A lot of “ink” – which we would call another era – was consumed to describe and analyze the conflict between Trump and Zelensky in the White House. However, from the beginning we should have placed things in the dimension indicated by the leading internationalist, the ancient Greek Thucydides, whom everyone around the world respects and teaches.
“The modern television and live-broadcast adaptation of the Athenians-Milian dialogue (Thucydides 5’89 the controversial one, 84-116 the entire dialogue) adapted to the new doctrine of “imperial realism”. The powerful USA demands from the weak Ukraine to submit. To hand over rare earths and other mineral wealth in return for debt, to recognize responsibility for the continuation of a war that it did not provoke but was involved in defense and ultimately to surrender.
Modern Thucydidean Rome
Zelensky is the central figure of the geopolitical tragedy who is called upon to suffer the ignominious punishment of the Caudian Forks. Modern Thucydidean Rome is represented by Emperor Trump and Consul Vance. They drew a circle inside the Oval Office and demanded an answer before Zelensky could leave, in the name of the “new grand strategy” of abandoning the doctrine of dual containment (Russia, China) and adapting it to dealing with China alone.
There are no human rights because national interests are put above all. The wounded Russia must be appeased so that it can be given an honorable way out, but not without a price to pay later. Trump’s stance signaled the inexorable phrase addressed to all those facing the specter of defeat: Vae Victis!”
