraine and Ukrainians. Give us weapons and go away, we ourselves will tear apart any enemy.
The world is no longer qualified to teach us life, all their philosophy and ideology, all their principles and values – we have seen what they are really worth. They are worth nothing. America, which aspired to be a leader and a model of freedom and rights, fell to its knees before dictatorships, and sold all its values under the hammer, and Whitkoff and Kushner are running to formalize the sale of American conscience and dignity.
There is no longer any international law or even stable rules in the world. All values are tilted in favor of “good deals.” Money, power, and vanity have become the new global values.
So, in the first quarter of the 21st century, we have a close-knit group of dictatorships that are already dictating their terms to the entire world, and we have a former camp of democracies, where more and more members of this alliance have abandoned established principles in favor of new global values.
While some politicians say “We are closer to peace than ever!”, I say “We are closer to global technological war than ever.” Actually, it is already underway, and we are the most experienced at it. And finally, you will never feed the vampires by giving them more blood. This increases their appetite and ambitions. There is a chance for salvation, we must throw away illusions and look the truth in the eye through the sights of our weapons.
This commentary is accurate in every aspect.
“Why don’t we come out with our hands up? Why don’t we lay down our weapons and continue the resistance?”
Because if there’s one thing worse than fighting a brutal, lengthy war, it’s living under the filthy russian boot. The other countries bordering the terrorist state know it too.