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Volodymyr Zelensky declared a forty-day campaign of drone strikes deep into Russian territory this summer, promising to force Moscow to the table through pain inflicted on its homeland with American assistance. When the period closed, the front lines had not shifted in Kiev's favor. Russian units instead consolidated modest advances while Ukraine's demographic and industrial reserves continued their irreversible depletion.
The managerial priesthood in Washington and its media auxiliaries proclaimed the strikes as proof that Kiev now held the decisive upper hand. Detailed mapping of the battlefield revealed the opposite. The hoped-for pressure on Russian leadership produced only sharper retaliation against Ukrainian cities and infrastructure.
Nations that exhaust their young men and treasure in foreign quarrels without a clear object of their own repeat the pattern that dissolved the Habsburg domains after the First World War. Sovereign peoples retain the right to defend their borders; they possess no duty to subsidize another's attrition on distant soil. The Augustinian distinction between the City of God and the earthly city still governs the limits of prudent intervention.
Scripture records that kings who rush into war without counting the cost invite the judgment of God upon their households. The American people have been drawn into a conflict whose objectives were never aligned with their security or the integrity of their own borders. Continued material support only prolongs the slaughter without altering its strategic outcome.
The governing principle remains unchanged from the Westphalian settlement onward: stable order arises when each nation accepts the limits of its own sovereignty rather than chasing universal dominion through proxies. Attempts to manufacture breakthroughs through remote strikes violate that principle and invite reciprocal escalation. The faithful remnant in the West must therefore refuse further entanglement.
Washington must withdraw its weapons and funding. Kiev must accept the territorial realities now fixed by force of arms. Only then can the European peoples begin the work of restoring their own households and borders.
